F$*k you spidermites...f$*k you!!

dirtysnowball

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hey bro i just killed a fat population of these little bastards. i used 91% alcohol in a spray bottle, i sprayed when the lights were off,(if outdoor just spray while in the shade) those little mites didnt have a chance. they ALL died in approximately 1-3 seconds, and the alcohol evaporated in under 1 min. you will probably have to repeat this to kill the eggs in a couple of days.
 

lostNug

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Yep I did the same thing. Alcohol and water. Killed em right away and evaporated in minutes so didn't harm plant. I let lady bugs loose too and now spraying with neem and moterey garden spray cuz I found thrips. The monterey garden spray does wonders for every kind of bug and the only way to get rid of thrips.
 

Kingrow1

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Yep I did the same thing. Alcohol and water. Killed em right away and evaporated in minutes so didn't harm plant. I let lady bugs loose too and now spraying with neem and moterey garden spray cuz I found thrips. The monterey garden spray does wonders for every kind of bug and the only way to get rid of thrips.
Thrips are easy to get rid of without any spray you just gotta have patience, cut their lifecycle and they die off for good, all i have to do is cover the soil in my pots and their young can no longer breed, easy but takes a few weeks. Peace
 

Hettyman

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hey bro i just killed a fat population of these little bastards. i used 91% alcohol in a spray bottle, i sprayed when the lights were off,(if outdoor just spray while in the shade) those little mites didnt have a chance. they ALL died in approximately 1-3 seconds, and the alcohol evaporated in under 1 min. you will probably have to repeat this to kill the eggs in a couple of days.
Thanks for the advice!! You mean rubbing alchohol or surgical, that sort of thing??? I'm gonna hold out for that close to end of flower in case they get out of control then... I've heard terrible stories of mites being under control right up untill harvest time, then exploding and engulfing the budd.

Still waiting to get some mighty wash in, thanks for the tip(s) Rawbudski
 

Kingrow1

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Not to be an arse but try preventing futher infestations in future, this way you dont have to kill hundreds and thousonds of helpless bugs. Peace
 

Hettyman

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Not to be an arse but try preventing futher infestations in future, this way you dont have to kill hundreds and thousonds of helpless bugs. Peace
Trust me, once I've got these plants through there life, and cleaned the cupboard fully... prevention will be the key, and I believe that I know the mistakes I made this time round. For starters i'm having both my dogs put to sleep, in case they accidentally brought them into the room with my veg cupboard!!
 

Hettyman

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trust me, once i've got these plants through there life, and cleaned the cupboard fully... Prevention will be the key, and i believe that i know the mistakes i made this time round. For starters i'm having both my dogs put to sleep, in case they accidentally brought them into the room with my veg cupboard!!
this was 100% meant as a joke... Please< no hassle for it guys :)
 

Kingrow1

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I knew it was a joke dude, even if it wasnt ive seen more extreme stuff done in the name of marijuana, i had to murder my mom cause she was gona go grass me up to the pigs for growing weed, let me tell you this there are no weed growing products or facilities in prison, only angry sexually confused big men!lol! peace
 

unorthodox

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A month later and the little vampires are in full retreat. I've just been spraying plants with plain water 3-4 times a day, and cleaning the cupboard once per week.

I'm gonna keep at it, have a couple of harvests, then shut down, dissinfect, de-bug totally and start again

Happy Days :)
I didnt read everything and dont plan on it, i clicked the link to say water does wonders, and this post was top of my screen. all i do when i get them in the dry months of summer is spray with water several times a day i even use carbonized water so the plants get a little out of it. it works great and is cheap...
 

DrFever

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weather you got bugs or not i always treat my girls before they get in any of my rooms :)) and i use neem oil up to 4th week of flower
what i found is you can spray for ever but getting a decent plant bug killer and making a batch into a big barrel and tottaly submerging plant into it will get rid of insects for sure i think most people like myself that have sprayed plants sure you get some but 80 percent of the time you miss em as well

Submerge hole plant into pail will rid them BORG :))
 

doobered

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...most of these people here are going to give you wrong info on RIU because i dont know but there are people now what works

like use neam oil to get rid of mite wtf you stupid!?

use azomax or zero tolerance (get from local hydro shop or order from stopngrow.com)

home remedies:
rubbing alcohol 40 percent / water 60 percent then ad dish soap or laundry detergent 1 tspn -1 tbsp. (5 ml-15 ml)
per ltr of water

this works well for me. use twice a week if infestation is bad. once a week if minimum infestation

every other day use plain water spray everything on the plant leaves stem top soil everything


home rems
 

wheezer

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well,you CAN eradicate spider mites completely, and keep them gone. I know everyone wants something omri listed, but let's use common sense and think about it for a minute. I use a miticide when and if I ever get mites, and I only get them fly-ins outdoors, and indoors if I introduce a clone I picked up somewhere and put in my room that had mites. Now, granted, you don't want to do this to a flowering plant, so if your already in bloom, you gotta a battle on your hands.
But I spray with my miticide, yes, it's poison, to the plants whilre they are still small and not flowering. The spray I use is Avid, and it has a very short residual, meaning it doesn't last long at all. You could test the plant 10 days after spraying and find NO residue of poison on the plant at all. It's not systemic, so it doesn't enter the plants internally either. Now, even if it did stay a while, you only smoke the buds and the froty leaves that aren't even on the plant yet when you sprayed it.
1 shot with Avid and your mites and eggs are dead and gone forever, and you'll be a happy grower again!!
And before anyone jumps on me hollering 'GO GREEN" make sure your not growing with 1000 watt light bulbs befiore you holler that shit at me!! haha
There are actually poisons out there that are basically very safe to use and very very effective. I'm against unnatural usage of anything, but we all bend the rules a littel. It just makes more sense to me to use 1 gallon of fixed spray containing 1o ml of poison 1 time, than spraying neem oil, or azatrol, or anything else repeatedly, over qnd over and over.
And BTW , the bombs work good, but they;ll burn your leaves if your not careful.
 

doobered

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you want them gone.
make them gone!

takes more time to do it right but it the only way that work
you gotta make these girls work around your schedule
 

Kingrow1

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Go green and chems are BS to me, think youll find most pests are very similar, they arent determined to live on your particular plants because find the smell they hate or make an environment they dont like to breed in or simply manually stop their life cycle and they all bugger off to find somewhere better.

Use what you want but i can manage thrips and most pests with a bit of tin foil and a few sprigs of garlic and chilli if i wanted too, do you think these bugs are gona fight to live in an environment they dont like, try being more creative and at one with mother nature when it comes to pest prevention in the future, culture some bugs that will combat and kill even drive the spider mites on, shouldn't be that hard as you just cultured a population of mites in no time at all. Think out of the box sometimes, mites hate some flowers and plants, grow thm in the low light at the base of the grow room too.

Using eradicating chems and sprays just sucks. I have a jalapeno plant by an open window, it gets thrips and mites and a whole host of bugs attacking it and eating leaves, why should i bother as a load of predatory bugs fly in as well and keep the population under control, yer the thrips never dissapear but then again mother nature keeps them under control for me as she always has done for millions of years.

Simply put you can worry about bugs and pests all you want, buy chems, try eradicating them in one go, hell bomb your whole room with sulfur for all i care but when you learn more about them and see how others employ the simplest of methods to get rid of them even prevent them in the first place you will feel stupid with that neem oil or super kills all chem spray apparently safe for plants. Up to you but there is the easy way and the hard way, shame were all so focused on killing mother nature off whilst growing plants and proclaming to be just like her.

If you got a rat buy a cat! Simple, you kind of dont need to call up the exterminators but i bet most feel this is the only way. Yes a lot band round bug extermination with little comprehension for other methods that are easier and more effective but may require a little more patcience. Show some respect for life as well, great potheads wanting to kill everything that even comes near their prescious weed, really shows peace love and harmony! Peace
 

Hettyman

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Right stop the fucking press!! Seriously, I have used no pesticides for weeks, and I can see no mite signs at all. All I have been doing is spraying the plants with plain water about once a week before lights out, and placing a bowl of chopped up garlic and peppers soaked in water at the base of the plants. All natural and costs about 50p per week for a small grow room, and 2 small flower rooms. I was worried that the recent rise in temps would have kick started the mites breeding pattern and I would be overrun, but not a thing.

I will update if I see any changes, but I seriously recommend that anyone with mite problems try this. Or even use it as a prevention alternative to neem oil
 

RetiredMatthebrute

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have you thought about benificial "mite destroyers" (insects) to put in the cuppord, they eat until mites are gone then i believe eat each other and the last remaining one will die of starvation. no sprays not chemicals simple bugs eating bugs .
 

Hettyman

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have you thought about benificial "mite destroyers" (insects) to put in the cuppord, they eat until mites are gone then i believe eat each other and the last remaining one will die of starvation. no sprays not chemicals simple bugs eating bugs .
I have looked into this, but not tried it. As the garlic pepper mix is doing the job currently, I'm not trying anything else. Having said that, if I can catch any lady birds in the garden, they are going straight in the grow rooms!
 

ganiman

Member
The way i got rid of them for good was Volck oil from ortho.It works best when plants are small and not blooming.Just mix a batch,put it in a sprayer and saturate the top and bottom(hold the small plant upsidedown),reapply in 2 weeks.
 

Hettyman

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Well another summer and an increased grow temp due to HPS upgrade means that my little budd stealing friends are back.

This time I ordered a Hot Shot strip (and paid postage cross atalantic) and Might Wash. Two thorough applications of mighty wash, 3 days apart, knocked em right back, but still they returned. (I even blasted the plants quite regularly with water too to blast mites off into my bath, where I showered them down the plug hole). I also introduced the Hot Shot no pest strip, for periods of 12-16 hours every three days, with the exhuast off and only a few CFL's to keep the light cycle going without raising temps to affect the strip, and for 5 hours every morning between, before the lights came on, and in a TINY 2x2 tent. Still came back!!

I will say this, DO NOT USE HOT SHOT NO PEST STRIP!!!I was very careful not to expose myself, my wife, or our pets to this pesticide, and only had it in the tent when that room in the house was uninhabited, with the door shut and a window open so that anything that got out of the tent was quickly diluted and removed. I washed my hands directly after touching the plants or the no pest strip, and put it in an airtight bag in an out building when not being used. I even looked in to the residual life of the chemical, and thought that 4 weeks of clean growing, and a couple fo However, one day, stupidly, I smelled my budds to seen if damp smell from over spraying of water had gone..BIG MISTAKE!! The residuals of the no pest strip, choked me, hurt my eyes and throat, and induced mild vomiting. It also left a taste in my mouth for hours!! As such, it is being wrapped up and put in the fucking bin!!

I am now gong to be dunking the plants upside down in a bucket of pH adjusted water and shaking dry over the bath, every 3rd day, to keep mite numbers down untill these babies arrive:

http://www.defenders.co.uk/pest-solutions/biological-red-spider-mite-control.html

I will let you know how this goes. Hopefully well, cos I much prefer letting nature take its course. Plus Spider mites are renowned for a quick survival of the fittest evolution thing, where only the toughest eggs survive pesticides and continue the mite colony. Lets see them evolve around getting eaten :)
 
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