Fuck spider mites!

Woke up yesterday, checked my plants and saw a bit of what i thought was dust on it. I saw my dirty as fan and thought it had just blown a bit of dust and dirt onto it. No biggie i just cleaned my fan and took the bit of dust of the plant. I woke up this arvo to webs everywhere. Straight away got the organic dish washing liquid out, mixed it with some water and sprayed the bejesus out of it. Got the rubber gloves out and scraped all the eggs from the bottom of the leaves. My fingers were red with blood .Turned my fan up to dry my plant quickly too. Im in 5th week flowering and im going to spray everyday for the next 2-3 days just to be sure.

damn I check every plant at least every 2 days for any problems/bugs

my favorite bug is Orius insidiosus I see them a lot more now that I don't kill em

Thanks for reminding me today is spray day i got those little bastards on the run

Ninjabowler said:

Thanks for reminding me today is spray day i got those little bastards on the run

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Tonight is mine for powder mildew on outdoor flowers, not the cannabis kind

crazy how it was 106 today and in the 100s this week PW still living on flowers. I thought spraying the flowers with the hose would help, maybe it did a little, but not enough.

hexthat said:

crazy how it was 106 today and in the 100s this week PW still living on flowers. I thought spraying the flowers with the hose would help, maybe it did a little, but not enough.

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Turns out there wasnt any bugs to spray..yaaay. Hex if you ment PM instead of PW ^^ then dont spray them with water. Water the ground level. Watering leaves and flowers causes PM. Get a soaker hose and a timer and never water at night, especially the leaves and flowers. The water cant evaporate at night and turns into PM fast.

spider mites .Why god,why? what good could these pest actually do? I wish I had the money back I've spent killing mites.Not to mention the time

sprinkle some d. earth on the soil and hit the plant with with some fungacide 3.. then to even take it a step further.. water that shit with some mosquito dunk water

damn.. spider mites are nasty lil fuckers, i usually just throw the infected plants away-- its the only sure way to stop the infestation from spreading.. and SM spreads FAST!

unless you got the resources, try predatory bugs --forgot which site i used to order them, but they work

cannawizard said:

and SM spreads FAST!

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Tell me about it.

I just bought something today called Eco-Neem. It's an organic certified extract of the principal compounds in neem oil. I wish I was already spraying this shit preemptively

I'll be doing this every 3 days right up until I start to bud them up and in every new crop from now on it will be a weekly preemptive spay.

I'll come back in a bit over a week and mention if they are worse/better/same etc.

Ninjabowler said:

Turns out there wasnt any bugs to spray..yaaay. Hex if you ment PM instead of PW ^^ then dont spray them with water. Water the ground level. Watering leaves and flowers causes PM. Get a soaker hose and a timer and never water at night, especially the leaves and flowers. The water cant evaporate at night and turns into PM fast.

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lol yeah I mean PM not PW must have been tired last night. I disagree with that I think spraying plants off with my tap water kills more then grows PM, pH of my tap is 6.8-7.2 and so much damn chlorine in it. Before they put a water line from the city 15 miles to my town the ppm went from 22 to 100+.

I should just uncover my well and use it to water plants with, I only live 15-20 feet above the river. I want one of the old ass hand pumps take about 10-30 pumps to fill 5 gallons. Damn old days mush have been nice before hexafluoride rained from the sky lowering the soil pH everywhere here in cali.

I spray weekly, (or I should say 'fog') with Azatrol for spyder mites. Foggers are the ish! They get the job done & keep all the moisture off your plants at the same time. Money well spent. Paid for it's self the first season! I HIGHLY recommend them................"operator not included"......

doublejj said:

I spray weekly, (or I should say 'fog') with Azatrol for spyder mites. Foggers are the ish! They get the job done & keep all the moisture off your plants at the same time. Money well spent. Paid for it's self the first season! I HIGHLY recommend them................"operator not included"......

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Fogging with Azatrol.. thats worth writing down in my weed diary, thanks doubleJJ