mites on a plant!

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thejimi

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So my grow area (36"x20"x60" grow tent) is infested with spider mites! I have decided to proceed with pyrethrin, in the form of Doktor Doom Botanics insecticide spray and following up with einstein oil dunk and lastly diatomaceous earth on the top of medium. I have 3 clones in coco/3 gal grow bags, 1 from seed in pro-mix hp/3gal grow bag and one in a 3gal bucket DWC, all are around 13" tall but have been lst'd and are about 14" wide as well. My question is how should I proceed with spraying them? Can I leave them in the tent, remove the light and treat them in there? Or should I take them out and do it in the room? I live in the same room as the plants so that is also a concern. They are 5 weeks into veg and I was about to flower when I seen the spots starting, Can I use this treatment in the first weeks of flowering? Also Einstein oil for those who don't know it is very similar to neem oil.Cheers in advance
 
polyarcturus

polyarcturus

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is this your first case of mites? in this setup with these plants?

sounds like you know what your doing. but if youve been battleing for years and have attempted to restart and now the mites are back you might need to step it up a notch.
 
BecauseIgotHigh

BecauseIgotHigh

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i have a plant that i kept moving indoor and outdoor, now i've just planned on leaving it outdoor since its budding 12/12.
Not so sure if i have might but i was misting it when it was in its pre flower mode just incase anything was under the leaves.
 
lahadaextranjera

lahadaextranjera

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I would take each one out of the tent and into an area that u can thoroughly spray them upside down. Pyrthrum is great but a bit extreme. Neem is enough but the most important thing is that u think abt the spider mite life cycle of 14 days. U MUST SPRAY TWICE IN A WEEK to catch the hatching eggs.
 
polyarcturus

polyarcturus

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well you got the right idea but if you plan doesnt work your probably gonna need to step it up a notch everything you gonna use should kill them and kill them good should they survive maybe fuck around with mighty wash. and if that dont work its time to look into forbid or avid just my 2 cents. but your plan is perfect doesnt get much better than that. pyrethrins should kill the majority the neem should catch all the hatching aggs and the earth should keep off the plant sounds good GL.
 
polyarcturus

polyarcturus

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hardware store goofy they produce that shit everywhere under all types of names let me look real fast.

but yeah ebay got orthene and malation pretty cheap.
 
polyarcturus

polyarcturus

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well i guess i dont know enough spanish o guide my way to a spanish search engine but you do got hardware stores right? lol
 
Geronimo420

Geronimo420

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Floramite is the best stuff over-all you can use it up to 5 weeks before harvest, spray once everywhere on the plants and it's case close they all die of hunger cause the stuff make them unable to feed from your plants. You can use it on clones too
 
polyarcturus

polyarcturus

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Geronimo420 said:
Floramite is the best stuff over-all you can use it up to 5 weeks before harvest, spray once everywhere on the plants and it's case close they all die of hunger cause the stuff make them unable to feed from your plants. You can use it on clones too
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im gonna be honest with you, floramite is overrated, it is a good product but avid and forbid both are better. forbid by far..... but floramite has its uses, if your mites are immune to avid you would need to rotate floramite with forbid. but you should never being using a heavy pesticide like these buy themselves you should always have another mode of action to fall back on. another downside to flowamite is its contact only and it is not translaminar meaning you have to be sure to spray all the bottoms of the leaves.

forbid is the best stuff out there followed by shuttle then avid then floramite. ive done shit tons of research.
 
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thejimi

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BecauseIgotHigh said:
i have a plant that i kept moving indoor and outdoor, now i've just planned on leaving it outdoor since its budding 12/12.
Not so sure if i have might but i was misting it when it was in its pre flower mode just incase anything was under the leaves.
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Not an option for me. ty though
 
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thejimi

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polyarcturus said:
is this your first case of mites? in this setup with these plants?

sounds like you know what your doing. but if youve been battleing for years and have attempted to restart and now the mites are back you might need to step it up a notch.
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No this is my 2nd grow, 1st one went perfectly, 2 2.5ft plants, 5.5oz, no problems. Mites showed up 4.5-5.5 weeks into the second grow.
 
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