420medical
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Please Help!
I recently harvested (24 hours ago) my two indoor plants. Unfortunately my grow room was not complete, so I had to use my garage. They were originally intended to be grown outside, but due to extenuating circumstances, I had to move them indoors. As everyone knows, no garage is "air tight", or "bug tight" lol.
The problem I am having now is that the damn mites are still on my flowers! I didn't want to use Neem Oil on my mature flowers, so a friend of mine recommended that I make up a concoction of super hot pepper spray to rid the plants of the mites. I tried this for about a week prior to harvest. It seemed to slow them down, but did not kill them off.
Now I have my flower stalks picked and hanging upside down in my cedar drying chest. I checked them tonight and found new webs and mites just thriving. At this point I had had it with the little bastards, so I mixed up a very diluted solution of dish soap and water and sprayed the flowers. In order to not have them mildew, I have a light fan indirectly circulating the air inside the box.
Does anyone else have any good ideas if my soap remedy doesn't work? Obviously I will not be using this batch to cook with lol. It will be used simply for smoking.
I appreciate any feedback. I haven't grown in close to ten years, and I NEVER remember ever having a problem with mites like I have this time.
To make a long story short, I am currently in the process of building a full on air tight grow shed. It will have all the goodies such as charcoal filtering, Co2 yada yada etc... I know that I will have much less of a chance of developing these types of problems in a very controlled environment such as that.
I will repost when I see if I still have the little buggers webbing up tomorrow.
Thanks for any input.
-420 Medical
I recently harvested (24 hours ago) my two indoor plants. Unfortunately my grow room was not complete, so I had to use my garage. They were originally intended to be grown outside, but due to extenuating circumstances, I had to move them indoors. As everyone knows, no garage is "air tight", or "bug tight" lol.
The problem I am having now is that the damn mites are still on my flowers! I didn't want to use Neem Oil on my mature flowers, so a friend of mine recommended that I make up a concoction of super hot pepper spray to rid the plants of the mites. I tried this for about a week prior to harvest. It seemed to slow them down, but did not kill them off.
Now I have my flower stalks picked and hanging upside down in my cedar drying chest. I checked them tonight and found new webs and mites just thriving. At this point I had had it with the little bastards, so I mixed up a very diluted solution of dish soap and water and sprayed the flowers. In order to not have them mildew, I have a light fan indirectly circulating the air inside the box.
Does anyone else have any good ideas if my soap remedy doesn't work? Obviously I will not be using this batch to cook with lol. It will be used simply for smoking.
I appreciate any feedback. I haven't grown in close to ten years, and I NEVER remember ever having a problem with mites like I have this time.
To make a long story short, I am currently in the process of building a full on air tight grow shed. It will have all the goodies such as charcoal filtering, Co2 yada yada etc... I know that I will have much less of a chance of developing these types of problems in a very controlled environment such as that.
I will repost when I see if I still have the little buggers webbing up tomorrow.
Thanks for any input.
-420 Medical
