Spider mites

meangreengrowinmachine said:

I'm almost on week 7 and found 2 webs on my tops today so freaking ticked. Going to be using a 1:6 iso:water ratio... thinking about starting my own praying mantis freaking colony I hate these things so much. They just WONT DIE. be growing for 10 plus years and never had an issue with them this bad. In veg I have and have been able to use diamacetous earth, but I don't want to use that in flower and get in on the buds. So iso every night right before or after lights out it is. Ugh I hope these ladies don't go ten weeks lol

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FresnoFarmer said:

In flowering I have found ladybugs to be very useful.

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FresnoFarmer said:

In flowering I have found ladybugs to be very useful.

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meangreengrowinmachine said:

I would have got some this run but evey place I looked was sold out. I guess I should just use ebay

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FresnoFarmer said:

Yeah. I use eBay. The one year I didn’t get any ladybugs I had spider mites in flower. It was a pain. I just kept rinsing the buds before harvesting and one last time with h202 before hanging to dry. Knocked off a lot of trichs. Sucks man.

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FresnoFarmer said:

Yeah. I use eBay. The one year I didn’t get any ladybugs I had spider mites in flower. It was a pain. I just kept rinsing the buds before harvesting and one last time with h202 before hanging to dry. Knocked off a lot of trichs. Sucks man.

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meangreengrowinmachine said:

So question for you... how do you keep the 1000 lady bugs JUST in the grow space? Or do I just deal with having lady bugs all over lol

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FresnoFarmer said:

Lol they leave looking for food after all the spider mites are gone. If you’re indoors I would suggest purchasing green lacewing eggs every 3-4 weeks. More effective because larvae l can’t fly away. Ladybugs also like to fly into the light indoors.

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meangreengrowinmachine said:

I am using cobs with no covers...you think the lady bugs might actually be able to damage the surfaces?

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FresnoFarmer said:

I don’t think so. They’ll just fly into the light rendering them useless lol. I would opt for the green lacewing eggs/larvae. You can get them from eBay also. They’re called aphid lions, but they’ll grub on spider mites just the same..

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FresnoFarmer said:

I don’t think so. They’ll just fly into the light rendering them useless lol. I would opt for the green lacewing eggs/larvae. You can get them from eBay also. They’re called aphid lions, but they’ll grub on spider mites just the same..

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john wishmyer said:

nuke them with malathion

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meangreengrowinmachine said:

So question for you... how do you keep the 1000 lady bugs JUST in the grow space? Or do I just deal with having lady bugs all over lol

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Rob Roy said:

Put out little trays of water and raisins for them. You want them to establish and breed. Their kids will eat aphids and spider mites.

Some adults will kamikaze into the lights, shit happens.

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Rob Roy said:

Put out little trays of water and raisins for them. You want them to establish and breed. Their kids will eat aphids and spider mites.

Some adults will kamikaze into the lights, shit happens.

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meangreengrowinmachine said:

I ordered some green lacewing eggs for now. I'll get some of these guys too, hell why not a mantis or two while im at it! Get a whole herd of these predators! Guessing the mantis would.start taking out the lady bugs though lol

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