Spider mites?

HippieFarmer420

HippieFarmer420

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oldsilvertip55 said:
a drop of honey on a yellow sticky trap ,draws ants they walk on top of traped ants to get at the honey. i use a dusting of DE (use a mask DE is hard on the lungs )on top of my soil ,the water at two points till ants and aphids ,or what ever spins out on it's life cycle.
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Basically what I did.. I just kept hitting my beds with DE dustings, spraying with purecrop and squishing the rest...

I haven't had them like this before, I think all the new construction across the road is stirring up our eco system around here, since they started chopping things down and making way for houses, bugs have been at an all time high.
 
xtsho

xtsho

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HippieFarmer420 said:
I beg to differ on this statement.. I just dealt with them.
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I've been growing plants for decades and have come across aphids plenty of times. I've always just sprayed them off. I grow roses and they are aphid magnets. A spray bottle with soapy water takes care of them. I don't know what you were doing but I've sprayed them off and had them not come back. I've been gardening for 50 years and in that time aphids have always been dispatched easily.

Any kind of oil is going to kill them but then you have dead bugs on your plants and you'll still need to spray them off. I go straight to spraying them off and that's the end of them. I don't understand why you have such a difficult time eliminating them.
 
thumper60

thumper60

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Fishmon said:
Happy Thanksgiving all. Noticed some white flecks on tops of some leaves. Magnifier showed what appeared to be carcasses of something then under several of those leaves i spied the pictured vermin. This plant is in week 4 of flower. It is in a 2x4 tent alone but in the same room as a 4x4 in flower. No signs in that one yet. I removed all affected leaves I could find for now. 1: is this a spider mite issue and 2: suggestions to control/ eliminate. Thanks.
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100% aphids can you get the plant into the shower if not get it out of the tent an hit it with a hand sprayer they come right off as others have said all ready.Was that plant outdoor at any time?
 
HippieFarmer420

HippieFarmer420

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xtsho said:
I've been growing plants for decades and have come across aphids plenty of times. I've always just sprayed them off. I grow roses and they are aphid magnets. A spray bottle with soapy water takes care of them. I don't know what you were doing but I've sprayed them off and had them not come back. I've been gardening for 50 years and in that time aphids have always been dispatched easily.

Any kind of oil is going to kill them but then you have dead bugs on your plants and you'll still need to spray them off. I go straight to spraying them off and that's the end of them. I don't understand why you have such a difficult time eliminating them.
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Not sure but I'm telling you now I've dealt with bugs myself, havent been growing 50 years "I havent been alive that long" but I have growing for 17 years,and this past year was the worst.
 
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Fishmon

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thumper60 said:
100% aphids can you get the plant into the shower if not get it out of the tent an hit it with a hand sprayer they come right off as others have said all ready.Was that plant outdoor at any time?
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It's been indoors It's entire life
 
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