d'Artagnan
Member
Einstein Oil worked wonders for me.
Spidermites?
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virulient
Active Member
Neem oil might work. If you can kill them ALL quick, before they become immune. On the other hand, if you would've just got a no pest strip and hung it up for 12 hours, they would've been gone. No expensive spray, no spraying down every leaf of every plant or "dunking" your plants into insecticide (I'm sure they LOVE that!). Just 12 hours of a little thing hanging in your room. That's it. You guys can keep talking about your fixes that involve work. I'll do it the easy way.
d'Artagnan
Member
I've never used a No Pest strip, I would definitely be willing to try though (hopefully I wont need to..)
I agree when using any neem oil or pest deterrent in general, you should use it quick and be done with it. Too many species become immune too quickly.
When I saw my spider mites I did one thing and one thing only,hands on genocide. lol
Monkeyfloss
Active Member
Maybe the people who are having no success with neem oil are not using it correctly. I dont know it just a though. ... For me neem worked great... I also think its important to feed the plant well and supplement with something like seaweed extract.
303
Well-Known Member
This may be true, my flower room has plentiful air moving, no mites. My mom room no moving air and warm, perfect breeding grounds, has mites. Will cold slow them? I can crank my temps to as low as 40 if I want to.
panhead
Well-Known Member
There is no "maybe" to it,spidermites are one of the easiest problems to overcome,it boggles me to see so many growers dealing with such a tiny little bump in the road & dealing with it grow after grow.
Flowing air is something a spidermite will not live in,they require still air to latch on comfortably to the leaves,if they cant latch on they cant feed,if they cant feed they cant breed.
All the chemicals & soaps are not needed,if every inch of the grow is being touched by flowing air mites wont live in the grow,if the rest of the room has moving air mites wont live in the room at all.
A few more fans properly placed is all anybody needs to beat mites for good.
Jayy's
New Member
I know you didn't want home remedy shit but I have found mad success with this recipe I have made.
It works On Caterpillars, Gnats, Spider mites.
So yeah you dont gotta use it but heres the recipe anyways...
Organic pest spray.
-2 garlic cloves(Remove skin)
-1 lemon (squeeze juice)
-Vinegar (bout a 1/4 cup)
-Hot sauce (pref. Tabasco)[10 Drops]
-H20 (bout a cup)
Mix all ingredients listed above into a blender and blend very well.
Then strain all excess material leaving only the juice.
Pour into a spray bottle! WAHLAH!
Note; If juice looks too red water down the solution.
Apply to underside of leaves or where infection on pest is spray every day until you see desired results.
Hope my organic pest spray recipe helps!
Jayy's
It works On Caterpillars, Gnats, Spider mites.
So yeah you dont gotta use it but heres the recipe anyways...
Organic pest spray.
-2 garlic cloves(Remove skin)
-1 lemon (squeeze juice)
-Vinegar (bout a 1/4 cup)
-Hot sauce (pref. Tabasco)[10 Drops]
-H20 (bout a cup)
Mix all ingredients listed above into a blender and blend very well.
Then strain all excess material leaving only the juice.
Pour into a spray bottle! WAHLAH!
Note; If juice looks too red water down the solution.
Apply to underside of leaves or where infection on pest is spray every day until you see desired results.
Hope my organic pest spray recipe helps!
Jayy'sIMO I wouldn't use floramite or avid. You need a special respirator and chemical suit with these products. I had spidermites that were immune to NPS.
Lowering the temp will slow down their reproductive cycle to I believe 30 days instead of 3
You could raise humidity to 100% and they will explode
Co2 needs to be at 10000ppms for 3 hrs, but its dangerous and I wouldn't do it
I used a combination of Mighty Wash, Neem Oil, sns217-Rasta Bobs Death Mite (same thing as sns just more oils), and an insecticidal soap. I used each product in succession for 2 weeks, making sure to get any that hatched. You need to use different products or they'll get immune real fast. I caught mine before flower, In flower I would just use the mighty wash and sns. You could get a sponge and wipe under every leaf, very tedious.
panhead is correct about air flow. I have heard this from another grower from the San Diego area, they got a bad mite problem there I hear. Get a green bamboo shoot and stand it up next to your plant so it is touching the leaves. Put a fan directly on the plant so it is moving around all the leaves. The spidermites should go to the bamboo since it is sturdy, just wipe them off.
Lowering the temp will slow down their reproductive cycle to I believe 30 days instead of 3
You could raise humidity to 100% and they will explode
Co2 needs to be at 10000ppms for 3 hrs, but its dangerous and I wouldn't do it
I used a combination of Mighty Wash, Neem Oil, sns217-Rasta Bobs Death Mite (same thing as sns just more oils), and an insecticidal soap. I used each product in succession for 2 weeks, making sure to get any that hatched. You need to use different products or they'll get immune real fast. I caught mine before flower, In flower I would just use the mighty wash and sns. You could get a sponge and wipe under every leaf, very tedious.
panhead is correct about air flow. I have heard this from another grower from the San Diego area, they got a bad mite problem there I hear. Get a green bamboo shoot and stand it up next to your plant so it is touching the leaves. Put a fan directly on the plant so it is moving around all the leaves. The spidermites should go to the bamboo since it is sturdy, just wipe them off.
VICTORYGARDENSHYDRO
New Member
Just tried the mighty wash, seems like good stuff, didn't see very good results with the liquid ladybug.
virulient
Active Member
No pest strip, lol. Prob solved.
BlazedMonkey
Well-Known Member
Hey whats a good product i can use to get rid of mites???
JK, thanks for thread guys
Just found ONE bug but ill putting in a fan to move the air more tomorrow. If (science forbid), i have more buggies, ill look into these amazing strips or maybe sprays or something
virulient
Active Member
Lol sorry if I sound redundant. Every time I type it I'm like "wow, I cant believe I'm still saying this". But people come on here and are like "i sprayed my plants with this and that and killed x amount of leaves and now im trying this". It's not so hard to just try an $8 fix. There's no spraying or bug bombing or anything you actually put on your plant. Yet they all die within 12 hours. Seems like a no brainer.Hey whats a good product i can use to get rid of mites???
JK, thanks for thread guys
jimmy1life
Well-Known Member
i just sprayd floramite and am going to get those no pest strips asap about 5 at least lol. one plant was 4 weeks in too the lady at hydro store here said to give everything a bath lol. i bout cried when i was blasting the trichs on my apollo13 but wouldnt eat the shit anyways now probally had them last time i made butter sick just thinking about one walkiing in view under scope.
littleflavio
Well-Known Member
the best thing to do is clean them first...dank ur plant in the water, make sure u support the tree and the branches, shake off the whole tree, clean underneath the leaves ( thats where they like to hide ) i use cotton dubed in water, i have tried small amount of h202 as well i myt burn a few area of the fan leaves, get a pressurize sprayer and clean them thoroughly again, and everyday i spray underneath the fan leaves. will not work for flowering plant that about to finish, depends how infested ur plant is. if its not to much and its about to finish flowering leave them be, if it has a few weeks or so spray that shit with mild soap diluted in water wait for a day then place them back either in direct sunlight or indoor lighting.
littleflavio
Well-Known Member
avoiding the pest is best than curing it, you have to clean ur plant regularly, i spray underneath the leaves everyday. those mites hate water.
Did you spray a plant 4 weeks into flower with floramite?
What do ya do if the mites are immune to these end all NPS?
resinousflowers
Well-Known Member
just use mighty wash,its that simple.and keep another good product as a backup.