The little BASTARDS we all hate !!!!!!!!!!

Hey there my helpful Stoners and Growers I have a Blue Cheese plant which has mites on them, I took a cutting from a few week ago which has rooted and been topped.

I have 2 questions really the first is will the spider mites be still breeding on the flowering plant even though I have sprayed the entire room with diluted washing up liquid,They are still on the lower leaves but the new leaves where the bud is the leaves seem to be green and praying for the light. They have not webbed or moved up the plant but I am unsure how to get rid of the little twats ?????

My second question is when I took the cutting where was no white spots or mites on it at that time but will the be hiding on the little cutting somewhere ????? ( I can upload a picture of the baby if that would help anybody)

Thanks for the help in advanced.

You could dip your cutting in Floramite or Avid + TetraSan.

The flowering adult, well your options are severely limited. Some like neem, but I'm not fond of the resulting product. Perhaps Mighty Wash? I've been proactive in veg so I don't deal with mites in flower. Generally at the last moment, they web up the works. Even after trimming.

Thanks for the quick response so they are just waiting to make their move on the flowering one ?

Each mite lays a lot of eggs. When these hatch you'll end up with a significant increase in population.

Often this bloom occurs late in flower or after harvest.

Keeping humidity high can slow them down but botrytis, pm and the like could rear their ugly heads.

Sulphur vaporizers can dent their ability to reproduce.

Future, get some dip regimen going on pre flower. Send them into flower clean and with systemic protection. Floramite, Avid....

I like a dip that does the job hardcore. fuck crop loss.

Avid - mites
Mallet - aphids and others
Eagle 20 - mildews & molds

Hit them with that going into flower and not much bad happens. by the time flowering is completed you're well beyond the pre harvest interval.

Use Forbid in veg throw away all flowering plants. switch out pesticides and just work on preventative maintenance. thats what i would do.

swaggersDlite said:

Use Forbid in veg throw away all flowering plants. switch out pesticides and just work on preventative maintenance. thats what i would do.

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Is the flowering one that bad it needs throwing the top leaves seem fine though

it depends is it your only plant ? if you have a veg room full of uninfected plants it would be wise to throw here away. if your grow is small keep her but know that you will probably be smoking larvae(mite eggs) and there poop. when your not in flower it a bit easier to treat for mites, because you have to use a really strong pesticide to get rid of them and you don't want to use that in flower because these pesticides are systemic and it take a while to come out of the plant . you wont have to use such hard stuff if you start with preventative maintenance its truly the key and every grower learns this after dealing with these Little Bastards.

Depends on a lot of different factors, temperature, ventilation, distance between plants, etc. As asked above, are these areas in seperate rooms? of all in one room? In my experience, mites are as bad as fungus gnats for moving from plant to plant - it's like they might as well have wings.

And with the aforementioned fact that each mite lays hundreds (literally) of eggs, depending on the conditions of the environment, they can easily overwhelm every plant in sight.

What I have found is that the most effective (poisonless) treatment for this problem is to dramatically increase ventilation. I doubled up to a seemingly insane 1000 CFM's and I havent had any insects, of any type since doing that. It seems to have rendered the growroom uninhabitable for insects.