8weeks in and plants living with spider mites

[The1098]

so I’m going on like week 9 and been dealing with spider mites since like day 1 I have sprayed late in crop and lost everything so I just be blasting them with water but in my mind there just getting blasted around my grow room and I’m find some heavy infected leaves even tho I insecpet a spray every day a recently I seen some dotting on lower buds with closer inspection it definitely was mites walking thru the thick thc and they have so much more time to go but as time goes on I see more mites and have less space to control them what to do

 

[hotrodharley]

Sounds like it’s time to shut down, fumigate and start over.

 

[ttystikk]

Buy some habanero peppers, grind them up, cook them down for 30 minutes at a simmer. Strain out the solids and use a spray bottle to spray your plants.

Be careful you don't get that water in a cut it in your eyes.

 

[ttystikk]

Sounds like it’s time to shut down, fumigate and start over.

If it was a commercial grow, sure- but the poor kid just wants some smoke.

 

[hotrodharley]

If it was a commercial grow, sure- but the poor kid just wants some smoke.

Start over and keep it clean. No outside plants or clones ever. Spider mites are common especially along dirt roads and other places. Seriously it’s easiest in the long run to stop and clean house. No visitors in the grow area either.

 

[hotrodharley]

Buy some habanero peppers, grind them up, cook them down for 30 minutes at a simmer. Strain out the solids and use a spray bottle to spray your plants.

Be careful you don't get that water in a cut it in your eyes.

I predict pain. More than once.

 

[The1098]

Yeah that what I was thinking it was definitely a outside things just sucks to make it so far and have to pull em so early I at least wanted to go another 3 weeks but will they take over by then

 

[NirvanaMesa]

Bro, throw some periods in your posts first off.

Use a vacuum cleaner to suck up the mites, dont hose them off. And if you still have several weeks left in your grow order some predator mites, they will kill all the bad mites.

 

[The1098]

lol you should hear how I talk but a vacuum that’s the first I heard of that have you personally tried this before

 

[NirvanaMesa]

Yes, vacuum the webs and egg sacks up very carefully. Are you growing indoors?

Edit, nevermind I see you said grow room so I'll assume yes.

If you plan to grow again right away just get some predator mites now and leave some of your plant in there even if you chop the main buds. The predators will take care of your problem.

 

[SPLFreak808]

The two spotted spider mite tries to go dormant when you have less than 12 hours of light, if you really insist on chasing your finish then you could drop the hours (10.5 on?), it may slow the mites down. When your done you for sure need to clean the entire area and everything within including your clothes.

 

[Lstforlife]

If it was a commercial grow, sure- but the poor kid just wants some smoke.

So you’d have him smoke bugs? No.

Throw it all away and start from step one.

 

[The1098]

Buy some habanero peppers, grind them up, cook them down for 30 minutes at a simmer. Strain out the solids and use a spray bottle to spray your plants.

Be careful you don't get that water in a cut it in your eyes.

I have tried the pepper thing plant reaction to the spray was bad it completely stopped growing and started dying on me

 

[turbobuzz]

Happened to me once. I'm with Harley, start over. Unless you don't mind smoking bugs. Or sell cheap to someone and let them know it has bugs in it. I set off one of those foggers in my grow area once the plants were gone. I never had them before and I never had them since. Don't know how I got them that one time, but it ruins the plant. I think they were in the ffof soil. I no longer use it.

 

[delstele]

Mites are a bitch to get rid of, The one and only sure fire method I know are predatory mites..

 

[Puff_Dragon]

I just got a preliminary visit from the spider mite brigade, so I feel for you. I had just turned 3 weeks into proper flower (two Malawi x Panama and two Strawberry Shortcake plants). I decided to fight back, perhaps a little controversially (using a pest strip).

First, I hit top+bottom of all leaves with a mist of Ed Rosenthal's Zero Tolerance (also targeted the lower stem and the soil in the pots).

Then, at lights out (for two days during the 12hr dark period) I hung a Hotshot No Pest strip in the tent (with all fans, extractors off - any inlets to my tent were sealed). After each No Pest treatment (during next light period) I'd spray plants with a mist of water (to 'help' speed up neutralising any residue).

Finally (a day later) I hit the plants with a cover of Zero Tolerance again.

Seemed to do the trick (or, at least knocked them back to an undetectable level).
However, I decided to beef up security around the plants ..with predators
Surveillance will continue.

 

[Apalchen]

I just got a preliminary visit from the spider mite brigade, so I feel for you. I had just turned 3 weeks into proper flower (two Malawi x Panama and two Strawberry Shortcake plants). I decided to fight back, perhaps a little controversially (using a pest strip).

First, I hit top+bottom of all leaves with a mist of Ed Rosenthal's Zero Tolerance (also targeted the lower stem and the soil in the pots).

Then, at lights out (for two days during the 12hr dark period) I hung a Hotshot No Pest strip in the tent (with all fans, extractors off - any inlets to my tent were sealed). After each No Pest treatment (during next light period) I'd spray plants with a mist of water (to 'help' speed up neutralising any residue).

Finally (a day later) I hit the plants with a cover of Zero Tolerance again.

Seemed to do the trick (or, at least knocked them back to an undetectable level).
However, I decided to beef up security around the plants ..with predators
Surveillance will continue.

I’d put off a fogger in the room when they get done but you won’t catch any shit from me for the pest strips. Ive run them in early flower before when no buds were showing and had no problems was just preventive. And I’d use them later if needed too.

As far as the OP goes I wouldn’t throw out anything like some have suggested I would finish them out unless they quit growing from damage. There are treatments that say can be used late in flower I’ll look when I get home at the bottle I got from guy at hydro store he swears it works great even close to harvest. It’s a black bottle with red and white lettering I can’t remember the name atm.

 

[Frank Nitty]

Buy some habanero peppers, grind them up, cook them down for 30 minutes at a simmer. Strain out the solids and use a spray bottle to spray your plants.

Be careful you don't get that water in a cut it in your eyes.

Genius...

 

[The1098]

I feel as if I’m to far along to spray anything it’s way risky. I have tried spraying with something light weight last year at 7weeks and they completely stopped growing all hairs curled in with in a week after two week of no flower growth I took them down latey I been just picking infected leaves off and spraying regularly with water one none infected leaves but they seem to still multiply I have even seen some in some lower buds at the end of week 9 praying to see the whole 12 or even 14

 

[z3rgling]

I love the vacuum idea to clean up. After u vacuum, you may want to hit them with neem oil. After harvest, go crazy cleaning n spraying to make sure you got them all.