Removing and Preventing Spider Mites

[reggaerican]

Just had to say this is the best thread ever on mite control. So many good tips and tricks it's almost overwhelming.
thanks for sharing

 

[MrBaker84]

this is blinding!!!

 

[MrBaker84]

this is blinding!!!

6 years too late but the great advice still applies!!

 

[xboxwarrior]

Regarding Hot Shot No Pest strips, which contain dichlorvos.

This I think would be last option in late flower when nothing else can be utilized or in veg as a part of IPM.
But considering the amount of debate on the safety of this product, I think this study shows it might be a safer option than many of the systemic or harsh pesticides.

Avid or Floramite being of notice as they are mentioned in this thread often, STAY AWAY!



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[Gardenator]

1lb plain rolling tobacco, 1 container red chili pepper flakes, 1 container cinimin powder, 3 gallons of hot ass water... steep ingredients in hot water for a few hours (until the solution is cooled back to room temp) repeatedly stirring/aggitating the solution to ensure you are extracting all you can from the ingredients. When this is complete do not dillute solution, simply strain out ingredients and pour into a spray bottle. Treat all plant surface area's very generously including leaf, stalk, and stem. Be thorough in your treatment. This kills the mites and the eggs on contact and everything else that may be a pest problem in the garden, its organic and completely safe for your plants. Want to use this in late flower then remove the chili pepper flakes and cinimin from the "Spicy Tea" as i like to call it. Strain solution well (i add a seeve bag over my draw tube in my sprayer as to not clog it up with cinimin or loose tobacco, the first time i didnt prefilter the sprayer and i had to stop every 10 seconds to remove tobacco from the nozzle end and from the draw end.) In any case i have found in my personal experience that this treatment does not residually hang on or in the plant nor does it effect flavor or smell of the bud in anyway. I also use this as my first rinse when washing my outdoor herb and immediately from that rinse to water and peroxide solution as the final rinse. Well believe it or not this works amazing and is 100% effective on mites and their eggs as well, watch em fall dead off the plant directly after treament. Hope this helps, btw tea has a uniqie smell and turns panda film or anything white a brownish orange color so be prepared to do some clean up after treatment as well, i spray plants, walls, everywhere they could be and then i wash everything down 24hrs after treatment. I did not wash it off the plants, once mites were dead (usually 1 treatment if you are thorough) i go back to compost tea foliars and my normal regiment and the plants are never the wiser for it. Also another thing i do is 3 days later just to be sure i will do some serious defoliating and re treat after defoliating even if i find no mites just so those little fuckwads wont come back.

 

[Gardenator]

1lb plain rolling tobacco, 1 container red chili pepper flakes, 1 container cinimin powder, 3 gallons of hot ass water... steep ingredients in hot water for a few hours (until the solution is cooled back to room temp) repeatedly stirring/aggitating the solution to ensure you are extracting all you can from the ingredients. When this is complete do not dillute solution, simply strain out ingredients and pour into a spray bottle. Treat all plant surface area's very generously including leaf, stalk, and stem. Be thorough in your treatment. This kills the mites and the eggs on contact and everything else that may be a pest problem in the garden, its organic and completely safe for your plants. Want to use this in late flower then remove the chili pepper flakes and cinimin from the "Spicy Tea" as i like to call it. Strain solution well (i add a seeve bag over my draw tube in my sprayer as to not clog it up with cinimin or loose tobacco, the first time i didnt prefilter the sprayer and i had to stop every 10 seconds to remove tobacco from the nozzle end and from the draw end.) In any case i have found in my personal experience that this treatment does not residually hang on or in the plant nor does it effect flavor or smell of the bud in anyway. I also use this as my first rinse when washing my outdoor herb and immediately from that rinse to water and peroxide solution as the final rinse. Well believe it or not this works amazing and is 100% effective on mites and their eggs as well, watch em fall dead off the plant directly after treament. Hope this helps, btw tea has a uniqie smell and turns panda film or anything white a brownish orange color so be prepared to do some clean up after treatment as well, i spray plants, walls, everywhere they could be and then i wash everything down 24hrs after treatment. I did not wash it off the plants, once mites were dead (usually 1 treatment if you are thorough) i go back to compost tea foliars and my normal regiment and the plants are never the wiser for it. Also another thing i do is 3 days later just to be sure i will do some serious defoliating and re treat after defoliating even if i find no mites just so those little fuckwads wont come back.

This also works so well and is so safe you can even spray fresh sprouted seedlings and freshly rooted clones with no negative effects at all, i also water all my flower pots with it to make due sure they didnt servive in the soil either.

 

[smokinrav]

Every 2 or 3 years I had to shut down my perpetual harvest to clones only for mites, I'm guessing because I had a large veggie garden and spent time there every day as well. Then disinfect everything and watch the clones like a hawk. What a damn nightmare they were.
I loved winter cuz if I made it to Nov with no sign, I was good for 7 or 8 months.
Anyway, great thread, thanks much!

 

[xboxwarrior]

@Gardenator thanks for the detailed post!
First I’ve heard of using red pepper, generally I’ve seen habanero. I had wondered if it affected anything post harvest but happy to hear it doesn’t stick around. Will have to give this a try sometime