spider mites will continue to keep coming back, a friend of mine informed me that typically it is going to be a constant battle of preventative/maintenance procedures to keep them at bay. unless you are growing in a clean room, with hepa filters, and changing your clothes everytime you enter your grow you probably will risk infestation...
Good point but you want to lower temperature and raise humidity.
I have to agree. This is my first post here although I have been a lurker here for quite awhile. I have been growing from around 1987 or so. Mostly outdoors until about 5 years ago when I really began to take it seriously. I had horrible spider mites, then the fungus gnats kicked in and then thrips. I initially tried hippie methodology which led to a war that went on for quite awhile. I would have liked to have won this war with organics and spent a F***load of time and money doing so but lost. Although Ed Rosenthols Zero tolerence works fairly good and smells great but didn't actually win the war(but definitely helped with the bastard mites). I have also used Diotomacious earth, neem oil, pyrethrin bombs/sprays, Azatrol, and Avid. As much as I hate to be funding a company putting out products that are so detrimental to life, I did not win the war against the cannavampires until I used the Hot Shot No Pest strips. Stating that, when I first introduced them, they did not do much. It wasn't until I hung them directly into the air-path of my fans is when when they actually started to work. They are junk unless you pump air through them. I do not use these in the flower room though. I have kept that room fairly clean and only deal with thrips from time to time. I use the strips in my clone, mother, and veg areas religiously and I have not seen a spider mite in over 2 years. Thrips though is real bitch. I would start on that but I am starting to ramble and not even I want to hear me. Good luck everybody and may your god bless you if you have one.
They feed it to cows to control parasites in their stomachs...
