mites eating the leaves!!! help they're everywhere!!!

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tellno1

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Ra'anan said:
well maybe they're not ;spidermites in the classical sense, theres 'tracks' of bites on the leaves, something is eating them...
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maybe take a pic of one ... would help narrow down what you need to do to get rid of them .. but bombs do work lol
 
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Ra'anan

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tellno1 said:
just so you know .. soap is only a surfactant .. so that water won't bead on the leaves .. i'm not sure .. but soap itself will maybe knock them down , but wont kill them off ... you need something with something like pyrethrum in it but there are a few other things too ..
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yeah i know... i'll have to keep treating the leaves with water daily... the plant secretes its own enzimes onto the leaves and stalks which give it that characteristic smell... and bugs love it! i sometimes see houseflies just pearching under the leaves... fast asleep for some reason...then i just kill em, stoned flies? hmm...
 
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Rj41

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dannyboy602 said:
i know you can spray permithrin indoors. i don't think it works on mite eggs so you have to spray weekly. yellow pest strips are good for bugs that fly. they don't seem to work on mites. idk. sprays seems to work best for me. i use floromite also. i get it for free. but i don't spray in flower. nor should you.
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We're not talking about the sticky fly paper strips. No Pest Strips are different.

Also, just so people know, Smoke 'bombs' leave a residue all over everything. That's how they're effective. The propellant simply blasts the insecticide all over the place. yuck...
 
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Ra'anan

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WeeGogs said:
thats the spirit, get one of the larger bombs, make a joint and go somewhere for a puff while that bomb gets to work on everything in your whole apartment it will make light work of any scrubbing that any one wants you to do.

and dont forget when you scrub a grow room or growhouse if you miss one single mite the whole fucking light brigade comes charging back at you after a little while.
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i'm not going to get paranoid about this .... lol....
 
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WeeGogs

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Ra'anan said:
i'm not going to get paranoid about this .... lol....
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paranoia has got fuck all to do with it, this is fucking war man, stand to attention get that bomb and get rid of those little mites all lined up like battalions of liitle roman legionaires ready to bite at every opportunity LOL. reminds me of when i caught the crabs.

i went to the chemist to get pubic lice cream and he had none.

so i got a bag of sugar and rubbed that on them.

it doesn`t kill them but it rots their fuckin teeth.

who needs nukes.

and by the way, you better watch cos they might start on the flowers next and you might not be the only one getting stoned off your plants.
 
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Ra'anan

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Anyway, one more this time serious question, plant has taken damage so how long before i can tell if its given up alltogether? using soap and water and all that may seriously damage it, any idea how long it will take to recover?
 
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WeeGogs

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Ra'anan said:
Anyway, one more this time serious question, plant has taken damage so how long before i can tell if its given up alltogether? using soap and water and all that may seriously damage it, any idea how long it will take to recover?
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it will recover no probs, just get rid of those mites fast.

spray the plant with a bug spray if need be and then wash it with soap and water to clean it.
 
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Ra'anan

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WeeGogs said:
it will recover no probs, just get rid of those mites fast.

spray the plant with a bug spray if need be and then wash it with soap and water to clean it.
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Cool, thanks...

And thanks to the rest of you guys for advice and laughter!

maybe i'll let you know how it goes. :leaf::-P
 
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chasta

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I'm new to all this but why is nobody telling him he can buy like 1500 lady bugs for 8 bucks at a feed store . You can turn those things loose and they will eat the mights and then they die off after the mights and larva are all eaten away . cheep and no chemicals on your plants . Is this not the pro way to handle mites ? btw you can sprey the ladybugs with coke to make there wings stick together to keep them in confined space longer like huge outdoor greenhouses.
 
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tellno1

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chasta said:
I'm new to all this but why is nobody telling him he can buy like 1500 lady bugs for 8 bucks at a feed store . You can turn those things loose and they will eat the mights and then they die off after the mights and larva are all eaten away . cheep and no chemicals on your plants . Is this not the pro way to handle mites ? btw you can sprey the ladybugs with coke to make there wings stick together to keep them in confined space longer like huge outdoor greenhouses.
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actually predatory mite are what the pro's use .. although ladybugs do prey on mites as a second food source . plant lice, whiteflies and aphids is what they are used for mostly
 
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puffntuff

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Well we didn't tell him to use 1500 ladybugs because dude said he is in a 1bedroom apt growing in his closet. Who TGE fuck wants 1500 ladybugs flying all over your crib?
 
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Endur0xX

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LILBSDAD said:
No pest strips may work in a small area with one or two plants, but they WILL NOT work in a large well ventilated grow room. I don't care if you hang ten of them in there they will not work, I wish people would quit saying they do. Mighty wash by NPK works great and there is a pepper spray stickied in the bugs sub forum of marijuana problems that looks like it might work that you can make yourself for cheap.
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it will cost you 1$ of pepper, it`s worth giving a shot! you need the habaneros pepper, seems to work!
 
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