Best spider mite cures?!

Hello everyone at Rollitup! I'm new to growing and am just about to get to flower stage and have seen some cobwebs on the leaves on base of plant. Ive been doing my best wiping them off with wet paper towel, sprayed with a ( non- antibacterial soap + water)mix . After I clean off all I can see I spray the undersides of the leaves with the same mixture. Seems to be helping and keeping them from covering any large part of the plant but there definitely still there in most areas of the plant. So for my first post I was hoping you guys would give me your favorite way of killing these Lil F***ers. I'm going to the garden store tomorrow and most likely investing in lady bugs but I need more ideas, help me out!

I applied one spraying of Azatrol then put a hot shots pest strip in my room and have not seen another mite alive since. Do your research on any chemicals you use.

Do your best to keep the room clean. If you get bugs really it's best to nail the fuck out of them at the earliest opportunity. If youre still in Veg or early flowering you can use a 'P' Fogger and then repeat with another fogger in 3 days time. That will definately kill them DEAD

Only problem with Permethrin is that there is a withholding period of several weeks. ie the harvest will not be consumable until the toxins have broken down into less harmful things. Farmers use Permethrin on edible food crops all the time so is safe so long as you abide by the withholding period on the product.

If your further along into flowering you can only use certain non toxic foliar sprays etc. One tip I picked up on here was the Harka Mectin foliar spray at 1ml per litre of water and a little dish soap. Harka Mectin is a product intended for use on racing pidgeons containing Iver Mectin which is an endectocide used for killing worms, lice and mites on people and on animals. Scroggsy.

diatomaceous earth- all natural non toxic

u should try boilling garlic in a pot and use the water when it cools down . smells bad . good if you dont want any chemicals going in . garlic is a natural insect repellent.. worked 4 me but it smeels rellay bad

I'm using Isopropyl Alcohol 91% in a mixture of 50/50 with water. Just have to make sure you don't get it on the trich's as it might melt them.

Azamax worked great on MITES for me. Doesn't do much against GNATS though

Scroggsy said:

Do your best to keep the room clean.

Click to expand...

^this... lower temps slow their reproduction rates too. When battling mites, multiple layers of defense/offense are best.

I have had spider mites a few times, and I've never seen a time when NEEM OIL failed to get rid of them, NEEM is some good stuff. If you want to go all natural, you can brew Worm Tea. Worm castings has a chemical in it called Chitinase. The enzyme chitinase will dissolve chitin and chitin makes the exoskeleton of a bug. If the level is below detection then it is not toxic to the bug and they can NOT detect it. Increase the level of chitinase above this level and the bug is repelled by the nectar of the plant rather than attracted to it. That chemical will dissolve the spider mites from the inside out. I use worm castings like crazy and never had an infestation of spider mites since I started using it. I spray worm tea on top of my leaves and underneath my leaves once a week. I also water with worm tea once a week and take the wet balled clump of worm castings out of the panty hose from which I make worm tea with and spread the wet castings over the soil as a top dressing. So my plants are getting dosed with Chitinase through the leaves and through the roots. I have had a light touch of spider mites here and there since I've used worm castings and worm tea but I've never had a mass spider mite infestation since I've been using them.

Before I used worm tea and castings I had a few bad cases of spider mites but NEEM OIL always took out the whole colony of mites.NEEM OIL can slow down plant growth because it clogs the stomata of the leaves up, and this is why I don't like to use it as a first line of defense.

404NotFound said:

I'm using Isopropyl Alcohol 91% in a mixture of 50/50 with water. Just have to make sure you don't get it on the trich's as it might melt them.

Click to expand...

How would one go about doing this once trichomes on the plant out number mites?
What is the prefered method of application to deal with mites crawling on the top side of a leaf, in the middle of the plant, or anywhere a sprayer would normally come into contact with trichomes.
In other words how do you avoid doing what you warn against doing and still use alcohol as an effective mite solution.

Mighty Wash! I dont usually whore myself for products but this shit is amazing.

TBH folks although I completely agree with keeping things organic and such and in an ideal world that would be great, but fucking around with stuff that only controls them is not helping these little bastards can multiply so fast it's unreal. Whatever you use makesure it kills them quick, because if they get a foothold too far into flowering you cannot use anything as near as effective as a 'P' fogger. Scroggsy.

s0high said:

Mighty Wash! I dont usually whore myself for products but this shit is amazing.

Click to expand...

All it takes is the hidden few you missed to turn even the Mightiest of washes
into a mite control program.
Short of fogging or No pest strips or the like, I don't see how water can penetrate the entire plant mass, and reach every mite
to do whatever it is products like mighty wash are supposed to do.
I can see it working for small plants and clones but a flowering plant?
Lots of places for bugs to hide in those.

1st I use Neem oil to knock them out,after 24 hrs I spray w/ water to clean the oil off & after 3 days,I treat again w/ SM90 2-3 times at 3 day intervals. SM90 is sold as a water wetting agent but it both kills mites and repells them. they used to sell it for mite control but some government reg was more work than it was worth (at least, thats what I was told)so now they don't make claims about pest control. it does work & the active ingrediant breaks down in like 24 hours so its safe to use almost till harvest. only downside is it kills the good bacteria in soil so keep it out of soil but if you are hydro, use it in your rez all the time. whatever is in it doesn't taste/smell good to mites so they leave them alone.

Liquid Lady Bug.

AVID, spray before flowering. NOT ORGANIC, does not mess around. it is 100% effective but you cannot use it too much or the little buggers will become tolerant to it. I use neem to prevent mites, but AVID at the first time i see any and they are gone. Might not be able to find it though as it is a controlled substance.

Just dont switch to flowering until you are sure you have them under control. Lots of info here on mites, do a quick search. Good luck

Neem works fine and will kill pretty much anything.

i tried a few things and azamax worked for me

einstein oil kills mites only though

probo24 said:

How would one go about doing this once trichomes on the plant out number mites?
What is the prefered method of application to deal with mites crawling on the top side of a leaf, in the middle of the plant, or anywhere a sprayer would normally come into contact with trichomes.
In other words how do you avoid doing what you warn against doing and still use alcohol as an effective mite solution.

Click to expand...

If you don't mind getting the solution on your hand for a bit, I usually put my hand in front of the budsites and right in front of where the trichs end and then spray accordingly. Now you can also dilute the solution more and add more water with like 2 drops of dishsoap and it shouldn't harm the trichs, I'd just rather take the risk with the 50/50 mix. I actually sprayed them the day I made my first post in this thread. The isopropyl alcohol sterilizes them so no more reproduction [for the ones that survived] and kills most of them. And you keep applying until gone.