Well then you are the man to talk to, finally got bit through sloppy handling of a friggin clone. In over 10 years I have never had a mite infestation because I never ever trusted a clone and only grew from seed, then I got too happy when confronted with a GG#4 clone
Anyhow using the pepper spray method at the moment on 3x LST'd females in my flower tent, pulled a scorched earth exercise on my mother/grow tent thew out everything though I was meaning to rotate genetics anyhow. In your experience what are the best predatory mites and if possible could you provide a source? Also any opinion on if a nuke it from space action (throw out all plants, bleach clean and start from scratch) is preferable?
The whole thing pisses me off, I knew better but live and learn eh?
Thanks in advance for any insight you might share.
In my VAST fuckin mite experience the absolute best thing is predatory mites.
everything else just kills 98%, and all that's left are the resistant ones, and they breed, then you have a resistant mite infestation.
mine were resistant to pretty much everything, the only thing that'd partially work was spraying them off and dunking in essential oil dunks to physically kill the eggs.
but that only worked for a week, cuz they'd just come in from outside.
I absolutely will provide the source, for the predatory mites, he is a good dude.
I thought for sure he was full of shit when he arrogantly said his mites would knock down my mutated infestation.
But they did.
his name is Andrew
951-852-6063
maybe text him first, he is often driving
tell him greasemonkeyman sent you, the mites are a bit pricey, but they work well, and you get ZERO sprays to worry about.
the ones I got were californius, and fallacis
I think... or close to that, but you don't pick them anyways, he does, you tell him your situation and he "prescribes" the types of mites you need.
for a small grow it's probably about 100 dollars for them. (shipping is pricey)
but that lasts a long time, for me if that's what I need to do for every harvest it beats worrying about spraying them and smoking tiny mite corpses/webs, etc.
for a bad infestation you may need two applications.
I went with one application and I was fully webbed (did that sorta on purpose to see how well his mites worked)
within a week the plants had a new set of fully green leaves, and like I said, they were webbed.
The biggest advantage of the mites is NO "3-day" repeat bullshit, having to do that for 12 days is a whore, and only to see them re-infest....
but I have a shitty back (years of sports, judo/aikido, fallin from trees, and wrenchin on cars)
so for me, it was bad-fuckin ass that all I had to do was sprinkle them on the leaves like pepper, and watch them do their thing.
plus...
ok this is a bit sick, but the idea of each one of those cocksuckers dying a horrible violent death, and being eaten alive?
was pretty awesome...
