Cleaning empty grow room after mites

Fought battle for months. Finished some, lost hundreds. Its done now. I have carpet in my grow room. Going to steam clean it all including walls. Then bleach walls and probably carpet too.
Diatamaceous Earth then vaccuum carpet then steam clean again. Drop every tool in a bucket of bleach water for 24 hours. Wipe down all nute bottles and sprayers. Wipe down lights as well. I also bought a sulfer burner too!

What else? I need to be DONE with this.

Modern Pesticide.

You can fight this like it's 1880 and you ride to the store in a wagon or you can kill them. Careful use of pesticides won't effect your plants.

i used avid, forbid, azamax, neem, soap, green cleaner, grandevo, benefactin, etc. they dont stop. all the plants are gone.

anything im leaving out or ideas?

Between grows, I spray the whole room with 99.9% iso alcohol. Kill everything.

Treat the outside of the house. They're never gonna stop unless you kill every mite in the state.

There was gentleman on here earlier in the week that had an infestation of Clover Mites. The eradicating of such required the outside of the house to be treated. Some of these critters are hard core.

even avid/benefactin dunked 100 seedlings I had, and

SwitchHitter said:

Between grows, I spray the whole room with 99.9% iso alcohol. Kill everything.

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will it kill russett mite eggs?

it dries everything out. I would imagine so. Since I've started spraying, I got no more bugs

SouthCross said:

Treat the outside of the house. They're never gonna stop unless you kill every mite in the state.

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My neighbors think I'm mad for sure, but I azamax the surrounding grasses four foot out from my home. I heard it makes bugs not even want the sprayed plants. Way I see it, I've got an Azamax moat haha

SwitchHitter said:

My neighbors think I'm mad for sure, but I azamax the surrounding grasses four foot out from my home. I heard it makes bugs not even want the sprayed plants. Way I see it, I've got an Azamax moat haha

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Then it's all about a better seal to the grow space. However these bugs are getting to the plants. Block it off. They can't be rushing in when you're messing with the plants. They're getting inside the space somewhere. Hunt those fu¢kers down.

u know.....i have a fan that vents to the attic from my grow room.....doubt they could make it through though.....should I worry about that? its a strong fan.

BRANDON77 said:

u know.....i have a fan that vents to the attic from my grow room.....doubt they could make it through though.....should I worry about that? its a strong fan.

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They're getting in somehow. Never doubt Mother Nature.

This is why tents are boss status. Seal that room, caulk cracks, get an intake filter/fan. CFM out = CFM in. 100 out, 95% cfm in. creates negative pressure..

I use a standard watered down bleach solution, great for cleaning, disinfecting, and pest control. Put it in a sprayer and hit the entire room (making sure it's well ventilated as you are of course) multiple times, let things air out for at least 3-4 days before starting up again.

And I'd recommend ditching the carpet if at all possible. That's an awesome and convenient spot for all sorts of pests, spores, and unwanted guests to crawl in and hide.

As for a preventative spray while you're plants are alive, there's a good hot pepper spray I've had great results with. Just chop up some habenero peppers or something hotter and boil it until the liquid starts to become concentrated. Strain it and dilute it at a 10:1 ratio and spray away. I've used this up until the last week or two of flower and have never had any issues with it affecting the flavor or anything negative like that. That spray will quickly take care of the mites though, think of what a habenero does to us and then imagine one of those little fuckers taking a bite into that. Pretty much kills them off because they either die eating the pepper sprayed plant or of starvation.

Hope that helps!

UV light

Just get a cheap led one and hang it in the middle the room for a day. You can also use it for short period during grow cycles. Does a great job with PM and other plant issues too. Just make sure you protect your eyes.