EFFF MEE!! =( What are THESE PESTS?

So I opened my flower tent today. (about 14 days into flower). Noticed little white specs on top of leave so turned it over and found insects crawling over it!!

PLEASE help me over come this!

Ppretty sure it is the worst of the worst.... Spider Mites!!!!!!
What should I do?

There are plenty of identification threads around that you could match up to your problem to confirm what it is. There are also tons of reported solutions.

Yeah, I know that. If in fact I did do that, which I did and as a result my problem was solved, then I would not post a thread.

However, I need some help here. Maybe someone can confirm my suspicions? Give me some tips from experience?

I used some dish soap and very slight amount of h2o2 and soaked the girls (misting) and then threw them in the cellar (cold environment) ..figured they can survive the cold but the pests would not.
Hoping for the best, times are tough right now.

If it's early on, the dish soap may work. If not, go to a grow shop and pick up some ready-to-use neem oil.

-spek

You can use rubbing alcohol (diluted) on the leaves, the alcohol evaporates quickly enough to not harm them. This kills eggs as well I believe. I've done this before on seedlings and they didn't show any signs of discomfort with it.

They do look like mites to me..You could use Azamax/Azatrol if you want something without a stench regular neem oil has. You need to do it now, in the future you might want to do scheduled sprays of your plants, mostly during veg, beacuse those bastards will be back.

Southerner said:

They do look like mites to me..You could use Azamax/Azatrol if you want something without a stench regular neem oil has. You need to do it now, in the future you might want to do scheduled sprays of your plants, mostly during veg, beacuse those bastards will be back.

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I used sprayed them a couple times every day for 3 days, kept them in a very cold environment hoping they would like and mites would die.
Took them out today, top of soil had slight mildew/frost on it, scraped it off.
One girl still had one live might I found so I isolated her. The rest, after thoroughly checking the best I could, I sprayed one final time and threw them in the flower room. (which I cleaned VERY meticulously).

When you say come back... Will they EVER LEAVE!!!?? Even if I completely finish this grow, don't start another veg and clean everything very well??

And any suggestions on dealing with them if they come back during Flower? It's a little over 3 weeks into flower now.

get some neem oil to spray them with

or if you have some cinnamon to hand that might scare them off

1/2 ounce Lavender oil 3-5 ml dawn dish soap emulsified then add to 1 gallon water, kills mites and eggs,can use at any stage of plants life,spray every 2-3 day for 2-3 weeks all mites and eggs will be gone.Use 1x a week as preventative after.

^appreciate the suggestions everyone.

I'll try out your lavender-soap-water thing, as needed.

Anyone know how these might have started? They were looking EXTREMELY healthy. Then I put in a 600w form 400. Three days later they were clearly in there. I don't think it was the lights, maybe the organic happy frog nutrients??

You can bring them in yourself or they will just find their way in, especially if you create an optimal environment for them,which is hot and dry.Take preventatives such as spraying once a week and don't bring in objects from outside to your grow area.Also take your shoes off when entering your grow room and be sure not to brush up against any outdoor plants before entering your grow room.

and they could have hitched a ride in your hair or clothes

do you see any webs? they kinda have that thrip look to them.

Yeah, I try to be as careful and possible and not visit when I enter from outside or anything like that. Crazy how easily and unnoticeably they can come!

Silky- No webs found yet. That's a positive!

Have been checking on them periodically and so far so good! ...hopefully it stays that way. Also I might do precautionary sprays here and there ever couple days.

prob. not spider mites.

the web was hard for me to see sprayed a little water then seen (my eyes aren't what they use to be tho )

Either way, just azamax n be done. Pyrethrum fogger if its bad...

Silky - what's your thoughts? I'd be happy if they are not s.mites after all!

I still see a couple on some leaves here and there, but absolutely no movement, so I presume they are dead then?

...Azamax is okay in flower? ... Can't pick it up locally however.

Nah those look like mites.......you can kinda see a little webbing between the veins where there appears to be eggs......plus you won't see noticeable webbing until you have a full fledged infestation

Looks like mites to me. Dont spray flowers ever. How big are your plants? Are they flowering? will they fit in a trashcan with the lid on? Unfortunately mites always come back. Neem oil only works as a preventative measure. Do not use alcohol It will kill your plant I've done it. If it will fit in a trash can You can put the plant in and the lid on and pump c02 in. If you get the can up 10000ppm for a few hours they will die. You could hang some hotshot strips on a fan and blow it on the plants or hang it from the trashcan lid. The hot shots will be done in a week instead of 4 months because of the fan drying it out. Either way they have to be sealed in. Floramite works good if you follow the directions. azamax works good. although I wouldn't try either of those in flower. If i were you i would make a three pronged attack alternating between products mites build immunity.