That's interesting, I'm directly south about 400 miles and their is no such thing as mites outdoors. The only time I've seen mites outdoors is in my green house which can get very dry if I want it.
I read a long time ago that spider mites cannot stand high humidity as it makes their body burst.
The past couple times I've gotten mites in my green house or inside grow rooms all I've done is just spray water on em or just maybe a mild Dawn soap spray. Turn the dehumidifier off and let the environment become hostile for em. They are usually gone in a week. I also do it 2x more to get any lingering critters.
I've had far more aggrevating pests than those bastards.
Moths here this year was as bad as I've ever seen. It was like a plague. Millions of em flying every where and you could pick off 20-30 worms off your plants and come back couple hrs and get the same number off.
I lost almost every plant to worms and the rest to pollen from industrial hemp.
Want to ruin your cannibus crop? Have a state which promotes growing Industrial Hemp that stuff will pollinate every bud you got.
Here is a progression of pics of various stages of bud with what the worms can do.
I even had thousands of worms crawling on my greenhouse and ended up finding their way inside and eating half my bud up in their.
Spray can only do so much. I put out plants a few different times because of the pollen flying everywhere and trying to get some that didn't get much seed in em to sell for my b stock to my people who don't have much money. Didn't get Jack off anything outside this year. Not a single ounce of even seeded bud. Got a little inside my green house but not a lot.
I used to be able to get 80-100 lbs
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