Help!the all mighty mites have arrived . Anyone tried lemon oil and peppermint

I just found some eggs and one mite so I know there is more . I have no signs of damage from the mites that I can see yet . I check them daily . Just found these and want to get rid of them NOW! Has anyone used lemon oil or peppermint oil and misted it on their plants ? I've heard this works. I've heard hot peppers work too by simmering them in water then spraying . I live in Alaska in the middle of BFE and getting something here quickly just doesn't happen. I do have oils that my wife uses in a diffuser so I put ten drops of 100% lemon oil and 10 drops or 100% peppermint oil in a spray bottle. Added some water and it smells freaking strong. Went and sprayed the bottoms of all my plants even though I only found eggs on one plant. Also sprayed the dirt as well and the containers . Smells great but I'm nervous . Tomorrow I'm gonna spray from top to bottom on all of them right before lights out . I really hope this works cause getting something for this problem in the mail is gonna take weeks. I am open to all Other suggestions or input . I should have been better prepared and tried to prevent this more it I'm new to this .

Where in the cycle are you?

Muskegman said:

I just found some eggs and one mite so I know there is more . I have no signs of damage from the mites that I can see yet . I check them daily . Just found these and want to get rid of them NOW! Has anyone used lemon oil or peppermint oil and misted it on their plants ? I've heard this works. I've heard hot peppers work too by simmering them in water then spraying . I live in Alaska in the middle of BFE and getting something here quickly just doesn't happen. I do have oils that my wife uses in a diffuser so I put ten drops of 100% lemon oil and 10 drops or 100% peppermint oil in a spray bottle. Added some water and it smells freaking strong. Went and sprayed the bottoms of all my plants even though I only found eggs on one plant. Also sprayed the dirt as well and the containers . Smells great but I'm nervous . Tomorrow I'm gonna spray from top to bottom on all of them right before lights out . I really hope this works cause getting something for this problem in the mail is gonna take weeks. I am open to all Other suggestions or input . I should have been better prepared and tried to prevent this more it I'm new to this .

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If you aren't in flower I'd go straight to amazon or ebay and pick up the variety of miticide.insecticides they have, 4 of them being forbid 4f , avid, floramite and Kontos.
All of these are systemic which means it will protect the plants for 30-45 days or so. I use a toxic systemic right before I flip anymore and that only leaves 3 weeks I'll need to do maintenance spraying with a choice of Mighty wash (if I see a mite) or
Flying Skull nukem since it kills more than mites. Both products are safe and effective , some will say otherwise,, my answer is you didn't contact them.
With the toxic systemics you don't have contact them, the active ingredient moves throughout the plant.

And yeah probably any oil would work that isn't harmful to the plant, most ot the oils are contact kill also, mode of action suffocation so you have to hit them. Neem which I've never used (only in the form of azamax ) interupts a hormone and makes the stop eating and breeding. Heard too many stories of loyal neem users say they'd never use it again, dunno why, was probably their own fault and they applied to near harvest; with mighty wash or nukem you can safely use this shit up until harvest.

Purespray green is nothing but petroleum oil. you could kill mites and then go lube up the ol lady for some fun.

WTF dbkick..........no Mitey Wash as the savior of mankind?

SSHZ said:

WTF dbkick..........no Mitey Wash as the savior of mankind?

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You do notice I mentioned it and nuke em , and if you hit them they WILL die, with either product.

Hahaha thanks for that last little advice advice ! I'm on Amazon now but who knows when this stuff will arrive . Everything is usually a week later than expected . I live on a island lol

A lot of the stuff seems overpriced but if it works it's pretty much worth it. I apply shit with an airless paint sprayer and get excellent coverage but I've already mentioned that a few dozen times, if it isn't systemic you've got to hit the little bastards.

Actually, it also depends on the type of mites you have........I have heard that many of the products listed above do not work on broad or russet mites, even if sprayed directly on the mites. They did not work on mine, I know that. Forbid 4F was the only thing that finally cleared my room of my mites.............

SSHZ said:

Actually, it also depends on the type of mites you have........I have heard that many of the products listed above do not work on broad or russet mites, even if sprayed directly on the mites. They did not work on mine, I know that. Forbid 4F was the only thing that finally cleared my room of my mites.............

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Flying Skull nuke em boast sure kill on broad mites. odd the shit is nothing but citric acid and potassium sorbate. a plus is its a natural fungicide.

https://www.rollitup.org/t/how-to-kill-and-keep-off-almost-all-common-mj-pests-easily.900261/

All the info you need.

No need to "try" out all kinds of stuff where a lot of this is more anecdotal than anything. IMHO, insecticidal soap and Neem...BOOM. Just do it right like I describe in my thread.

Muskegman said:

I just found some eggs and one mite so I know there is more . I have no signs of damage from the mites that I can see yet . I check them daily . Just found these and want to get rid of them NOW! Has anyone used lemon oil or peppermint oil and misted it on their plants ? I've heard this works. I've heard hot peppers work too by simmering them in water then spraying . I live in Alaska in the middle of BFE and getting something here quickly just doesn't happen. I do have oils that my wife uses in a diffuser so I put ten drops of 100% lemon oil and 10 drops or 100% peppermint oil in a spray bottle. Added some water and it smells freaking strong. Went and sprayed the bottoms of all my plants even though I only found eggs on one plant. Also sprayed the dirt as well and the containers . Smells great but I'm nervous . Tomorrow I'm gonna spray from top to bottom on all of them right before lights out . I really hope this works cause getting something for this problem in the mail is gonna take weeks. I am open to all Other suggestions or input . I should have been better prepared and tried to prevent this more it I'm new to this .

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Neem Oil its systemic,

fast, organic, safe

and if you like currys

taste nice too

good luck

I honestly can't say anything whether Lemon oil/Peppermint oil would work...and also not whether it would be harmful for your plants.

If you can and want to play it safe, why not just HOSE OFF eggs and mites with plain water as a temporary solution while you wait for stuff to come in the mail. (Like: insecticidal soap, Neem). At least with the hosing you can sort-of delay/stop them until your stuff arrives. That is what I would do. Yes, don't freak out, your plants will look like shiate once you hose them off (mine do ) but always recover within a few hours and then look great.

Update: sprayed them with the lemon/peppermint oil three days ago and can't find any mites or eggs. Doesn't mean anything I guess for now. Found someone that had azamax and let me have it , so I guess if they get out of hand and comeback I could try that stuff. Ordered mighty mite also but who knows when that will be here . I also bought some bug spray and sprayed all around the outside of the shed and door way. hopefully they don't come back. This is my first grow so I'm probably being way over protective but oh well. The humidity is at 73% so that might be good too, as I've read they don't like humidity. That just brings up my next thing to deal with when its time to flower in about a week. Humidity is pretty high where I live and that worries me . During the day the high temps are in the mid to upper 40's and lows in the high 30's. Naturally I want to have the lights on at night so they don't get to cold. If I have lights out during the day though, I have to worry about light entering inside. I have one 6 inch stove pipe coming into the shed at the bottom of one corner of the shed and a 6 in coming out at the opposite end up high. I've had the lights off to see where light is entering from and it's at both stove pipes and door. Not much but enough for me to see in. I need to figure out a way to stop all the light from coming in. I'm thinking a blanket for the door but I don't know what to do with the stove pipes. Maybe stuff shirts or towels in them before lights out . Maybe close them off completely ?

Let me get this straight, you're growing in Alaska (!!) and your temps are anywhere from the high 30s to upper 40s...FAHRENHEIT??? At those temps can you even grow anything?

Edit: Are those pipes used? If you think there is indeed too much light coming in, so yes I would stuff something in them. What are you growing, Autos? If so you don't need to worry about light anyway...those low temps are more concerning to me.

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forbid 4f , avid, floramite and Kontos.
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Lord fricking Christ, why use forbid 4F if you can kill them and keep them away will insecticidal soap and Neem? Spidermites are still among the easier-to-get-rid-off pests. Compared to, say, broad mites.
I looked up forbid 4F, it sure is "the best" you can get today for mites (not in Europe tho which is idiotic seeing that Bayer is actually a German company, I guess this is banned in EU?)...BUT THAT STUFF IS HARDCORE HAZARDOUS. I would not use any of this stuff unless as a last resort really.

Don't fuck around. You have to hit them until they are gone. And don't transfer them to another location. Since you can't kill the eggs. You have to do a regimen. If I get them again. I'll be dosing them every 3 days longer than recommended. They're tricky because you'll think you've got them. Then suddenly they'll be back. That's because most people don't understand the life cycle. Combine that without being able to kill the eggs. You can't miss a beat. Because all it takes is to miss the hatching of one single egg. Then it creeps back up. So you kill all living the first time. Every time after you're trying to kill any that hatched before they can lay more eggs. That needs to be maintained until there are no eggs left to hatch. So buckle up and pay attention and make sure you have everything you need on hand. Because those eggs aren't waiting for fed ex to knock on your door!

That's why I said it can't hurt to spray w/ soap & neem, say, once every month even if you don't have an actual infestation, just for prevention. And yes, if you do have an infestation, repeat in 3-4 days intervals, hose them off with water first, then insecticidal soap emulsion w/ Neem, repeat this a few times. It's relatively simple to do and I have yet to see anything negative from hosing my plants and spraying them. I had a very severe infestation this new growing season, my plants looked like total shit - just two days later after spraying they're visibly looking better, lush & green, no spots on new growth and they're really shooting up now. (Added bonus is that the potassium soap has a nice, clean and fresh smell too)

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flexy123 said:

Let me get this straight, you're growing in Alaska (!!) and your temps are anywhere from the high 30s to upper 40s...FAHRENHEIT??? At those temps can you even grow anything?

Edit: Are those pipes used? If you think there is indeed too much light coming in, so yes I would stuff something in them. What are you growing, Autos? If so you don't need to worry about light anyway...those low temps are more concerning to me.

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when lights are on its 77 degrees usually. It's in a grow shed that's insulated and all that. When lights out, from 10am to 4pm is gets down to 60 degrees inside the shed , even though it's in the 40's outside. The pipes I installed were brand new.