oregongrowpros
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Don't know if its been mentioned, but diamataceous earth"
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HOW TO KILL SPIDER MITES 100%: " Naturally - no chemicals"
- Thread starter calibuzz
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6ixtynin9
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Keep in mind "Thai" pepper has lots of variants or "strains". The one I grow and used is called "Bird's Eye". It's very small (about 2-3 cm long on average) but VERY FUCKING hot. Don't use those big long Thai pepper. The bigger the pepper, usually the less heat it has. Pepper tasted best when it's unripe (green) and has little heat, so it's best to make the spray with ripe (red) pepper.
Daniel nevels
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I use the caliclean as a prevenative it works great my clines had mite not anymore I spray it 2 times a week and its working!!
Tobacco products (even 100% natural) can spread the Tobacco Mosaic Virus. The virus can survive in dead plant material for up to 5yrs, is nearly impossible to rid, and can destroy you crop! It is not only a blight to Tobacco & Cannabis, but can infect tomatoes, peppers and many other crops. It can also survive in your soil/medium for a very long time (steam your medium @450' for 4hrs !?!? to destroy the virus). This is 1 of the reasons that cigarette smokers are told to disinfect thier hands after smoking before tending to thier plants. Great thread! Please continue sharing your knowledge!That's good to know, appreciate it
#newbie2forum #100%organic
bassett76
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Cool Bwpz! Ire, Ja mon,
Yeah Brother. A great product that works can be had at nospidermites.com . However, that stuff should only be used in a last chance emegency - as it leaves a residue. I prefer no gunk on my junk... "if you feel me."
Mighty wash is not for me. One should do it themselves - rid mites. It build good character, knowledge, and fashions a tighter bond with the plant and its integral aspects.
Oh...BTW. No Caliclean does not harm plants at all!!!!!!!!!!!! Its like taking an organic bath for them - no nervous system you know. No pain, no schock, no effects what-so-ever, but the good plant karma that says in the back of one's head that if the plant could speak it might say: "Thank you, I've been cured by a loving farmer."
Thank you for your feedback!
My Best,
Peace,
calibuzz
can i use any other peppers like scotch bonnets as cant find the Habanera Peppers any where
also can i use it during flowering many thanks
ProdigalSun
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Will this stuff work on fungus gnats?
ProdigalSun
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Ok. How is it used/applied?
MarWan
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I either apply it to the leaves by sprinkling it on the tops & rubbin the bottoms, or vaporize it using a small candle inside the grow space (ventelation off)
be careful though when vaporizing not to over do it or place it directly under the plants, it might burn the plants. I do it in a 2'x3' grow space for like 3-6 hrs
Elemental sulfur is one of the oldest fungicides and pesticides. "Dusting sulfur," elemental sulfur in powdered form, is a common fungicide for grapes, strawberry, many vegetables and several other crops. It has a good efficacy against a wide range of powdery mildew diseases as well as black spot. In organic production, sulfur is the most important fungicide
more info
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur
sulfur candle (from the link above)
be careful though when vaporizing not to over do it or place it directly under the plants, it might burn the plants. I do it in a 2'x3' grow space for like 3-6 hrs
Elemental sulfur is one of the oldest fungicides and pesticides. "Dusting sulfur," elemental sulfur in powdered form, is a common fungicide for grapes, strawberry, many vegetables and several other crops. It has a good efficacy against a wide range of powdery mildew diseases as well as black spot. In organic production, sulfur is the most important fungicide
more info
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur
sulfur candle (from the link above)
ProdigalSun
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That's what I was thinking, my girls are 2-4 weeks from done.
I can send you Hab. seeds. Chop then warm them with water and your good. Yes on flower.
testiclees
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all that talk about pussy meanwhile sounds like your vag is chaffed.
testiclees
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you are mistaken. your analogy is faulty.by your logic mites rule the animal kingdom
healthy, well grown plants thrive while infested poorly grown plants flounder just a few feet away. this is a common sight among growers who employ different practices.
thecannacove
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I don't believe you're understanding his point. He didn't say healthy plants can't defend themselves, he's simply saying a healthy plant is not immune to an attack. It goes without saying a healthy plant has greater ability to resist than an unhealthy plant, but regardless whether a mite gets on a healthy plant or an unhealthy plant, its not leaving without intervention (be it human or environmental).
Mom the Queen
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CALICLEAN WORKS! I'm an organic grower too, and have tried everything to kill the mites: cinnamon, cloves, lemon, Italian seasoning, garlic, dish soap, Neem oil (which is disgusting and taints the plants with a terrible flavor--I don't care what the bottle says about spraying crops within 1 day of harvest). Plus, we reuse our dirt as we compost everything. And...we have a really tight budget. I've spent a small fortune on mite killers to absolutely NO AVAIL. We're talking ruination of an entire crop, dying of our clones, fricking Viking warriors from the north crawling all over the umbrellas above where it's nice and hot for the little suckers to breed. I started with 1/2 pound of Habaneros which only cost me $7. It made enough juice to treat the grow room 2X. Next time I bought a whole pound and saved the juice in plastic juice bottles. MAKE SURE YOU MARK THESE BOTTLES AS "DON'T DRINK!!!!!" Poster is correct that additional treatments only need to be done to kill whatever hatches. I noticed that the additional infestations on the plants between 2-3 day major sprays were simply too random for poster to not be correct. As I tended the plants, I kept my spray bottle nearby to hit these little outbreaks until I finish the entire 2-3 week cycle.
Let me add a few notes of caution: wear rubber gloves while cutting the peppers up. Even after 5 hand washes, everything I touched (face, hand, lips, skin) was on fire for 15 mins to several hours. Have good ventilation while simmering or you're going to think someone has shoved black pepper up your nose. A paper surgical mask or tittie cup mask is not enough. I had to get out my OSHA approved mask from when I used to paint and used that when I was spraying the whole room. We took a few of the pepper seeds and are going to try to grow them in their own containers with our MJ plants. I mean, why not? Then I don't even have to pay for the peppers. I am a little concerned about whether the peppers will make the smoke spicy. Any thoughts on that?
Try this method. You will see instant kill on contact, not just live bugs being washed to every nook and cranny of your plants and grow room. By the second day of treatment, the mite outbreaks will continue to decline. I'm only on day 5, and I'm convinced. Our plants have never been happier, and there is not even a single iota of damage to the plants.
Thank you so much! If some of you are like us, we grow for one family member's pain management. There is no way we could afford to buy at a dispensary. Keeping our crop healthy is important to our already precarious financial situation.
Let me add a few notes of caution: wear rubber gloves while cutting the peppers up. Even after 5 hand washes, everything I touched (face, hand, lips, skin) was on fire for 15 mins to several hours. Have good ventilation while simmering or you're going to think someone has shoved black pepper up your nose. A paper surgical mask or tittie cup mask is not enough. I had to get out my OSHA approved mask from when I used to paint and used that when I was spraying the whole room. We took a few of the pepper seeds and are going to try to grow them in their own containers with our MJ plants. I mean, why not? Then I don't even have to pay for the peppers. I am a little concerned about whether the peppers will make the smoke spicy. Any thoughts on that?
Try this method. You will see instant kill on contact, not just live bugs being washed to every nook and cranny of your plants and grow room. By the second day of treatment, the mite outbreaks will continue to decline. I'm only on day 5, and I'm convinced. Our plants have never been happier, and there is not even a single iota of damage to the plants.
Thank you so much! If some of you are like us, we grow for one family member's pain management. There is no way we could afford to buy at a dispensary. Keeping our crop healthy is important to our already precarious financial situation.
nwbudds
Member
It should be a warning on hobanaro peppers WOW!!!! I just sprayed my veg plants and could hardly breathe and I was wearing a medical emergency mask for air borne pathogens. I'm getting a garden pump sprayer and a breathing apparatus will see how that protects my breathing while spraying. Oh and another thing don't use your bare skin to chop or handle them use a blender of some sort to chop.
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HOW TO KILL SPIDER MITES 100%
By Calibuzz - 30 year grower
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Cured Clone - see new growth!
You have Spider Mites? YOU HAVE A PROBLEM!!! Unless you are diligent and work hard, the problem will not go away, your crop is doomed as one by one they fail and die.
As a Native American, proud of our heritage and ways in keeping with the environment, I give to you a method that is naturally harmonious, and pure. The method is so benign, you may use this method even during flowering - without a single harm to your precious plants.
The best way is not the easiest by far; to do the perfect job takes comitment - so all you lazy bud heads who want a quick fix: "look elsewhere, or coat your precious medicine with chemicals and poison...and remind me not to smoke your herb."
Editor's note: One will find a bit of cross talk in this thread, and some rude posts. The Editor aplogizes that many have strayed off the central subject and prefer to haze each other. However, one will find many other concerned members with great suggestions and feedback. - calibuzz
"Now then, for all you fervent horticulturists..."
Spider mites are alive; you can make them dead. All life is fragile, but... "how do I kill the mites without hurting my crop?"
I will not use pesticides or harmful chemicals on my plants; thus, I have found an all-natural way to rid the infestations that sometimes occur. Curing your plants takes time and care, but you can rid your babies of the mini-spiders that suck your plant's life's blood.
Spiders have skin-like exoskeletons; the tissues are sensitive to change. Molecules soak though their pours, skin and orifices; thus, what may bother you - a giant living organism - might prove fatal to a spider the size of a pinhead. This is so when using a common group of proteins found in Nature. I will teach you how to naturally and inexpensively rid your plants of the dreaded spider mites.
The Habanera Pepper (sometimes pronounced Habenero) is the key ingredient in pepper spray. Once you make a batch of CALICLEAN you'll see why. One may buy habanera peppers in any vegetable section for about 6 dollars a pound. The peppers are light orange to dark red, and are about the size of a bic lighter when fully mature, most are half that size. Go buy a pound, now!!! If you have mites, time is of the essence.
NOTICE: The spray you make is not harmful to humans (hab peppers are an ingredient in all really good south of the border salsas), but irritating to mucus membranes and soft tissues, it will make you cough - as its like breathing chili powder, so use care.
"GEE, MY PLANT LEAVES ARE DOTTED WITH WHITE SPOTS AND TURNING PALE OR YELLOW."
If you have taken a powerful magnifying glass to the underside of your plant's leaves you will have seen the little off-yellow dots with a brown center that move about slowly over the plant leafs and veins - the mature mites. These big mites leave web-strands like other spiders. Web strands between leaf and stems (as they cross back and forth to new vulnerable leaves), and between leaf serrations are indications of a healthy infestation and big mites on your plants. You may also have seen almost too-hard-to-see little brown dots crawling slowly about. These are the baby mites that will grow into big suckers. You may also have seen groups of little white dots near the central leaf brachiation and the main leaf veins. These are clutches of mite eggs. They will soon hatch and produce up to 80 mites per clutch, per mature mite. You are screwed if you do nothing. But fret not, you can save your plants, and they will recover and thrive - with diligence.
HERE IS WHAT TO DO
Making the Calicleaner
1.) Get a sauce pan - fill with one pint of water - put on lowest flame possible (do not boil !!!).
2.) Chop 4 -5 Habanera peppers fine. Chop open seeds and central membranes, as the power lies there.
3.) Simmer chopped peppers for 20 minutes - making sure not to boil (you will destroy the active proteins).
4.) When you put your head over the pan and the wispy-steam stings your eyes, the Calicleaner is ready.
5.) Pour the Calicleaner through a fine mesh strainer - a little fine grit is OK - let cool in a clean bowl.
6.) Pour room temperature contents in a mister spray bottle. Your are ready to apply.
HOW TO APPLY Calicleaner
1.) Put on gloves, and wear a mask, or at least put a bandana around your nose and mouth.
2.) Turn off all fans - you do not want this spray in your eyes!!!
3.) Spray the bottom of EVERY leaf - starting with the bottom leaves first, work up to the top.
4.) After the bottoms are done, hit the tops and the stems.
5.) Squirt liberally in new leaf pods - tightly wound new leaf growth (the small mites hide there).
6.) Get the heck out of the room till it clears.
7.) Repeat procedure with each plant.
8.) Spray the soil, the pots, and the floor or earth around the area to kill dropping mites and stop migration.
9.) Wash hands with soap and water when complete - the stuff will heat-up skin for 4 hours.
10.) DO NOT WORRY. Though the stuff is lethal to mites, the plants love it.
WHAT’S NEXT??
Congratulations! You have successfully killed the mites that you sprayed - on contact!. Plus, the mites are thwarted in biting again as they get a lethal dose of hot mouth. Your plants should be turning green again with in half a day. Though the leaves are scarred, they will recover and work again - producing vital sugars for growth.
However, you are not done. Some mites will escape the spray, though you have killed 95% of them. Thus, you will have to do the spray again tomorrow. As a matter of fact you will have to spray every 2-3 days till you see no more mites - usually up to two weeks. SOME EGGS WILL HATCH!!! Thus a week after the first spray, do a super job again, the baby mites are likely out and about. Kill 'em right away.
Use your magnifying glass to inspect each plant carefully, when nothing moves and you see no more webs, your plants are clear. YEAH!!
Additional precautions: make sure your containers and pots do not touch, mites migrate. Clean your floors and equipment so live mites do not return (spray them down with Caliclean). Since no person can kill every living mite in their situation, eternal diligence is now part of the equation. One mite may turn into a million in a month.
Other helpful hints: wash your plants with clean water spray between sprayings, this cleans off dead mites and eggs, and refreshes the plant leaf compromised by the vampire sucking mites. Keep the room cool, 78 degrees to 68 degrees if possible during treatment. Mites hate the cold - thus weakened mites will drop dead. If lower leaves are infested with eggs and mites - cut them off! DO NOT LEAVE CUTTINGS NEARBY! Burn or bury your cuttings far away.
Spraying notes: Mites tend to collect where the leaves join at the nexus and overlap. If you can, lay your plants on-end or position upsidedown (be real careful) to make sure all undersides are sprayed. Cut off curled leaves where they collect. If you're a rich person you may make a full pound to ten gallons of water and dunk them - even better!!
The best part of using Calicleaner is you may use it always - even during flowering. As the solution is all natural, no one is harmed but the mites: "Nature to deal with Nature." Your money goes to a farmer not a chemi
Your ingredient is great but for a cup i use peppers and garlic.. i find the peppers kill but the garlic keeps pest at bay. I left some outside and notice the bugs wouldnt touch it.., also dish soap will coat your leaves with a scent further detoring bugs .. your opinion??