Monster Gardens
Active Member
Hey Pop, thanks for sharing your experience, however, no pest will gain resistance to organic, oil-based, remedies because the mode of action is suffocation. Yes, this holds true with pesticides that attack the nervous system, such as Avid, Forbid etc.. Also, regarding Spinosad, as it is an effective bacteria it is not a spot-treatment. The bacteria take time to infect the pest which slowly leads to mortality and I'm not entirely sure Spinosad is approved for use on Cannabis, at least here in CA so it will not be a viable long-term option for the "above-board" operators.Sorry, tried the pepper thing never worked for regular mites let alone the 2 spotted kind the latter builds a resistance to what ever your using if you don't kill them on contact. I use captain jacks which is a spinosad, It's organic, found as a bacteria that grows in the soil of Jamaican rum processing, it kills them on contact again its an organic product, this along with blasts of compressed air (blows off eggs and mites) every 3 days, got rid of an infestation of the 2 spotted mites, took almost 3 weeks to get rid of them, 2 spotted mites lay 20 eggs a day, these eggs hatch in 3 days they become sexually mature in 5 days and a female only has to be impregnated once by a male to make more eggs, that's why you have to spray every 3 days, this works for me and is only my opinion.
Fyi, we've seen some scenarios where the two-spotted mite will lay eggs every 10-12 hours!
Cheers!