dr.tomb
Well-Known Member
Curious if anyone has or currently uses this to get rid of whiteflys, thrips, spider mites, scale or broad mites on indoor grows?
I currently have a broad mite infestation. To be honest I didn't even know they were a thing until i put out some yellow stickies and saw a whole bunch of dust particles. On further inspection with the 60x magnifier i noticed black bug like carcasses. I started to research and believe ive got broad mites, which are 0.2mm big. That combined with nutrient deficiencies ive never experienced in 8yrs growing ,twisted leaves and paper like leaves on young cloned moms. I also was seeing a drop off in harvests of about 2-3oz maybe even more.
After reading about pest management in greenhouses and looking through some controlled studies on mealy bugs and scale (2 of the worst house plant bugs to fight) which showed excellent results; ive decided to give it a go.
My plan is to use the drench method in my veg Tent, which houses my clones, moms in 1gal pots and future flowering plants which are vegged for 1 month before flower in 4gal pits. This tent is completely ebb&flow.
Im not interested in spraying daily or weekly with products like end-all or insecticidal soap. Also after reading i think it sounds like a long battle with beneficial bugs (which i have had great success with spidermites).
So if you are using this product how are you using it? At what rates? How often? In flower?
Im using 10ml/100L of water. Basically i mix 1.5ml with 4gal of water. Ive dunked all 1 gal pots to cover all the clay pebbles and drip drained over a bucket. With the 4gal pots ive hand watered through the perlite until water was draining through the bottom and dripped over a bucket.
I currently have a broad mite infestation. To be honest I didn't even know they were a thing until i put out some yellow stickies and saw a whole bunch of dust particles. On further inspection with the 60x magnifier i noticed black bug like carcasses. I started to research and believe ive got broad mites, which are 0.2mm big. That combined with nutrient deficiencies ive never experienced in 8yrs growing ,twisted leaves and paper like leaves on young cloned moms. I also was seeing a drop off in harvests of about 2-3oz maybe even more.
After reading about pest management in greenhouses and looking through some controlled studies on mealy bugs and scale (2 of the worst house plant bugs to fight) which showed excellent results; ive decided to give it a go.
My plan is to use the drench method in my veg Tent, which houses my clones, moms in 1gal pots and future flowering plants which are vegged for 1 month before flower in 4gal pits. This tent is completely ebb&flow.
Im not interested in spraying daily or weekly with products like end-all or insecticidal soap. Also after reading i think it sounds like a long battle with beneficial bugs (which i have had great success with spidermites).
So if you are using this product how are you using it? At what rates? How often? In flower?
Im using 10ml/100L of water. Basically i mix 1.5ml with 4gal of water. Ive dunked all 1 gal pots to cover all the clay pebbles and drip drained over a bucket. With the 4gal pots ive hand watered through the perlite until water was draining through the bottom and dripped over a bucket.
