abe supercro
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I read back.
Mites need advice
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Los Reefersaurus
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I take a different tack, probably not popular but use chemicals don't fuck around with mites. First Cut down anything that is after week 2 of flower, and get it far way from your area. Then Find out how you got the mites, air leak air intake brought them in on cloths or the dog brought them in.
Now for the scary part using safety gear, respirator paper suit cover hair eyes face hands. Spray generously with a mix of avid and a B vitamin and a drop of soap. Then 3-4 days later spray generously with Dimomite a B vitamin and a drop of soap. 3-4 days later do the avid again then 3-4 the dinomite and repeat one last time. Avid is systermic in the plant so it will move around for at least a month in the plant, dinomite doesn't move around but it kills mite eggs that the avid doesn't.
This is really toxic shit so anything that gets touched is not fit for consumption that is why you kill off all your plants over 2 weeks of flower. THis will solve the mite problem. It is a scorched earth method but these are the ends you need to goto to deal with mites.
Once your mite issue is solved be sure to never risk your area getting mites again.
Now for the scary part using safety gear, respirator paper suit cover hair eyes face hands. Spray generously with a mix of avid and a B vitamin and a drop of soap. Then 3-4 days later spray generously with Dimomite a B vitamin and a drop of soap. 3-4 days later do the avid again then 3-4 the dinomite and repeat one last time. Avid is systermic in the plant so it will move around for at least a month in the plant, dinomite doesn't move around but it kills mite eggs that the avid doesn't.
This is really toxic shit so anything that gets touched is not fit for consumption that is why you kill off all your plants over 2 weeks of flower. THis will solve the mite problem. It is a scorched earth method but these are the ends you need to goto to deal with mites.
Once your mite issue is solved be sure to never risk your area getting mites again.
abe supercro
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I've used diluted alcohol and treated clones - it nukes mites. not great for leaves or plant, but fast remedy on new smaller plant material. that above product may fry flowers, all the hairs will go brown if they get hit, be careful I'd guess. full soak not good idea unless only a few weeks in.
Chunky Stool
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My "scorched earth" method is much easier.
1) Get all plants out of area.
2) Shutdown as much airflow as possible.
3) Blast entire area with ozone for one hour. Repeat a few hours later.
4) Hang a couple of hot shot no pest strips. (These are not sticky; they emit vapor.)
5) Wait five days. This is important because you want the eggs to hatch. Babies are then killed by hot shot vapor before they have a chance to mature.
6) Store hot shots in zip loc bags for next time. If you've got a boveda 62 humidity pack, toss that in there and it will help keep them fresh.
7) Yer dun! Just make sure your plants are bug free before bringing them back to the area. For small plants, completely immersing them in diluted peroxide works great, and it's virtually impossible to miss a spot. Just watch out for achilles heel...
Chunky Stool
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Instant Mite Killer definitely worked! Bud "hairs" got dried out, probably from the alcohol. It's a small price to pay. I'll spray again in a couple of days with a more diluted solution (recommendation on bottle).
This is *one* plant in a 7 gallon cloth pot.
mrbungle79
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? huh ?
abe supercro
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What the heck is in that mighty wash product
Chunky Stool
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Mostly water with a couple of secret ingredients. Probably peroxide and/or citric acid.
mrbungle79
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says just ionized water but i've read that it has unlisted pyrethrins. looks like it has a bit of dish soap as a wetting agent. its milky pink.
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kratos015
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The following is a cheap organic method for pest control.
Buy some habanero peppers from your local grocery store, cut the stems off and leave all of the seeds in. Dump them into a pot of water with some onion and garlic and boil it for a bit until it becomes a bit concentrated/boiled down. Strain it and put this mixture into a sprayer with a little bit of water to dilute it, then spray your plants with it for the next week or so. Any pests on there will burn to a crisp. Think of what those peppers do to our taste buds, then imagine what it'll do to those little fuckers.
Buy some habanero peppers from your local grocery store, cut the stems off and leave all of the seeds in. Dump them into a pot of water with some onion and garlic and boil it for a bit until it becomes a bit concentrated/boiled down. Strain it and put this mixture into a sprayer with a little bit of water to dilute it, then spray your plants with it for the next week or so. Any pests on there will burn to a crisp. Think of what those peppers do to our taste buds, then imagine what it'll do to those little fuckers.
Lol watched a guy wash mildew right of his buds by dipping them in peroxide it blew my mind but he's a chemist and explained the chemical reaction and what peroxide broke down into all in all it was pretty neat
Evil-Mobo
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Jorge Cervantes is a grower that has a video on you tube showing this. I found it interesting as well.
Bakersfield
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Supposedly, hydrogen peroxide will oxidize a portion of the THC it comes into contact with.
A good friend of mine in the industry uses Greencure for powdery mildew, he swears by it. It uses potassium bicarbonate.
Kassiopeija
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Let all nature freaks display their paranoia but against spider mites you need to work with the most aggressive substances otherwise they'll keep coming back. Even if it looks clean for a month or longer... if just a couple eggs survived you won't be able to spot them for long and worse, they'll naturally spread to other plants or grow-rooms as well.
If you're having lots of mites like in the pic on p.2 it is very likely that there're already some mutant mites having a resistance against your chem bomb. Therefore you need to get, at least, another chemical mite killer that has another active substance. The chance that a mutate-mite gets several tolerances by birth is astronomically low. The more different chemicals you use the greater the chance for success is but these substances can be very unhealthy for humans as well (even when the manufacturer denies that!).
If you're having lots of mites like in the pic on p.2 it is very likely that there're already some mutant mites having a resistance against your chem bomb. Therefore you need to get, at least, another chemical mite killer that has another active substance. The chance that a mutate-mite gets several tolerances by birth is astronomically low. The more different chemicals you use the greater the chance for success is but these substances can be very unhealthy for humans as well (even when the manufacturer denies that!).
Chunky Stool
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It depends on the method that it uses. I have found spinosad to be effective, but only for a while. If you don't kill them all, they'll be back with a vengeance -- and immune to spinosad.
If the method is suffocation (oil) or dehydration (alcohol), they can't develop a tolerance to that. The problem with oils is that they don't evaporate and will most likely end up in your final product. Alcohol tends to dissolve cannabinoids, which defeats the purpose of growing this shit in the first place.
Kassiopeija
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Now that I read your reply I remember I did use a 98% ethanol on one plant right immediately all the leaves were completely fucked up and it had a terrible long time before growing again. (I got that advise on an internet forum...)
Doesn't that oil gets metabolisized after some time? If say, the compounds vanish after 2 weeks to 90% then, in most cases it'll be safe to use.
Doesn't that oil gets metabolisized after some time? If say, the compounds vanish after 2 weeks to 90% then, in most cases it'll be safe to use.
Theshepheard
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I'm just a guy 5 grows in on a small small level. I don't post much because I really don't know much and everything I have learned is from here from guys that I feel know their shit. I have had mites a number of times. I read once that lady bugs are great. This is what I have learned from that and looking for more input or if anyone else has used them.
So I subs learned that lady bugs will not....Will not stop them once they are webbed up. I have tried with 1000s of them. They do eat them up but don't solve the problem.
I have lady bugs in my tent from start to finish as a preventative measure and it works. I would see evidence of mites and then the lady bugs seem know that and I will see them all on the one plant. I have noticed mites love indicas. I grow different strains each grow at one time. Always the mites would go to the indicas first for some reason. L
Since I have been using lady bugs from week 2 of veg all the way thru flower I have had not one infested plant. I have seen a few here and there. The white spots. And scoped them from under leaves. As long as it's not infested I swear it works. Ladybugs stay far away from buds and just hang on leaves. I feed lady bugs food and built them a house so they reproduce and they sure do. I also trained them to get water from a spray bottle 2 times a day. They are like cattle coming to the bell. Pretty awesome. I see some bug shit on the leaves but I don't make anything with them any way as I'm an old guy that just likes to smoke and leaves get burnt in the fire pit.
Try it. It's fun and it works.
So I subs learned that lady bugs will not....Will not stop them once they are webbed up. I have tried with 1000s of them. They do eat them up but don't solve the problem.
I have lady bugs in my tent from start to finish as a preventative measure and it works. I would see evidence of mites and then the lady bugs seem know that and I will see them all on the one plant. I have noticed mites love indicas. I grow different strains each grow at one time. Always the mites would go to the indicas first for some reason. L
Since I have been using lady bugs from week 2 of veg all the way thru flower I have had not one infested plant. I have seen a few here and there. The white spots. And scoped them from under leaves. As long as it's not infested I swear it works. Ladybugs stay far away from buds and just hang on leaves. I feed lady bugs food and built them a house so they reproduce and they sure do. I also trained them to get water from a spray bottle 2 times a day. They are like cattle coming to the bell. Pretty awesome. I see some bug shit on the leaves but I don't make anything with them any way as I'm an old guy that just likes to smoke and leaves get burnt in the fire pit.
Try it. It's fun and it works.