This is just my experience, ladybugs are fun to play with, but they don't really do much as far as controlling an infestation. I have TONS of the pill bug rolly pollys in my containers. They are shredders and help break down material. Personally, I have never had any problem with them eating plants. It's my understanding they like dead plant matter.yeah I mean I think they might be beneficial like earthworms, I just transplanted a plant in a container that was full of them on purpose just to see how well it might do. But at the same time I am a little worried lol. Pretty cool to see the soil so alive though I mean you just look under the mulch and there is stuff moving everywhere!! As long as they dont eat the ladybugs larvae that might be kicking around...
Also, has anyone here had any luck raising ladybugs indoor, or keeping a healthy population? I am experimenting with various mulch to see if it might help, I wish I didnt have to keep buying them.
Ladybugs do work, better as a preventative, but also they can save a crop if you buy enough of them. The problem with them is unless you can create an environment for them to multiply, they will never eliminate pests completely, the ladybugs larvae do most of the damage.Lady bugs don't do shit but climb into lights and die. Outdoor they just fly away.
Chili and garlic pestled up. About a 1/2 tsp worth in a spray bottle. I sprayed a few evenings last year they were doneLadybugs do work, better as a preventative, but also they can save a crop if you buy enough of them. The problem with them is unless you can create an environment for them to multiply, they will never eliminate pests completely, the ladybugs larvae do most of the damage.
As far as them dying in the lights, I have to open my LEDs and clean them up now but it has been a couple + years of ladybugs in the grow room. Unless you have cool tubes I would not bother with ladybugs and HIDs though...
I have gotten rid of spider mites before, with predatory mites and ladybugs together. But I have had spider mites in the room for several months now. My grow has been perpetual for years now and I like it that way, I couldnt do without ladybugs, I hate when they are unavailable and in my opinion they are worth the money.
What are you guys doing for spider mites?
Pattahabi is sorta like a god, isn't he?I've been rocking 100 gallon fabric pots indoors for about a year now - love em.
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I have used them before but cant get them anymore... I think I used them for thrips though. The problem with most beneficials is that they need a fairly high relative humidity... I like to keep my room at 40%.Hypoaspis?
I have used habaneros pepper spray, never with garlic though. You most have caught them right away. I dont like that it probably kills a lot of beneficial insects?Chili and garlic pestled up. About a 1/2 tsp worth in a spray bottle. I sprayed a few evenings last year they were done
Neem/Karanja oil emulsified with potassium silica (2tsp neem, 1tsp protekt per gal water) then add to tepid water preferably with some aloe in it. Shake the piss out of it and spray 3x, once every three days, every single leaf top and bottom.What are you guys doing for spider mites?
this is what i do, except without the poison. i just use the captain jacks dead bug, make a dunk and do that every 3 days for three treatments. works great if you're considering taking a cut from someone. learned my lesson the first time lol. they're so much easier to take care of when the plant is clone sized too. upside down, dunk and done.lol got to love these witch remidies for mites had mites once in 25 years of growing only once Personally if someone gets mites then they are to blame s far as i am concerned
Where i used to live clones were in abundance i mean any strain out there would take a week and i would have them ,, and any clones i ever got was treated as if it had insects or disease and there fore quarantined usually out in the shed
Organic or not these girls were dunked in Bug be gone forget the spraying shit i mean dunked with chem poison upside down up to soil with Bug B gone and quarantined for min 2 weeks with repeated applications
before entering actual grow room usually i would take them out of domes transplant them into sterile soil and and pots dunked and into new dome tray throwing out the dome tray that it came in ..
Do you work at a hydrostore?lol got to love these witch remidies for mites had mites once in 25 years of growing only once Personally if someone gets mites then they are to blame s far as i am concerned
Where i used to live clones were in abundance i mean any strain out there would take a week and i would have them ,, and any clones i ever got was treated as if it had insects or disease and there fore quarantined usually out in the shed
Organic or not these girls were dunked in Bug be gone forget the spraying shit i mean dunked with chem poison upside down up to soil with Bug B gone and quarantined for min 2 weeks with repeated applications
before entering actual grow room usually i would take them out of domes transplant them into sterile soil and and pots dunked and into new dome tray throwing out the dome tray that it came in ..
at the beginning of plants life its much better to nail it with one time chem insect kill then multiple attempts with watered back organic pesticides one shot one kill more or less
no need to worry about chemicals as there clones they will grow out of it
but that is just how i roll cant be bothered fucking around i want them gone now
The only reason why I had a bit of a spider mites infestation (besides the heat) during the summer is that I couldnt order ladybugs for the longest time. If they are available all Winter I will be laughing...
I have used them before but cant get them anymore... I think I used them for thrips though. The problem with most beneficials is that they need a fairly high relative humidity... I like to keep my room at 40%.
I have used habaneros pepper spray, never with garlic though. You most have caught them right away. I dont like that it probably kills a lot of beneficial insects? natural remedies grown in the same garden, so not sure it kills other beneficials but certainly something to look further into. I like habanero and maybe fresh aloe as alternative
One thing I always wonder is if ladybugs also feed on predatory mites or not.
lol No but i got enough shares or spent enough money to say i fucking own one lolDo you work at a hydrostore?
Just curious,
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