red spider mites
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STZ
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Organic - Mix up a spray bottle with some neem or castor oil with a few drops of dish soap (try to use soap that DOESN'T say "anti-bacterial") and like a tablespoon of lemon juice. Spray underside of leaves every few days until they clear up. You can use this spray up until a few weeks into flowering with no adverse effects on your buds whatsoever. There is also some stuff called Rose Defense by Green Light and it works well with small problems but is almost useless in serious cases.
Not Organic - Azatrol or Azamax. Heavy duty (and expensive) shit that straight up fuckin MURKS every mite it touches. Use sparingly. Don't use at all during flowering.
Not Organic - Azatrol or Azamax. Heavy duty (and expensive) shit that straight up fuckin MURKS every mite it touches. Use sparingly. Don't use at all during flowering.
YOUNG BUCK
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Floramite.
YOUNG BUCK
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That is a major infestation thats going to grow like dynamite
YOUNG BUCK
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STZ
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Word. If I have 1 or 2 mature mites per large fan leaf that means probably hundreds total on the plant. They each lay hundreds of eggs ever 4 days or something. You should be able to cut the population in half in about a week with 3 applications of my neem oil mix or Rose Defense. Beyond that, go with some hardcore chems. Mites are nothing to fuck around with you want to wipe them out sooner rather than later. Wage war on those mother fuckers!
PS. Cold water > warm water. I have been putting ice cubes in my spray bottle and it seems to be a little more effective. Supposedly mites love warm water and warm humid conditions and they hate the cold.
YOUNG BUCK
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Yes i have been through a 2 spotted mite infestation luckily i spotted it in 2 weeks from seed so i trashed 10 seedlings and emptied my grow room and scrubbed and cleaned everything i had all the wood joints sealed and painted i bought a new bed with curtains replaced the carpet and painted the whole room and i am just getting ready to start again after a long break.
Prevention is the only real cure.
YOUNG BUCK
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YOUNG BUCK
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If you are sure you have a mite infestation you will need to empty the room as soon as possible before it grows and get ready to strip and clean the whole room untill you know its sterile and bin the plants away from the house. Spider mites are little FUC**RS and they are the worst thing to have as they cant fly they hitch hike by being blown around by the wind and can land on your hair or clothes when you are outside and when you visit your growroom they can just drift off your clothes or hair on to your plants or be carried by animals in the house. They are always brought inside your growroom via anyway they can and you should change your clothing before entering your growroom to keep it as sterile as possible.aww im bummed my plant was doing so well, and what really pisses me off is i think it gave them to my lemon tree too
recgrwr
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so a few days later ive been applying http://terradisiac.com/public/?fuseaction=prodbrws.detail&productid=1570017
i was wondering how often to apply it. ive done it twice in about a week so far ... more ... less?
thanks
i was wondering how often to apply it. ive done it twice in about a week so far ... more ... less?
thanks
YOUNG BUCK
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Your best soloution is to buy some "FLORAMITE" this is the ultimate mite killer and is the best you can buy but its a bit expensive but cash is nothing when it comes to your crop.
tinyTURTLE
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pyrethin spray
http://versicolor.ca/lawns/notes/pyrethrins2.html
should be cheap at your local hardware store.
wait, i see thats what you're using.
it's safe, use it to nuke the bastards.
http://versicolor.ca/lawns/notes/pyrethrins2.html
should be cheap at your local hardware store.
wait, i see thats what you're using.
it's safe, use it to nuke the bastards.
recgrwr
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yea but how often do i nuke them?
tinyTURTLE
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nuke them every bloody day.
spider mites will RUIN good weed.
spider mites will RUIN good weed.
cdrippper2
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Your grow is small....anything with pyrethrum is what I'd suggest. If you want to make sure the whole room is cleaned out, get yourself a DOKTOR DOOM bomb. like 15-20$ and you won't need to use the whole thing so you'll have a bunch left over. I had a MAJOR infestation going and was like WTF by the time i realized what it was. Used one bomb and it's was like the A-bomb went off the room. Took them all out (but was kinda harsh on some of the leaves close to the bomb). Then i went overkill and got 1fl. oz of floramite and soaked everything...plants, walls, ceilings, floors, etc...and never ever saw them again. That's my exp. w/spider mites. Go look for some kind of "bug spray" for plants that has pyrethrum in it....DO NOT use neem oil, whatever you do...only seems to piss the little buggers off