Spider Mite Came Back While Drying

justsmoking

Active Member
I got hit bad with those damn spider mites and I said it wouldn't ever happen to me. It happened right in the end during flush so we harvested and took them to another location were we took only the good looking buds and trimed them up nice then hung them up back at the spot to dry and sure enough five days into drying and there back now in the drying room. What can I do at this point? I thought they left once you cut them down?
 

Bill Wilson

Active Member
Well look into earwax or Butane extraction or maybe bubble hash. A crazy idea would be get some neem oil and do a water cure with three times strength neem oil. I have heard water curing like this takes about a week.
 

justsmoking

Active Member
I don't know anything about water cure. And I would rather smoke s piders than neem oil I vacumed up the buds and vacumed up the webs/ spider mites and I noticed there mainly around the stems and not even on all of the buds so hopefully there going to leave and die as soon as the buds dry completly. Im just now wondering about what's going to happen when I put them in jars for the cure? Has anyone had to deal with this and how did it end?
 

justsmoking

Active Member
Oh sorry guys. Thank you for your feedback. Im just so buisy with this spider mite bullshit. I have a three room perpetual grow op and have to transplant my 4 week veged skywalker og into flower and that was were the spider mites were . I took out the pots and plants then Dr Doomed ( foger) the room and then I vacumed and everything down but im fighting the fight now in the drying room. So im stressing that there coming back and my buituful skywalker og plants are going to get hit. I do now treat them every week with perithium spray. Does anyone deal with this kind of shit and can mabey share stories that would be reel nice
 

Jdubb203

Well-Known Member
Floramite will change your life order some ASAP I have not seen one since foggers will only slow them down.
 
If you hang dry the branches upside down the mites will all go the top and away from the buds. Main reason to not dry on racks and dry on the branch.
 

justsmoking

Active Member
What I did was vacumed off the webbing anytime it came back. Then as soon as there dry I put them in air tight jars for cureing and so far its good.
 
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