Did you watch the videos i posted? If not, you should. If so, did you see the point being made? Ipm starts with healthy plants. Its like the 3 little pigs. Straw house=plants not healthy, showing deficiencies but growing. Stick house=healthy looking plants, good growth, but not as structurally integral as they could be. Not visibly anyway. Brick house=nutrient dense, healthy plants. Plenty of calcium, high brix. Even in this scenario you may still get mites. But they will struggle to thrive. Your foliar ipm will be far more effective. Your danger zone will be last couple weeks of flower. Once the plant has shot its load and is finishing, those couple mites that made their way through the gauntlet can quickly go apeshit. But you still have hope! There are great products like green cleaner, flying skull nukem and big time exterminator that are safe to use even towards end of flower (they claim day of harvest but i would avoid that for quality sake) even just cold water foliar, maybe some aloe and or silica will make their lives miserable. Further contributing to their struggle to survive. Thats my battle plan anyway. Give them a food source that tastes like shit and is difficult to eat in veg. In flower, make their lives hell with frequent foliar and a continued nutrient rich diet. First 6 weeks of flower consist of regular foliar sprays of nectar for the gods bloom khaos (calcium facilitator only first 2 weeks foliar) kelp, fulvic/humic, aloe, silica, vermicompost tea, yucca, i think thats it? The girls love it, mites hate it. Intergrated pest managment. Key word is managment. You have pests, it is unlikely you will get rid of them, but you can manage them. Just focus on plant nutrition first. This is most important and you will benefit. Fwiw, im not oganic. I use alot of organic inputs because i use what i feel is the best for what im trying to do. I have no problem with synthetic nutes. If someone can easily grow healthy plants with a simple regimine of inputs, im all for it!
