Spider mites where are they coming from?

Trout2012 · May 19, 2020

Yeah good strong fan, little bastards can hang on in a hurricane!! Cant lay more eggs!!

70's natureboy · May 19, 2020

They look too big to be spidermites and I almost never see them on top of the leaves. sucks anyway

Quinteli · May 19, 2020

Oldreefer said:
I had spider mites once...had visited a friend who had'em...brought'em home.
I use a mechanical pesticide....Diatomaceous earth. Bye bye bastards.

Yeah there saying I should throw away everything I was going to try and kill them. Those look like mites to you?

Quinteli · May 19, 2020

Looks similar to this nasty I think there are plant mites as the suck on the plants.

a mongo frog · May 19, 2020

Jumper cables will zap em. negative to the pot and positive to base of plant.

teddy bonkers · May 19, 2020

haven't found a bug that can build a tolerance to my butane torch. :fire:

Quinteli · May 19, 2020

a mongo frog said:
Jumper cables will zap em. negative to the pot and positive to base of plant.

Lol My plants are looking good I seen like 3 on one plant killed them and the another none for 2 days. Asmax on the way I'll wait till Saturday and see how it gose

Quinteli · May 30, 2020

So I havent seen a mite in like 5-7 days. Sprayed with asmax and sold drenched with asmax, then olive oil and a little dish soap. Then might wash 2x. One more soil drench and then neem oil spray and water spray.

Lucky Luke · May 31, 2020

bastards to get rid off.
Prevention is better than the cure.
Could of been on the seedlings if u got em off someone else. But they come in on your clothes and things- especially if u have been to the hydro store.

70's natureboy · May 31, 2020

Those little plants would be very easy to spray with neem oil every 3 days. Spider mites drink Azamax for nourishment

sarahJane211 · May 31, 2020

Quinteli said:
Ok I'll throw them out tonight. I was going to try and kill them but I dont know what the are. Should I throw away the fox farm soil that a bought aswell it could have came I. The bag I bought. I dont go to anyone's garden and I'm preety clean. I have White Widows with 3 weeks of flower to go and the look great. I

Just spray with Spinosad, no need to throw anything away.
Spray every week for a few weeks, and all the insects will be dead.
There's crazy people on this site who try to convince you to chuck everything, it just isn't necessary.
Spinosad is even considered 'organic'

LivingBehind · May 31, 2020

sarahJane211 said:
Just spray with Spinosad, no need to throw anything away.
Spray every week for a few weeks, and all the insects will be dead.
There's crazy people on this site who try to convince you to chuck everything, it just isn't necessary.
Spinosad is even considered 'organic'

I heard and it might only be a rumor mind you, that people died after using this....Some died days some months and some even years later !!!

I dont think those two are totally unrelated....

I once have mites and I burned down the whole complex.

sarahJane211 · May 31, 2020

LivingBehind said:
I heard and it might only be a rumor mind you, that people died after using this....Some died days some months and some even years later !!!
I dont think those two are totally unrelated....
I once have mites and I burned down the whole complex.

Yes, I agree the forums are rife with baseless rumours from ignorant posters.
Every commercial grower in the world uses fungicides, pesticides and herbicides on their crops.
There's no way to avoid eating food without them, pointless to even think about it.
Accept your death when it comes, rather than live a life of fear cowering over what might happen.

You can't even avoid Spinosad by buying from legit organic growers, as it's classed as 'organic'.

GrowRijt · May 31, 2020

For anyone wanting a inexpensive home bug remedy. I have been using and testing this for about a year now. I had heard people using 1:1 water and rubbing alcohol. I think that it is too harsh for the plants and the PH is off. But the alcohol works. To up the effectiveness I use hydrogen peroxide. H202 Essentially burns cells as the oxygen molecule separates. Because we are large we don’t feel it much. But the bubbling when coming into contact with proteins ( your skin) is that process in action.

so for a standard spray bottle.
10 oz water
3oz h202
3oz isopropyl
1tblsp dr bronners peppermint soap. Or dawn.

the PH of this should 7~. The soap evens it out. I had brought clones in from my outdoor last year and got some aphids running amuck. I did the neem bit. Did lady bugs. No avail. Did some version of the mix above. Two weeks they were done. Young plants had no burn or affect. Happy green bug free leaves. No reason you couldnt use this even a couple weeks into flower. The only residue being small amount of soaps that should rinse off easily.

Quinteli · May 31, 2020

GrowRijt said:
For anyone wanting a inexpensive home bug remedy. I have been using and testing this for about a year now. I had heard people using 1:1 water and rubbing alcohol. I think that it is too harsh for the plants and the PH is off. But the alcohol works. To up the effectiveness I use hydrogen peroxide. H202 Essentially burns cells as the oxygen molecule separates. Because we are large we don’t feel it much. But the bubbling when coming into contact with proteins ( your skin) is that process in action.

so for a standard spray bottle.
10 oz water
3oz h202
3oz isopropyl
1tblsp dr bronners peppermint soap. Or dawn.

the PH of this should 7~. The soap evens it out. I had brought clones in from my outdoor last year and got some aphids running amuck. I did the neem bit. Did lady bugs. No avail. Did some version of the mix above. Two weeks they were done. Young plants had no burn or affect. Happy green bug free leaves. No reason you couldnt use this even a couple weeks into flower. The only residue being small amount of soaps that should rinse off easily.

Yeah I dont like the mighty wash, it smells like raid a bit. I only sprayed twice though. The Azmax isnt as strong, I sprayed like twice, they came back I killed them by hand and sprayed agian. Then I did the olive oil and dawn, very organic. In going to hit them with some neem oil next, havent seen a mite in 8 days, leaves look good

Quinteli · May 31, 2020

70's natureboy said:
Those little plants would be very easy to spray with neem oil every 3 days. Spider mites drink Azamax for nourishment

Yeah I think the soil drench worked. They were coming back even when spraying and feeding. Azmax is supposed to stop then from eating

Quinteli · May 31, 2020

Lucky Luke said:
bastards to get rid off.
Prevention is better than the cure.
Could of been on the seedlings if u got em off someone else. But they come in on your clothes and things- especially if u have been to the hydro store.

I think the either came from the bad of soil I got or from outside, brushing against a bush, I dont know where they came from.

Lucky Luke · May 31, 2020

Evil fkrs.

Quinteli · May 31, 2020

Lucky Luke said:
Evil fkrs.
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Damn how do they live on something so sticky

Fart Vapor · Jul 3, 2020

Quinteli said:
Yeah I think the soil drench worked. They were coming back even when spraying and feeding. Azmax is supposed to stop then from eating

Excerpt from my grow journal: "...There was no need for the poison [Azamax] to act as a anti-feedant, because they fucking died..."

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