Spider Mites

Organicly how can I eradicate these bastards.

Captian Jack's spinosad. Works like a charm. Made from a bacteria found at rum distilleries.

Don't use neem oil during flower. I ruined a plant from that. It taste like shit when it burns and it stays around for a while.

I spray with neem oil every 3 days for 9 days. This method has always gotten rid of the spider mites.

2 tsp neem oil, couple squirts dish soap and about a liter of warm water. Shake well and spray on underside of leaves.

I used neem and went a Lil too heavy and killed 2 of my favorite girls!!! I have learned from this mistake and now I use azamax I'm not sure how organic it is but it's made from neem I was told! If your flowering there isn't anything u can do other than pulling off leaves and killing with your hand! If you spray anything on a flowering plant you will regret it! Start some sort of ipm (integrated pest management) I spray azanax about once of month in veg reguardless if I see spider mites or not! Towards the end of flower I still see one or so leafs with the classic white spot damage so I haven't gotten rid of then 100% in flower room but I've managed them enough to where iy doesn't affect my crop!

Top dressing with neem meal seemed to help me when I was battling them I also used lady bugs, and predatory mites!

Skeggjod said:

Organicly how can I eradicate these bastards.

Click to expand...

You should follow Clackamas Coots. He is an outdoor grower in the Pacific NW were mites are supposed to be a real problem. He mostly uses soil amendments to boost the plants SAR value and minerals to raise the Brix value. Crab/Crustacean meal has chitin and barley has chitinase which is an enzyme that breaks down chitin. Neem/Karanja meal can be used in the soil rather than a foliar spray. However, Clackamas still has a "Emulsified Neem" solution that he uses that is a homemade spray.

Look for the Clackamas interviews.
https://www.kisorganics.com/pages/podcast

Take them outside and rinse them off with a hose. They prefer a dry environment so constant wetting will discourage them, but obviously not a great idea in flower. Diamactous earth is a great organic insect killer, just dont breath the stuff in and rinse it off after you kill em all, also not great in flower. Neem spray, but also not the greatest idea in flower. Had em once and it was a losing battle, truth be told I was getting lazy and probably could have a done a lot better at eradicating them and prevemting them in the first place. Ended up culling everything at the end of flower and cleaned the whole room with bleach. The culprit that brought them in was a lemon tree, no more random plants get to enjoy the pleasure of being next to my plants. Good luck.

I hope that I dont have it in my tent but last night I see one big spider in Room where Grow tent is so now I am little paranoic

So just have question...on the side of my tent I have pocket with micron plastic net (i really dont know how to explain that pocket/door but every tent have this) you can open it or close it so wondering can Spiders go inside tent at that source?I really dont know number of microns on that plastic pocket/door
I really dont see how can they come inside excapt that or when I OPEN to water or work with Plant. ?