tips for spider mites

I know you want to stay organic but ...............I had these fuckers for over a year and a 1/2.... I tried everything..neem oil, safer soaps, natural predetors.....nothing worked..

until I sprayed my young plants (2 weeks old) with Avid...this shit destroys the mites central nervous system and makes them sterile so the cant lay anymore eggs!!!

The Avid pesticide is systemic and stays in the plant for 45 days so spray before your cut your lights

I only had to do 1 application and I havent had any mites since then!!

does avid kill thrips? i assume it does but if you know let me know. i have heard avid very poisonous even to mammals true? not that i would not use it if i had to thrips did a 48 hour ass kicking to some new plants of mine even mites take longer than that to work there evil magic.

1.release lady bugs and praing mantis as soon as you strt flowering and leave them in there the entire time. they will do the job, neem oil is next and you should not get them, fingers crissed, the whole thing with mites is that you have to avoid them radther than kill them, killing an mite infestation is very painfull and ends up returning so clean your crowing area with 5ml bleach in 1l of water and spray the outside of your house with hardcorde chemical insect killers and inside as well but before you put yor plants in there. Once the plants are in i like to spray arround the grow tents and the outside structure of the tents no spot is missed, regular check up on the plants is a must there is not one time i walk into the room and check my plants leaves for mites, i have been attacked twice in my old crib and mainly due to the age of the house and that it was all woood!!!!!!! avoid wood at all times. they like to hide in the addict of the house or in the basement and attack your shit when its nice and moist.

another thin i o is i run my humidity arround 30% when the climate outside gets warmer i have realized that mites love humidity that is 50% or higher. keeping the temps under 30 degrees celcius helps a bit as well, you can slow the spread of mites by dropping down the temp.

My friend was fucking arround 1 time and had a clone with mites starting to attack so what he did was put the clone in the frigerator and wolla they all died but so did his plant. So if you have mites and you harvested then simply put your fresh cut buds in the freeyer or refrigrator and let them die off this way, im sure smoking mites is no fun. even though im sure i have smoked some and didnt notice anything.

mites are the wors and must be preented i go through my entire house once per week and look for spider webs as soon as i see fresh webs i spray the entire house and look for the fuckers responsible they all must die.

now i have hear dof some spiders killing otherspiders and insects which is nice bu t i don take that chance, insect and bacteria free environment is ideal.

Try some garlic powder (not garlic salt) and dryer sheets...spread garlic powder on top of soil...place a dryer sheet on top of the soil too (remove it when watering...nasty chemicals)...got rid of my gnats....

putting fresh cut buds in the freezer would explode the still-watery cells, would it not? I always thought it would reduce potency. And if it's really that bad at harvest time, do like others suggested and just clear and clean the room. I was gifted a Kong clone over a year ago, and if i don't check daily, major outbreak. It's worn me out and just isn't worth the hassle.

i have found that Neem oil works for most pests... just spray on your plants every other day for about a week and any pest will be gone. It also promotes growth.

closetengineer said:

putting fresh cut buds in the freezer would explode the still-watery cells, would it not? I always thought it would reduce potency. And if it's really that bad at harvest time, do like others suggested and just clear and clean the room. I was gifted a Kong clone over a year ago, and if i don't check daily, major outbreak. It's worn me out and just isn't worth the hassle.

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Fresh cut buds in a freezer will turn black I'm telling ya spray the Avid on your plant 1 time and your done...no more having to check your plants for webs or eggs

Avid comes in a 8 oz bottle cost $100-125...but that 8 oz bottle does 100 gallons of water....you only need 4-5 drops of Avid per quart of water/spray botle

vapedg13 said:

Fresh cut buds in a freezer will turn black I'm telling ya spray the Avid on your plant 1 time and your done...no more having to check your plants for webs or eggs

Avid comes in a 8 oz bottle cost $100-125...but that 8 oz bottle does 100 gallons of water....you only need 4-5 drops of Avid per quart of water/spray botle

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Seriously do you want that shit on your buds? i dont. even if it comes out of the plant. neem works. so do ciggarrettes. two per gal. american spirits.( no attitives)
if you spray neem on them every week or so you wont have any problems. and its like only ten bucks for tons of it.
also there are pyrethian foggers wayyy better then avid.
thats just my opinion

NiceGrow! said:

Seriously do you want that shit on your buds? i dont. even if it comes out of the plant. neem works. so do ciggarrettes. two per gal. american spirits.( no attitives)
if you spray neem on them every week or so you wont have any problems. and its like only ten bucks for tons of it.
also there are pyrethian foggers wayyy better then avid.
thats just my opinion

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I never said to spray avia on your buds.....Avid is systemic and its translocated.....stays in your plant for 45 days...lastest you want to spray is when your cutting your lights

NiceGrow! said:

Seriously do you want that shit on your buds? i dont. even if it comes out of the plant. neem works. so do ciggarrettes. two per gal. american spirits.( no attitives)
if you spray neem on them every week or so you wont have any problems. and its like only ten bucks for tons of it.
also there are pyrethian foggers wayyy better then avid.
thats just my opinion

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I never said to spray avid on your buds.....Avid is systemic and its translocated.....stays in your plant for 45 days...lastest you want to spray is when your cutting your lights

neem oil...? what is it? and where do i get it?

BakedinBC said:

neem oil...? what is it? and where do i get it?

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if you musthttp://www.planetnatural.com/site/neem-oil.html

DUANEBO said:

this is just something ive done 2 days ago i had those bastards tryin to take my crop and i was running outa time. so i this is wat i done shaked all the leaves makining them fall to the soil then inspected eacch leaf making sure that there were nun on them oh and yes it is time consuming depending on how big your babys are then iwent outside and blew about 2'' of dirt out of the pot then moved them in a different location and havnt had not 1 of those fuckers eatin my babys oh and depending on how time consuming. u might want to shake all the leafs again to make sure nun of them stays with the plant and u might even want to check the outside of the pot but sum one told me this and it is realy kool but this is jusst if u cant afford the spray shit

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"cant aford the spray shit????" these fukkers will rob u.. the amount the spray costs to get rida these guys in 1 spray, will be made up and then sum in ur harvest... i jus got them and lookin up posts to see best methods and sprayin them sounds best... no mater how much it costes

something cool happened i had some thrips and spider mites outdoor and a bunch of lacewings have been laying eggs on my plants this is great because when they hatch the larvae which look like little alligators eat voraciously and move about the plant they like to eat thrips aphids mites etc... and dont eat plants in any way. so basically my girls have there own micro body guard's and i did nothing to promote this. on further research i discovered lacewings only lay eggs if there are parasites to be eaten by there young. this time nature is on my side.

Chiceh said:

I use a mix I make myself. It kills spider mites, aphids and even thrips. Here it is and trust me it works better than anything you are going to buy in the garden stores.

• Take a misting water bottle that has the trigger on it.
• Cover just the bottom of the bottle with dish soap (I use the orange anti-bacterial kind)
• Fill 3/4 with just tap water
• fill remaining 1/4 with white vinegar
• shake gently, not too much though or you will have lots of bubbles, lol
• spray all over your plants, under the leaves and the top of the soil unitl a light coating is on there (don't get it sopping wet)
• leave on at least a few hours or over night
• spray off all the plant ( I do this with clean water in the spray bottle)
• bugs gone, shiny leaves.

Good luck, this does work.

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Anyone tried this yet??? Plz Plz Plz say it works that easy! I'm gonna give it a try. Rubbing alcohol and water in a spray bottle helps too but I'm scared to try it during flower cuz rubbing alcohol is so good at dissolving resin. Can your mix be used during flower Chiceh?

Azatrol costs me $97 a quart and it takes 2 fluid oz to 1 gallon of water so its kind of on the pricey side. Its acctually pure azadrachtin, the ingrient in neem oil that is pesticidal. I think about 3 doses of the azatrol will eliminate the infestation and after that I'll use pyrethrin foggers every 3 weeks. That should eliminate them for good.

if dealing with pests outdoors like me its a whole different animal indoor issues are so easy when compared to the onslaught you deal with outdoor. fear thrips they are far worse than mites far worse.

bicycle racer: You said you tried pyrethrum for thrips and it didn't work... did you also water with it? Or just spray? You need to do both. The larvae live in the soil. Worked great for me - got rid of all of them right away. BTW, I used Bug Buster-O. It's much more economical that way; mixing your own vs. buying something premixed.

i did not soil drench with pyrethrum not a bad idea. i have sprayed with neem and have recently tried spinosad which is supposed to be the thrip killer watered with it a bit we will see. any other thrip methods you know of fill me in. they are nasty i have the western brown thrip the worst most virulent kind.

fuck spidermites. im moving and next grow i am makin damn sure i do not get those fuckers