spider mite help please

[feltonmuggs]

I think I'll chime in with a lil recommendation as I've fought them off successfully very recently. You can see pics in my albums if you like.

If you're going to use neem (which I would recommend bc it's natural) make sure you follow alphaguru's advice and mix the neem with liquid dish soap, and water as instructed on the bottle, shake very well and keep the mixture warm to prevent the oil from seperating too much from the water.

Also baet.......when applying via spray, take them out of direct light until dry. If by chance the oil is separated it can indeed 'burn' you leaves so by removing them from the intense lighting and in some shade, the can dry and respirate properly before any light and heat burn can set in.

In addition I would like to add - Ladybugs are wonderful too!

Good vibes, FM

 

[baet]

good to know about the spinosad rooted, saved some money. hmm i think ill do the neem with soap and water.

damn, i realy hope they have floramite at the hydro store in a small bottle.

 

[baet]

just bought 1/2 oz bottle of floramite of ebay, arrives in 3-4 days!! only 13.95+4.00shipping+2.00insurance!!
should make 12 gallons at 1/4 tsp. gallon

 

[Budley Doright]

You may want to use an eyedropper....

then you can measure for amounts less than a gallon....


My directions were....

8 drops per quart...

4 per pint....

a cup 2 drops.....

 

[nomaad]

I had way better results in a side by side with plain old neem and the Wai Kula Aza Karanaj which is just neem and mohagany oils. It also doesn't emulsify the like dyna-grow neem when it gets cold...so the buildup on the leaves is minimal in comparison. After two applications in 4 days of plain ol neem on one plant and the wai kula on the other, the neem plant was still somewhat infested. Wai Kula plant was clean. I hit the neem only plant once more with Wai Kula a day after the second neem application and that was it for the mites. used 6 drops p[er gallon of ivory soap with both products. Now I use a wetting agent with yucca extract for all foliars... so no soap.

 

[Cruzin]

That Floramite is pretty amazing. Last time i sprayed the Spinosad, it actually did kill the spider mite adults, but i wont take that as irradiating them. Floramite is the only solution i know works 100%. Avid is supposed to be about the same.

 

[baet]

tomorow i will be using the floramite at 1/2 tsp per gall, spray everything. plants havent startde preflower yet even, or just are about to. so all is good in the garden!

 

[Sn@tcher420]

bump...

 

[BowlPacks]

Hmmm Im thinking of grabbing some, just to have around. Now that i've defeated the borg... for now.
Does anyone know what the application warnings are?

 

[BongRipkenJR.]

Im sorry, but neem oil is the oldest scam in the book. IT DOES NOT KILL EGGS! It only gums up the mouths of the mites so that they cant feed and they die. The only problem is that mites get used to the neem oil. Neem is only used as prevention in the beginning stages of the plant. If you use it from the beginning or before there are any signs of eggs then more than likely you wont have mites. However if you already have mites there is little you can do except use Pyrithin or Pyrithium bombs inside and a very expensive Pyrithin solution. Even those might not work fully. Outdoors is so much harder to control mites. ORGANIC METHODS NEVER WORK! Hippies are dumb for the most part and think organics are the solution to everything. Well guess what, the same chemicals are in the organics as they are in the inorganic. Some might just be synthetic and speciffically designed to target something in the inorganic. Now, I am trying a product called Sucra Shield. I am experiencing mite problems on half of my garden because someone let dogs into it. The other half is 600ft away and doesnt have a problem. I will let you know how this sucra shield works. It is supposed to dissolve soft bodied insects and their eggs. You have to keep the p.h. over 7 when mixing it. It is kind of a tricky mixture and harmful so suit up and wear proper safety gear. You will also need a higher powered garden sprayer for it. This product isnt for newbies to use or people that are prone to making mistakes. I have run one spray and it seemed to work for a couple days, so I am going to keep applying it. Hopefully it works because there are 12 monsters that I would really like to save. They dont have the mites bad yet, but they have them.

 

[BongRipkenJR.]

Make a plastic tent and BOMB them with 8000-10,000 ppm of CO2. you plant will love it and all bugs from the planet earth will die. Theoretically, that is. Never done it, but have read its foolproof.

I was given some 1 foot plants in 3 gallon puts at the beginning of teh season... they were totally infested with mites. I just sprayed them with a rotation of Wai Kula (a neem/mahogany, a garlic and one other) products and bug-buster-o (pyrethrins) . Did the little fuckers in after about a week. it was a bad case. You can use any of that stuff up will about 2 weeks into flowering.

Sorry dude, but I believe plants start to die after 1200 ppms of c02. Or at least get very very sick. I could be wrong, but I dont know any gardener that gives his plants more than 800ppm of c02.

 

[coxswain]

One word. Vertimec!

 

[Salvataggio]

I caught some little bastards on two of my leaves. Very small bugs (I was staring pretty hard). What I did was throw some jalapeno (three whole) and 3 cloves (not bulbs!) of garlic into a blender with a glass (2 or 3 measured "cups") of water. They've been little bastard free ever since.

 

[K.J]

I personally have had success with neem. No, it doesn't wipe them out, but it controls them, which is sometimes all you can hope for with mites (unless you really want to use nasty, nasty chemicals, which I refuse to do). Use a blender to emulsify the neem/water/soap mixture...it'll mix it up REAL good. You can also use neem in your waterings, the plant will uptake it and it will provide some additional protection (I never did this, so I can't say how much...but I will be from now on as a preventative).

Don't forget, another real effective method is to hunt them down and smash them! Just rub the leaves between your thumb and forefinger when you see one...it'll leave behind a nice little wet trail on your leaf and you know you got at least one. You can also use little dental pic tools to manually remove them. Of course, in a large garden, this method just isn't very efficient, but for my personal medical grow it works.