help with spider mites please 3 weeks in flowering

[Greenheart]

So far I've busted Spider Mites and Thrips both with a home remedy of Neem, Vinegar, Everclear, and Orange peel based dish soap.

(I'm kinda a risk taker though so I won't list any specific ratio-My plants however are all alive looking well and bug free)

If using a neem base use it every 3-4 days.

 

[Ozone]

Co2

Co2

Co2 my friend, blast the room with 10,000 ppm every three days for three weeks to break their cycle, it will be way cheaper in the long, less stressful-- believe me , no more chemicles to buy or spray or smoke in the end,, a small tank filled is about $150, vdry easy to acomplish and plus now you can also supplement with Co2 if you have the proper emviroment, plus it kills every thing , including YOU, if you were in the room for any amount of time, so chek it out and good luck

ozone

 

[smokeduhchewy17]

I dont think Ill be addin ne more stuff jus yet jus my forst time gotta get sum harvests first but thanks

 

[Silky Johnson]

Neem Oil! Spray twice a week when they are babies up to the 2nd week in flowering that should help fight them off and give your plants a nice shine!!! Plus use some rhino skin in your additives, that will make it harder for them to thrive off your plant in the future too. Ride it out now but keep treating your plants so you wont have this problem in the future broskee

 

[smokeduhchewy17]

Thanks ill do that

 

[jus'plain'gill]

AND you don't want to lower your humidity, you want it HIGHER! High temps and low humidity throw spider mites into reproductive overdrive. You want to avoid temps above 85F and avoid humidity lower than 50-60%. I don't think the idea is to raise your humidity so high that you are risking mold in your buds, the goal is to provide an environment that is as inhospitable as possible for the mites to live and reproduce in. The slower they make babies the easier it will be to get them under control and then eliminated.

I f'ing hate the bastards but I've managed to keep them under control with temps around 72F and humidity that doesn't dip below 40 for too long. I kill enough of them by spraying and wiping that the few remaining aren't a huge threat to the garden as a whole. Good luck with whatever you try!



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[Chem&M]

SNS. Seriously. It will cost next to nothing and kill them all. Organic 100%.

You could just Docktor Doom fog out the room. 3 weeks in flower sounds fine to me. All inexpensive products.

The key: REMAIN DILLIGENT! DON'T STOP AFTER 1 APPLICATION. AT LEAST 2, MAYBE 3.

 

[catcherintheye]

people said alot of good stuff, C02 is probably the best if you know what youre doing since youre adding nothing to your plants you wouldnt want to ingest, we breath c02,we dont breath or eat neem oil unless it has been prepared for human ingestion. Lowering humidity will help them thrive, they love it hot and dry, keep the temps around 70 they like 80s plus.

If your not afraid to spray and live by a lowes, buy fruit and tree spray, only lowes carries it and its not lowes brand, its neem and pyretherin, pyretherin kills near instantly and the neem prevents and kills over time. It can burn if you use alot but its not nearly as bad as Safer brand products which i have found to be super harsh as hell and though they are organic are made of pretty synthetic shit.

I would get ladybugs too, but if you bomb or spray or raise c02 theyre going bye bye with the mites. and youll have ladies EVERYwhere. GOOD luck.

 

[Dankiam]

noice explanation catch i recently had a spider mite issue and my temps are now in the mid 80s 45 % humidity and sprayed neem twice a week and added some co2 tablets and there gone!!

 

[catcherintheye]

ok well DONT STOP, there probably a shit ton of eggs and when they hatch youre gona wana nuke them so they dont and cant lay anymore eggs, Spider mites are a bitch to get rid of esp in flower but if you know what your doing (which really I havent dealt with SM hell) then it shouldnt be too bad.

Best thing to do is prevent, I say this and im sitting on a utterly destroyed yield of chemdawg thats unsmokeable due to caterpillars, I should have yielded at least a pound plus of premiummm organic buds, however i stopped with the azamax spray (which if i had not stopped those cats eating the leaves and bud would be toast).

cos i got lazy and put my ladies outside to flower (i veg indoor flower outdoor). Had i taken my own advice and kept fucking sprayin just KEEP FUCKIN SPRAYIN I literally wouldnt be feeling like a fucking moron working 6 months on two plants that yielded SHIT and have to hash.

Learning from mistakes is the best way, learning from others mistakes is even better, sprayyy a weekly or bi monthly organic fungicide/pesticide preventative. And you wont feel like fucking moron me over here

 

[mkinbuds]

Or I can just mail some - got an old house that's a breeding ground for lady bugs.
If we get a warm day in late November I'll have a hatching and find a few dozens in the top corner of my living room wall! Think I can get more for the house if I advertise it as already having good predators for indoor weed grows?!?!

 

[GMT]

3 weeks on 12/12 I think id be trying to revert to veg while treating them, then taking cuts and restarting with clean plants. THat way it doesnt really matter what chems you use on them in the mean time.

 

[use]

A lot of good info in this thread. I am growing a couple plants from seed, they are about to start veg state. It's around 75 degrees in the tent(directly under 400w halide bulb), and it's only going to get colder as the seasons change. Should I expect to get spider mites and start spraying them with neem oil or something similar now up until flowering as a precaution, or take a chance and keep growing and watching closely?

 

[catcherintheye]

I forgot, another reason to be organic and use EWC. APPARENTLY, earthworms have enzymes in their gut and in their shit that dissolves parasite eggs and larvae in the soil that they eat, one of the larvae/egg parasites is spider mites, brewing EWC tea gets the zymes absorbed in your plants the same way neem or any other product would with watering and it should keep away spider mites, also whiteflies.

A foliar spray should help kick their ass too and its great for your girls veg or flower, just dont keep em too moist if theyre flowering then youre just making more problems. This is info from the dude at the farmers market who sells the castings I use and praise, he also sells goat cheese... its irrelevant but really dank.

 

[Dankiam]

I've seen some more eggs Ive been spraying every 4 days hope they go away here in a week or two

 

[has_some_sinse]

Spider mites have an undetermined gestation, it is dictated by temp. The hotter your room the faster they can replicate. AZAMAX is better than Azatrol....Nothing in my experience has worked as well as Azamax. I have used both azatrol and azamax, the latter being the clear winner!

 

[use]

I have a bottle of Organocide spray that I was using outside in my veg/fruit garden. Anyone ever use this product. It lists 25 pests it kills, the first being spider mites, eggs, and larvae.

 

[localman]

GO BUY AZAMAX

 

[Dankiam]

higher tem equals more spider mites?

 

[catcherintheye]

yea dude google spider mites. it will tell you they like it hot and dry, the higher the temp the more they replicate supposedly millions in weeks if the temp and humidity is right. get azamax