After 17 years, spidermites finally caught me

[thefirm99]

I'll share a bit so others will know what to do. I'm sure that this has been discussed before, but there are always new growers.
I grow an indoor clone and seed system, about 200-300 plants total. Very sealed and protected room, protected vent. I was gone for a week, really no problem usually takes a few hours to reset systems and timers so I can leave it for up to 7 days or so.
I leave on a Mon, return on Sun. to complete devastation. I first thought the ferts had fuct up and did this damage. Low and fucking behold, those cocksucking spidermites had killed every plant less than 4 weeks old and the flowering plants beautiful white preflowers were wilted and brown!
I have always known about these fucking parasites and figured with early warnings I could keep it in hand.

So, I decided to use a product called Organicide. It works wonderfully and besides smelling like a fish farm, does no harm.
I had to use it repeatedly early on. I give everything an application about every 4-6 days and new sprouts within one day of sprouting. After 2 weeks I found that just using it once a week keeps those fuckers nearly all killed off. I guess I will never be rid of them until I strip and sterilize, but for $20.00 organicide will make 30 gallons. It works and is easy to apply with a spray bottle.

It's not if, but when, this will happen to you.

 

[High Country]

They caught up with me a while ago too, killed all my mother plants in a few days.

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[stoney917]

i need a shower after lookin at that pic bro i hope none of them got threw the screen.
thats some scary shit but real every new grower should see it. that is what happens if ya let a few mites live. floramite forbid combo keeps em down for me but also keep neem and a few other things around.

 

[Madrus Rose]

"After 17 years, spidermites finally caught me "

Had we all known this we could have sent u some yrs ago,
free of charge !

17yrs is a pretty good record to have ...10X loop , all clones inspected
& all clones/plants dipped twice b4 settling into last flower stage .

 

[High Country]

i need a shower after lookin at that pic bro i hope none of them got threw the screen.
thats some scary shit but real every new grower should see it. that is what happens if ya let a few mites live. floramite forbid combo keeps em down for me but also keep neem and a few other things around.

I went away for a few days and came back to that, about 30 mother plants fucked although somehow managed to get a few to survive. I threw everything out, bombed the grow area and have not seen them since.

It's amazing how quickly they multiply and destroy you, a very cunning little animal. That was the first big attack I had in about 12 years, unfortunately I was away at the time and could not defend the aggressor, eternal vigilance is required.

 

[hazydreams]

gas those bastards with co2!

 

[qbert]

wow that's crazy.

I had some mums brought to me from Denver and they were infested some. Being new to this, I didn't really catch on too quickly.

They never exploded in population, and just the laziest of efforts has kept them at bay it seems.

But I fear them greatly because of tales like this.

Spinosad (Montery Garden Spray) is what I use mostly, though I've also been trying to apply neem spray as well. Just never enough time to give them the attention they need.