Do spider mites go inactive?

[BOMBAYCAT]

Hi:
I have a small medical grow outdoors in the summer. In the late winter I start clones and pop seeds. Anyway last year (inside) I got spider mites which I neemed with no problems. This year I raised the pH of my mother plant and the spider mites came back. Do the eggs last over the winter? I neemed them and threw away the mother plant, but do I need to worry about the clones and seedlings?

 

[The Bee Keeper]

spidermites are forever until you completly go to war.....gotta bomb and bleach the whole place brother. then take preventitave messaures for future grows neem no pest strips etc......

 

[420somewhere]

If you only have clones and seedlings...

If you only have clones and seedlings...

If you only have clones and seedlings, I would use a Hot-Shot No-Pest Strip in your grow area for a week before putting the plants in. It will kill all of them.

You may be re-introducing them to your grow area? Most Likely.

How are you growing?

 

[The Bee Keeper]

its not only that they build up immunities they die after laying 1,000,000 eggs that hatch immune to what you killed them with .......ugggggggggggh fuck spider mites in the can for real.

 

[The Captain]

eggs are viable for upto 2 years from what i've been told