i have crabs :(

[Fly by Night]

Soap turns my pistils brown...prefer not doing that homie!

 

[Hastings101]

i will go out tomorrow and buy another brand of soap plus an actual pesticide. I took your advice and took all tools and bleached them. also diluted the bleach and wiped down walls floors and mats the plants sit on then rinsed 3 times with water. Room is now drying out. So if the little bastards are in the room there is a really good chance they are else where. Do I need to bug bomb my whole place? OR just shut down again for an X amount of time to let everything die off? Bugs suck ass.

 

[HidingInTheHaze]

They're like bebe's kids, they don't die they multiply.

Clean everything, all corners and cracks. They can go dormant and survive in the cracks for a long time.

I beat mine a year ago, and some how they came back early this summer. It was just a small population I easily knocked out but they can be real bitch.

This is why I suggested scrapping the grow, all it takes is one to regenerate a population in a month if you aren't keeping an eye on things.

They blow around in the breeze so it's not hard for them to spread all over the place.

 

[Granger2]

> What do you spray on walls etc.?

You can spray soap or you could use some other insecticide, like spinosad. -granger

 

[Hastings101]

do these little bastards fly or jump huge distances? What about laying down those powder/sprays that people put around the perimeter of their homes around the edges of the grow room inside and out? IF i ever get these guys gone, I never want to deal with them again.

 

[ozzieAI]

i have used pure neem oil (emulsified) to spray plants at 2 weeks that browned off my pistils, but new growth was fine, the mites were gone and things moved along like normal...i use pure neem oil as a drench and the mites have not returned...

don't ditch the crop...it can be saved...good luck

 

[headband 707]

Okay just a warning here soap not only tastes awful but it doesn't work by itself. Soap is a binder which is needed in some mixtures but it doesn't kill the eggs and you need to kill the eggs. You will never stop spraying if you use soap and you will hate the taste. If money if a problem and your looking for a quick solution/cheap you could try tobacco. Although I'm not a big fan of this it works. Try and get natural tobacco and let it sit overnight in water mixture. Stay frosty headband 707

i will go out tomorrow and buy another brand of soap plus an actual pesticide. I took your advice and took all tools and bleached them. also diluted the bleach and wiped down walls floors and mats the plants sit on then rinsed 3 times with water. Room is now drying out. So if the little bastards are in the room there is a really good chance they are else where. Do I need to bug bomb my whole place? OR just shut down again for an X amount of time to let everything die off? Bugs suck ass.

 

[headband 707]

Hummmmm..

Hummmmm..

Releasing a full container of carbon dioxide into a sealed grow set-up will kill all mites and insects. But, don't be in the room while the CO2 is being released! It would be enough to KILL YOU! I have seen this technique of bringing the CO2 to 10,000 ppm for 15 minutes to kill all pests. You must vent out the CO2 before entering the room. Two applications, five days apart, will kill all mites, pests and their offspring. ? Marc from CC
stay frosty headband 707

I've been there done this. At least you don't have any tenting yet. All you can do for the flowering plants is just control the population. You have more options for veg.

Anything that's in flower can be sprayed with Mighty Wash, Water, Safer Soap, or Liquid Ladybug. I wouldn't use anything else in flower, not even neem. You're gonna have to stay on top of this by alternating what you're spraying every three days. Mites develop immunities pretty quickly as they reproduce very quickly. Every 8 hours you have eggs hatching. You're gonna have to keep spraying every three days for 2-3 weeks to really knock them back. Mites don't like being disturbed either so keep a fan going so you have a lot of air circulation.

CO2 doesn't work and you're more likely to fuck up your plants. You'd have to have a very well sealed room too just to get co2 levels up high enough.

In veg you can get much more aggressive. You can look into AVID, Bayer, Azamax or Azatrol, Forbid, Floramite. I would suggest something more organic and less harsh but to be honest with you I've tried everything and you have to get aggressive with mites. You also have to alternate these sprays but I would only spray twice a week and switch it up between the harsh stuff and lighter stuff. Like Spray with Avid, then three days later Mighty Wash, then 3-4 days later Azamax, then go back to something strong. Do this for 2-4 weeks also and you'll knock them out but your plants are gonna look kinda shitty at first. This is a hardcore program but it will absolutely knock your problem out. Get a pyth bomb or two and throw them somewhere in the schedule. DO NOT USE THE SAME PESTICIDE EVERYTIME. The mites will become immune and then you'll have mites like in Cali where sometimes a extreme program like this won't even work. Only use these pesticides in veg and don't flower out these plants, just use them as moms.

You also have to bleach all of your equipment after you're done flowering and do the same for your veg equipment every week until you knock them out. Mites are not easy to get rid of but it's definitely possible as long as you're diligent. I used to also stick my moms in the shower and blast them with water. Get a multi-directional sprayer too. You really have to get the under sides of the leaves as that's where the mites mostly are.

 

[Hastings101]

well I have been keeping a close look at the ladies and haven't seen any live bugs as of yet so at least it kills them! I clipped quite a few leaves off that where covered in eggs (figure every little bit helps). I will reapply soap in 2 days and hope to knock them out for good and follow up with a full pesticide spray in the entire room and hit the canopy but not the flowers in hopes to end them all.

 

[Hastings101]

another quick update. I have been checking them CONSTANTLY the past 2 days and finally found the first live mite this morning so before lights out I did spray them with a pesticide which is below. THe label says it can be applied the day BEFORE consumption. So I guess we will see.

Also I am not almost 3 weeks into flower. Will these chemicals slow down flowering? My girls don't seem to be flowering all that quick compared to what I have seen in other grow threads.

 

[HidingInTheHaze]

. THe label says it can be applied the day BEFORE consumption. So I guess we will see.

You do realize that when something says safe to use before consumption they are referring to vegetable crops which would ordinarily be washed before eating and they are not taking about weed buds that will be smoked. When you smoke the buds that have been sprayed you are also smoking what ever you sprayed on them.

I would never spray anything on flowering plants, unless you plan on washing them off.

 

[headband 707]

You do realize that when something says safe to use before consumption they are referring to vegetable crops which would ordinarily be washed before eating and they are not taking about weed buds that will be smoked. When you smoke the buds that have been sprayed you are also smoking what ever you sprayed on them.

I would never spray anything on flowering plants, unless you plan on washing them off.

If this happens to me no matter what I use I will still wash the shit off of everything before I hang to dry. I don't like smoking that shit . It's called water cure if I'm not mistaken. . I'm using Mighty Mite for the first time and it seems to be keeping mites at bay headband 707

 

[Hastings101]

I will bath the plants again tomorrow morning before lights out. toss in the dehumidifier. Like I said this is my first attempt and have hit many learning curves. If I end up tossing it all so be it cuz I have learned a lot thus far. Stepping stones.