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