mouts
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just last night, i realised my plants had an infestation of spider mites. The leaves had white specks on them so I looked at the underside of the leaves and sure enough there were approx 2 or 3 small black bugs the size of a full stop on each leaf, as well as a shitload of eggs. I run a perpetual micro cab and the oldest plants are about 4 weeks from harvest, so i didnt want to use any chemicals and im also a cheap bastard so i did some reading and came up with this. First, i got about 10 cigarette butts from the ashtray and put them in a big plastic bottle with about half a pint of hot water, then i closed it up, put it next to the heater for an hour. Ithen strained it out through an old t shirt and poured it into a spray bottle and put it in the fridge til it was cold. Spider mites hate cold temps and moisture, so this is good. I put all the plants in the shower and sprayed them all one at a time very thouroughly make sure u cover ur face and hands and dont wear ur best clothes because it stinks. After that i put them all in a kitchen cabinet, sparked a cig and put in the ashtray along with the plants and shut the door. I have just checked them and all the adult mites seem to be dead. I will repeat this every 3 days or so until they are dead. Its not safe to use this method on food crops but as u are going to smoke the plants it doesnt matter.