[Spicecowboy78]

Dear fellow growers !

As I checked for my indoor plants today, I realised those familiar spots on the leaves of two of my plants.
After closer inspection I detected a few spidermites.
The plants were typical 8 week indicas and it were in week 7, th´s why I decided to cut them before those bastards could do more damage.

No webs so far.

I checked a few buds under the magnifying glass and detected a mite here and there.
not too bad, but still infested.

I normally dry my buds in a dark and cool room (temperature is about 12 degrees right now.

Like allways, I hung the plants upside down to dry.

But I am nervous about the whole thing.

Is there still a chance that those beasts could spin some webs over the drying buds ?

Will they stay on the buds or leave them as they dry ?

I do not want to quick dry my goodies.

I would really be thankful for advice.
Don´t wanna have a sleepless night because of that shit...

Thanks´,


spice

[Spicecowboy78]

Ahhh...
And sorry because of the spelling.
I´m nervous as fuck ;-)

[legalizeRO]

Search Spinosad or Laser 240 (it's the same thing).
It's a biopesticide and it kills almost if not all insects pests to our plant.

I had a very serious problem with gnats and it made it a bad dream.

It can also be applied in flower. They give a green light even applying to ripe fruits and vegetables. The only downside it kills bees too, but indoors that shouldn't be a problem.

[Spicecowboy78]

Thank´s for the advice, legalizeRO !

I´m not sure wheter I can get this product here in Austria.

And to be honest :

Even if they claim it would be non toxic for humans, I do not want to spray anything on my buds.

Anyway: It´s too late, because they are allready hanging to dry.

I read that if you hang a mite infested plant upside down, the mites should, as the buds dry, move upwards, towards the stem of the plant.

Is this true ?

As I allready mentioned above, there are no webs, only the typical damage on the leaves, which came literall over night, btw.

It happend that fast.

I cut the plants, becuase a couple of years ago I allready had a severe problem with mites and one plant was totally ruined, the tops looked like a fuckin cocoon.

I took a look at the trichomes under my magnifying glass and most of them are milky.

The buds look great.

But :

I also detected a few mites crwling on the buds.

And that´s what makes me feel anxiuos...

[Moppel]

Hang en upside down. All mites will go to the point where you cut the plant, that is still moist. Burn en with a torch.

[Spicecowboy78]

Here is a picture of a bud.
It' s MK Ultra, btw...

[Betterhaff]

Try spraying them down with water with a hand sprayer. I’ve knocked them off by spraying at a close range, being somewhat forceful but not enough to be knocking off trichomes. Depending on how much you have, do it over a bathtub or wash sink that can be rinsed out after. Then shake the buds of excess moisture and put a fan on them for a bit to dry them out. You don’t want them to mold.

[Spicecowboy78]

Thank´s for the advice, Moppel.

You mean the mites will move away from the buds as they are drying ?

And they will not build webs on the drying materila ?

[Spicecowboy78]

Yeah, Betterhaff...

I do not want to spray around now, sorry...
They are hanging allready and I really hope that the mites will just leave the buds as they dry up...

[Spicecowboy78]

Jesus Christ, it´s been a long time since I visited ICMAG...
How can I give you guys a positive reputation ?

Karma it was called during the good old OG times...