[Bird of Hermes]

Originally Posted by mushroombrew

It is us who brings them in. Clothing. When I have any pest issues I work clean plants first. Wash hands change clothes after ANY contact with infected plants. Brushing against a plant is all it takes.

Very good info but since these cabs are in a my room id guess id just have to try to keep my room close to laboratory clean with bleach pretty often. After the unbridled hell ive been through ill go a extra million miles to prevent this. Cleaning my hands with alcohol putting a clean shirt on wouldnt be too hard. Never had em before though and everybody says ditch the old mediums and soil when this happens so probably still need to toss it.

Ps its not just soil or us that bring em in the most common vectors for russet mites is small flies and moths.....i know this from 20+ hrs of pouring through posts and articles over the last few days lol

[Bird of Hermes]

I think Bud Green Sr already answered my question about bleach strength now that i look back. He said 1 cup a gallon which is a 1:16 ratio i'll use that treat the bad soil i know for a fact people spray yards with solutions stronger then that with no issues. Plus i can drench the soil as i spread it to dilute the bleach when it goes out into the yard.

[caljim]

Here is an option to treat the plants still flowering. I have used predators in the past to combat 2 spotted spider mite with great success and am currently using these as a preventive in both veg and flower........

https://www.evergreengrowers.com/hem...andersoni.html

Best of luck, I feel your pain.

[beta]

Originally Posted by Bird of Hermes

Very good info but since these cabs are in a my room id guess id just have to try to keep my room close to laboratory clean with bleach pretty often. After the unbridled hell ive been through ill go a extra million miles to prevent this. Cleaning my hands with alcohol putting a clean shirt on wouldnt be too hard. Never had em before though and everybody says ditch the old mediums and soil when this happens so probably still need to toss it.

Ps its not just soil or us that bring em in the most common vectors for russet mites is small flies and moths.....i know this from 20+ hrs of pouring through posts and articles over the last few days lol

Hemp Russet mites are host dependent. If you don't have someone near you who has an infestation on their cannabis plants, they are not coming from outside. HRM cannot live on anything other than cannabis / hemp.

[Bird of Hermes]

Originally Posted by caljim

Here is an option to treat the plants still flowering. I have used predators in the past to combat 2 spotted spider mite with great success and am currently using these as a preventive in both veg and flower........

https://www.evergreengrowers.com/hem...andersoni.html

Best of luck, I feel your pain.

I wish all i had was spider mites lol but that is good info ive seen in my searches that it will attack hemp russet mites as well even though they are smaller. Ive been looking at them and they dont get good reviews on amazon for the various predator mites but that might just be a supplier issue and will look at the site you posted a link to. Thanks for the sympathy i think ive halfway made my peace with the fact that i might be dry and barren till the end of summer. Im irradiating my room before starting anything again thats for sure and might impliment non toxic pyrethrins and predatory mites as well as hygiene management like mushroombrew talked about into future IPM strategies.

[caljim]

Both the Anderson and Swirskii https://www.evergreengrowers.com/amb...ease-2894.html will prey on the smaller mites, ie russet, hemp, broad...at all stages of development.

I would not post the info if I did not believe in the solution.

Order predators from a green house supplier. Let Amazon do their own thing

Arbico, Buglogical, GreenMethod, Evergreen Growers Supply, Natures Control.

[Bird of Hermes]

Originally Posted by beta

Hemp Russet mites are host dependent. If you don't have someone near you who has an infestation on their cannabis plants, they are not coming from outside. HRM cannot live on anything other than cannabis / hemp.

Yeah i highly doubt they have any hosts in my area could be wrong but doubtful. I guess my main concern is the unopened bags of promix garden soil i got and whether they came from it.

Its hard to tell under 60x but i could actually have broad mites not russets and im not anywhere near the west coast where russets are common. In all likelyhood they are broads and the more i see pics of broads under 60x the more i think thats the case. They were either in my potting mix or more likely traveled in on a moth/fly or got on my clothes as mushroombrew said. Treatment plan is identical for either one though.

[Bird of Hermes]

Originally Posted by caljim

Both the Anderson and Swirskii https://www.evergreengrowers.com/amb...ease-2894.html will prey on the smaller mites, ie russet, hemp, broad...at all stages of development.

I would not post the info if I did not believe in the solution.

Order predators from a green house supplier. Let Amazon do their own thing

Arbico, Buglogical, GreenMethod, Evergreen Growers Supply, Natures Control.

Oh i belive you bro ive read a dozen articles have heard of both those and a few others too. I'll check em out as that might be the only option this deep in flower and i want to integrate them into my future IPM strategy anyways. I figured the issues on amazon are probably caused by expired products.

[beta]

Originally Posted by Bird of Hermes

Yeah i highly doubt they have any hosts in my area could be wrong but doubtful. I guess my main concern is the unopened bags of promix garden soil i got and whether they came from it.

Again, they need a host to survive, so unless your soil manufacturer has cannabis plants in their facility AND you got a batch within a couple weeks of it leaving said facility, they are not coming from your soil.

[Bird of Hermes]

But from exhaustive searches ive seen that the only way to be completely rid of em is to tear down and completely decontaminate everything. Somebody said on a forum there is no way to be totally rid of them that involves your plant staying alive lol. But the predators could help my NL ladies out for the next 6wks and be a part of the IPM for sure.