Hey everyone just waned to give a quick update. The rooms is on day 49 and I have found mites...ughhhhh I know. There are a couple heavily infested pockets in the room, 90% of the plants/canopy are good to go.
Probably the cat dragged them in. The hard part will be keeping them off me and not bringing them to my perpetual soil grows. Since it is so late many treatments are out of question, and letting them go for another 3 weeks is not an option! The plants would take some damage, and trimming mite infested plants is not my idea of a good time and neither is it my trimmers. No one wants to take mites home.
I ordered $300 in bugs overnight and this population will be dead by harvest.
1500 Ladybugs- 42.95
1000 Triple Threat Predator Mites- 74.95
100 Destroyers- 179.95 (look up Stethorus Punctillum)
So 2600 predators in total, didvided by 24 plants is 108.3 predators per plant! The destroyers are expensive as shit, but from what I have read it is because they are new and supply is a problem. Also I read the results far outweigh the price, these little flying beetles can eat over 40 mites per day! So by themselves 4000+ mites per day, not to mention the 1500 lady bugs eating 5 per day! The mites have no idea what is coming, I cannot wait to release this biological warfare on them it is going to be funny.
Now to the Urkles, they look pretty good and smell even better. They are LIGHT feeders I did burn some leafs here and there on the edges, they are basically at 400+/- ppm right now and will be flushed at the 2 week mark. Seeing some purple here and there but nothing major as of right now they are green and frosty. I dropped the chiller temps down a few degrees and will try the ice in the controller trick if they are not impressing me a week or so out. Temps have been great, never over 80 even through the bad heat wave. Yield looks to be not that great but I knew that coming in. I will just be glad to tag and bag it and move on to the next one.
Probably the cat dragged them in. The hard part will be keeping them off me and not bringing them to my perpetual soil grows. Since it is so late many treatments are out of question, and letting them go for another 3 weeks is not an option! The plants would take some damage, and trimming mite infested plants is not my idea of a good time and neither is it my trimmers. No one wants to take mites home.
I ordered $300 in bugs overnight and this population will be dead by harvest.
1500 Ladybugs- 42.95
1000 Triple Threat Predator Mites- 74.95
100 Destroyers- 179.95 (look up Stethorus Punctillum)
So 2600 predators in total, didvided by 24 plants is 108.3 predators per plant! The destroyers are expensive as shit, but from what I have read it is because they are new and supply is a problem. Also I read the results far outweigh the price, these little flying beetles can eat over 40 mites per day! So by themselves 4000+ mites per day, not to mention the 1500 lady bugs eating 5 per day! The mites have no idea what is coming, I cannot wait to release this biological warfare on them it is going to be funny.
Now to the Urkles, they look pretty good and smell even better. They are LIGHT feeders I did burn some leafs here and there on the edges, they are basically at 400+/- ppm right now and will be flushed at the 2 week mark. Seeing some purple here and there but nothing major as of right now they are green and frosty. I dropped the chiller temps down a few degrees and will try the ice in the controller trick if they are not impressing me a week or so out. Temps have been great, never over 80 even through the bad heat wave. Yield looks to be not that great but I knew that coming in. I will just be glad to tag and bag it and move on to the next one.
love the way you handled mite problem, you gave em hell 
