Hi VerdantGreen , have also found out the expensive way that predators are not a viable solution in permanent flowerrooms.
In veg they need replaceing as its hard to maintain a population and the cost adds up.
This pest off stuff from Hydrogarden actually does a pretty good if messy job , poor girls look like the victims of a Bukkake session , have observed the simple killing mechanism under the microccope , the sprayed solution contracts as it evaporates and sets solid trapping and suffocateing all motile pests , falls of later or can be brushed gently if overdone.
Only downsides are if you miss any infested leaf they will come back later , not really suitable on flowering buds as it will do the same damage to trichomes as mites.
Equally good results useing a watery mix of cheap wallpaper paste and a dash of washing up liquid and costs a few pence , very good to dip gifted clones in as a general precaution.
The Provado spray worked quite well for me despite the active chemical not being specific for mites , adults heavily reduced and juvenile stages wiped out , eggs unfortunately unharmed so will gain you some time at least.
When the Vapona dichlorvos strip was still available is was the simplest and , with a little commonsense , one of the safest solutions.
Since the nanny state has banned them on spurious evidence have come up with a workable alternative , pound shop plug in air freshener filled with something nasty from pre 1970 , two dark cycles a week apart has cleared two rooms of a moderate infestation.
After forty years they have lost any resistance they had aquired and die with little argument.
Vapour or smoke has got to be the best way to ensure a complete kill and avoid mould issues from spraying and the difficulty of total coverage.
If you want the Vapona product it is still possible to get them from established Indian and Pakistani hardware shops under the counter or sometimes on open display in foreign packageing , still licensed for some uses in the UK and a dodgy pest controller will sort you out with the equivalent at a price.
Have just been dragged around two garden centres and apart from moaning non stop about the prices , found mites and greenfly on half the plants i looked at.
The gormless manager at Nottcuts shrugged his shoulders and said they must have come in that way and not his problem , a local nursery manager/owner assured me the whitefly were dead and would do no harm despite them wafting off the plants and settling on his head.
Seen them on cut flowers as well , pays to check non canna sources and plants around your house , worse this year than i have ever seen in the last forty locally.
I am less concerned about the few molecules of chemical still present in the buds eight weeks after treatment that will not survive a flame when smoked , than the hormones and additives present in the food i eat which will definately enter my system.
Any increased health risk will be lost amongst the dozens of known carcinogens present and accepted in smokeing.
The adults seem to have a death wish with HPS lights and fight more than feed , juvenile stage is a killing machine on mites but leaves eggs alone , there are better choices unless you can catch them in numbers for free , a few minuits here with a conifer hedge would collect hundreds.
In veg they need replaceing as its hard to maintain a population and the cost adds up.
This pest off stuff from Hydrogarden actually does a pretty good if messy job , poor girls look like the victims of a Bukkake session , have observed the simple killing mechanism under the microccope , the sprayed solution contracts as it evaporates and sets solid trapping and suffocateing all motile pests , falls of later or can be brushed gently if overdone.
Only downsides are if you miss any infested leaf they will come back later , not really suitable on flowering buds as it will do the same damage to trichomes as mites.
Equally good results useing a watery mix of cheap wallpaper paste and a dash of washing up liquid and costs a few pence , very good to dip gifted clones in as a general precaution.
The Provado spray worked quite well for me despite the active chemical not being specific for mites , adults heavily reduced and juvenile stages wiped out , eggs unfortunately unharmed so will gain you some time at least.
When the Vapona dichlorvos strip was still available is was the simplest and , with a little commonsense , one of the safest solutions.
Since the nanny state has banned them on spurious evidence have come up with a workable alternative , pound shop plug in air freshener filled with something nasty from pre 1970 , two dark cycles a week apart has cleared two rooms of a moderate infestation.
After forty years they have lost any resistance they had aquired and die with little argument.
Vapour or smoke has got to be the best way to ensure a complete kill and avoid mould issues from spraying and the difficulty of total coverage.
If you want the Vapona product it is still possible to get them from established Indian and Pakistani hardware shops under the counter or sometimes on open display in foreign packageing , still licensed for some uses in the UK and a dodgy pest controller will sort you out with the equivalent at a price.
Have just been dragged around two garden centres and apart from moaning non stop about the prices , found mites and greenfly on half the plants i looked at.
The gormless manager at Nottcuts shrugged his shoulders and said they must have come in that way and not his problem , a local nursery manager/owner assured me the whitefly were dead and would do no harm despite them wafting off the plants and settling on his head.
Seen them on cut flowers as well , pays to check non canna sources and plants around your house , worse this year than i have ever seen in the last forty locally.
I am less concerned about the few molecules of chemical still present in the buds eight weeks after treatment that will not survive a flame when smoked , than the hormones and additives present in the food i eat which will definately enter my system.
Any increased health risk will be lost amongst the dozens of known carcinogens present and accepted in smokeing.
The adults seem to have a death wish with HPS lights and fight more than feed , juvenile stage is a killing machine on mites but leaves eggs alone , there are better choices unless you can catch them in numbers for free , a few minuits here with a conifer hedge would collect hundreds.
