DAMN U SPIDER MITES!!!!

[Meh 05]

i was looking at my 4 plants a few days ago, and i noticed 1 had a hole in the leaf, a perfect hole

so i just brushed it off, let it go, whatever u wanna say, and went back inside

so i got home from school today, looked at that same plant and say that 1 of the 4 leaves had holes in it, and another leaf was almost cut in half

and i looked into the pot, and there was spiderwebs, so ive got spidermits, so i took a bug killer i had, one that works on tomatos and other things that you can eat, so i put it on today

thing this will work? or should i do something else?

[HARDDON]

Spider mites do not normally eat leaves or holes in plants...rather they suck and feed off the chloryphll from individual leaf cells.

They can be spotted by a pattern or looking like salt was sprinkled on the leaves...little white spots.

The webs could be hosts to spiders predating on some other type of insect who is eating your plants, and killing off the spiders could be the last thing you want to do.

The only way to tell for certain is to take a leaf that has been damaged and look at the underside of the leaf with a power lense or scope.

Spider mites generally are translucent when juvenile and then get brown patches...they have red eyes...they leave little black shit on the leaves, and they lay perfectly round balls or eggs.

They look just like a trich...without the stalk!

Whatever you are trying to kill, if there are eggs, you will need to reapply every 4 days for 21 days.

Saturate the ENTIRE LEAF. Each and every single one. Every 4 days.

[karmaxul]

Neem oil is great to use mixed with a mild soap and iso at 1 oz. per gallon. This will stop them from breeding yet it takes a couple of weeks to work. You are most likely using pyrithium which is good but can burn the plants if you drench them. Alot of the mite breeding takes place in the medium so make sure you spray it as well. Preditor mites are good to. They eat spider mites and when the food source runs out they eat themselves. Spraying your plants down with straight water before the lights go out is very helpfull as well. Diatenatious earth (food grade) is a good defense when dusted over the top of the soil. It is made of razor sharp fossils harvested from lake beds that will not cut you but when insects with exoskeletons crawl through it they cut their bellies and dehydrate within 24 hours usually. They are on the undersides on the leaves and suck the juice from the stomas mostly so make sure to wash the undersides of the leaves. I have grown many plants and have never seen any holes in the leaves so I dont what to tell you about that. If you got CO2 you can crank it and sufficate them aswell. To slow down the breeding you could make your own with sugar and yeast. one cup sugar to .6 gallon water with 15ml yeast. That mix is good for 20 sq feet. My room was a bit larger so I use 7 gallon camping water storage containers outside the room with garden holes coming through the wall in back of a fan.
For your leaf eater problem all I can recommend is get the hottest peppers you can find and make a tea out of them and spray the plants with them. The plants dont mind but the critters hate it.
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[CoyoteGrass]

if u use vinegar and put that around yer plants it should repel bugs but i have ants that are always eating my shit but my stoner uncle, told me to put cayanne pepper allover the ground and under the plants....the bugs feelers get burned when they come in contact with the pepper so i have no bugs no and its all organic....just dont rub yer eyes....AHHHHHH IT BURNS!!!!! yea you catch my drift....the pepper works well

[J DOG 6000]

cool,Zandor suggest a hot pepper spray made from Cyanne.

[SittinStoney420]

Wont the peppers make your buds smell/taste bad?

[karmaxul]

They dont smell bad and as long as you dont eat the nugs after you spray it you should be ok. (I sometimes eat the nugs to see if I can taste the nutes. I only use a minimal ppm level of under 200.) Pepper spray is all organic which is great and its just one of the many options out there. You are not using a pure pepper extract so its really not bad. I slice them real thin and mash them up into a paste then make a tea with them, then strain filter and fill a spray bottle. It is diluted enough so there are no worries but it is true fresh peppers can smell.
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[karmaxul]

Sittinstoney420 ?
Any posts made by me are purely fictional in nature and by no means is anything I say to be taken seriously. I do not grow or condone the growing of anything not legal. Any and all pictures I post are pictures widley available on the internet and any discussions I am involved in are purely hypothetical or are commentary in nature and should not constitute advice or be considered advice to assist in activities that are deemed illegal.

I grow as a profession and love it. Everything I say is from experience or factual research. Every plant from earth has a right to be grown on the earth and I condone it regardless of what greedy, corrupt politicans say.

Is that what you ment to say?

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[karmaxul]

Just found a new recipe for mites:
SPIDER MITES

â?¢ 28 grams table salt

â?¢ 4.5 liters of water

Shake well and spray liberally over plant surface and underside of leaves, or

â?¢ Steep 2 cloves of crushed garlic in 1 litre of water for 24 hours

Strain. Do not dilute. Spray on plants no more than twice a week (also works on aphids and scale mites.)

It was in maximum yields latest issue a great mag.

Hope this helps
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