MFing MITES are back! 5th week into flowering. Need to kill them fast.

Mites are back! They were gone for a month. It's a 5th week in to a flowering. I am not spraying my ladies with anything, fuck no! It will ruin everything. I dumped about 2000 lady bugs on them yesterday and I'll water my plants with Azatrol on Sun. I have 2 No pest strips
in the room I think I'll add 2 more and will turn off intake and exhaust fans for 12 hr at night. Do you think it will work? Any better idea how to kill them fast?

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Originally Posted by SIMFER

Mites are back! They were gone for a month. It's a 5th week in to a flowering. I am not spraying my ladies with anything, fuck no! It will ruin everything. I dumped about 2000 lady bugs on them yesterday and I'll water my plants with Azatrol on Sun. I have 2 No pest strips
in the room I think I'll add 2 more and will turn off intake and exhaust fans for 12 hr at night. Do you think it will work? Any better idea how to kill them fast?

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stick with the ladybugs and dont use anything else. no pest strips, growers claim that it gives off a gas. remember your smoking it. at this point cool your temps to about 65 and no more than 70. that slows them down. cut the plants at the base when its harvest time, hang it by the stem and watch the little buggers crawl up and off the stem.

Dude, ease up, one no pest strip per 500 square feet. Would not use azatrol.

The fact they are back says that you did not finish treating and the eggs hatched after treatment.

They say, you can harvest and the mites will leave the plant........

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Originally Posted by WashougalWonder

The fact they are back says that you did not finish treating and the eggs hatched after treatment.

They say, you can harvest and the mites will leave the plant........

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I've heard that too.


Hang the buds upside down from a piece of fishing line threaded thru a sticky trap, and the mites will crawl up the fishing line and over their stuck siblings to get stuck themselves! :S2:

Yet another thing I've read on the interwebs, but never seen myself (not having mites in the first place helps with not having first hand experience with something like that! ;) )





P.S. My hands still have the funk of NEEM on them from tonight's application on my veging girls! ;) :hippy:

you can do now is keep temps low....that will slow them down....use a shop vac when you see them....do not spray....just keep temps low for a weeks and get to harvest....cut at the base....hang them and those mite will crawl right to the top and right off the plant.

now once you are harvested.....do not reuse your soil.....clean everything with bleach & water solution.....now once you start up again....use preventive measures....on at least a weekly basis....make it part of growing.....I know....I know....it hard....you dont see them anymore...so you think...hey I got them.....but whats happens....they are there....just waiting to come out.....mostly you will get them from clones....I now never.....ever....get clones from anyone...that I can not take the cuttings myself....I want to see that mother.....Seeds are better....take longer...but you cut your chances from getting mites.

good luck.

All LB are dead! I guess no pest strip still works. LB's died in 16 hrs. I went to store and ad 2 more strips to room( 8x10x8). Now I got 4 of them. But you guys saying that I shouldn't use that many? Well I think just some old eggs hatched and I got panicked. My temp went from 75 to 85-87 and that's why probably I got them, but I think they are diying, they are only few and they are not so active. I'll check what's going on there tonight. I got 4000 more of LB but I am not gona use them cause thet just gona die. If you saying that that no pest strip will be bad for plants then I'll remove em. I didn't think that chem from strips will go into the plants. How about neem oil? Can I water my plants once with it before harvest? I got about 2-3 weeks. Will it stink up my plants? I don't want to have nasty flavor in my bud neither SpiderMites. May be I can water my plants with Azatrol once or twice? I'll post some pix tomorrow.

Yep,... the "no pest" strips will eventually kill YOU too if you're in there long enough! :eek: ;)

Look up the MSDS on that thing, it's scary.


Mites are like roaches, IMO and they can and will become immune to the strips.... this is NOT the first time I've seen it.

Remove the "No pest" strips and spread the LadyBugs, use a screen over your exhaust to make sure they stay in the room.


Do NOT use Azatrol or Neem on your plants this late in flower,... either will effect the flavor of the finished buds.


I almost can't believe I'm typing this,... but,.... you can get a good harvest even with the mites..... just look at "weeddaddy50"'s log.

He rocked it no matter the mites,......... (almost tossed up....)........


Once your down, SANITIZE!!!!! bleach everything, rinse,.... rinse again,.. then spray with neem just for shits.

then start your new garden,... and every week,... say on tuesday.... spray with neem...... all the way until flower.:cool::hippy:


Mites are everywhere,.. so you should treat your grow as a "Clean Room" and try to seal it off, and prevent any "transport" from happening ie, carrying them in on your clothes. So shower and change clothes before going in your grow.

Thanks Canniwhatsis, I really appreciate your advise. Ok no Azatrol or Neem Oil. I was thinking that this fucking strips are fucking me up. When first time I hang them in the room and spending in it about 3-4 hrs next day I developed horrible allergy: my nose totally closed up, I had to take a bunch of allergy pills(slept for 2 days) to feel better. Now I use a respirator when I am working in the room, but I think it still gets thru the respirator cause every time after working in the room my nose leaks for hrs and I snease like crazy. Ok I'll remove strips and put lady bugs in the room. Should I keep strips for few days more? I've complete 4 weeks on Fri. How long should I wait after removing strips before I introduce LB into the room? Can't lower my temp it's always around 85-89 it only gets down to 75-80 when temp outside is 40 even with AC on all the time. I got 4 600w lights that heat up room pretty hard. The room is totally sealed and exhaust fan has filter so LB will not escape. When should I introduce carbs to my plants? Oh, by the way, I can't hang them up side down. I'm not ready to harvest. I need 3 or more weeks. I'll post some pix on Sun

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