Spider mites

Actually this is the 3rd time I've had em in my house,... just the first time I've slipped up and introduced them into my room :o


First time was in early spring when they popped up on the basil and rose in the front window.

2nd time was a known infected G13 cutting I brought home from another garden, a month of quarantine squelched em, and none of the 5 clones from that set of cutting has shown a single sign of bugs in over 2 months.

3rd times the charm I guess. When I took the ChemDawg cuttings off the mother plant, there didn't appear to be any signs of bugs and the grower had said he hadn't seen any. Overall his grow looked pretty much clean, tho there were some gnats. I got lazy with those cuttings and treated them like they were from my own garden. Now I feel like a dumbass.


I did warn him that mites popped up on the cuttings I took from his plants and that he should watch his crop closely.


Ohhh well,.... back to fighting invisible foes! :stoned:


Already sprayed Neem,... will spray "Don't bug me" later this evening after my HID goes off.

Just use Tobacco Juice. Kills like a machine.

Not gonna keep a nicotine poison around, either the cats or the kids could get into that shit and neither would be a good outcome.

On with the Neem application!:buzz_saw:


These little bastards are fookin doomed!!!!!!!! :gunfighter2:

lots of yellow spots....how long have you had the mites????

the best way I have found to get them under control is to drop the temps a night....and keep killing them....it does not take long and pretty soon you got them on the run.

bout 3 days,.... Dude, it's a clone,... the infected leaf is about the size of a half dollar. And is one of only a few leaves the plant has at all.


As for the rest of my vege room,... still no signs of spread, prior neem applications are doing they're job of keeping the little pricks down! :S1:

I've been doing plant by plant, leaf by leaf inspection looking for anything.

There were 4 on a plant that was in physical contact with the infected one, and that was it,... (found and squished them on the first night after noticing the problem) that plant is on high watch in case I missed an egg or something.


Shower and new clothes between working the infected girls, and working with the grow room just to help play it safe.



I'm gonna keep bumping this thread up as kinda a "Log" of how I deal with mites.;):hippy:

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Originally Posted by bongerstonerd00d

The good bugs from BHG you can buy to rid plants of spider mites ?? They "say" they seek out and destroy all the active mites, as well as the eggs.



b0nger

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yes, but they are temperature sensitive. you need the right predators for the right temp and humidity. sometimes you need to overlap different predatory species to get the job done. the cost of which lies mostly in the shipping charges.

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Originally Posted by MEDEDCANNABIS

yes, but they are temperature sensitive. you need the right predators for the right temp and humidity. sometimes you need to overlap different predatory species to get the job done. the cost of which lies mostly in the shipping charges.

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Cost me more then a $100.00 to keep them at bay and still looking for them is the most important thing IMO. Alcohol and water to kill the cluster's and spray top soil, then remove from area and add more, and so on.

I used no pest strip for a month, but still added one more after the fist was up 2 weeks. They help, but i believe you still need other methods even with the strip's. Maybe people getting them under control with just the strip's have a mild infestation.


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where do you place the strips? i wouldnt think that work very good, however ive never tried them before.

He's talking about the "No Pest" strips, they are a packet that has a wax thing in it kinda like a glade scented plug in,... but instead of off gassing pretty smells, that thing off gasses toxic poison. :eek:


My Grand daddy purp was sensitive to it, and wilted almost to the point of death overnight. I know several growers who have those things hanging everywhere, and they still have mites.

Suffice to say, I don't believe in those things working as well as some claim.


I'm gonna try and get another pic of my infected little girl tonight, she got a good dose of neem last night, and the 4 mites you can clearly see in the last picture had hardly moved, all were dead as doornails this morning! :blueknife:

Still no signs of spread in vege, re-dosed everybody in vege with neem last night as well, just to be safe.:hippy:

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Originally Posted by canniwhatsis

He's talking about the "No Pest" strips, they are a packet that has a wax thing in it kinda like a glade scented plug in,... but instead of off gassing pretty smells, that thing off gasses toxic poison. :eek:


My Grand daddy purp was sensitive to it, and wilted almost to the point of death overnight. I know several growers who have those things hanging everywhere, and they still have mites.

Suffice to say, I don't believe in those things working as well as some claim.


I'm gonna try and get another pic of my infected little girl tonight, she got a good dose of neem last night, and the 4 mites you can clearly see in the last picture had hardly moved, all were dead as doornails this morning! :blueknife:

Still no signs of spread in vege, re-dosed everybody in vege with neem last night as well, just to be safe.:hippy:

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you see, this is what i had heard about strips before. i never tried because of that. one thing i did try and it works very well is when you chop them down hang them upside down(nothing new i know) and watch the exodus begin. they will literally crawl up and off the plant. should be a you tube video. although they cant be infested, like with webs and all, throw that crap away. neem seems to help keep them at bay. i think an army of predatory mites is the best. i guess it was good your girl wilted you wouldnt want to smoke tainted bud.