Please share your experiences with spider mites here!

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Originally Posted by lampost

Looks nice! I'd be stoked with those results... what strain is that?

Let us know how the NPS works? I'm about to deploy mine even though I haven't seen any sign of them for weeks.

Now I'm just worried about fuckin' hermies. I have a few different strains and I've heard some can hermie if you FIM them or train them....

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Yeah I am pretty happy (surprised even) - it is a purple kush I got a clone of and I think its a keeper. The NPS has been in since Thursday night. I checked last night and only could find one bug barely moving around and a bunch of what looked like white carcasses (die you bastards :cursing:) on the bottom of several leaves - so I think it is working! Like I said before I have some pretty serious chemicals I got from a professional grower (I am not sure exactly what it is, strong miticide I think mixed with some other shit but he knows what he is doing) but I would rather not use it 2-3 wks before harvest unless I absolutely have to.

I don't know about the hermie thing - I thought that was just from too much light during the dark period or other serious plant stress

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Originally Posted by budsndrums

Yeah I am pretty happy (surprised even) - it is a purple kush I got a clone of and I think its a keeper. The NPS has been in since Thursday night. I checked last night and only could find one bug barely moving around and a bunch of what looked like white carcasses (die you bastards :cursing:) on the bottom of several leaves - so I think it is working! Like I said before I have some pretty serious chemicals I got from a professional grower (I am not sure exactly what it is, strong miticide I think mixed with some other shit but he knows what he is doing) but I would rather not use it 2-3 wks before harvest unless I absolutely have to.

I don't know about the hermie thing - I thought that was just from too much light during the dark period or other serious plant stress

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The tendency toward hermaphroditism is also genetic, independent of environmental factors. As ever, genetics give you the parameters of the possible (genotype), and environment the reality of the result (phenotype). And I think some forms of training are pretty stressful for the plants.

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Originally Posted by senorx12562

The tendency toward hermaphroditism is also genetic, independent of environmental factors. As ever, genetics give you the parameters of the possible (genotype), and environment the reality of the result (phenotype). And I think some forms of training are pretty stressful for the plants.

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Yep. That's exactly what I was worried about.

Unfortunately instead of running one strain I have several... I wanted to run one, but the clone vendor was running low and I had no patience to delay my startup. I kinda wish I would've now as I know I'll be putting in a lot of time inspecting for balls... Fuck!

For example, I've heard Sour D is extremely sensitive to light leaks and will hermie on you if there's any light (although, I've heard light leaks will cause ANY plant to hermie).

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Originally Posted by lampost

Yep. That's exactly what I was worried about.

Unfortunately instead of running one strain I have several... I wanted to run one, but the clone vendor was running low and I had no patience to delay my startup. I kinda wish I would've now as I know I'll be putting in a lot of time inspecting for balls... Fuck!

For example, I've heard Sour D is extremely sensitive to light leaks and will hermie on you if there's any light (although, I've heard light leaks will cause ANY plant to hermie).

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I totally hear that - next time it is all one strain for me; I had to put one (an LSD) on top of a box so the light would hit them evenly. Weird how all three strains veg'd completely evenly, then in flower one only about doubled in size (LSD), one tripled (PK), and the WW (supposedly WW anyway) would be hitting the ceiling if I hadn't bent the crap out of him - indica mix my ass.... yep gotta lot to learn

Posted this elsewhere, but I have 5x infected CHem Dog clones.

I have isolated them from 250w Closet, now what to do? Throw them all away? The hydroton and soil is ruined as well? Help please for a noob.

Can they be rescued?

Thanks.

Pe@ce,

HymroD

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Originally Posted by HymroD

Posted this elsewhere, but I have 5x infected CHem Dog clones.

I have isolated them from 250w Closet, now what to do? Throw them all away? The hydroton and soil is ruined as well? Help please for a noob.

Can they be rescued?

Thanks.

Pe@ce,

HymroD

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HymroD, did you get an answer? I was going to ask if you still have the mites reproducing and running around chewing on your plants since they were isolated, or if you were able to knock them back with one of the suggestions on this board

hey people! i bought this spary called: earth tone insect killer at OSH (has a blue bottle cover), supposedly all organic, used it and after three sprays 15 days apart they are all gone and the plant seems fine.

i would recommend it. you gotta really get every leaf, top and bottom, you miss one branch and those eggs will spread all over again in a few days.

hope no one says that stuff is bad for buds, ima use it for now on.

hope this helps

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Originally Posted by budsndrums

HymroD, did you get an answer? I was going to ask if you still have the mites reproducing and running around chewing on your plants since they were isolated, or if you were able to knock them back with one of the suggestions on this board

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Hey! Thanks for following up..I got my answer in another thread..here:
http://boards.cannabis.com/plant-pro...ml#post2075936

I isolated the 4 offending plants. 1 committed Hari Kari. 1x shows signs of uninfection, but I am not sure. One clone looks ok after repeated treating of dishwashing liquid, burying the leaves in a 1cup water thing, etc...

2x clones still infested. Double quarantined, being planted in a local swamp outside. 1x clone left. Shows good health. Not sure if what is now a $2 chem dog clone is worth even possibly infecting my 3x BEAUTIFUL GIRLS.

Pe@ce,

HymroD

Also of note, my homie gave me an organic spider mite treatment product. Have not used it, its called -Organicide.

Now on to flowering advice! Just set my 3x girls into flower mode and I need to reasearch stuff. 1st real grow in Cali.

Pe@ce,

hymroD

Just wanted to follow-up. I was able to completely rid my grow room of spider mites. I'm not sure if it was the weekly neem sprays (and occasional pyrethrum) OR the No Pest Strip. I put the No Pest Strip in for 1 week at the switch to 12/12 light cycle. I had ventilation completely off at night and day.... my air-cooled reflector just pulled air from a different room. Anyway, that was 4 weeks ago and I haven't seen a sign of them since. It helps that my grow room is only 5' x 5' and 7' high..... so 175 cubic feet total.... probably fills up with the dichlorvos vapors in one night!

Just consider yourself lucky if you don't have root aphids. Those fuckers sucks and you won't realize you have them until they've already destroyed the roots on several of your flowering plants.