AAAHHH SPIDER MITES!!!

Well i did quite a bit of reading on these no pest strips and the side effects if humans come in contact with them, Nasty things not to be used without care, but if one takes the proper care ie.. gloves ,mask, and not to inhale for long periods of time.Also plant matter is not effected by the vapour , (read 3 tests performed by seperate labs other then manufactures) and all said they do not effect plants in anyway.Also they are used to rid pet snakes of mites as well as other reptiles.I have been putting them in my room 3X5X5 with the start of an outbreak 1 plant infected , for the dark periods,soon as night time kicks in i shut down all ventalation in and out ,cover up openings but leave a small fan going to move the air around within the chamber, 10 hours into dark cycle i pull it out and put it in a zip lock bag ,let the vapour disapate for 2 hours and when lights come back on fire all air exchangers up
When i check the infected leaves those guys are dead their little children are dead and the egg count is redused greatly.
My question is i have been doing this for the last 7 days without seeing any new damage or anything alive but there are still eggs abound which are not effected by ANYTHING!! (even radiation! , read study where they shot radiation at spider mite eggs and they still hatched but did not live very long)
So as the little fuckers hatch the die within a few steps out of the egg, how long do ya think i need to keep going? I think it can take 3-14 days for them to hatch in hot dry conditions, how long did you treat for?

Opie I dont think you know what a spider mite is perhaps.

If you are going to sit here and try to sell me that hanging a yellow pest strip up top is going to kill / discourage / chase away spider mites you are simply wrong.

WTF are you talking about?

Spider mites dont make webs anywhere except on plant leave tops between the fingers. That is it.

Spider mites hatch from eggs and will burrow their heads into the leaves to avoid the chemical smells.

Contact kill is the ONLY way to kill a spider mite and their is no way to kill the eggs, except for the diamateous earth that you could shoot at the plants and pierce the egg casings.

You have to have a lucky shot.

Fogging like Zandor said is the best but even then, your plants take a hard beating and smoking that stuff...hmmm...not for HARD.

The author of this thread also stated GREEN SPIDER MITES.

Spider mites arent even fricking green.

But stop telling peeps you can kill an infestation with a hanging yellow strip. You would be better off hanging flea collars on the branches of your tree to discourage pests but spider mites are a different breed of insect that has eggs that cannot be killed and will hatch and instantly start the cycle again.

DAILY WASHING is the only chance anyone has with spider mites.

Leaf by leaf by leaf....egg by egg by egg.

I tried your methods and about 24 others.

I know first hand the perils of mites and the ineffectiveness of mass extinction. There is none.

Here is a pic of some stuff 7 days after fogging the place and washing and dunking the plants in soap and doing nothing else.

They hatch and then start their shit all over again.

If I ever get another infestation, out the door with the plants and its start all over.

Its nice of you to help but your method is not effective on REAL SPIDER MITES. Perrhaps aphids or other leaf eaters....but NOT MITES.

Gotta break that breeding cycle guys.
Thats what it's all about.
Use no pest strips in veg.
And pyrithrum(spelling) bombs in flower.

Hardon this shit works !!!! do a search under snakes and mites, breeders have used them along time to help rid mites from snakes

WTF are you guys talking about?

Spider mites that we are talking about are vegtarians and dont live on snakes. They eat on plant chrolophyl and not on snakes.

They dont like snakes the dont live on them or breed on them.

VEGETARIAN SPIDER SMITES. They dont hang out on snakes???????

WTF?

AND you cannot bomb during flower. It takes 30 days for the chems in pyrethium to be broken down into harmless substances and this is only done with UV Rays.

If you are using HPS lighting, you have no UV rays anyhow. So you cannot breakdown the harmful components in the aerosol attack during flower.

Perhaps you are referring to other mites which may indeed be successfully removed from plants.

But the spider mites I know are vegan, they dont live on snakes and only will breed in foilage on the underside of plant matter.

I have come to the conclusion that some people here are pure fricking idiots and have no idea what the fuck a real spider mite is.

Freshly hatched spidermites are clear and see thru.
Juveniles develop two black spots on their shoulders.
Adults develop pure black / brown patches that fill the sides of the body.

(the dark patches and streaks are shit that the might is processing in its digestive system)

They do not live on animals, rodents or insects or reptiles.

They only live on green leafy matter that contains sweet sugars.

Fucking snakes and mice?

Ah bullshit. Those are carnivorous spidermites that are acutally beneficial to plant matter.

I am thru talking about this subject. If you morons dont know what a spider mite is I cannot help you. Spidermites dont want anything to do with non plant matter anymore than a human would want to live on the planent venus.

The conditions and atmosphere do not support that type of life.

Simple and factual.

I'm wondering why a thing like isopropyl alcohol would be a bad idea to use against mites.

It would kill the fukrs on contact...and evaporates into nothingness in about 3minutes time.

So for shitz n gigglez, and future reference should I ever get mites... I've isolated a branch, hosed it down with rubbing alcohol and will report back on this in a couple days with my findings.

For now...the branch went from 'drip' to 'dry' in less than 3 minutes. Doesn't appear to have had any ill-effect as of yet.

ITs easy to kill mites.

Its the eggs that you cannot kill.

Yea...I just found an article citing that rubbing alcohol is great to use on live bugs...but does nada to the eggs.

Wow hardon take it easy , i was very skeptic as well , but after a long and many searchs with google on spider mites and no pest strips i was convinced to give it a go and it does kill them