Spider mites

mites in flower = bad.
Be proactive with mites. You do not want to fight them during flower. If you have to then i would use the no pest strips (Dichlorvos). I am not saying it is a good idea, but that is what i would do if i had to do something. Avid would obviously not be a good idea at that point.

If I were not worried about health effects, I would use the pest strips during flower, but not near the end. My mites were gone in 5 days, so no biggie on the chemicals. Otherwise I would control the mites with natural methods until harvest, then I would kick me some serious mite ass.

This is a suckie process, since itâ??s hard to get the underside. When you turn the spray bottle upside down it refuses to spray. Someone invent something and give me half for the idea.

I remember now how I fixed this problem. I took the tube out of the spray bottle, so it was sucking from the top instead of the bottom. This made the spray bottle work great upside down.

They sell spray bottles with the tip pointed up just for this purpose. I bet you can find one at any garden center.

I did not know that. All serious gardeners should probably have one of those.

I probably looked in 8 different stores for a decent spray bottle.

http://www.epinions.com/Hot_Shot_No_Pest_Strips#


OPIE, what do you think abut these?

I think that's the one that's designed to trap the insects with adhiesives and is not the same thing I used. I don't think these work at all for mites, unless you are using them to trap the mites at an entrance to your room. You want the one that puts the toxins out in the air, more of a yellowish than blueish package (see my scan of the package above). You can also check the spectracide web site and they detail all their products.

PLEASE: for god's sake. After you have tried this, and all your mites are dead, please tell Zandor and the others, so that they will be more inclined to believe me.

*runs out and buys a whole case of no pest strips

any particu;ar brand?

throws away foggers - oils - emulshions - spray bottles and all that other shit that dont work

now all i need to do is fatten up my buds

ps thanks Opie and well done

Thanks for the compliments guys. Ziggy, as far as I know the only brand and model that will work for mites is the one in my scan above: Spectracide's No Pest Strip. A couple years ago this was a greeen and yellow package. I don't think the package has changed because when I did a search I found them at the hardware store that I linked above.