THE DREDED SPIDER MITE

[med-user]

So after i have them whats the easiest way to get rid of them. the clones i got from a friend were infested. I was thinking of dumpin the whole project in the trash bombing the room and starting from seed. or should i just bomb the room. will that kill the eggs. i have a spray ive used called something like takedown garden spray works really good. but i havent kept up on spraying every week. i guess my question is once a garden is infested will it always be infested unless i start over?

med-user Reviewed by med-user on 04-01-2007. THE DREDED SPIDER MITE So after i have them whats the easiest way to get rid of them. the clones i got from a friend were infested. I was thinking of dumpin the whole project in the trash bombing the room and starting from seed. or should i just bomb the room. will that kill the eggs. i have a spray ive used called something like takedown garden spray works really good. but i havent kept up on spraying every week. i guess my question is once a garden is infested will it always be infested unless i start over? Rating: 5

[Duke420]

its going to be a battle, but u can prevail.

keep humidity below 50% to discourage mites.
lower the temp to room to 60-70 which slows their reproduction.
Use safer soap spray on plants if a small area is infected. two or three applications at 5 to 10 day intervals.

if that doesnt work, pyrethrum or neem oil can be applied 2 to3 times at 5 to 10 day intervals.

keep all your tools and equip nice and clean

there are other ways as well, but these have worked for me. also when 50% more of a leaf is damaged, remove and destroy it.

good luck my friend

[Chronic Chrissy]

Mites suck. You can pitch the whole thing sterilize and start fresh, but if you really want to you can control and try to eliminate them and work through to get a pretty good harvest. You have a few options but your best bet if you can keep them under control is to finish up your plants and not let them near any other plants treat them like a biohazard. One thing I suggest you pick up right now is a NO PEST strip and hang it in there, some people swear by these I haven't really tested it's limits yet. I too recieved clones with mite. First I bought Doktor Doom spray to kill the adults and larva but not the eggs, knocked them back but didn't work. I picked up End All and sprayed them for a while again and it worked very well but my plants were too bushy to get every spot. If your plants are small enough make up a batch of this stuff and dip you plants right in there. If they are bigger get to sponges and sandwhich each leaf in the two and wipe it clean, just do your healthiest plant first. It is supposed to kill eggs too. I froze my plants for 4 hours this winter to try and kill them but I just slowed them down, I've sprayed them with water to knock them off, pruned infested leaves, and blown with fans. I just was fortunate enought to start a batch of clones that were mite free and to ever pre cation, in the mean time I took my 7 infest plant through flower and got a pound out of them. There is hope but it is hard work.

[med-user]

the thing is the mites are in my bud room. veg room is clean although there not very far apart.

[Chronic Chrissy]

I used all those method at one point or another during flower, just cut the chemicles a few weeks before harvest and try not to soak the bud because you could cause mould. Also take precations with the othe plants in veg and spray them too. just today I found mites on my mum and I thought they were gone, the war begins again.
Happy hunting.

[med-user]

so its gunna be a constant battle.

[med-user]

thats an interesting point. so C.C. your saying with a spidermite infestation in bloom, your more prone to bud rought, and mold or am i reading that wrong, and what about sativa plants to me they grow so bushy with nodes real close. thats what i have noticed anyway it seams like if i prune the older leaves off and let the younger leaves get more light they grow better, and it takes alot of the older leaves that are mite infested away from the fresh growth.

[madeline]

Yes it will be hard but not as hard as you might think. If not for them being in your flower room I'd say toss them but now that they're in you already have them and will have to deal with them if you want to continue growing. The flowering room presents more problems because you probably don't want chemicals in there as long as you have plants too so I suggest you put a vacumn cleaner to the pests and suck them out of there. A vacumn cleaner with hose attachement is needed as the beater brush of an upright won't be good for the plants so if you don't have a tank-type or upright with hose attachement, get one ASAP. Then carefully put a couple fingers over the end of the hose nozzle so plants don't get sucked in and start vacumning up the critters and their webbing. It really helps to have another pair of hands so if you have a trusted friend call him/her over. If done every other day or so throughout the flower period you'll be able to control them to the point you'll hardly notice them but it will not get rid of them totally...this is only for getting infested plants to harvest. Once harvested you're going to have to get postal with them and set bug bombs off several times over a couple weeks and I would also suggest repainting entire room to be sure it's clean. But if it was my garden I would not want insecticide chemicals on anything I'm putting into my body and the vacumn method doesn't get much safer.

[jawndoe]

buy ladybugs and other natural predators of spider mites...

Thats the safest way to kill the mites. Do what nature does. I would keep putting lady bugs in there at a quantity of a pint of ladybugs every 3 days.

[oldsanclem]

Its a 3 part question
1 how did they get in , using a intake filter and exust duct system that has a flap to close the exust after venting
2 Now comes the fun killing the breading mites
a. use raid every 5 or 6 days till the bug, egg , larva are all killed
3 Make sure your clean when you go in to the room. Any one of your friends can bring them in to you home. BUT you of course know no one knows you grow. Always clean anything going in to the grow space, no exceptions.
NOTE raid is photo sensitive so the light will help it disapate.
I only will go into the kill sequence 3-4 weeks before harvest MAX.
DO NOT LET BUGS BUG YOU , KILL THEM.