Someone please help me! Mites!

[KGod86]

Hi I started my flushing today, as im messing in my garden i noticed spider mites!! never had them in my garden before.

I dont want my harvest to be effected by them, so should i cut now, or what?

i would like to flush but i do not want those bastards to get the best of me!

Its just one plant, about 3 oz of flowers.

KGod86 Reviewed by KGod86 on 01-31-2008. Someone please help me! Mites! Hi I started my flushing today, as im messing in my garden i noticed spider mites!! never had them in my garden before. I dont want my harvest to be effected by them, so should i cut now, or what? i would like to flush but i do not want those bastards to get the best of me! Its just one plant, about 3 oz of flowers. Rating: 5

[stinkyattic]

Don't panic!
So you have 2 weeks or less to go.
Drop your temps if you can. Increase your air movement if you can. Mites like it hot, dry, and still. Turn the tables and make THEM miserable!
You can take a vacuum cleaner and suck them off the buds- a 'dust buster' style one is gentler than a shop vac. You can also remove them manually with a cotton ball that has been dampened. Since you only have one plant, and not much time left, that's a good way to do it. Get the undersides of the leaves too, where they spin their webs and lay their nasty eggs.

[KGod86]

thanks! Im actually done plants are ready now, will i hurt the grow by not flushing properly? For the past 2 weeks I have been feeding every 2nd watering, about every 5 days with quarter strength nutes,

Tiger bloom
big bloom
kool blooms
hygrozyme
and molasses
all quarter strength

whats the shortest time i can flush?

[stinkyattic]

I've never finished with the FoxFarm stuff but if you have already been feeding lightly, I would flush heavily today, use only molasses from here out, water to runoff every watering, and chop as soon as you see evidence that the lower leaves are using up N and becoming yellow. Or flush heavily today, wait 2-4 days, and then just take em down.
This may not be standard procedure but since you say you are already 'ripe', that's what I would do if those were my plants.