Quote Originally Posted by Vancefish
Howdy all,

So I'm officially two weeks into flower today. However last Saturday I woke to spider mites on one of my plants!

I rushed it through emergency treatment (cold rinse, mild plant safe soapy wash, Hot shots bug strip, MASS CO2 for 3 hours and,... Neem oil).

This morning I did my normal hour inspection for mites on the flowering plants, just to see one mite(first sence treatment). Today is the final day I can spray Neem oil. So I've been thinking predatory mites to safeguard my last 6-7 weeks of flower.

Issue is they come in jars of like 1000 mites, and that is the small order. Also some species of mite can't handle dry climates, or cold climates. I'm worried my low humidity will kill them, or excessive heat...:wtf:

What would be my best TYPE of predator mite? OR does anyone have any better ideas?

I live in Colorado and keep the flower room around 80F during the day(vented hood, isn't), night temps around 76F. Humidity is hard to keep up during the day. So 35% daytime and 45% at night. I can crank that up too. Tonight I sprayed the Neem and turned up my humidifier, so 98% right now.

Thanks
How many hot shot pest strips are you using and how big is you're room? I've co2 bombed my room using a co2 calculator to figure how long it takes the room to get up to 10,000ppm's, then I tried to hold it there at 10cfm, and it did not kill a single mite. The only leak I can possibly think of would be the a/c unit, plus a couple pin holes I missed in the ceiling, haha.

I did play it safe by taking the co2 monitor out of the room so I could see how much leaked into the house, it was very minimal, it's too bad the damn thing only goes up to 2,000 ppm's, it sucks when you have to guess at bombing your room. I know co2 can kill the bastards, I've watched them die after being directly under a hose emiting co2 at 2cfm.

I ended up killing all of my mites with 2 pest strips in a 400sqft room.

If you add another pest strip or two but don't go overboard, chances are they'll die off, then you'll be telling me how smart I am again They really are a life saver up until flowering, haven't had a problem yet but I plan on getting the co2 bomb up to full speed as it seems like the safest way to kill them in flowering.