lol...seems this is going around since the start of the green rush....ppl selling clones infested and no one is the wiser....I grew my first set mostly from seed and few clones..all did well...second set is mango and nyc deasil and since first ones did so well I threw in 2 more 600 s to really drive um home...man alls I can say is prior planing shoulda been more excersized....the increase brouht tepms up and rh down and walla.....perfect home for mites to rear there ugly lil eaters.
these just went into flowwer and I cut 2 compleatly out of the garden as almost every leaf was speckled with webbig on the back..then I cut the rest of the spoted leaves out and groomed the bases and turned the dirt and treated with a organic insecticide(ecosmart) that has sevral oils none neem however. I sprayed all the plants down top and bottom of leaves and let them set...found lots of dead ones but still some live ones...I did this during night time hours with a small flash lite...I brought temp down to 66 and and got rh to 78%....lights came on I went in and sprayed early with the ecosmart to drown any would be hide and seekers that would still be out in the open...other then that Ive just been saturating the plants with a spray bottle every few hours to make life as a spider mite on my plants as un hospitibale as possible.
Ill do this until my preditory mites arvie in the mail.
as for those...its my understanding that they reproduce twice as fast as the 2 spoted spider mite so theoreticly after so many cycles the spidermites should be araticated(theorecticly that is) and then the preditory population basicly implodes on its self as they canabalize each other...either way Im gonna get these ladys thru the flower and then not refil the room till I have thuroly cleand painted and cleaned some more.
after this lil ordeal I most definatly will be treating my clones/plants prior to ever noticing a single sign as part of the normal routine.
Ive seen some say that the crop is lost and to scrap it but with as many posts as I am seeing this is all to common and I find it hard to belive that mite parts arent in just about every bag of nugz you get...I just think some are good at controling them well enough that you never even know they are in there...Un cheaked however youll probly notice if you even get a bud off the plant...lol...good luck