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03-23-2010, 03:45 AM #3
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spider mites on first grow
You are where I was three weeks ago.
What I did was get some mild soap (ivory dish soap works, 99.98% natural) put about a teaspoon onto a spray bottle and fill it with water. Then take the plants to your bath tub and tip them over the tub, while not quite far enough to dump the soil.
This is easiest if you have a hand held sprayer, and a second person can be helpful.
Soak the plant down, rinsing as many mites off as you can. THEN while turning the plant/pot to expose more leaves mist the plant down with the watered down soap mixture (continue to rotate the plant to get all the leaves soaked top and bottom). Then rinse all of THAT off.
Go buy some Neem oil, or rosemary oil tomorrow. Make a mixture of this stuff and a couple drops of the soap(look up the recipe). Then mist them with this mixture once per week until week 3-4. I've been told not to use these after 4 weeks of flower.
Lastly buy a Hotshots pest strip. It says it's toxic for a reason, but you want to seal the plants into a room with this thing for a week.
After that you should be mite, web and egg free! :thumbsup:
Keep an eye out anyway. These are sneaky little vamps! Keeping your house and grow room completely clean can help a lot too!
Good luck! Here's mine just over three weeks in, after the mites. last is my plant top at 3 weeks. Just to motivate you!
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