is this good to use for mites

[bluntman2006]

garden safe for spider mites is it any good-and good to use during flowering any insight and response is greatly appreciated

bluntman2006 Reviewed by bluntman2006 on 02-19-2006. is this good to use for mites garden safe for spider mites is it any good-and good to use during flowering any insight and response is greatly appreciated Rating: 5

[Garden Knowm]

YES,

BUT MITES are a war.. and you are only using a GUN... Your enemy can't be eliminated with GUNS alone..

You will need tanks, planes, and bombs..
Not to mention... spys and double spys..

MITES are a menace.. I have met several growers who believe that mites are an inevitablility with indoor growing....

I dont believe that....
If you look further into this forum.. you will find several you will find several weapons...

BUT.... I also have an untested weapon for you...

One of the 2 SURE ways to KILL mites off for good is...

AVID- a very deadly posionus weapon... it can even KILL YOU
and then the other weapon for total distruction is elevating the C02 levels to dangerous levels...

Well... they sell dry ice at 31 flavors, baskin robbins for 15 cents a pound... you can buy some dry ice and put it in a tent... a home made tent made of trash bags... put the tent over your plants and then put dry ice in there... suffocate the mites with C02... do this once a week for 4 weeks...

I think this will work...

Sometimes you see tents over house in your neighborhood... these are the pest control guys doing the same thing..

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[bluntman2006]

hey~! is that the only reply im going to get,need more replies plz

[HARDDON]

Mites are indeed a menace.

I just finished winning the war with red eyed spider mites that got on my plants from some jalepeno peppers this fall.

They suck the green outta the undersides of the leaves. Makes it look like salt or something sprinkled on them.

They object you show if for FUNGUS and more. I don't know if you need the extra stuff or not. But the Home Depot sells the same brand for pests alone.

It will work but here is the problem...

Your mites have cycle stages...the spray will only work on the adult / juvenile aged mites.

They spray you want in soap is really salts of essential fatty acids. This rips open the membrane of the adult/juvee mite and kills them.

However, in 4 to 14 days, depending on temps, eggs will hatch again.

You need to get them right as they hatch lest in 4 days they breed and lay new eggs.

So, the answer is yes it will work, but you need to apply every 3 - 4 days and you MUST saturate the plant leaves...every single one of them.

I pour johnsons baby shampoo in a 5 gallon bucket and took my tomatos and just dunked them in the solution.

If your container is too large to allow you to dunk them, just spray each and every fricking single leaf every 3-4 days for the next 14-21 days. This is hard on the plants, so, every OTHER day, I spray them down with clear water to help unclog the stomata of the leaf.

The clear water will not kill on contact but if your sprayed well, you should have killed all adults/juveniles and be fine. Just make sure you spray again and again to kill the new hatchlings.

Also, you should wipe down all surfaces, walls or spray other plants that are near them. They came from somewhere and it helps to ID the source.

On my non flowering plants, I just cracked open 3 cans of the RAID fogger and let em rip...this works but again, it doesnt kill the eggs.

Also, you need to intend on plants growing another 60-90 days for the chems to breakdown and let the UV rays from the lights help break them down. By then, you can flower and be free of contaminents.

I also tried, in vein, the predator mite stuff. Hell half of them die by the time they are delivered and it just didnt work out. I did get to see some predators eat some spider eggs and that was cool!

But a waste of money really.

Hope this helped.

[Garden Knowm]

Bluntman

this is great info

"I pour johnsons baby shampoo in a 5 gallon bucket and took my tomatos and just dunked them in the solution."


ALL OUTSIDE CLONES should get dipped before coming into your garden...


And you need to know that this is a WAR!!!! NO freaking joke....
these guys are bad ass..

Mites can, will and DO hybernate when temps drop below 60 degrees.. they can hybernate.. forever... and when the temperature comes up.. they come to life...

SCRAY right!!

these guys are bad ass...
You will need to fight the battle with many weapons and be consistant and unrelentless. I think HArdon showed that he used a whole arsenal of weappons...

AND NOW YOU KNOWM..

love

[HARDDON]

gnowm is correct, the cold will jsut send them into sleep and once the temps get up, BANGO...little suckers are everywhere.

what is most disgusting is to see the eggs all over the place in the webbing...

to think I might smoke them...ARGH!

Smoked eggs.

Dont havest until you are egg free!

Just spray with the soap every 3-4 days for 21 dys and you;ll be fine.

Some of the leaves will even repair themselves...not all though.

[J DOG 6000]

Neem oil works well too

[karmaxul]

Did you know neem oil is used as a birth control for humans in India.
http://www.bytheplanet.com/WhatAilsY...ntrolwomen.htm

Anyway it works but results take time a good couple of weeks. Great as a preventative measure.

I wrote this to someone else earlier today hope it helps....Neem oil is great to use mixed with a mild soap and iso at 1 oz. per gallon. This will stop them from breeding yet it takes a couple of weeks to work. You are most likely using pyrithium which is good but can burn the plants if you drench them. Alot of the mite breeding takes place in the medium so make sure you spray it as well. Preditor mites are good to. They eat spider mites and when the food source runs out they eat themselves. Spraying your plants down with straight water before the lights go out is very helpfull as well. Diatenatious earth (food grade) is a good defense when dusted over the top of the soil. It is made of razor sharp fossils harvested from lake beds that will not cut you but when insects with exoskeletons crawl through it they cut their bellies and dehydrate within 24 hours usually. They are on the undersides on the leaves and suck the juice from the stomas mostly so make sure to wash the undersides of the leaves. I have grown many plants and have never seen any holes in the leaves so I dont what to tell you about that. If you got CO2 you can crank it and sufficate them aswell. To slow down the breeding you could make your own with sugar and yeast. one cup sugar to .6 gallon water with 15ml yeast. That mix is good for 20 sq feet. My room was a bit larger so I use 7 gallon camping water storage containers outside the room with garden holes coming through the wall in back of a fan.
For your leaf eater problem all I can recommend is get the hottest peppers you can find and make a tea out of them and spray the plants with them. The plants dont mind but the critters hate it.
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[job1.5]

i picked up a bottle of that same stuff from walmart. i had spidermites. my plant looked good. i sprayed it down and came back the next day and almost cried. my leaves were wilted and looked to be dyeing.sprayed them down good with plain water and it recovered, but its neem oil from now on

[J DOG 6000]

Thats why I stick to Neem.Everytime I try something new it fry's my shit.