is this good to use for mites

[SittinStoney420]

and there's a mechanical method for controlling them during flowering and pre-harvest when soap solutions and insecticide's are not to be used...the tube vacumn and suck em off, webbing and any adults and hatchlings! i have only had the need once but am very glad a net-friend mentioned this method as it saved a crop nearing harvest that was infested from a store-bought houseplant being brought into the house, even though it was nowhere near the garden they got transported to it via our clothes...

With that method wouldnt it suck all the crystals off, and damage the trichs. If not im very interested. Do you use shop-vac, or just a normal vac with the tube attatchment.

Thnks Del

-SS

[SittinStoney420]

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

Do you dilute the baby shampoo? if so how much to how much water?

[HARDDON]

Spider Mites suck.

I have read everything I could on them and the bottom line, once you have spider mites, you will always have them.

That is until your crop is completely harvest, you fog your grow room every 3 days for 1 month. (10X)

Thats just the way it is.

Neem Oil is very rough on tender leaves...and should be applied only during the dark cycle, or right prior to it. The lights can and will burn thru the oil on the leaf.

Soap and water is best, if used as Johnson and Johnson baby shampoo. No bad ingredients, just gentle shampoo.

I prefer this because you have to spray the entire plant every few days and over and over and over again and use of other things is hard on the plants.


Mix 2 capfuls in a quart sprayer with warm water and you must spray EVERYTHING. EVERYTHING. EVERYTHING. DId I say everything?

Stem....leaves...tops, bottoms, stalks, containers, soil surface, flooring, walls, etc...

Every 4 days...this will control but not eliminate them.

All it takes is ONE and the rest will come. And, there will always be ONE.

DO NOT USE SOAP or neem oil on a flowering plant, as this will wash away some of the resin. USe the hot pepper wax spray for flowering plants.

For the soil, just mix the same formula of soap and water and water as normal. Soap will not hurt the plant leaves.

Here are some neat pics I grabbed...

Some eggs and a fricking spider mite sucking the juice from a tomato leaf.

This AFTER i thought I has won the war....

If you have spider mites, and your plant is in full blown flower, all you can do is use predator mites..but they take a while to establish themselves, and by then you fan leaves will be sucked and you could lose them.

Its a shitty situation indeed...

You cannot vacuum the eggs off the leaves...you simply have to wait for them to hatch and spray them as juvee's and hope you get them all before they turn adult and lay more eggs.

Its the eggs and the frequency of total saturation that is the key to controlling them. And thats ALL you can do, is control them.

You cannot eliminate them, once infestation has taken hold.

[karmaxul]

I got rid of spider mites while running a multi hundred plant perpetual harvest.
Neem in the fertilizer
Preditor mites
Washing the plants with water out of the light.

Dont stress it you will win.

Preditor mites take a couple months to work but they get every last one then eat themselves and do not effect your plant.

One love
c

[bluntman2006]

I got rid of spider mites while running a multi hundred plant perpetual harvest.
Neem in the fertilizer
Preditor mites
Washing the plants with water out of the light.

Dont stress it you will win.

Preditor mites take a couple months to work but they get every last one then eat themselves and do not effect your plant.

One love
c

now I did have bug but not mite and i use that garden spray but only during the night cycle and it got rid of those pesky whitefly's or whatever flies they where and thanks for the great info:thumbsup:

[SittinStoney420]

So for dunking clones, you use 2 capfulls to the quart also?

[bluntman2006]

So for dunking clones, you use 2 capfulls to the quart also?

for what,sitt.

[Garden Knowm]

I got rid of spider mites while running a multi hundred plant perpetual harvest.
Neem in the fertilizer
Preditor mites
Washing the plants with water out of the light.

Dont stress it you will win.

Preditor mites take a couple months to work but they get every last one then eat themselves and do not effect your plant.

One love
c

Very difficult battle to win.. you are the first to claim victory during a GROW..

congratulations...

love

: )

[karmaxul]

It was them or me and they were not paying the rent so I hit them with everything I had. I think the preditor mites really did the trick though. I dont know if this matters but I had all pine wood floors. It was not so much a grow as it was my life.

One love
c

[Jdog7000]

Neem in the soil.I was always told would burn the roots.Now all the hundreds of ppl could be wrong but I seriously doubt that.IU've had ppl tell me they fryed there roots with neem oil from it dripping off the plant into the soil.So sorry but I don't agree with that.And I don't suggest anyone try to water with neem oil or put it in the soil(bad idea).If you want to treat your soil for bugs use SM-90...neem is great for everything else but not for your soil.Kills roots!!!You got really lucky Karmaxel.