:thumbsup: I can help. During my second attemp to grow, I had three awesome plants and was into the first cople of weeks of flower when I became infested with mites. As soon as I saw them I tried to learn of options to fix the problem. First I tried the expensive waya - predetor mites - ladybugs. Within a week I had so many mites that you could see the seb incased bud bolas from across the room!

I read in many places that people in this situation use bug bombs to kill the mites - NO _ NO _ NO _ NO!!!!!!!!!!!!! DO NOT DO THIS!! the stuff is VERY DANGEROUS to injest. That means smoking too! Anyway, the whole crop was lost but I did do something that actually solved the problem.

I was told that before starting a new crop that I should clean the entire place with bleach to kill eggs and mites left from the previous disaster. I did NOT do this. It seemed like to much hassle and besides, I wanted to see how well my new solution would work. It worked perfectly!

:dance: I bought a garlic clove and oppened it up (removed the opter layer of thin covering). I stuck cloves into the soil so that they were sticking part way out of the soil about every 4 inches around the plants pot. The cloves will sprout and that's ok (they don't use much of the water or nutes to grow). NO MORE MITES!!!!!!!!!! I just harvested my first complete vrop last night. This sollution cost less than $1 and worked eprfectly.

:clap: I should also note that my brother (where I got the idea from) stuck cloves into her planters of palms in his home. He had an infestation that was developed to the point of massive webbing so you know that there were a lot of mites. The garlic even drove them away while the plants were already infested badly.

:question: :thumbsup:I don't know if it is the smell or what but this method works perfectly!
cloudyrain Reviewed by cloudyrain on . how long for preditor mites to take control? So I have an investaion of spider mites on my indoor. I deployed predator mites to help combat the situation. That was about a week ago. Anyone who knows how long it takes for the predator mites to overwhelm the spidermites and start taking control please let me know. Pretty good infestation of spider mites. Deployed a approximatly 1000 predator mites. Any insight would be appreciated. thanks. Rating: 5