:thumbsup: I can help. During my second attempt to grow, I had three awesome plants and was into the first couple 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 ways - predator mites - ladybugs. Within a week I had so many mites that you could see the web 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 ingest. 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 opened it up (removed the outer 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 crop last night. This solution cost less than $1 and worked perfectly.

: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!