BTW I have a closet grow - probably 3x4x8 w/ a 400W HPS and sometimes another 400W but I worry about the wiring in this house so I only run the 2 at the same time when I am home. Gets friggin hot in there and it is dry. It must be mite paradise in there.

Oh, and with the description I have given (light webbing on top buds) should I cut now, or keep brushing them off and wait the week. I smoke for anxiety/insomnia. When I smoke some strains, and early harvest I can get panic attacks. Sometimes pretty bad. I don't care about smoking some mites, I just don't want the insides to be webbed up.

SHIT, i got them fucking mites too, im debating on getting some aza-max stuff, or neem oil.



im 6 weeks into flower and i only plan on flowering for 3 more weeks.

my grow is a 2x9ft room with 1200watts infected in the thousands!

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I got ladybugs and all they did was kick it on the plants (mostly on the floor though) and do god knows what. I don't think they ate anything. Their are still well over 100 alive in the closet and I have even more mites.

With 1 week left is it too late to use a no pest strip for a couple of days?

hey guys just to clear a few things up....ive delt with these things a time now and if your in flower there is not alot you can do except hand remove the webbing and mites everyday with a soft brush and remove the leaves that are most infected. It sux i know..ive had purple kush turn into brown shwag in a matter of days because of these little basterds. Ladybugs eat aphids not mites. YOu can buy predator mites but i dont know the effectiveness of them. There is one product ive read about on the forums here called Floramite. You can try to ebay a small amount being it is expensive. Soak you plants in veg with this stuff and maybe once more after the eggs hatch and its goodbye mites

thanks... just hard to accept that I am pretty much screwed and can't do anything about it. I hope I get something out of this run at least.

Anyone tried using a garlic preparation on them?

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I just stumbled upon a freakin sweet way to knock them back a bit when the are webbing. I picked up one of my clean paint brushes (designed for acrylic - about 1/4" in width). I started to carefully remove webs, and of course the brush got sticky from the leaves on the buds. A little into it I found that the mites were sticking to the brush. I started to grind the brush into my palm after each stroke and also fluffing the brush by rolling the bristles in between my fingers. My palm and fingers ended up green from squishing those little bastards. I slowly rotated the plants and could easily see the mites from a side view and some of the deeper webbing from the front. After the brush was sticky all I had to do was lightly hit a mite with it to get it to stick to the brush. I could also turn the leaves over and get eggs off of the bottoms of the leaves. Even if the eggs and mites were not completely squished they were encased in a martix of sticky wonder.
I used the brush to wipe up and down on the leaves coming out of the buds to be as gentle as I could on the bud itself. For the ones that I could see from a side view that were on the hairs I just had to gently push the end of the brush on the hairs themselves (like taking a shot in pool) and push out.
I sacrificed a $6 brush. You can get one at that price or lower at Michaels or any art supply store. Just make sure that they are somewhat soft. Probably want to go for a watercolor/acrylic brush. Watercolor brushes may be better since they are softer, but I think they would just knock the hairs down instead of kinda brushing them up. I guess I will know in a couple of days if my attempts are doing that much.
I imagine if you are just trying to clean the leaves in the early stages you could sacrifice a bud to get the brush sticky to take the eggs off.
Sorry, props to moedownonit. you suggested the brush earlier. Guess my memory isn't what it should be.

I had a bad infestation of spider mites on my first grow. I tried it all, neem oil, Ed Rosenthal's Zero Tolerance, Preditor Mites, Hot Shots Pest Strips, Azamax, Pyretherin Bombs. Neem oil, Preditor Mites, and ZT only killed off SOME of the mites but they came back with a vengence. I had great luck with Hot Shots Pest strips (they emit a vapor which killed ALL of the bugs in my cabinet, buy it at Lowes or HD) I also took the plants out of the cabinet and bombed the hell out of it with Pyrithrins, worked great. I would not use either (Hot SHots or Pyrethins on flowering plants). I use Azamax, which is awesome on both flowering and vegging plants. Azamax can be watered in or sprayed onto the leaves. Once Azamax is introduced into the plant any bug that takes a bite is killed from the inside out. It destroys the bug's digestive and reproductive systems eventually eliminating all bugs and there offspring. I feel your pain, I had to trash an entire plant 1 week before harvest due to spider mites, Good luck. OUT!

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