Is my plant infected PLEASE HELP !

kouki monster said:

As long as you use full strength it definitely is. The way spinosad works is it's derived from a bacteria, it coats your leaves so everytime those bastards bite into a leaf they drop dead.

It also works on thrips! Sometimes though, you'll give your ladies a spray and you'll notice a few mites walking around, as long as you've covered your plant when you sprayed have no worries they'll end up dying anyway but to be on the safe side spray the first time, then spray again 3 days later and spray one final time 3 days after that.

As far as spraying in flower goes, I've had an incident where mites didn't show up until week 3 of flower and they infested FAST! This was my fault as I didn't take any preventative steps to keep them from ever showing up. I ended up spray week 3, didn't see them again til about week 7 or 8 then I was spraying on and off til the day before harvest. It wont damage your buds, just make sure your room is well vented.

I wouldn't recommend neem oil though unless you're going to be VERY careful as thc is not water soluble but it is an oil and gets easily washed off with other oils!!

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KUShSOurSMOKEr said:

thanks alot man ya i sprayed my shit down with azatrol week 4 now im at week 6 and i havent seen ONE up till today and my headband had at least 50 of them with webs and all i need to kill these bitches there just annoying my plants growin out fine tho...

what should i do during flowering to kill these fuCKs

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kouki monster said:

I haven't used azatrol during flower so I don't know if I could recommend it.

What I would do is spray your fan leaves with the monterey insect spray (+ a wetting agent), try to avoid the buds as much as possible, though I haven't seen anything bad happen before but my room conditions and the type of sprayer I use doesn't apply to everybody's grow and conditions. Make sure to spray with lights off and coat the leaves and stems as much as possible.

Considering the fact that you're so far into flower already you're not going to be able to drench the plants the way you would in veg, so the spinosad is only going to work as a means of population control. It will kill them and will slow them down but the lack of coverage simply wont get every single one of them. For example you'd want to spray today(2/14/12, three days from today(2/17/12) then three days after that(2/20/12) and that should keep you covered for a couple of weeks.

Also I cannot emphasize on this enough, always use FULL strength!! 60ml/gal.

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KUShSOurSMOKEr said:

thanks alot man! ya 60 ml a gal ? dammmmm thats kind of a lot dont u think to one gallon ??

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kouki monster said:

No problem dude.

60ml/gal is the recommended dose on the bottle, that's the dose I give every single time. The last thing the community needs is for these mite to grow a tolerance to spinosad (by cutting short less than 60ml/gal). It works extremely well for a non chemical solution and I'd be pissed if they grow tolerant to spinosad . You can always do 15ml/liter (average spray bottle from hardware stores are about 1liter) if you don't want to waste any.

If you're worried and want to test, make a 15ml/liter mix of the spray and try it on a plant and wait a week. I can guarantee absolutely no adverse affects but you can try it for your own piece of mind.

Also, always remember to add a wetting agent! I do 1-2ml/gal of wet betty.

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