2Likes
LinkBack URL
About LinkBacks
Reply With Quote
Those look more like aphids, you can wipe them off with water and a paper towel, vacuum them with a handheld vacuum or make a homemade spray.
http://gardener.wikia.com/wiki/Aphid
Spidermites - 10 days before harvest. please help
Hi everybody, this is my first post and I a really desperate for some help. as the title says .. I am about 10 days from harvest and i noticed that i have spider mites on a few leaves of my plant .
It is my first grow and it is ONLY 1 plant , i have spent quite a lot of cash and time to get my room up and running. I will post some pics and hopefully i can get some help. My main concern is to save the buds ( have seen only 2 buds infected so far )
I don't live in the US and at this point I don't have time to order any chemical or non chemical product to kill them.
Is there any other way?
Can I harvest while infected?
Can you smoke a bud that was infected by those little bastards?
This is Before the attack:
20120516_214102.jpg20120526_125507.jpg20120526_125628.jpg20120527_011044.jpg
Then this happened :
20120619_201101.jpg20120619_201154.jpgSpidermites.jpg
20120619_201126.jpg
Thanks in advance for any help.
Those look more like aphids, you can wipe them off with water and a paper towel, vacuum them with a handheld vacuum or make a homemade spray.
http://gardener.wikia.com/wiki/Aphid
"don't sour my heart with talk about why a troll does what a fucking troll does!"
Thanks Fungus Gnat.
I will check that out. Are these as bad as Spider-mites?
Will my buds be affected?
thanks again man
Yep, they's aphids. If you have access to ladybugs, get some, they love aphids. Also, it never hurts to keep a sprayer of bug killer like pyrethrum around for emergencies. It's organic and can be used almost up to harvest, costs about $12 for Fox Farms brand "Don't Bug Me".
Are you in an enclosed area or outside
I love life, support the Military and I Vote! Amsterdam Seed Company will STEAL YOUR MONEY AND SEND YOU NOTHING
Yep, those are aphids. You could do as he mentioned or get yourself some lady bugs, aphids are their favorite food source......Originally Posted by Fungus Gnat
Going to assume you are inside enclosed, use this very organic and does the job fast, can get at most hydro stores.
I love life, support the Military and I Vote! Amsterdam Seed Company will STEAL YOUR MONEY AND SEND YOU NOTHING
2 words.
Shop Vac
Thanks for the replies but I live in Cyprus not in the US so all those products are kinda impossible to find..lady bugs I wish... . i saw somewhere on another post that a solution of soap + hot water + olive oil ( or vinegar )is supposed to work..
I have a closed grow room but i had issues with high temperatures ( over 28 Celsius ) and I opened it a few times, Maybe they go in from the garden that is 10 meters away..
I will wipe them off with water and paper towel like Gnat said, then i will spray this solution and hope it works.
If you have any more suggestions please feel free to share.
Also if anyone could answer the other questions in the initial post, would be great. Thank y'all!
Update - I tried out a Soap+olive oil+ Tabasco +hot water solution that seems to work, took me some time to go through all leafs but it seemed to work. After 24h i spoted burnt aphids and removed them from the leafs.
I hope they wont come back, will apply the solution one more time in a few days just to be sure.
Posting Permissions
Bookmarks