Spider Mites V.S. Hot Shot No Pest Strips

if yer venting the room during lights on then take it down and store it in the fridge (sealed of coarse) Eggs will hatch later after you kill the living ones so you pretty much have to keep at them 'till you harvest.
I prefer to use Safers Soap until the last few weeks of flowering so that the mites don't have time ro build up a resitance to the strips.

All right there is hope, i can help.

First try to put a barricade between the other plants nearby with the pest strips. Get a container of table salt and put it on floor evenly for two nights. This will stop them from using the floor as a gateway to move around.

Now purchase azatrol and ladybugs via amazon, about forty bucks for both, the lady bugs will take about ten days to ship.

Now onto conditions. Drop the temp and raise the humidity. A raise in RH of 10% and drop in temps of ten degrees halts their reproductive cycle. Check the bottoms of plants and lollipop them the best you can. Now make a tea out of boiling rosemary, tobacco fresh garlic and dishsoap and boil it in a large pot for four hours to make a more concentrated brew. filter and add habenero sauce to it, Herbal insecticide.

Sweep the salt and start sweeping and mopping everyday with a half ounce azatrol mixed with bleach solution per gal.

If your in veg you can literally soak the whole plant in an azatrol solution, but if your in flower use the natural spray under leaves and remove the top inch or so of top soil and drench the area to kill and prevent upward mite movement. Doing a daily mini drench will also help the RH. Raise the plants on buckets off the ground.

Now onto more drastic measures

Co2 @10000 ppm can and will kill everything. The plant will stall for a day but will survive. If you have access to a tank, Put three garbage liners around the infected plant tie the end at the stem with a snug tie wrap and another at the top with the co2 hose and turn it on for an hour or so.

Time for the reinforcements

Now if the above won't cut it. Predatory mites are the last line of defense, do not get them from amazon, they suck.

I have had the same mite problem and I can say prevention is better than the cure.

.CLEAN AND NO DEAD LEAVES ON GROUND

I will always have ladybugs on my plants.

I hope this helps you and gives you a little peace of mind as it has been a mite fested season for sure.

How long from egg being layed until it hatches ? If I continue the gas treatment during lights off period, shouldnt they be gone within a week ?

Einstein oil has never failed me, as in not one single time in YEARS. Says to use it for 2 weeks, I just spray liberally once and they all die everytime, just make sure you hit the underneath side of the leaves as this is where most of them hang out, spraying only the tops is a good way to have a miss spray.

Tried the no pest strips a year ago after someone on here swore they were the bomb. I had 2 strips in a 5x8 sealed environment (completely sealed, water cooled, etc) and it still didn't kill them even though there was only 1 mother in that room during that time. I gave them 2 weeks, and after watching the mites start to destroy my mother, I decided to go back to the neem. Sprayed it once with neem, they were all gone the next day and the eggs never hatched and I swore I'd never mess with chemicals for mites again.

Originally Posted by patrick johns

How long from egg being layed until it hatches ? If I continue the gas treatment during lights off period, shouldnt they be gone within a week ?

heheh, yeah you'd think so but they'll show up again in a week.

mighty wash, good luck.

Thanks Bill, not going to do all of that, just got to get thru the harvest. Gonna knock em back with the strips again if ness.

Originally Posted by patrick johns

Thanks Bill, not going to do all of that, just got to get thru the harvest. Gonna knock em back with the strips again if ness.

I know you want no lecture so I'm not gonna lecture, I will say this, 99.8335 percent water and the rest inert ingredients, kills them fucking dead, good luck.