Hi everyone.
Long time reader first time poster. I had to say thanks to everyone. You all have great ideas, some... well each to their own.
I have always grown both in and outdoors with varying but good degrees of success. This year was better than usual(indoor) but hell what a battle.
These puppys are 4th time around re-gros.
What 4th time!!!??? i hear you say. Yes, my old wog mate give em to me as knee highs and they have more crown braches than you can begin to imagine. They were slow to start and as i started replacing my aging and odge bodge eqipment i saw more and more improvement. Up until i found out i was at war with those pesky little shits, .... MITES.
During veg i was worried and applied everything from garlic to isopropyl alcohol (NOT GOOD). You can add weird chemicals but make sure you rinse them off good too!
The mites dissapeared when i stepped up my misting and spraying. Obviously the humidity pissed them off. But after a two and a half day holiday (and 3 weeks of flower) the bastards appeared overnight and smashed my babies. I have lost next to all my leaves (exageration, probably 50% ) and sum buds were webbed.
I tried all the organic shit i could find.... i have to say i cut corners EVERYWHERE i can and when i saw the post somewhere on the world wide web i decided apple juice was good. Beleive me it is good but... it should be used during the whole grow to ward off mites. Next was soaps. Dishwashing detergent was mentioned i later found out they meant actually soap not detergent. Bloody hell, well it didnt kill em. But as i say wash em off. Plus i only used like 2 drops per litre.
After a nasty concoction of honey lemon, apple juice, pepper, chilli, soap, and vinegar these mites are well and trully FUBAR!!! i dont suggest spraying all this crap on your plants but do keep the humidity up to piss the mites off.
But after more examination the mites have just retreated to the dark reaches of the plant. BASTARDS... well i fixed that. THIS IS THE ULTIMATE MITE KILLING STUFF AND I CAN SAY IT IS %100 Effective. There is debate as to whether or not it is organic... but hey these mites are worse than Hitlers Nazi Robots. Or for you trekkies..... THE BORG!
Use Nicotine. Thats it, i used 1/2 a cigarette and steeped it in sum hot water until the water had a light brown tinge. You can experiment with how long you leave it and how strong it gets but hey.... it takes like 15mins tops.
The mites hate it and i noticed a drop from 10-15 mites per leaf to 1-2.
I heard it can get into the plant and poison them that way too. Great i reckon, (ps: i smoke cigarettes and i dont give a shit if your anti smoking!!!!)
I dont even care if theres some in the plant but by the time harvest comes round it should be well flushed so im not fussed. Apparently butter milk and wheat flower is supposed to be good. The mites eat it till they explode.
Well happy growing peeps i'll drop in and let ya know how she smokes.
Ill try and answer some newbies questions too!!!
Cheers

Oh yeah i forgot to mention why i need help... anyone with experience with adding flavors to weed??? I have a mate who has tried feeding different things like honey and cordial before the last flush to try and get a sweat taste / smell.
What about additives to increase yield?
Thanks guys appreciate anyhelp youve got

good question man.. i never rly tryed to do this or asked someone who do this. ill try to find out.

on a grow that my buddy was doing we would throw the tobacco out of blunts ontop of the soil and it would gradually make the nicotine come out while it degraded as it was watered.. make sure to flush the shit out of that if thats the route your choosing to get rid of mites, it works though.. at first the mites will chill and enjoy the nicotine but then they die off, or so i was told by my friend.. but he also said by putting it ontop of the soil before it degrades the mites like to go straight to blunt tobacco instead of on the plant, and the plant gets nicotine when watered

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This works a treat. All mites were killed on contact and they appear to be dying out in huge numbers, kinda makes me laugh (and cry) when i think about the wasted hours fretting and worrying and studying mite biology.
All the other posts online are confusing and a lot of scary posts like "I lost the lot man!"
If someone just said spray em with some Benson and hedges tea and flick a couple butts into the pot .... well it speaks for itself. Well guys, this grow is nearly over im so happy when i go in there and runnin my fingers over all the rock hard little nugs, while i carfully flick the occasional dead/dying leaf into my bucket. My next one will be outdoors then im gona try cfl and led. I work for an electronics mob here in aus so im gona work on building my own.
Thanks for the replys, i gonna try sum flavour on one or two of my babes, but not sure what or how yet, still open to suggestions.
Nothing to malicious though.

Glad it worked for you, im going to try adding sweet grape flavor that the promotion that was linked here earlier this week with sweet grape nutes and see how that works.. if it ever comes in

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Here is something you may not know.

I was involved in a nutrient challenge and was able to sample the results of the same strain but different nutrients and I was surprised. The smoke tasted completely different. If I didn't know better I would have said it was different weed altogether.

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