How to kill Spider Mites

**capncash** · 07-26-2008, 08:31 AM

Hot shotz no pest strips are the bomb for spider mites.

**Lunesta215** · 07-29-2008, 07:55 PM

I've had nothing but SUCCESS with the Folramite.... If you cant find it, San Diego Family Hydroponics carries it buy the ounce $20.00 I'm sure they will ship.

Originally Posted by burjzyntski

I'm 100% sure Ive got a spider mite infestation and I'd like some help on how to kill them.

I've heard that soapy water will do the trick, but I'm concerned that the soap will bring the soil's pH up to a dangerously basic level (maybe), so would you use lemon juice or vinegar to level the pH out?

I've heard the soapy water trick from two different people, and neither said anything about adding lemon juice/vinegar, and you can always lower the pH later (acidify it), so I think I'll go ahead and do this...?

Any suggestions? Comments? Feedback?

**herbose** · 07-29-2008, 08:05 PM

Why are you so sure you have mites? I don't see anything in the pictures to indicate mites. Do you see any webs? Sure way to tell is magnification on underside of leaf.
they're easy to see and look like crabs.

**burjzyntski** · 07-29-2008, 08:36 PM

The mites have been gone for a little over a month...I don't know exactly what I did, but it worked?

I was almost positive that it was a mite infestation after I read somewhere that they create webs between the roots, strangling them, cutting off circulation, resulting in white spots forming on the leaves. I don't know if it's true, but having had very little prior experience, I found it to be the best explanation. I also read that they are so small that they oftentimes need a magnifying lens to be spotted, and I couldn't find my lens so I didn't check.

I now have a caterpillar problem though, and I forgot to even look for BT at Wal*Mart yesterday

**herbose** · 07-29-2008, 08:41 PM

I've never heard of root mites, doesn't mean they don't exist.
Caterpillar's????.....any of them smoking a HOOKAH?

**burjzyntski** · 07-29-2008, 10:14 PM

no, but they might as well be...eating a bunch of my flowering plant's leaves...fuckin' caterpillars...

**headiez247** · 08-04-2008, 12:45 PM

got mine here. received it in mail 2 days later. one application and they were all dead. gonna use it in my regular rotation now so I never have to deal with them again.

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**slamminsalmon** · 08-04-2008, 12:55 PM

ive had good luck with a product called safer soap. its organic and within 2 treatments my mites were gone.

it dissipates quickly. i like the sounds of this floramite tho.

**itsamedicalneed** · 03-04-2009, 04:59 PM

I would just use this
http://www.defenders.co.uk/pest-solu...e-control.html

They sell other insects that will kill the spider mite.

**BigGuru** · 04-08-2009, 08:06 PM

Ok its harvest time. I have been putting up with a slight mite problem. So far I have been keeping them under control and after this harvest im going to bug bomb the whole place and do it once and for all.

Let this be a lesson to me and everyone else. If someone gives you a clone check it carfuly. I did not and have been paying for it..

So my question is. I dont want to spray or do anything to my drying buds that would be bad for me.. Will these little buggers die if i put them in a deep freeze? like -5.. or will they just go dormant and hatch when it warms up? I have put wet buds in the freeze and they come out just fine.

these webs on my prize buds suck!!

HELP PLEASE!!