Best Advice For Mites !

neosapien

Well-Known Member
it's fine if you have a body suit and a respirator, and don't mind reapplying at least twice.
still you are guaranteed to have at least ONE survivor..
and we all know that one female can make like a metric fuck-load of eggs..

two words.

predator mites....
you guys deliberately ignoring what I'm preachin here?
you guys are killin me
Biological warfare man!

 

greasemonkeymann

Well-Known Member
Not ignoring, just had a friend in a 60K grow get mites and tried predators and they didn't work. Beat the mites back but overall he still had mites. If I got mites I'd probably burn my crop and begin again from seeds unless I had some very valuable genetics and after losing 2 entire tables of what I thought were extremely valuable I actually got better genetics so I'd go with the Viking funeral option.

Although I did have one clone I wanted so I used Avid on it and it worked but you couldn't flower until you hit generation #4. So yeah burn em down, reload.
I tried it twice (neither successful) before talking to the dude that does it for a living (apparently organic strawberry growers get mites worse than cannabis)
but my mite "hook-up" makes 100k plus just catering to strawberry fields
it's paramount you hae the right type of mites, otherwise they do ZERO..
it's not quite as black and white as you'd think.
10 degrees or 10% humidity +/- the wrong direction and the mites go hibernate, or simply take off.
theres five or six species and they all are very different in the climates they'll work in
a lil tricky but hands down THE best way to combat mites.
typically the fallacis and californicus are the best for most situations
you guys down south would want the californicus, those are the high temp ones

but I've been using predator mites for the last two yrs, and i'll never ever go to anything else.
not even close to anything that works as well
 

curious2garden

Well-Known Mod
Staff member
I tried it twice (neither successful) before talking to the dude that does it for a living (apparently organic strawberry growers get mites worse than cannabis)
but my mite "hook-up" makes 100k plus just catering to strawberry fields
it's paramount you hae the right type of mites, otherwise they do ZERO..
it's not quite as black and white as you'd think.
10 degrees or 10% humidity +/- the wrong direction and the mites go hibernate, or simply take off.
theres five or six species and they all are very different in the climates they'll work in
a lil tricky but hands down THE best way to combat mites.
typically the fallacis and californicus are the best for most situations
you guys down south would want the californicus, those are the high temp ones

but I've been using predator mites for the last two yrs, and i'll never ever go to anything else.
not even close to anything that works as well
I'd be willing to try but I hope I never need to.
 

chemphlegm

Well-Known Member
I never brought a clone into my room. my tractor and mower and rototiller and tons of soil sit on a dirt floor right outside of my grow room. I cut my grass and pull in and park. my dog visits me often. my chickens love to roll and bathe in my new dirt if its left out.
my cat owns the building, but never entered my grow rooms. I have no hepa filters in play. I do not use outside air but often leave the grow room door open while working in the building. I travel to and from with fresh and used dirt most days, and cut five acres weekly.
I'm always in the outdoor garden too, and admit I do mj chores first. I dont wear special clothing or gloves, or change my shoes.

My plants are on the dirt floor while being transferred all the time. I've seen mites once in my life here on a plant brought home form meijer's. I studied them under the 1600x digi microscope, I put them in a bag, sucked the air out and replaced it with c02. they all died pretty quickly. they didnt come back to life.

I never had mites in my rooms, I believe I know how they get in yours.
I know how I'd eradicate them too, organically, if I ever brought in a clone accidentally
this thread is a facetious survival guide for mites, not growers silly billys

 

cannabineer

Ursus marijanus
I never brought a clone into my room. my tractor and mower and rototiller and tons of soil sit on a dirt floor right outside of my grow room. I cut my grass and pull in and park. my dog visits me often. my chickens love to roll and bathe in my new dirt if its left out.
my cat owns the building, but never entered my grow rooms. I have no hepa filters in play. I do not use outside air but often leave the grow room door open while working in the building. I travel to and from with fresh and used dirt most days, and cut five acres weekly.
I'm always in the outdoor garden too, and admit I do mj chores first. I dont wear special clothing or gloves, or change my shoes.

My plants are on the dirt floor while being transferred all the time. I've seen mites once in my life here on a plant brought home form meijer's. I studied them under the 1600x digi microscope, I put them in a bag, sucked the air out and replaced it with c02. they all died pretty quickly. they didnt come back to life.

I never had mites in my rooms, I believe I know how they get in yours.
I know how I'd eradicate them too, organically, if I ever brought in a clone accidentally
this thread is a facetious survival guide for mites, not growers silly billys

I "mite" disagree
 
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