f$%k ,f$%k. spider mites

GreenNotYellow said:

spraying is always a decision of potentially take some of the pesticide remains into your lungs, but has to be done I suppose. I've heard from dem blocks that some mites might actually be scared away by some rugs with animal smell like of a cat or a dog, not sure if that has anything to do with the reality

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I personally wouldn't rely on smelly rugs or similar things. Taking precautionary measures is the way to go.

While most living creatures are attracted by a certain smell, they can also be deterred by certain smells (cat litter/rugs keeps mice away), however it's only a temporary solution with no guarantee to success.

And in many situations, you won't have time to hope that something works, you need to know.


Now I've never ran into a pest issue during flower, only during veg (gnats, spider mites & white flies). But personally, before I'd throw away the whole plant because of an ongoing infestation, I'd risk over-spraying it with *insert your go to spray* and lower the quality of the end product, if that means I'll still be able to harvest.


Scratchy Buds > No Buds

calvin.m16 said:

I'm not saying trash your equipment. Trash the plants and reset (clean everything). You could do a bug bomb after throwing away any plant material, the room the tent is in is probably contaminated with their eggs and living adults. Weed with mites in it will not burn right you will hear bug eggs crackling and the potency/quality is going to be sub par because the plants are fighting an attack at all times.

Part of being a grower is making responsible decisions and not just nuking your plants and room with cancerous toxic poison. IF you can't grow without spraying shit like Eagle20, avid, etc then find a new hobby sorry but that's the cold hard truth.

I know someone who tests pounds he buys on the blackmarket and lots of the weed in Michigan is dangerously loaded with poisons that will literally make people sick and cause cancer.

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so i guess ill have to go against advice and stay the course , i could begin with a reminder that i am not spraying gobs of chemicals , i am using citric acid , i shall take my chances with how healthy it may or may not be to smoke .

i should address the eggs in buds and quality , from reading threw threads here it was my understanding that spider mites attacked the leaves not the buds . heck if i know , so the worst case scenario is instead of smoking buds ill make a tincture or a concentrate , hash or whatever .

lets just say i was to chop it all down today , i for sure wouldn't trash it , i have no weed to smoke so id be smoking it just as soon as it dried anyway so what is the harm in spraying more citric acid and staying the course for four more weeks and hope i continue to gain the upper hand .
i cant see a downside to letting it grow.

lastly and i do my best to not argue to much in the future , i cant fund another grow yet . mites probably came from the soil i used , which i dug up from my yard . its got worms living in it so finding other bugs or pests isn't exactly a stretch .

so to start over correctly ill need pretty much everything , new pots , no way i am re-using what i have . a new grow medium and appropriate countermeasures for the creepy crawlies and fungal invasions . oh and some seeds to pop .
all things i don't have .

iliketoast said:

so i guess ill have to go against advice and stay the course , i could begin with a reminder that i am not spraying gobs of chemicals , i am using citric acid , i shall take my chances with how healthy it may or may not be to smoke .

i should address the eggs in buds and quality , from reading threw threads here it was my understanding that spider mites attacked the leaves not the buds . heck if i know , so the worst case scenario is instead of smoking buds ill make a tincture or a concentrate , hash or whatever .

lets just say i was to chop it all down today , i for sure wouldn't trash it , i have no weed to smoke so id be smoking it just as soon as it dried anyway so what is the harm in spraying more citric acid and staying the course for four more weeks and hope i continue to gain the upper hand .
i cant see a downside to letting it grow.

lastly and i do my best to not argue to much in the future , i cant fund another grow yet . mites probably came from the soil i used , which i dug up from my yard . its got worms living in it so finding other bugs or pests isn't exactly a stretch .

so to start over correctly ill need pretty much everything , new pots , no way i am re-using what i have . a new grow medium and appropriate countermeasures for the creepy crawlies and fungal invasions . oh and some seeds to pop .
all things i don't have .

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Definitely give it a try and see how they turn out!

I've spoken to my buddy yesterday about spider mites, he recommended me to use a mixture of water and isopropyl (9:1) ratio (now there are 70% and 99% bottles, he does it with 99%).

He had good results with it and said the alcohol simply evaporates and doesn't leave anything on the buds afterwards. Not sure if this is 100% true tho.

This should be as effective as citric acid if not more and a bottle of iso will last you a long while.

No Pest Strip is your only option that will actually work if you are already in flwer.. You should treat with one or more of the miticides in veg next time and keep NPS on ready.

Hopefully you've found a solution but here's my advice:

I brought 2 spotters in from outside last year, check out Green Cleaner, shit works as long as you follow the IPM practice of spraying every 3, days for 3 rounds. I include another round 5 days after the third and monitor you plants leaves for as long as you thing you should (usb microscope is a good investment). GC also works for the worse of the worse broad and russet mites, though you gotta up your IPM game if those fuckers make it into you environment.

I think it goes without saying but clean every surface, bucket, anything that goes near that tent

Some insects hate the smell of garlic you can google what companion plant is good for mites

While Ive not used it, this is supposed to be good, for a non chemical attack.
Something else that works is to alternate Forbid, and Avid. But one shouldnt smoke it for 6 months. But, it will wipe them out.

As a recent victim of attack during flower , I prevailed by ditching the source immediately, and using some tenacious IPM and appropriate measures of a washable nature, such as citric acid and other non-toxic means. Then I bombed the space from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.

Man it’s a shame about the allergy to peppers.. I cannot believe how effective the homemade chilli spray works at eliminating them. I had a HEAVILY infested couple of plants and they are now just.. gone. So happy.