God Damn Mites!!!

KhronicKills

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Oh if you can just soak the coco with spinosad for 2 days or so that`ll do it for sure

I find watering coco with spinosad normally knocks back thrips for 1 to 6 months normally over 2 months and thrips are way harder than spider mites

I`m pretty sure you`ll nuke them

remember to spray/dip them when they are little saves getting problems later I like something systemic in veg sometimes just after they get potted up and then something a week or 2 before they go into flowering, spraying a big flowering plant is way more work then spraying veggers huh ?
Deff is. Especially with delicious frosty noogs. Once this is cut ai have to totally scrub room since its also my drying area so ill keep at it w spinosad. Bleach clean area, than next round use products as sysytemic snd preventatives. Really appreciate everybody helping out. Deff better than previous forum I was on.
 
Phytoseiulus eat spider mites for breakfast, these suckers go to town. I would go for the packs made by "Green Methods", you just throw them in there. Cross you fingers they didn't get inside your bud, that sucks; best of luck!

 

KhronicKills

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Phytoseiulus eat spider mites for breakfast, these suckers go to town. I would go for the packs made by "Green Methods", you just throw them in there. Cross you fingers they didn't get inside your bud, that sucks; best of luck!

Yeah Im really hoping they didnt. Hope i caught it early enough. This was an experiment and first w SCRoG and C02, could have done with out the first of mites on top of it. Little cocksuckers.
 

KhronicKills

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Phytoseiulus eat spider mites for breakfast, these suckers go to town. I would go for the packs made by "Green Methods", you just throw them in there. Cross you fingers they didn't get inside your bud, that sucks; best of luck!


And these guys leave the bud alone? They wont go searching in nugs for em?
 

purplehays1

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ok so this is my first harvest that I encountered any pests. First was gnats (nematodes took care of them) and now dreaded spider mites. Im at start of week 6 in an 8 week bloom schedule. Media is coco/perlite 70%/30%. Top dressed w perlite when I had gnat problem. Have lady bugs on order. Sprayed with the below products amd have a 5:1 batch of SM90 made up (phed properly since SM raises it like crazy) my question is can I foliar this tonight right before lights out. The pics of eggs/mites were all of same leaf I plucked after spotting white spots on a few. The runt of the room seems to have most spots, but was a runt since veg...also seems its more prone to pests because of it (shitty pheno im guessing, but back on track) if hate to lose this crop, and would love to not chop early if I can avoid it. Im also running C02 (yes its a tent but tank surprisingly lasts damn long at 1200-1400ppm) I bring that up because if the option of raising ppm's is best bet than it helps to know I do have it at my disposal. Thanks guys

Also no webs (yet) but damn a fuck load of eggs.

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Below is the plant thats the runt and seems to have most spots on top, thus most bastards underneath.:wall::evil:
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The products you have may keep them at bay long enough to harvest, but any p-lants, or clones of any plants that had mites will continue to have mites.


It is very very difficult to deal with spider mites this far into flower. If you are running a perpetual system i would focus on saving subsequent harvests. If you would like i can send you a miticide that will kill them all, but it can only be used on your next generation that are not flowering. Send me a PM.
 

KhronicKills

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The products you have may keep them at bay long enough to harvest, but any p-lants, or clones of any plants that had mites will continue to have mites.


It is very very difficult to deal with spider mites this far into flower. If you are running a perpetual system i would focus on saving subsequent harvests. If you would like i can send you a miticide that will kill them all, but it can only be used on your next generation that are not flowering. Send me a PM.
Awesome man thanks a ton. PM sent. Cheers bud:clap:
 
And these guys leave the bud alone? They wont go searching in nugs for em?
The way they work is they will only eat spider mites, and if they can't find any they starve to death in hours and fall off the plant. If spider mites are in your nugs, they'll eat them up but won't destroy the plant unlike the spider mites. They have an extremely short lifespan, which is why they are preferable to Neoseiulus bugs which will start messing around with your plant after they can't find a food source. Depending on how far into infestation this has gotten, the spider mites will have already crapped in your bud; so you can't get much worse. If I have a problem I usually try to keep the plants in veg for as long as possible before blooming, but nothing you can do at this point.
 

KhronicKills

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Yeah no webs at all and they only arrived (to my eye I pop in tent everyday, within past week) thats whwn i saw white dots and plucked off leaf and used scope to see how bad it was.
 
If you're real close to harvesting I wouldn't even bother if the infestation just started. Those bugs are more like a long term preventative maintenance that will take a week to see results but they do work, as long as you contained it or even block off the infected plant from the others somehow the mites won't do anything bad overnight. Adding those bugs in wouldn't hurt though, and it's best to get them in as early into the infestation as possible if that's the route you want to take. They are also super sensitive to insecticides so you would have to refrain from nuking. One more thing to note on WhiteBB2727's comment about oil based products, absolutely they will ruin your nugs; why I stayed far away from neem oil.
 

KhronicKills

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Tom im going to chop the runt plant which happens to be most infected. Will also get a look at trichs. Sacrifice a few nugs to hopefully save many oz's
 

KhronicKills

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Took leaves from affected plants w white spots from a few spots and clean leaves. Couldnt see any mites w scope. Hopefully cpt jacks did its thing and ill be ok until chop than i can bomb and clean
 

KhronicKills

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Well I lied...mites not gone. Saw new affected leaves, plucked and scoped em and saw live adults. Fackkkk, just gave another application of cpt jacks. Dropped temps a bit since im near end anyhow, hopefully slow the bastards down. Still no webs, but fck do i hate this pricks. From now on im using preventatives. Firdt harvest during warm months and ill chalk it to that, but still will be on the defensive from now on.
 
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