Question on spider mites

thirdgen4me

thirdgen4me

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Ok so I have a plant that was given to me but was outside. Now I realized that it has spider mites and I am scared to keep it in my flower room. How do mites transfer from one plant to another? Is it safe to keep it near but not touching other plants while I fight them off? Thanks!
 
be really careful because they will spread even if the plants arent touching. I would put any new plants coming into the room through neem oil or some other repellant also.
 
Hot shot no pest strips work wonders for enclosed spaces. just try to limit YOUR contact with that stuff....it's quite toxic
 
thirdgen4me said:
Ok so I have a plant that was given to me but was outside. Now I realized that it has spider mites and I am scared to keep it in my flower room. How do mites transfer from one plant to another? Is it safe to keep it near but not touching other plants while I fight them off? Thanks!
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Spider Mites migrate, that is they crawl or can be blown by air current (fan). I hate to tell you but it might be too late. Once they get a foothold inside, it is almost impossible to get rid of them. I'd get rid of that plant or else take it back outdoors and away from the grow. Most sprays work only 1-2 times then the mites get immunity and pass it on to their eggs. Expensive to keep using different chelicals. I was really badly infested a couple of years ago and it took me 4 months to get rid of them. I stiil see an egg occasionally but I look at every plant every day. I have had th best results with an inexpensive concoction made from Habanero Peppers, Garlic, Tobacco and Olive oil... Read on here as well as Google it for all the ways to deal with them and yes, if you can get them now, Lady Bugs will kick Ass and as long as there's food for them, they'll stay. Good luck! One thing, don't take them for granite. They can and will ruin your hard work and destroy a crop in a matter of days. Right now, get a piece of cellulous sponge about 3/4" wide and cut long enough to wrap around the plant's stem about 1" to 1-1/2" above the grade (soil or whatever) spray this wet with what ever you have in the house like dish soap or better, any insect spray (spray in cup then use eye dropper). Don't want to spreay the plant with these, it is just as a preventative until you can get what you need to deal with them
 
thirdgen4me said:
Ok so I have a plant that was given to me but was outside. Now I realized that it has spider mites and I am scared to keep it in my flower room. How do mites transfer from one plant to another? Is it safe to keep it near but not touching other plants while I fight them off? Thanks!
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They jump or make web lines and travel that way. Indoors ventiallation via oscillating fan helps them move to other plants easily. Prior to introducing a mite infected plant try treasting it with a good antimiticide i.e. neem oil cold pressed.
 
Looks like I will just chop this plant and forget it. My main concern is a flowering plant(6 weeks) was in the room with it. I just inspected all 3 plants that were in the room and I can only see what might be pests on the one from outside. I moved the two smaller plants into a grow tent elsewhere for now. I inspected the 6 week girl with a scope and couldn't find one thing that was suspicious so I might be ok. Is there anything I can do with a plant that is 3 weeks away from harvest as precaution?
 
If you brought a mite infested plant in to your totally fine plants, yes look for them all to get spider mites. Common sense
 
I guess I will see... My 6 week flowering girl has been fed organic insecticide with neem oil her whole life so maybe that helped it out??

I forgot to mention that the infected plant was only in my room for 2 days.
 
Cool good to see you did use some neem oil. That may have contained the outbreak, but just keep looking for signs of them.....2 days is more than enough time for them to lay eggs
 
Great! lol I know nothing about these nasty things and I've been researching online now for awhile to learn. I'm on my third crop and never had one single pest issue until my dumb ass put an outdoor plant in my house! Needless to say I'll never do that again. I plan on picking up some of that neem oil extract tomorrow as well as more fungicide.
 
I had spider mites once or twice and they nearly brought me to tears.. ok so I did cry a few times.The best thing I have found is natural prediter mites.
 
thirdgen4me said:
Great! lol I know nothing about these nasty things and I've been researching online now for awhile to learn. I'm on my third crop and never had one single pest issue until my dumb ass put an outdoor plant in my house! Needless to say I'll never do that again. I plan on picking up some of that neem oil extract tomorrow as well as more fungicide.
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I did the same thing mate introduced a dirty outdoor plant to my room and got spider mites, 1 spray of a solution i got at my garden shop designed for spider mites and they were gone so there are planty of products that work well just dont let the buggers hide in your room or they'll come back again and again. If ya wanna go organic pyrethrum is good but you have do use it with lights off as uv breaks it down fast, or get predators like lady bugs or predator mites and leave your extraction fan off and cover your lights while they hunt or they wont last long
 
I'm assuming an enclosed grow space, get a pyrethrum based bug bomb - actually get two as you'll need to do it twice to be sure. The nice thing about the bomb is that the aerosolized pyrethrum can get into crevices and cracks and hopefully get them all. You need to bomb twice to make sure that you get any eggs that hatch a few days later. I've used this technique in a greenhouse and effectively gotten rid of spider mites. Good luck.
 
Thanks for all the help guys! I still haven't found any trace of mites on my 6 week flowering plant. I will continue to keep a close eye on her and use neem oil just in case. I hate to do it but I am going to destroy two of my plants for fear of infection! The good part of this is that I will not be growing in the area I am now because I have a new area set-up in a completely different area/floor of my house.
 
Upon further inspection today I found what look to be thrips and not spider mites! Anyone have any good advice on these nasty lil yellow things?
 
monteray garden insect spray it has spinosad do a soil drench will take them out and spary withazamax and also soil drench with it will rock them suckers no problem
 
Keep infected plant/s seperate and treat with multiple sprays/miticides;rotating each use. I went with Captain Jacks and Fertilome and wiped those punk bitches out!! In veg spray every 3 days for 2 weeks, then 1/week after that till flip.
 
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