Spidermites in action (short microscope video)

Spayed yesterday. Sprayed again 5 days before. These bad boys are tuff! Not here asking for help or anything, I know what needs to be done. Just thought you guys might want to see them close up in action.

[video=youtube;5gPzNfeI17U]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gPzNfeI17U&feature=youtu.be[/video]

those rat bastards

kill em .. . . kill em all

Samwell Seed Well said:

those rat bastards

kill em .. . . kill em all

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Yeah. I'm procrastinating spraying right now. I just sprayed last night! grrrrrr.....

kids, no matter how badly you want a certain strain, never get a spotted clone from mendo! The bugs they've got up there are on steroids.

Maybe they need to get gassed with Co2 again...

try this:

Those work great for controlling populations outdoors, but they aren't going to eliminate them in a hydro room. The only thing that gives you a shot at eliminating them indoors is to keep spraying, using a different spray each time, making sure to get every part of every plant.

Really, What keeps them from working indoors? Have you ever used them in a grow room?

rollinbud said:

Really, What keeps them from working indoors? Have you ever used them in a grow room?

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Outdoors, at least here, spidermites don't reach the same critical mass outdoors that they reach indoors due to climate conditions I assume. Controlling them is good enough. I've used predatory mites indoors. They controlled the population ok for a while, but did not eliminate them. And when the predatory mites died off, new spidermite eggs hatched, and the problem was back.

In my experience, there is no magic bullet for safely eliminating spidermites indoor. It's just a matter of spraying over and over again. There is nothing that I know of that's food safe that kill stop all the eggs from hatching. That's the issue. You've just got to keep spraying and hope you can eventually kill them all before they reproduce.

Thanks I'll inform mother nature that she has been outdone by humans for the first time in history.....

Creepy creepy! Yuck! I may have nightmares now.

rollinbud said:

Thanks I'll inform mother nature that she has been outdone by humans for the first time in history.....

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There is a roof over your head that protects you from weather right? humanity - 1 nature - 0. Are you really suggesting it's impossible for humans to solve a problem and insects are always superior problem solvers to humans?

Now if you excuse me I have to go turn on my heater so I can outdo nature some more.

Looked under the microscope, still got borg everywhere. Sprayed again. This time azamax rosemary oil combo. Take that that!

update: I did end up killing the spidermites. It took 6 days in a row of spraying with various oils. The most effective oil mix I made was half zero tolerance and half azamax. That really did the trick.

Floramite worked for me in a small room with less than 12 plants. And like you said, I had to get every inch of plant, top and bottom. However, in my main room I eventually waved my white flag, surrendered and took everything down, bleached everything and restarted from seed.

i got some too..........i just use neem......always fucks em after a few sprays

bastards. had em really bad and used a P bomb which killed all the mites but now the new generation is taking over from the eggs that were there..... sprayed once with azamax last week but neglected spraying again and they are back. im in week 5

antimatt3r said:

bastards. had em really bad and used a P bomb which killed all the mites but now the new generation is taking over from the eggs that were there..... sprayed once with azamax last week but neglected spraying again and they are back. im in week 5

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oooo. That's harsh. In my experience it's almost impossible to get rid of them once you get that deep into flowering. Better start spraying right now if you want any chance of containing them. Otherwise you're going to be fighting webbing in 2 weeks.

Jovreef said:

Creepy creepy! Yuck! I may have nightmares now.

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saved me from typing it out..... lol

those mites are cuuuuteee!!!