SPIDERMITES! Sprayed Them. What Do i Need To Do To Keep Them Away? Advice?

ImDankest

ImDankest

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  • So i spotted them about 10 days ago now. They had already covered the buds in a layer of web. The mites have done some serious damage to my baby. I kick myself for not noticing them sooner. I haven't got pictures of when she was covered in web, but i have before and after pictures. I have sprayed them with Calcicleaner, for those who don't know you use habenero peppers to fight the mites. i couldn't find habenero peepers but i found scotch bonnet peppers which are also 100,000 - 350,000 on the scoville scale. I have sprayed my plants and tent with this spray twice thoroughly. I also found some organinc fish oil bug killer. It's for fruits and flowers and can be sprayed one day before harvest. I sprayed the tent and plants with this also. I have also sprayed them with water between the calcicleaner and organic bug killer sprays. Since then i've seen no web, mites or eggs. But i'm going to spray it a couple more times with the pepper spray and water. Alls looking well. What do you reccomend i do to keep them away and help my plant out as much as possible. Bulldog haze before (2 weeks flower): Bulldog haze now (5 weeks flower): As you can see she's been completely demolished. She hasnt' seemed to grow at all in 3 weeks. When do you think the buds will fatten up, if they even do. I've put so much effort into this and i thought i finally got the hang of this and fucking spidermites have to ruin it. How can i help her recover. I really hope she will recover.
    Thank you for any help at all. If you need to know any more information just ask.
    This is the post i got the spray from. Thanks
    https://www.rollitup.org/bugs/475307-how-kill-spider-mites-100-a.html    ​




 
amgprb

amgprb

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Personal opinion: cut em down, sterilize your room and start over. A buddy gave me a clone, and it ended up contaminating my room.I had a war with them. Used every trick in the book including chemicals, neem oil, sprays, natural predators. Once they r that bad, just cut em down n start over. That is what I did.
 
kentuckyboy

kentuckyboy

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I hope you aren't doing a perpetual or anything. If you aren't, then I would think it depends on how far away from harvest you are on whether not to just chop them down. My buddy got a clone from a friend, and it fucked his shit up. I went over there to check it out, and was like OMG! It was fucked up looking! Spidermites are some bad little fuckers! Lol! I was scared to go home afterwards. I didn't want to transfer them buggers to my garden. He toughed it out all the way through flower. It looked like shit, but in the end he got a couple ozs. of bud. It killed his harvest numbers though. He didn't get nearly as much as he should have. It took him forever to get it to harvest. The one plant still tasted premature too. I don't really know what to tell you man. I would probably just chop them down. I know that is going to be hard, but in the long run it will probably be better. Good luck man!
 
ImDankest

ImDankest

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You say chop them down. I have 4 plants in there. That one, 2 clones of her and an auto amnesia. The other three plants haven't been touched really. The spidermites have only effected this one. The room is clean and they haven't migrated to my other plants. This tells me that i might have stopped them and i think it might be worth waiting and seeing if she'll recover. DSC_1378.jpgDSC_1379.jpgDSC_1380.jpgDSC_1381.jpg
 
Holylander

Holylander

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I'm not an expert or even a grower, I just started my 1st plant. But I would not cut anything down personally. People are quick to say chop chop, but they usually have bigger or massive grows and cannot afford to have them contaminated, they also have ready to go clones, and a full cycle going etc and are doing this more professionally. So it's no big deal for them, they lose a few weeks and keep everything pristine. Bugs are part of reality and nature with plants. Unfortunate the little buggers got so advanced, but if it was me I would try to knock the bug problem down like you are doing, monitor more closely than you have been, and read as much as you can about the issue.

Chopping is easy, trying to save your smaller grow is the harder part. You might get all those plants with a few bugs in them, your yield might be less, you might lose the harvest entirely because of bugs.. Who knows, but one thing is for sure.. You cut the plants and trash them and you lose the harvest for sure. That's just my 2 cents as a non expert, it's up to you because they are your plants. But the plant is in bloom, and many people have saved plants much much worse than that. They are adaptable, and with help can fight the bugs. I'd clean your setup as much as you can etc.
 
amgprb

amgprb

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Holylander said:
I'm not an expert or even a grower, I just started my 1st plant. But I would not cut anything down personally. People are quick to say chop chop, but they usually have bigger or massive grows and cannot afford to have them contaminated, they also have ready to go clones, and a full cycle going etc and are doing this more professionally. So it's no big deal for them, they lose a few weeks and keep everything pristine. Bugs are part of reality and nature with plants. Unfortunate the little buggers got so advanced, but if it was me I would try to knock the bug problem down like you are doing, monitor more closely than you have been, and read as much as you can about the issue.

Chopping is easy, trying to save your smaller grow is the harder part. You might get all those plants with a few bugs in them, your yield might be less, you might lose the harvest entirely because of bugs.. Who knows, but one thing is for sure.. You cut the plants and trash them and you lose the harvest for sure. That's just my 2 cents as a non expert, it's up to you because they are your plants. But the plant is in bloom, and many people have saved plants much much worse than that. They are adaptable, and with help can fight the bugs. I'd clean your setup as much as you can etc.
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Have u ever smoked bud infested with spider mites? Not pleasent. As you are taking a hit, you hear their dry, dead carcusses crackling and popping. The taste is horrible. Probably exactly as you would expect if u packed a large bug in your pipe and smoked it, yum yum! Lets not forget about the web. Adds that much more flavor!

Yeah, i once tried to save a plant and that was the WORST smoke ever. Would rather of puffed on some mexican brown brick weed.
 
kinddiesel

kinddiesel

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your very early in flowering. I would take my add to home depo lowes. any landscaping store, get some bug spray chemical spray the good shit, that kills every bug, they make stuff for vegitables, follow the directions, spray the entire plant very heavy tops and bottoms, don't be stingy, and spray the walls and flows celings if possible spray every damn thing, small buds less chance of mold , turn a fan on a after you spray raise the lights high as possible to stop burn from hps lights, also I cut a bud in half before and it grew back in a few weeks. could not tell it was even cut, because it was a herm so I cut have the bud off lol it worked saved me thousand in the room nock on wood,
 
nikk2051

nikk2051

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ulldog haze before (2 weeks flower): Bulldog haze now (5 weeks flower): As you can see she's been completely demolished. She hasnt' seemed to grow at all in 3 weeks. When do you think the buds will fatten up, if they even do. I've put so much effort into this and i thought i finally got the hang of this and fucking spidermites have to ruin it. How can i help her recover. I really hope she will recover.
Thank you for any help at all. If you need to know any more information just ask.
This is the post i got the spray from. Thanks
https://www.rollitup.org/bugs/475307-how-kill-spider-mites-100-a.html[/INDENT]

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Sorry to say it bro but the best way to get rid of them for good is to scrap the grow clean your room good and then clean it really good again and spray the outside with poison and seal any cracks where pest might get in. Useing all these different items trying to kill them you might be creating a super bug.
 
1itsme

1itsme

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I've been using pyrethrum concentrates for bugs for about a year now and they have worked very well for me. there's a few that are omri if that's a concern for you. Several other users on this site have excelent results with mighty wash. cheap paint sprayers (harbor freight sells one for @ $20) can help alot as well, regardless of what your spaying. They produce much smaller drops than spray bottles, so you get much better coverage. gl
 
ImDankest

ImDankest

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Right. I don't think chopping them down is the way to go. I've rinsed off all the dead spidermites multiple times with water. I've been inspecting my plants with my magnifying scope and i can't see any dead or alive mites on my plant's. If you do the job thoroughly enough you won't be smoking on a joint full of bugs.
 
horribleherk

horribleherk

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Picture.jpgPicture.jpgi got this at wal-mart & it stops them in their tracks dont chop your plants i also use organacide every 2 wks my room is outside & i live near orchards & farmland so a possible invasion is not ever far away i would tough this grow out & bomb my room before the next grow home depot carries organacide both of thest are certified organic & work GOOD LUCK
 
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