Sterilizing a room after Spider mites

Diabolical666

Diabolical666

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explosive82 said:
Yup im thinking i'm going to do something like this

Neem (azamax)
Monterey take down (or another spinosad equiv)
Doctor Zyme (recommended by me to a friend)
SM-90 (has a good spell and works good from what i heard)

Any other recommendations for IPM?
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Avid or forbid. You can buy them on ebay by the ounce;)
 
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Quick question.... Would a bomb for mites work then bleach everything and bomb again? I've done the same as the OP. Just need to do the right thing as so this does not happen again. Thank you!
 
dro-man80

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MA MED Grower said:
Quick question.... Would a bomb for mites work then bleach everything and bomb again? I've done the same as the OP. Just need to do the right thing as so this does not happen again. Thank you!
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tht may be overkill.but i feel u,,once u get those lil fuckers u dont want them again...but honestly once u bomb and then clean up bleaching the room,ur golden from there...but if double bombing eases the mind,theres no harm
 
coldrain

coldrain

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ttystikk said:
Anyway, just leaving an area empty with no plants for a week will eradicate them.
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This is not true at all. If this was true then mites wouldn't be nearly as much of a problem as they are. Mite eggs do not necessarily hatch right away. They can linger for several weeks and wait for better conditions before hatching. This is a well documented fact. I used to have issues with mites on a regular basis until I finally got them out of my grow and took drastic steps to avoid recontamination. At one point I got rid of the mites in my grow, but I continued to use the same bamboo stakes that I had used previously and sure enough I got them again. Fortunately, the mites only appeared on a single branch that was directly tied to the bamboo stake. I noticed it right away, cut off the branch and didn't see anything else. I considered myself very lucky. They must have stayed confined to that branch since there weren't that many of them yet. The bamboo stakes had been in my back yard baking in the sun for at least a couple of weeks before I took them back into the garage. I sprayed them off with the hose at one point, but that was it. The stakes were not near any other foliage and it's very unlikely that they were contaminated while they were outside. Who knows, it could have been a single egg that hitchhiked in a crevice of the bamboo stake.

Mites are the absolute WORST thing that can happen to a cannabis plant. I haven't had any in a couple of years now and I'm terrified of getting them again. I rarely bring outside clones/plants into my grow and if I do I quarantine them for 30 days before letting them socialize with any other plants that I have.
 
explosive82

explosive82

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coldrain said:
This is not true at all. If this was true then mites wouldn't be nearly as much of a problem as they are. Mite eggs do not necessarily hatch right away. They can linger for several weeks and wait for better conditions before hatching. This is a well documented fact. I used to have issues with mites on a regular basis until I finally got them out of my grow and took drastic steps to avoid recontamination. At one point I got rid of the mites in my grow, but I continued to use the same bamboo stakes that I had used previously and sure enough I got them again. Fortunately, the mites only appeared on a single branch that was directly tied to the bamboo stake. I noticed it right away, cut off the branch and didn't see anything else. I considered myself very lucky. They must have stayed confined to that branch since there weren't that many of them yet. The bamboo stakes had been in my back yard baking in the sun for at least a couple of weeks before I took them back into the garage. I sprayed them off with the hose at one point, but that was it. The stakes were not near any other foliage and it's very unlikely that they were contaminated while they were outside. Who knows, it could have been a single egg that hitchhiked in a crevice of the bamboo stake.

Mites are the absolute WORST thing that can happen to a cannabis plant. I haven't had any in a couple of years now and I'm terrified of getting them again. I rarely bring outside clones/plants into my grow and if I do I quarantine them for 30 days before letting them socialize with any other plants that I have.
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Right but the thing is can the mites that are in eggs tell there are plants near them to eat? i've had no plants in my room for almost a week now and probably wont for at least 2 more weeks so i just doubt they will be able to survive after I Bleach/Doctor doom my room and repaint. Also i think its hot and dry in there while there are no plants so i think all the eggs would hatch since those are the conditions they like.
 
since1991

since1991

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Cant get lazy with them mites. Its summer time now. Even if u keep everything in house....they can find a way.
 
since1991

since1991

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Start is u havent....an integrated pest management system. If ya catch them sneaky bastards early....neem or azadirachtin will catch em. Pyrethrum....mighty wash. Yall know the drill.
 
Colo MMJ

Colo MMJ

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Bug bomb (pyrethian), bleach and more bleach. I would wipe down everything with water and bleach solution. Mop with water and bleach if possible.

One things they can do for houses for bed bugs is steam or heat.

You can buy steamers for bed bugs and the heat process is insane. They will block off a house and heat it up to 150 degs. Protable steamers can get up to and over 130 deg F or more.

Canola oil and Dawn in a sprayer work too. About 3 table spoons each in a gallon of water.
Water and isopro alcohol.
 
iHearAll

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Lol i tried someones rec on 60% water 40% iso. I thought "wow thats fuxking hardcore" and indeed it was fucking hardcore. Seered the leaves off the vegging plant.

I think it came from growweedeasy or some bs

So, soil growers, anyone ever just spray neem and mix the compost at the same time? Juat increasing the likelyhood of the mites getting fed some neem.

Also, using it in a tea should be ok.. sorta..kinda... still IPM....and add neem to the tea
 
since1991

since1991

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Neem or azamax for early early like just found them on the bottom of one plant early. But for full blown all out war....neem or azamax never cut it for me. When them little bastards are really jamming on my crop....they laughed at neem or azamax oils. Then you have to get for real with something else in the arsenal. Mighty Wash never did me wrong. Shits expensive but it works for me. Whatever is in that shit....it blows there legs off and makes mites explode and shit. Really cool to see with a microscope after a spray down. Kills eggs too which hardly any product does. In between crops....you want a Pyrethrum fogger can grenade to hit the room. Then wipe everything with bleach and water. I just noticed a very early breakout on one leaf of one plant the other day. And i havent took in any cuts from anyone in a awhile. Its this summer heat. They find a way somehow to get in warm growrooms in summer. Like a magnet. Rat bastards. If you get them "naturally"....that is to say....without taking in infected clones (75% of the way most of us get them) it always seems they are easier to get rid of. But really its a timing thing with mites. The earlier detection the better. Way easier to control.
 
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since1991 said:
In between crops....you want a Pyrethrum fogger can grenade to hit the room.
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Question for you. I run perpetual always have something from week 1 to week 9 in flower. Can foggers be used to plants in that stage (wk 9). I melt 1/2 of my crop I've always wondered what a fogger would do to trichs after a fogger. Thanks!
 
since1991

since1991

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.push them out the way of the direct fog blast. Ylou should be fine. But i will tell u this...getting mites in a perpetual rotation garden can be EXTREMELY difficult to get under control. I too run perpetual using 3 rooms. I figured out awhile ago that having a small tester/quarantine room or tent with just one small lamp is ideal. All new strains i get either from seed or especially gifted/traded clones gets ran in there before going onto the regular lineup. Yeah...getting mite infestation in a perpetual garden or system sucks bad. Been there...done that
 
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since1991 said:
.push them out the way of the direct fog blast. Ylou should be fine. But i will tell u this...getting mites in a perpetual rotation garden can be EXTREMELY difficult to get under control. I too run perpetual using 3 rooms. I figured out awhile ago that having a small tester/quarantine room or tent with just one small lamp is ideal. All new strains i get either from seed or especially gifted/traded clones gets ran in there before going onto the regular lineup. Yeah...getting mite infestation in a perpetual garden or system sucks bad. Been there...done that
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Thank you! Def sucks. I just took my last one down and I've fogged and now bleaching ceiling to floor and everything in between. I was good until I needed a hand with something. That person had / has mites. Learned my lesson no more visitors. I've been good for 14 yrs. one visit and I was screwed.
 
coldrain

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explosive82 said:
Right but the thing is can the mites that are in eggs tell there are plants near them to eat? i've had no plants in my room for almost a week now and probably wont for at least 2 more weeks so i just doubt they will be able to survive after I Bleach/Doctor doom my room and repaint. Also i think its hot and dry in there while there are no plants so i think all the eggs would hatch since those are the conditions they like.
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Chances are you will be okay. Just be careful with reintroducing equipment to your grow room that was in use while there were mites present. Repainting is a good call as it will completely cover up lots of things that you don't want in your grow. PM spores, mite eggs, etc.

The biggest issue I see with indoor grows is that people just don't keep the room clean enough. Dead leaves everywhere (floor, in with the dirt, in the runoff trays). Fans that look like they have never been cleaned at all. Hoods covered with dust both inside and outside. Recycled soil- which is perhaps the dumbest move of all.
 
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coldrain

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MA MED Grower said:
Question for you. I run perpetual always have something from week 1 to week 9 in flower. Can foggers be used to plants in that stage (wk 9). I melt 1/2 of my crop I've always wondered what a fogger would do to trichs after a fogger. Thanks!
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No. Week 9 is way too late to be using anything other than your thumb and index finger. On the rare occasions that I use a fogger I don't use them after week 3-4 of flowering depending on the length of the flowering cycle. I'm talking about natural pyrethrin too. Not that Attain shit. I wouldn't spray that stuff on plants at all. Empty room, yes, but not plants.
 
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