The answer for two spotted spider mite control

After trying many different things - Ed Rosenthal's Zero Tolerance spray, the no-pest strip, many other over the counter sprays to eliminate the fuckers, nothing was working and the mites kept taking over my babies. Since I'm about 3 weeks into flowering, I was scared to use any miticides that were too strong, for fear of messing up the buds...so I went to my local grow shop to do some more shopping, and ended up asking the guy working and he reccommended me to use a combination of AzaMax and Purespray Green in a spray bottle - the aza max to kill the adults, and the purespray to control the eggs. He also told me to use a pyrethum bomb beforehand if you want to make completely sure, so i picked one up as well but have not had to use it. I mixed the AzaMax and purespray into a gallon jug as instructed (~2 tablespoons of each per gallon of water) and poured the mix into a spray bottle - then waited until my lights turned off at night, and i doused the girls down with the spray using a green light to see...this morning the light turns on, i go in to see them and bam! they look amazing! most of the spider mite damage on my Skunk is already gone, the leaves look spotless and glossy and strong. The king kong (who was most infested) also looks exponentially better as far as damage goes. Needless to say i'm not exactly sure if this completely eliminated them or not, but it definately did a damn good job of helping it and controlling it. I dont think i'll be having too many problems with these fuckers anymore, and if I do then I'll use the pyrethum TR bomb then spray em some more! I'd use this method before you go out and waste more money on things that claim to get rid of them, cause everything else ive tried hasnt done SHIT to slow them down, these things fuck like rabbits so its important to have something that kills the adults and controls the eggs to prevent further infestation. Hope I can help some people out who are suffering from the same battle as me!!!

You know you DON'T have to poison your plants especially during flowering. We inspect 1 or 2 leaves, up side down each day with a $17 16X microscope. If we see the round amber eggs, easy to spot with the microscope, we immediately order Triple Threat Spider Mite Preditors from Nature's Control. These terrific bugs eat the eggs, eat the spider mites and when they run out of prey, they eat each other. Problem solved, no sprays, no poisons. EASY!!!!

redbud123 said:

You know you DON'T have to poison your plants especially during flowering. We inspect 1 or 2 leaves, up side down each day with a $17 16X microscope. If we see the round amber eggs, easy to spot with the microscope, we immediately order Triple Threat Spider Mite Preditors from Nature's Control. These terrific bugs eat the eggs, eat the spider mites and when they run out of prey, they eat each other. Problem solved, no sprays, no poisons. EASY!!!!

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Excellent, I just never knew exactly which predator mites to get, I'll definitely do that soon so I dont have to poison them any further..how much do they cost??

mugetsu said:

Excellent, I just never knew exactly which predator mites to get, I'll definitely do that soon so I dont have to poison them any further..how much do they cost??

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I'm going with Ladybugs right now, they're good with spider mites. I also spray with neem oil every one or two weeks as preventative maintenance. A lot of grow stores sell ladybugs for about $10 per 1000, but you should only need one or two ladybugs per plant.

Ketzakwatl said:

I'm going with Ladybugs right now, they're good with spider mites. I also spray with neem oil every one or two weeks as preventative maintenance. A lot of grow stores sell ladybugs for about $10 per 1000, but you should only need one or two ladybugs per plant.

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will ladybirds and neem oil really work........ i have easy access to both of them.... and i dont really want to use any pesticide......

charsi said:

will ladybirds and neem oil really work........ i have easy access to both of them.... and i dont really want to use any pesticide......

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Neem works, although I'm not sure how well it works on the highly invasive two spotted spider mites. Lady bugs will work on them, but to my knowledge, they only eat adults and larvae, so you have to wait until the eggs hatch, I'm pretty sure you have to have nematodes or a predator mite that will eat all stages of growth.

Hey, well neem and that azmax are pretty much the same, because the active or effective ingredients are the same, azadirachitn, or however it is spelt , is taken from the neem seed, latin name is Azadirachta_indica. What is the concentaration of the azmax and dilution rates if i may ask? Also dose it have anything else in it? I just ask as im always fighting mites, aswell as a few other things, and am wondering if it has nutes or stimulants in it, maybe even foilar lattice or somthing...
Personally i think the best predators would be of the none flying varitey, like neoseiulus californicus, or phytoseiulus persimilis which is an actually predator mite, as when i have use ladybug i would realease them at night, 50 at a time, and by the time i had checked on them in the morning most of them were gone. I presume they flew into the hid light, so from my 50 i only found 3 when i had a good look for them. Also the predator mite is said to eat eggs and adults, however they can only eat so many adults and eggs aday, so they may not be the best control.

of all the sprays i have used i would stay away from pyrethrums, well as a spray anyway, i found it just added time to maturity,, dynamite is good, but is sold as a foliar feed, but dose kill mites, drys them out and they soon die, anyhow, take it easy and sorry if im starting to get long winded.

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