Safe bug solution?

Kennyg420666

Kennyg420666

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Russet or broad or cyclemen mites are by far the worste in my eyes. You hear some guys saying " I wish I had normal spider mites" because there is next to no information in any type of grow book anywhere on this planet. You can only use harsh types of pesticides to kill and emimknate yhe population
 
CarpeNocturnum

CarpeNocturnum

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Made a garlic powder and chilli pepper mixture. Started a bit weaker spice wise and sprayed on only two of the branches.
Soaked the plant with it today.
Didn't kill them all but helped a bit. Going to continue this.
I have a few purple kush seedlings and I'll want to make sure they're at least a foot tall before I flower them so I hope to use all of the natural methods suggested to me in this thread in the mean time.
Then once I start flowering them im going to try and order ladybugs and use them as natural pest control till harvest.
 
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TheRealDman

TheRealDman

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CarpeNocturnum said:
Made a garlic powder and pepper mixture. Started a bit weaker spice wise and sprayed on only two of the branches.
Soaked the plant with it today.
Didn't kill them all but helped a bit. Going to continue this.
I have a few purple kush seedlings and I'll want to make sure they're at least a foot tall before I flower them so I hope to use all of the natural methods suggested to me in this thread in the mean time.
Then once I start flowering them im going to try and order ladybugs and use them as natural pest control till harvest.
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I would advise against lady bugs indoors, they just fly around the lights and die. A much better alternative would be predator mites.
 
HerbalRelief

HerbalRelief

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The most effective treatment for mites I know of is to let your room go to 55 f (~12.8c) at nights when in flower. It works since they die around that temp.

*Edit: okay they might not die but my anecdotal evidence assures you that at temps under 55f things go bad for the mite and even a bad infestation can be totally controlled until harvest using low temps at night.

Plus your buds will turn purple.
 
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CarpeNocturnum

CarpeNocturnum

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So I hope to be picking up my fan, filter and ducting tomorrow , then when I get that all set up I may just throw it into flowering. I wanna get neem cake and diamotecious earth first though. Spraying the shit out of my plants with water is doing a great job of almost eliminating most of the mites
 
Jackal69

Jackal69

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Maybe it's like aroma therapy. ... spray day of harvest.... mmmmmmm smell
Then at the end if the day have one flying skull of a headache :spew:
 
c ray

c ray

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I'd remove damaged leaves, unhealthy looking ones which are holding the plant back and potentially harboring eggs. another trick is to get some tanglefoot from a garden store, and apply a ring around the stalk above where the mites are, to keep them from climbing up. it's a bit messy to work with.

I got some of these guys last year
http://www.appliedbio-nomics.com/products/fallacis/
 
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CannaReview

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If you can get your hands on it Mantis from Dominion Organics works really good but its a contact killer and need to be sprayed every 3 days or so. I have customer who only uses Bug B Gone. He uses it through veg and then up to first week. Then stops and once more spray with a few weeks to go. Rarely has any bug issues and doesn’t use any heavy pesticides at all.
 
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CarpeNocturnum

CarpeNocturnum

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Guys, I put a cap full of neem oil in 2l water and am spraying the plants daily now for a few weeks then I'm flipping to 12/22
I have diatomaceous earth (food grade) sprinkled on the top of the soil of my plants .
Does this seem like the right approach? Drench by spraying the plant in neem oil for a few weeks?
 
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