Anyone use ladybugs for mites???

spencer2121 said:

Damn this seems like a lot of work. I'd like to try something more simple. After these 4 finish I'm moving my grow and plan on fogging it out pretty good before I move anything in. I'm just trying to get through this next month. What could I use as a simple solution without damaging the buds??

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Mighty wash! the safest most affective shit in the world for killing mites, its nothing but water man, 99.8335 percent water! dig?

spencer2121 said:

How's the mighty wash effect the buds?? I've heard of it but ya know there's a billion things out there!

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Its water, its water that is "frequency adjusted" , you could drink the shit in a survival situation I'm sure (don't try this at home) . It's water that's undergone a process, 99.8335 percent water the rest inert ingredients, find that in any oil/chemical based(you won't) spray and it must be mighty wash you just found.

budsMI said:

I'm in MI and see plenty of cases of them around here!!

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hmm good to no, im not toooo far from mi ...ive never gotten mites but then again i prefer to lock my system up in a closed invironment and i take no air in from the outside and dont use ducting to anywhere besides maybe the next room to control heat issues...maybe this is why i never get mites...

kills fuck out of mites. eggs too, kills them real good, just make sure you spray well, all you can settle for in some regions is extreme control, you'll never eradicate them.

I guess I'll be buying a bottle of it tomorrow and I'll keep you guys posted I hope it works!! If it don't you all will be hearing from me !!! Lol

kermit2692 said:

hmm good to no, im not toooo far from mi ...ive never gotten mites but then again i prefer to lock my system up in a closed invironment and i take no air in from the outside and dont use ducting to anywhere besides maybe the next room to control heat issues...maybe this is why i never get mites...

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do you shower and change into a jump suit after say a walk in the yard? or do you have any pets you allow in your grow? Not only air brought in from outside is the culprit. a sealed room def helps but they have ways of making it in, its fucking uncanny.

dbkick said:

kills fuck out of mites. eggs too, kills them real good, just make sure you spray well, all you can settle for in some regions is extreme control, you'll never eradicate them.

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Before I even set my room up, I sprayed a lot of bleach around the entire room, laid a tarp down across the floor then planted everything and set up all my brand new equipment, didn't see mites for a month ! Then bam they fucking set up shop !!!

dbkick said:

do you shower and change into a jump suit after say a walk in the yard? or do you have any pets you allow in your grow? Not only air brought in from outside is the culprit. a sealed room def helps but they have ways of making it in, its fucking uncanny.

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I'm very guilty of not really changing clothes after a walk in the yard or whatever. I know, I know but I figured I'd be ok. Learning everyday

spencer2121 said:

I guess I'll be buying a bottle of it tomorrow and I'll keep you guys posted I hope it works!! If it don't you all will be hearing from me !!! Lol

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Use it twice a month and if you have a small grow a gallon a month will do. It's not the cheapest way to kill mites but like I said in my mind it is the most affective and safest, I don't like spraying my plants with oils but purespray green is pretty good too, cheap to use but just not as affective as mighty wash.

spencer2121 said:

Damn this seems like a lot of work. I'd like to try something more simple. After these 4 finish I'm moving my grow and plan on fogging it out pretty good before I move anything in. I'm just trying to get through this next month. What could I use as a simple solution without damaging the buds??

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Ya thats why i stopped trying to use them, its nice for outdoors but indoor use is just too damn hard. Foggers work alright but they hurt some plants and the strong ones really really hurt the plants. The best spray to use in flower IMO is a 70% solution of isopropyl alcohol. It kills all stages of growth as well as eggs and evaporates quickly, start out with a 50% solution first and see how that goes because it can burn the plants at higher concentrations.

i choose to order 99.9% Isopropyl Alcohol Titration Quality because it is the highest purity you can get usually used in making biodiesel, the store brand 70% alcohol leaves a residue that i dislike because of the impurities, but the 90% you can get at the store isn't too bad, but i still don't trust it personally.

If you have a CO2 System or Tank that can achieve 15000 PPM of CO2 in your garden then do that every couple days. The co2 suffocates them at high concentrations but that can get pretty expensive so i would use it as an emergency only SM killer

dbkick said:

do you shower and change into a jump suit after say a walk in the yard? or do you have any pets you allow in your grow? Not only air brought in from outside is the culprit. a sealed room def helps but they have ways of making it in, its fucking uncanny.

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no no pets in the room, ofcourse i dont get all rad suit about it lol, guess ive just gotten lucky?? i mean i dont go out and play in the woods or anything my outside time is limited to mowing the grass once a week and walking from and to my car then right back inside whereever im going..maybe a ride on a boat here and there...what happens to mites in the winter? do they die off and leave eggs for next sesason or do they survive it outside?

Cannabisculture said:

If you have a CO2 System or Tank that can achieve 15000 PPM of CO2 in your garden then do that every couple days. The co2 suffocates them at high concentrations but that can get pretty expensive so i would use it as an emergency only SM killer

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saw this method attempted on weed wars (tv) ....didnt work..for him at least

I do use co2 but I only have a 20# tank and it takes forever to get refilled because they have to send it out so that's not really gonna work for me plus I think co2 at 15000 can kill a human no?

yes, that's lethal to you and your plants. I cringe everytime I see someone mention the co2 method

5000 ppm is lethal.

I was in the grow once and forgot the co2 was on, was knelt down taking some hits of wax and just admiring shit. I got up and next thing you know I planted my head in the wall. you might laugh it off as it was the wax hits and I got a head rush from standing up , but I know it was the co2.

kermit2692 said:

no no pets in the room, ofcourse i dont get all rad suit about it lol, guess ive just gotten lucky?? i mean i dont go out and play in the woods or anything my outside time is limited to mowing the grass once a week and walking from and to my car then right back inside whereever im going..maybe a ride on a boat here and there...what happens to mites in the winter? do they die off and leave eggs for next sesason or do they survive it outside?

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No pets at the present time but there was pets before I set up the grow, infact I had to wait 2 weeks till the cats were gone to set up, I HATE cats!
Yeah I'm guilty of mowing the grass and and then coming into the Grow to water or whatever as I mentioned I was spraying azamax like every week once I noticed the mites, then when I set up the flower room that's when it got bad so I drenched the room in bleach, habenro mixture that I seen on here, and azamax. That did the trick for awhile but now it's just out of control.. Lady bugs did a pretty good job the first week but now it's just bad bad bad!

second that.....cats are a waste of fir and air

Well I like No Pest strips for knocking em down if really bad. Chemicals are last resort. I have heard you can run the temp up to 115 for 1/2 hour but I have never tried it.

Damn, see this is why I don't always like listening to info on forums, people just straight up give you info that is just plain bad info! I appreciate anyone trying to help me solve a problem but let's say I set down my iPad and cranked up my co2 to only 8000 ppm I could have died ! Lol damn man