Did those Spidermites canopy your bud and you want to save it?

I had an outbreak of spidermites that attacked a 3 1/2 ' Blue Dream that was emaculant until they hit, they hit hard.


This happened a week from harvest, I noticed them grouping and tried to just swipe the leaves to kill them hoping to make it last until harvest. Well two days later I came out and had two lower colas under a spider infested web of spidermites. This devestated me because I immediately removed that plant and chopped it up. The infested ones I threw away. The others I hung to dry on a "WHITE" plastic hanger. The next day I went out there and the entire lower part of the hanger was covered in spider mites. I repeated this with a clean hanger throughtout the dry. This eventually thinned out to no spidermites seen by the last few days.

I mention this because I expected to throw the two oz I had left away. It turned out very clean and smoked very nice. This may help someone that might lose their only medication. I grow my own and its like any other medication, you run out you suffer.

Ding! Anyone have anything to add?

so you saying the mites moved of the bud and on to the white hanger? is so it seem they like white?

I guess he's saying mites escape a dead plant. Which seems plausible (I've never had mites).

k well the hole hanger thing was confusing lol. its normal for any bug to leave the host if its dead

Yes Spidermites will leave a plant as soon as the affected foliage has been removed from a plant. This is why we say that cleanliness is godliness and remove our dead leaves and brances from our grow room. You could chop down a plant that is infested and watch them form a train and leave the plant even though it will take a day or so to completely die. Another example is the use of tanglefoot on drying lines. The mites will try to escape the hanging buds, and you use the tanglefoot to contain them.