Eggs?

I have, or hopefully had, a spider mite problem. I've used the foggers, mighty wash, organicide once, and a neem oil mix every 3 days from November 11, till Chrismas, and then I started treating with neem oil mix every other day since. I have not seen mites in a few weeks, but I'm still seeing eggs on the bottom of the leaves. I don't see bite marks and no webbing, but I don't see mites though.

My mix is 1 gallon water, 4 tsp per gallon neem oil , a tablespoon of Dawn, and 2 tsp of SM-90. Sprayed every 48 hours.

How is it that I'm still getting eggs but can't find a single mite? How long do I keep spraying them? They are about the same color as a THC crystal when cloudy, but about half the size, and always found under the leaves.

Can you take a picture. Are you sure your not just seeing trichomes? What are you using to look at the leaves with?

I don't have a way to take a picture. I'm using two scopes, one has a scale printed on the lens printed in thousandths, so I can get a really good idea of the size. It's a 30x. The other, is a 20-40x, it's green, it was about 10$ I found it here, and it works really well.

I'm not 100% that it's not trichomes, but there's no stalk, they are under the leaves, they are smaller my measure than the trichs, and I don't see any clear ones. The trichs are about 2 and a half thousandths, and these alleged eggs are just over a thousandth. They are the color of fog.

The foggy ones are more than likely dead eggs as long as your not seeing gold eggs you should be fine.

I understood spider mite eggs to hatch every 5-7 days so if you can clear that threshold twice you should be over it. I also discovered a product called wash-away at my hydro store that is supposedly oil of cinnamon or something. It was pricey but one treatment and problem was solved. Haven't seen a mite in over 90 days and counting. Good luck!

LoIQ2 said:

I understood spider mite eggs to hatch every 5-7 days so if you can clear that threshold twice you should be over it. I also discovered a product called wash-away at my hydro store that is supposedly oil of cinnamon or something. It was pricey but one treatment and problem was solved. Haven't seen a mite in over 90 days and counting. Good luck!

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Keep spraying every three days and you have at least three different kinds of treatment or you will have them again. Azamax floramite hot shot strips ultimate wash ect ect every three days use something different they call them the borg for a reason.

Michiganja Meduana said:

I don't have a way to take a picture. I'm using two scopes, one has a scale printed on the lens printed in thousandths, so I can get a really good idea of the size. It's a 30x. The other, is a 20-40x, it's green, it was about 10$ I found it here, and it works really well.

I'm not 100% that it's not trichomes, but there's no stalk, they are under the leaves, they are smaller my measure than the trichs, and I don't see any clear ones. The trichs are about 2 and a half thousandths, and these alleged eggs are just over a thousandth. They are the color of fog.

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Kinda like this, after first spray

Temperature makes a difference when your fighting these guys go lower temps until you kill them off.

Thanks so much guys, this has been a real ...experience.