Killing spider mites during W6 of flower - no COA to worry about

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Gevorgg1994

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Yesterday I walked into my main flower room and nearly had a heart attack. A few of my top colas wrapped in webbing and those little fuckers crawling all over. I hadn’t even seen a single one near my trees in months and spray plant therapy religiously leading up to the 12/12 switch.

My plants are all personal smoke and I don’t really care about a small change in taste or much other than terminating them without hurting my floeer quality and yield.

What would you guys do if you were in my situation? I found some suggestions online but would rather hear a success story from someone who’s done it. Would a 5% hydrogen peroxide solution do the job or would eggs survive and recolonize quick enough to cause harm before I harvest in a month?

Thank you so much
 
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Mak'er Grow

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Anything sprayed on the buds will cause the buds to 'die'... ended up taking a few clones and surround them in a tote filled with alcohol and cleaner solution and trashed everything else...emptied grow room fully...washed every piece before it went back into my grow room 3 or 4 times and vacuumed everywhere and everything then finally, after about a year of different cleaner and attempts, I got rid of them.
Best you may do for now is vacuum until done if your close...but they are a bitch to get rid of in my experience...sorry to be a downer.
Best of luck and happy growin' :P
 
II69II

II69II

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Once again, I am telling someone of my great success with neem oil. Neem oil is non toxic to humans. You could possibly alter the taste but better than pesticides. I take a 16.9 fl oz bottle and add 1/4 tbsp of organic neems and slightly less than 1/4 of dish soap in warmed RO water. I usually warm the RO in the bottle with hot water running on it as I dont know or care to find out if boiling water changes the ph. I never used neem on a flowering plant but from what the internet tells me, youll be fine, with possible change of taste. You could just let it flower for an extra week and maybe spray it with some water before you harvest idk. Just make sure not to spray with the lights on, do all that at sun down.

Vitamin Shoppe

www.vitaminshoppe.com www.vitaminshoppe.com

This shit is reaaaally good, its only 10 bucks
 
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Jjgrow420

Jjgrow420

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Mak'er Grow said:
Anything sprayed on the buds will cause the buds to 'die'... ended up taking a few clones and surround them in a tote filled with alcohol and cleaner solution and trashed everything else...emptied grow room fully...washed every piece before it went back into my grow room 3 or 4 times and vacuumed everywhere and everything then finally, after about a year of different cleaner and attempts, I got rid of them.
Best you may do for now is vacuum until done if your close...but they are a bitch to get rid of in my experience...sorry to be a downer.
Best of luck and happy growin' :P
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So when it rains all my buds are gona die?
 
GanjaJack

GanjaJack

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If they can be shipped in time... LADY BUGS.

Outside of that?

If they're outdoors, you can spray them off with a hose, you can get pretty vigorous and not worry about effecting potency too bad..... You WILL damage trichs, but, you WILL get a harvest. (Trichs can be pretty resilient to being abused, especially outside, they also will grow back or produce more depending on weather conditions.)

Add a little soap if you like... soap suffocates them. Hell, put mint soap on there... Mites hate mint. Wash off the soap good, it shouldn't effect flavor too much, if it does, it will taste like mint.... Instead of whatever nasty insecticide shit...

I tried my own home made hot sauce with peppers that I grew myself... I was crying for a week from the hot pepper smell in my house.. LOL! Not to mention, it got into my buds, and made them taste like I was smoking Diablo Buds. LOL! That batch was a complete loss...
 
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bk78

bk78

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GanjaJack said:
If they can be shipped in time... LADY BUGS.

Outside of that?

If they're outdoors, you can spray them off with a hose, you can get pretty vigorous and not worry about effecting potency too bad..... You WILL damage trichs, but, you WILL get a harvest. (Trichs can be pretty resilient to being abused, especially outside, they also will grow back or produce more depending on weather conditions.)

Add a little soap if you like... soap suffocates them. Hell, put mint soap on there... Mites hate mint. Wash off the soap good, it shouldn't effect flavor too much, if it does, it will taste like mint.... Instead of whatever nasty insecticide shit...

I tried my own home made hot sauce with peppers that I grew myself... I was crying for a week from the hot pepper smell in my house.. LOL! Not to mention, it got into my buds, and made them taste like I was smoking Diablo Buds. LOL! That batch was a complete loss...
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Lady bugs do absolutely fuck all. It’s their larvae that actually put in the work.

This is 6th grade science class here dude, you should know this kind of stuff being a master like yourself.
 
xtsho

xtsho

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2.5-3 tsp citric acid in a quart of water. It's a contact killer and will kill them dead.

II69II said:
Once again, I am telling someone of my great success with neem oil. Neem oil is non toxic to humans. You could possibly alter the taste but better than pesticides. I take a 16.9 fl oz bottle and add 1/4 tbsp of organic neems and slightly less than 1/4 of dish soap in warmed RO water. I usually warm the RO in the bottle with hot water running on it as I dont know or care to find out if boiling water changes the ph. I never used neem on a flowering plant but from what the internet tells me, youll be fine, with possible change of taste. You could just let it flower for an extra week and maybe spray it with some water before you harvest idk. Just make sure not to spray with the lights on, do all that at sun down.

Vitamin Shoppe

www.vitaminshoppe.com www.vitaminshoppe.com

This shit is reaaaally good, its only 10 bucks
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You don't want to spray neem at week 6 of flower. Or any other oil based product.



GanjaJack said:
If they can be shipped in time... LADY BUGS.

Outside of that?

If they're outdoors, you can spray them off with a hose, you can get pretty vigorous and not worry about effecting potency too bad..... You WILL damage trichs, but, you WILL get a harvest. (Trichs can be pretty resilient to being abused, especially outside, they also will grow back or produce more depending on weather conditions.)

Add a little soap if you like... soap suffocates them. Hell, put mint soap on there... Mites hate mint. Wash off the soap good, it shouldn't effect flavor too much, if it does, it will taste like mint.... Instead of whatever nasty insecticide shit...

I tried my own home made hot sauce with peppers that I grew myself... I was crying for a week from the hot pepper smell in my house.. LOL! Not to mention, it got into my buds, and made them taste like I was smoking Diablo Buds. LOL! That batch was a complete loss...
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Ladybugs, predatory mites, all a waste of time especially once you have a mite infestation.


CITRIC ACID!
 
hotrodharley

hotrodharley

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Gevorgg1994 said:
Yesterday I walked into my main flower room and nearly had a heart attack. A few of my top colas wrapped in webbing and those little fuckers crawling all over. I hadn’t even seen a single one near my trees in months and spray plant therapy religiously leading up to the 12/12 switch.

My plants are all personal smoke and I don’t really care about a small change in taste or much other than terminating them without hurting my floeer quality and yield.

What would you guys do if you were in my situation? I found some suggestions online but would rather hear a success story from someone who’s done it. Would a 5% hydrogen peroxide solution do the job or would eggs survive and recolonize quick enough to cause harm before I harvest in a month?

Thank you so much
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Botanigard. Doesn’t kill the bud. It’s a biological. You can use it right up to chop. Just spray them with it and rinse chopped plants in cold clean water.
 
xtsho

xtsho

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hotrodharley said:
Botanigard. Doesn’t kill the bud. It’s a biological. You can use it right up to chop. Just spray them with it and rinse chopped plants in cold clean water.
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Regardless of what's used plants will definitely need to be washed to remove the dead bugs.

I like citric acid because it's inexpensive and it works. Citric acid is the active ingredients in commercial products like Dr Zymes and Nuke Em both of which can also be used up until harvest. I just skip the middleman and mix it with water myself when needed.
 
hotrodharley

hotrodharley

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xtsho said:
Regardless of what's used plants will definitely need to be washed to remove the dead bugs.

I like citric acid because it's inexpensive and it works. Citric acid is the active ingredients in commercial products like Dr Zymes and Nuke Em both of which can also be used up until harvest. I just skip the middleman and mix it with water myself when needed.
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Only drawback to Botanigard is the cost going in. A neighbor is using Nuke Em.
 
II69II

II69II

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xtsho said:
2.5-3 tsp citric acid in a quart of water. It's a contact killer and will kill them dead.



You don't want to spray neem at week 6 of flower. Or any other oil based product.





Ladybugs, predatory mites, all a waste of time especially once you have a mite infestation.


CITRIC ACID!
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Forsure, thank you for the knowledge.
 
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