Super mites?

This is very frustrating for me. I grew a bagseed plant from unknown origin. NO MITES, no flies, no bugs of any kind. My friend gave me some clones and now I have a huge bug problem. I have been using azamax and sucrashield alternating. I have not been keeping good enough track of intervals. So it might be 5 to 14 days between treatments. I just know that the day after I spray they are still there. Hell I bought a microscope and looked at one of the little bastards and the little fucker flipped me off. I have read multiple threads and still no luck.
Many people don't act too excited about bugs and say everyone gets em. Almost like it is easy to get rid of them.
I'm having a hell of a time killn them. Please help. After I post this I have to go to work so I will not be able to reply until tonight. Thanx in advance for any help.

you can have 500000 mites in seven days.....keep on it

I will hit them every 3 days alternating from on to the other for a month and hope for the best.

Mites build immunities to chemicals and pesticides.. Chances are your buddy had a mite issue and has been hitting them chemicals since he spotted them, by this time they probably built a immunity to certain chemicals thats why yours arent working. Like the other dude said stay on them and keep on truckin'

are they flowering?

No they are not flowering yet. I want to get the pests gone before I put them into flower, that and I want to veg to about 4ft tall before they go to flower.
I made the mistake of putting one in with the one that I do have into flower. Now I have mights on that one. Its 1 week from flush so I think I will be ok. I hope. I pulled it out and put it back into veg. I'm thinking that when I'm done harvesting I will bomb whats left.

every 3 days for 2 weeks, the eggs hatch every 3 days n are asexual, need no male...peace

Guru Al B. Fuct has recommended using Abamectin to fight spider mites.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abamectin

OK, here is the real deal. I had mites, once. I bought two tiny bottles of miticide off of ebay, floramite and forbid. I used these on my plants in veg, and switched between the two once per month.

no more mites!

galderman0110 said:

This is very frustrating for me. I grew a bagseed plant from unknown origin. NO MITES, no flies, no bugs of any kind. My friend gave me some clones and now I have a huge bug problem. I have been using azamax and sucrashield alternating. I have not been keeping good enough track of intervals. So it might be 5 to 14 days between treatments

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Not going to work. I hit them with a strong oil like azamax first. Then I keep spraying every day (usually with other oil based sprays) until they are gone. This cycle it took me 6 strait days of spraying to eliminate them. You can't just spray every week or two and expect them to be gone. A spidermite reaches maturity ~1 week after hatching, then lays eggs every day for a few weeks before dying. When you spray for mites, you can pretty easily kill every living spidermite if you spray well, but that doesn't end the problem. The next day more eggs will hatch. If those eggs are allowed to live for another week, they lay more eggs. The eggs then take about 3-5 days to hatch. So spraying every two weeks just won't cut it.

You've got to kill them after they've come out of their eggs, but before they've reached sexual maturity. That means spraying every day until you've killed them.

I think that was the key all along but, I have never heard anyone say that spraying everyday was ok. Even if I stress the plants I am fairly confident that I could bring them back to health after the mites are gone.

galderman0110 said:

I think that was the key all along but, I have never heard anyone say that spraying everyday was ok. Even if I stress the plants I am fairly confident that I could bring them back to health after the mites are gone.

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Well I just did it 6 days in a row and it worked just fine and no damage was done. You have to use lighter oil mixes if you do that though. Stuff like Neem oil burns off pretty quick. I don't think it harms the plants. Stuff like Azamax is much heavier and coats the leaves longer. It's a better spray if you're going to spray less frequently, but I wouldn't spray every day with it.

IMO doing anything less will possible control spidermite populations, but will not eliminate them.