what shoud i do? spider mites, 8 weeks flowering...

ok so i have been flowering for about eight weeks and have been fighting a losing battle against spider mites since about the second week of flower. i have lost control at this point--they're getting really close to the buds (pretty much on them) and have whole metropolises built--web cities and there are loads of them and getting to be a lot of damage.

when i look with my microscope, i see cloudy or white trichromes, a couple of amber ones and a lot of clear. i'd say about 40% of the pistils have turned.

i know it's technically not ready. should i harvest now, or wait it out? i am afraid the mites will advance faster than the flowers at this point. these pictures were taken about a week ago.

thanks guys! liz

azamax. thats all i got to say

shit man, thats sum proper nice bud too, and alot of people harvest at cloudy/clear stage, the high isnt as mongy so you cud harvest now or you cud wait a bit, a really experienced grower told me that apparently the spider mites drop off when the buds dried? could be an idea? havnt tried it myself but cud work i guess.

i second that

i recently just faced this prob with my most recent cycle.i was told to go to bed bath a beyond and buy a steamer and treat it three times a the week before you cut. i did not use this method personally i just stuck the plants outside for two days befor i cut them and the cold from the night gave them no chance to live..start wiping the webs down gently with a q tip and pray for the best

I watched a Jorge Cervantes video, and when you have spider mites they will leave your buds when they are harvested. A way to catch and kill them all is to hang your buds on a string, and put a very sticky substance on each end...ex: stickyness---------bud-----bud----bud----bud--------stickyness. The mites will ditch your buds because they are dying. But they cannot travel across the sticky part of the string, and will collect at that sticky area. you can then collect them as best you can ( not really sure how) or you can remove your buds and spray the mites with pesticide. If you smoke a few bugs its ok, much better than smoking fungus and mold

Are there any natural predators for whiteflies that you could introduce into the garden?

ok guys...i harvested.
it is glorious and i will in the future advise people who were in my position not to freak out too much. here is what i ended up doing:
couldn't spray anything this far in to flowering. i don't care what it is, or if it's "organic"--you just can't spray.
one thing you CAN spray is cold, cold water.
i had put 1500 ladybugs in the room at about four weeks of infested flowering stage. i didn't bother to screen in the hood through which the room was being vented, so every minute you spent in the room was punctuated by the catickaticc! of one of those cute little beetles being sucked up the ducting. i hear they really only care for aphids, anyhow.
as far as beneficial bugs go, i also bit the bullet and released thirty dollars worth of predator mites, who seemed to just march off in to the abyss...i saw one of them once, but i think he was the last of his kind...i'd like to say they fought valiantly, but i don't really think so.
but i live in colorado so maybe the lack of humidity went only in the spidermites' favor, not their red adversaries.
i removed every leaf that i considered inhabited by the enemy.
and i put a relentless fan on the plant.

these tactics being employed concurrently slowed those little fuckers down enough for a beautiful first harvest.

i wonder what's next.

very glad to see you won the battle good luck on your next go at it