Well just a heads up. I bought the stupid expensive pyrethium tr foggers. I roughly cleaned areas. Threw out all cloth materials ect Vacuum everything and spread everything out. Let 2 bombs off one directly in room. And one in hallway outside the room. When i went back a lot of leaves were crisped but i found it wasnt burn. The bombs turned the bugs up on high. The bugs destroyed most the leaves and were litterally hanging out on top of the leaves that were still healthy. Like the bomb put them in overdrive to destroy everything. Inspection revealed probably 5 x the bugs i saw before the bombing. Litterally 20 mites+ per leaf. So everything is going in trash. Tent plants everything but the lights. Then once thats done im skipping all safe pesticides. Any suggestion on cheap deadly pesticide to spray whole place with is appreciated. I was thinking just one of the skull n crossed bone deals at home depot. I know i was steered to sns products but $80 for another maybe. Ill pass. I want stuff thats dangerous. Ill suit up. Im now set for a 4 month break before ill harvest anything i want no chance of any bug living.
I washed all the spider mites off my clones and went from there, spider mite free. It just took 30min underwater then vegetable sprayer. Cool water.
Yeah ive hosed em sprayed em bombed em aint none of that working. A small amount of them maybe but they litterally own the entire room. Im trashing it all and bleaching every inch. Then ill run the ozone generator for twice as long as it says cause i have no faith in that either. Then ill buy all new equipment n start over. Keeping a small infestation at bay is different then 10s of thousands of mites on 40 or so plants in every wooden crevice in the fabric pots etc. Its worse than anything ive seen. I battled broad mites and i won but these things are so deep im not beating myself day after day to have em still be there.
Pests can put a fellow over the edge . I recommend deep breaths of fresh air and try to relax.
Been in your situation a couple times no need to toss anything expensive a good cleaning should take care of the mites especially if your going to be down for a few months .
I’d recommend a few sulpher burns once you’ve sprayed everything down .
I agree with Shishkaberry, you dont want to chuck out a good tent.
I have been battling the little fuckers for a year, they seemed resistant to everything, after Shishkaberry gave me a heads up on sulphur burning, I tried it and found sulphur burning has done the trick in the veg tent, and the room its in.
I have been mite free after 2 burns for a couple of months now, just waiting for lock down to finish, so I can off load some plants to friends for out door grows, and I will crank up the heat for a few days and give it another burn. Then once my flower plants are done drying the flower room will get the same treatment.
They can be beat dont give up.
Do you have a magnifying glass to easily see them? I scrubbed and scrubbed after removing the big leaves until I could see none were left. Submerging them under water worked better than just holding them under a stream of heavy spray, it can really drown the buggers. I feel your pain with the infestation it’s like shiska said. Try to relax and set your mind to defeating them. I cleaned up the bloom room with a swiffer sweeper then moved my veg plants over there after I had scrubbed them, and then cleaned up the veg room with the swiffer as well. I was so depressed after the first 5 things I tried didn’t dent them including freeze their ass at -13C. It was like a ray of sunshine when they were all finally dead. I got to keep all the strains I had and run each one after it was all over.
Yeah im in the ghetto im not sure i can burn sulphur. I was little pissed but im pretty clear minded. The shutdown is cause im already got only 2 in flower and they have mites too. Clones are all savaged by mites. As far as replacing , my 4x8 has sat collecting dust on top and under it in that spot for 5 years running hard. The floor has been trashed from stains and tears. The cheap metal frame is rusting at the joints leaking light too. I kinda wanted to get a real tent anyways. Im going with 2 4x4 cloud lab tents much nicer construction heavier framework and actually light proof. I was just pissed that the bombs seemed to bring them out to party. I need a full real clean and only way i can do that is tearing down that busted tent and scrubbing everything. I cant really blame nothing but my laziness. I was just hoping bombs would clear me to pop new strains n get back to doing what i like. But i got more work to do. My whole setup wasnt planned proper ir nothing. Now i know a lot more and i feel a full reset is best way to take advantage of what ive learned n put it to use. The right way this time. Overall its only going to cost me the price of the better tents and cleaning materials and time to do it right. Thanks for your concern im not gone crazy just was lil pissed.
Yeah theyre so deep i dont need a glass. I can see em naked eye like 20+ per leaf on my clones. I just want to move forward to new and better things. And i know if i dont get em all theyll be back again. Im gonna treat it a lot different now. I was just winging it running perpetuals with way too many plants n not paying attention. Im gonna clean everything good trash the trash n soak the room in essential oil mix to make em not even want to be near it. Then im gonna keep it clean the biggest mistake i made was just running running running ,spilling stuff and not having enough time to keep up with the basic neccessary maintenance. I dont live in that house. Its a grow house i ran til the wheels fell off. I got to get some new wheels under it now n take care of it like i should have before.
excellent! I like to hear a good IPM plan that includes lots of cleaning. It’s the only pest management I do. If there are fallen leaves on the floor I feel like some kind of wild animal was loose, gotta clean it up lol!
Yeah i had dead leaves dirt n all. No good. Theres dust on top the tent 1/4" thick. I dropped the ball n they picked it up. Like you said im gonna clean it spotless then soak all barriers in essential oils n keep it clean this time.
Wheres @vernal at he’s the man for the knockout chemicals. People will bash his methods but they work.
Mites are a cinch. Abamectin (Avid), bifenazate (Floramite), spiromesifen (Forbid).
Problem goes away in a matter of hours, only a few mL of any of those products. Doesn’t harm the plants whatsoever.
Systemic action ensures any stragglers or eggs that hatch also die. OP wouldn’t need to clean anything, or replace anything.
Ozone works wonders…(in the right amount)
Not trying to get in to an argument with vernal about pesticides here lol but my advice is for sure to skip the avid. If you’re trying to spray to get rid of mites, this is what has worked consistently well for me in the past: mix 1oz lost coast plant therapy and 0.5 oz isopropyl per gallon of water and spray everything- entire plant, pots, the floor-seriously, everything. Do that every evening before the lights go off for a week, and be religious about contamination (clothes, showering, etc). Also get a good 60-100x scope and scope every day.
it’s that sweet sweet taste of hydrogen cyanide. Some people can’t get enough!!!
That certain “je ne sais quoi” 
I’ve wondered about that. I always figured the concentration that would eradicate mites would also damage plants. I know people have killed them with high concentrations of CO2 but plants can handle far more of that than anything with legs.
I did kill my plants the first-time…lol Then I learned…hahaha
I run 3 minutes a week in my room. Keeps everything at bay including mold.
@Pedro_Bann used big plastic garbage bags & CO2 to sanitize plants at some absurd concentration.
It’s heartwarming stuff to a grower… 
