Been fighting mine with a hard spray every 3 days, followed 5 hours later by a rinse with fresh water . Using Spinosad, and just about have it contained. Have not seen anymore leaf damage since I started, and caught it early enough to have never seen webs nor had a full on infection. I seem to be staying ahead of them, and the plants have not suffered much at all. I will keep using it through 6 or 7 weeks of flower, the 3 -4 weeks will just be water blasts every 3 days.
Seems the cold water from my sprayer does a really good job of knocking them down. They are so lazy they will sometimes NOT MOVE for 2-3 days. Then the Monterey spray has a chance.
I start with the sprayer UNDER the plants and completely soak the undersides with my long wand. Do all the plants that way, and their pots too. Raining from the underside of all the leaf’s. Let it sit 20 minutes, THEN completely soak the plant from the topside. This seems to get a huge majority of the live bastards. Regardless of what is written, Spinosad DOES NOT seem to kill their eggs. WHY I do an every 3 day hit.
Will my spiders become immune to it…NO…come on, will take generations and generations.
The fresh water wash seems to work well. Do it 2 hours before lights out, and have a big ass oscillating fan blowing on them so at nighty night time they are 100% dry.
IS it ideal, lol, NO, but gotta do what ya gotta do! The plants seem to be getting use to it, and taking it in stride. They LOVE the fresh water rinse, and will pray till lights out .
I am not sure IF I can get rid of them in the flower room 100% BUT I CAN contain them, keep their #'s way way down, and not let them breath long enough to FUBAR my run!!!
I hate these lil bastage’s, truly do. Ran for years without any, took a cut recently and …y’all know the rest. 100% my fault…but I am dealing with it.