Method-1 PPS is supposed to be organic friendly, i think its just essential oils with isopropyl alcohol or something, but it was fairly ineffective at combating thrips … i wouldn’t rely on humidity and temperature alone to take out a spider mite infestation though 
if you really don’t like pesticides you should just trash everything and start over
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I have a sprayer and some horticultural oil. Also neem. Been cleaning and removing affected plant material and areas and spraying with neem oil and or just cold water at times. Right now humidity is high and they aren’t exploding like they can/will if unchecked in good flowering conditions.
I’ve also applied Captain Jacks Deadbug and 3 in 1 insecticidal soap at different times. At the moment things are alright Gonna spray with the hort oil next day or two.
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Anyone know how to kill these things?
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By using some strong chemical shit multiple times. There are other methods though that will keep them at bay somebody here lately used sulphur powder but doesn’t go down well in the weed flavour.
Burn your house down and start over from scratch.
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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.
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Alot of misinformation when talking about mites. If ur a commercial grower trying to handle it get ur hands on avid, floramite, hexagon, and forbid. Rotate em every 3 days with a different pesticide. Dont try any organic shit and neem oil has proven to not work with mites. Dont play with em kill em early. I’d actually use those 4 products as a preventative up until week 2 of flower
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I use this when my girls are in veg…
https://www.homedepot.ca/product/insectigone-crawling-insect-killer/1000115905
“Pest control:
Diatomite is of value as an insecticide, because of its abrasive and physico-sorptive properties. The fine powder adsorbs lipids from the waxy outer layer of the exoskeletons of many species of insects; this layer acts as a barrier that resists the loss of water vapour from the insect’s body. Damaging the layer increases the evaporation of water from their bodies, so that they dehydrate, often fatally.”
-Wikipedia
I lived in shithole apartment, like, 15’ish years ago…neighbour had bedbugs…ultimately, I got bedbugs…$3000 heat treatment was out…$500 chemical treatment was out…got 2 bottles of this diatomaceous earth and dusted it EVERYWHERE!!!..every nook and cranny of the couch, bed, every corner of every room, along all the baseboards, into all the electrical outlets (this is how I assume they got I to my apartment)…everywhere!!! Cleaned it all up 7 days later…NO BEDBUGS!! Never had an issue after that.
Lightly dust the plants with it (it’ll look like they came out of a coke party). Leave it on for a few days and then rinse or dunk clean with fresh warm water. Repeat as needed.…probably won’t need to do it again, as long as all the eggs hatch before you rinse.
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Floromite and Oberon 4f works g great. My mites laughed at spinosad
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only had mites indoor once i treated with off the shelf with traditional products made for edibles. Never seen em since but our climate is coldish and tempo
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Listen to this guy. He speaks truth.
Don’t cover your plants in diatomaceous earth or waste time with organic remedies that will frustrate your mites but not kill them. Do it right the first time, use what the pros use. If diatomaceous earth worked, every greenhouse in America would use it, since DE is so cheap, it is practically free.
Referring to the other guy, if you ever get bedbugs for the love of god don’t use DE. It DOES NOT WORK. You will still have bedbugs and a huge mess to clean up. Use professional products, and do it yourself.
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HEY EVERYONE i just had mites this grow i used Cultured biologix mercenary it’s an all natural blend of essential oils
I was skeptical at first but it actually works i sprayed daily for about a week cleaned my tent and slowly backed off. I had zero negative effects and the mites are gone. I also defoliated and had a fan blowing under the the canopy to make it too windy for them to be comfortable got some wind burn on lower popcorn nugs but no mites.
I also only had one plant so i can’t speak for an infestation with numerous plants
I figured I’d leave this bit of info for people like myself not wanting to use chemicals
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I had mites in this lol ended up cutting them since they were in week 6 of flower and couldn’t use Floromite or Oberon aka forbid. Cut everything but 2 seedlings sprayed room and tent in Floromite then a week later with Oberon. Got 2 clones from a friend saw mite damage in 4 days sprayed them with Oberon and they are happily mite free now.
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NOT TRUE…they laughed at your usage maybe, but not at Spinosad. Done CORRECTLY, it absolutely kills the little fuckers.
Im 5 weeks into my flip, started hitting them with Spinosad, Neem, Pyr, round Robin 3 weeks ago. Could not see a living mite yesterday. Still have eggs, but will keep up Spinosad every 3rd day, harvest will not be affected.
To each his own, why the world still works…
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Ive used Rosemary oil… 2 drops per gallon of water. Havent seen em since.
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No it absolutely will not kill them. Sprayed every 3rd day for 2 weeks and it only got worse. Chopped the flowering plants and hit everything else with Floromite and they are gone after one spray. You can play with the weak shit all you want but I’m not playing with the fuckers anymore
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Hey man,
Vernal is a great source of info, but I think he may be mistaken on the diatomaceous earth. I’m currently looking to find a mite infested plant to put in my garage under a 50w cob…I will apply the de and take pics along the way…I need to do this soon though, as fall and winter are creeping up quickly.
Does de make a mess?..fuckin’rights it does…is de effective, fuckin" eh it is!!
Mites (and bedbugs…and roaches) are the hardest things to get rid of…I can tell you that I had 100% success rate with 1 (ONE) application.
mites lay eggs in the stems and leaves …you do not kill a mite infestation with one application of DE
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To each his own. Maybe the spray your using with Spinosad does not work, but the one I have SURE DOES
My next harvest is proof if it…Sorry it did not work for you, I am NOT using anything else.
Not gonna argue with you, whats the point, you just used Floromite.
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