Bugs suck the joy out of growing 
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Can you elaborate? Iāve read that sulfur is great for killing spider mites?
Iād use sulfur for PM outdoors, but not indoor. I dont care for the smell, and I dont really have PM issues indoors, so I wonāt use it in that situation. This bottle of Regalia has lasted a while, and it works well, and the cost isnāt the only thing that matters to me. Price has actually gone down a bit on this stuff too.
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Use elemental sulfur to limit stink. Sulfur can affect the mites, but definitely doesnāt wipe them out. Iāve experimented with it in the greenhouse when I had the mites. What I learned was that spider mites overwinter on perennial plants. So I moved them outside and the mite problem was over for good. Only plants in the greenhouse over winter are immune to mites. Like the native clematis.
Indoors I use clean room tech, where I clean myself off before I enter the room. Use UV light to check for mildew colonies and wipe it out before it ever gets into the grow. UV light makes mildew infested plants glow white, while a healthy plant glows red.
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I had to spray sulfur indoors last winterā¦ too cold to take the plants out. I was worried about the smell getting up into the house, and worried the overspray might corrode the tools, ducting, wires and equipment down there. But I had to whack that pm.
That fogger works so well, there was hardly any overspray. Iād rigged up a tarp to catch it, but there was nothing to catch. And the little smell there was, dissipated pretty quickly, and never made it upstairsā¦ which I would never have heard the end of! Of course youāre not spraying, and donāt have pm, but just in case you ever doā¦
Iām really curious about the sulfur eliminating mites, though. Have you been able to scope before and after?
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I havenāt actually seen any mites on these. Iām just doing it as a precaution. I just Googled āspider mitesā and āsulfurā and got a whole bunch of stuff that says it works so im doing it lol
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I really hope that was worth doing.
Had to pull the stakes, set the pots down in a trash bag so I could tie it around the stalk to keep dirt from falling out, then dunked them in a 13g trashcan with water and almost 500 grams of citric acid. Then when it was done soaking, I had to hold it upside down over the trash can to drip for about 1 min, then defoliated, re-staked, and put back in the grow room. And cleaned up the flower room AND where I made my mess lol. I dont think Iāll be dunking again. Iāll use the mini fogger from here on out. Iām glad I dunked this first time, but holy fuck was that a lot of work.
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Farming aināt easy. Glad youāre getting it under control.
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Duuuude it would be so awesome if that worked 
Sending good anti-mite vibes
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Does Co2 kill spider mites? Found a couple different sources that says it does @ 15000 ppm
How to deal with spider mites in late flowering stage ā Grow Guru.
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It wonāt kill them. Spider mites are actually really hardy, as they survive overwinter at -18C by clinging to a plant bud.
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Sweet! How many PTS total does that make for you? Sorry to hear about your mites, zee bugs suck for sure!
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At least 4, maybe 6 total. One of the ones that popped up in that pic is a vegetable Peppers, I think. The first one that popped up just died off for no reason. Thereās 2 more in there, but āvigorousā is not a word Iād use to describe them. Theyāve just been chilling with their heads above soil but havenāt done much else, similar to the first one that just died off. No noticeable growth over the last day or 2. None of the others have popped up either.
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I havent seen any live spider mites for a couple days but this SSDD is ruined so its getting trashed today. What a waste of fucking time
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You can probably make hash out of it. No promises itāll be awesome hash, but at least youād get something!
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I dunno what to do. Not a fan of thinking there might be dead spider mites in the weed Iām smoking, but when I did the dunking, a few tops broke off, so I hung them up to dry in my bathroom. It was dry enough to smoke, so I just smoked a bowl and Iām pretty fucking stoned lol. The bud I just smoked also looks a lot better than whatās still on the plant though. This is a pic of what i just smoked
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Maybe Iāll just dry them out and see how bad it is during the trimming. I just canāt stand the thought of smoking dead spider mites. Maybe I just need to chill and stop freaking out and see what I can salvage. Some of the damage Iām seeing could be from the heavy amount of citric acid I sprayed every night for a week. I was hitting them pretty hard. I was in there for 45 mins every night after lights out dousing the buds as much as I could.
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Maybe I just canāt see it, but those recent pictures donāt look particularly like spider mite damageā¦ thereās barely any stippling, just leaves starting to go necrotic at the edges. Seems reasonably likely thatās from the spraying. Spider mites would have the plant covered in webs before doing that kind of damage, as well. Like Joe said, Iād at least use that bud for hash/RSO, if not to smoke.
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