[seamus]

Hi Farmers,i'm also doing battle with the horrible little shits that are the Borg. Nightmare! Got some predators on line ordered yesday,neemed them as well because they could take up to 3-5 days to get to me. Most seem ok today for their spray yesday-but one Widow(ish) girl is getting attacked like mad still,squished a good few just to feel like I'M actually getting the little sods,eye's now sore from staring at them for hours.Should i neem her again,not worried about predators having no grub when they arrive-they can knock themselves out in the garden! Cheers Seamus,one love to all

[markscastle]

If your going chemical I`d use Avid 1/4 tsp per gal. It can be sprayed on the top of leaves and sinks into the tisue.Does nothing until mites eat then kills them.It doesn`t kill eggs but as it lasts about two months most die as the hatch and eat. It`s FDA/USDA approved for food crops.I checked and it`s made from soil fungis extracts.It says it can be used up until two weeks from harvast but I`d never use it in flower myself. I`d use it a up to two weeks before flower and use neem oil if needed in flower. if the flowers finnish with just a few mites no problem because that few cause little damage that late in the stage. When you dry buds any mites will take off looking for a meal anyway.

Myself I will only use chemicals if a major infestation can not be got under control by other means and only on mother plants that will be cloned. After that it`s organic only! I have floromite but have yet to use it.I understand it is also made from soil fungis. Maybe some shroom oil would work on buds? He He He!

[Pandaman]

Wasn't thorough enough with the Neem and the Spider Mites just migrated to an unaffected area. Been keeping them at bay with a spray bottle of water and wiping the leaves. Got two of those Hot Shots - No-Pest Strips. Hoping they will do the job

If they touch my White Widow, Ima go apeshit with a pair of tweezers on them! Grrrrrr!

[sanvanalona]

Does anyone out there know how late into flower azatrol can safely be used? I am about 17 days into flower, I have noticed mites on only one plant in the very back, I would like to use azatrol but am a little scared. I plan on letting the plants go 60 days, so if anyone out there has experience in killing mites in this area please let me know.

[nouvellechef]

I use Floramite and that only. Once in flower and once in veg. Both early on.

[homebrew420]

Originally Posted by sanvanalona

Does anyone out there know how late into flower azatrol can safely be used? I am about 17 days into flower, I have noticed mites on only one plant in the very back, I would like to use azatrol but am a little scared. I plan on letting the plants go 60 days, so if anyone out there has experience in killing mites in this area please let me know.

I have used azamoax, same thing, up to week 6 of an 8 week flower. ALL good. no flavor, or smell altered and smole the same as it always has. With the use of neem I would use it up to the last two weeks. If you are a bit nervous spay down with water over the course of the last 2 weeks. Hope this helps.
Attention[/color]: mites are NOT the Borg. ANd fairly easy to both eradicate or at least keep under control. There is one tool that will take us all as far as we want to go, wait for it....Due diligence. I battle with this concept everyday. LOL I am getting there. Maybe.

Peace

[HowardHunt]

Hey, sorry I haven't read this full thread yet, plan to digest it soon though but I thought I would add my current struggles into the mix.

I started with a way too tight veg set up, a random clone was babysat in my room for a few nights and boom, I've got the borg.

I started out basically just using the Einstein oil when they were small. I should of just took the time at this point to dip every single one in Floramite but I thought it might be too late, stupid of me, ALWAYS DIP from what I've found, it helps so much.

They got into 3 gals and into the big room and I figured that is when I could really devout my attention and start to knock em out. I used 2 bombs before the flip, one pyrith and one attane, 3 days apart. before this I also gave them a good spray with floramite.

They little bastards are still fighting though and I've pretty much equated this war to vietnam. I know it's not ending soon and charlie could pop out for an ambush at any point. I'm only at day 20 now so I still got a lot of road to go down. At this point I stopped spraying any floramite, no bombs of course.

It seems that I am winning, going through picking out stuff that looks back and cleaning up the plants has helped a lot and I feel like at least the plants are fighting them instead of the mites pretty much just having a party on them when they were so tight.

I also just recently sprayed a sample of some stuff I was given that contained 2.0% rosemary oil. It was a nice switch up and seemed to help a bit but now I am going to switch into a regiment of Safer Soap & Einstein in a mix as directed on the bottles so about 30ml per gal of einstein and 75 ml of the safer.

This is my first battle with these guys though. I've kept every thing clean prior to this. So please excuse any bad methods and I'd love any help if someone sees some faults.

[Twomp]

Azatrol is the ticket, I'm tell'n you put a 1/4 to 1/8 oz in a spray bottle shake it up and then spray the underleaves. I left for 3 days and the bastards were heavy. Try it out

[G,ro]

cheep-go with the cigarette/cayenne trick works alright,but you should use the
dawn(orange bottle)with it as a surfactant.
if you can afford it,go with the floramite.

[growmama]

yea i just used florimite on my flowering plants, they are three weeks out, so i started spraying just water to wash off florimite so i don't feel like i'm smoking chemicals, my garden looked sooo shitty after these mites took over, and nothing else worked. does anyone notice this product on their buds or a change in taste??