Today I received some spider mites, any advice?

[Jsän]

hey Medi~

looks like everyone has you covered on the Chems, But what are you doing in the meantime?

to control until chems arrive:

1 at a time i would strip as much medium as possible. (you said unrooted, Rockwool? do you feel comfortable recutting them?)
then toss her in the bathroom sink. 80deg water, on full blast. leave her to rinse for about 5min. turning often. really hose them off.
then completely submerge in Safer Soap for 15min. (you said you had safers right?..if not plain water Will work)

i have used this successfully a few times now. Tho i now use Azamax in the soak. The hotter water creates a pressure imbalance in their exoskeleton. then they go pop.
dont worry about completely submerging. i have kept cutting underwater for 48hrs+ with no adverse effects.

greens and luck bro


ps. might as well use Seamaiden's green bamboo and fan trick after they are all water treated.

 

[TrichromeFan]

Definitely looks like mites to me. I see no other pest on the leaves.

-TF

 

[primeform]

those close up pictures are scary! good luck killin those mutant bastards.

 

[primeform]

http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=monterey+insect+spray&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=2288978306141627515&sa=X&ei=Jw-nTYKFMpCusAOdmNX5DA&ved=0CEAQ8wIwBA#


can find this stuff all over the place locally.

 

[Seamaiden]

Another method that *I* have not (had to) tried myself (yet, ugh) is a method my son, who's in SoCal, finally hit upon after trying damn near everything.

Green Bamboo
Blowing Fan

Stick a green bamboo stake (the kind you use to support plants) in the pot so that a couple of leaves are touching it. You want the mites to have a bridge, because you're then going to point a fan, on HIGH, onto the plant. You REALLY want it shaking around is what he tells me, because the mites then find the plant that's shaking too unstable and migrate over to the green bamboo.
He then takes a paper towel soaked in Forbid and, from the bottom up, swipes them off the stake. He does this to all plants (small #s) every day consecutively until he finds no more mites.

He feels this is the best method for control when they're late in flower.

 

[TrichromeFan]

Thanks, seamaiden. Good stuff. I have read about your son's bamboo method from you before. Sounds like I will try some stakes in the flower room, and keep an eye on them.

-TF

 

[amstercal]

Crazy pic, TF. I'm naming that guy on the left there Fred.

 

[mrdizzle]

lord god whatever you do, do not introduce them into your garden you will be fucked for life. IMO there is no such thing as a small mite problem, once you have them they will begin to grow and grow and grow

I had success keeping them in a 2x4 tent with 2 hotshot hung up and no in or out vents. takes a couple of days but really works. CO2 bombing works well too if in a small room. daily dunks in water if they are small plants works




every 3 days spray with something new.

 

[primeform]

i like mrdizzles super paranoid approach. better safe then sorry

 

[Mr.GoodCat]

i like mrdizzles super paranoid approach. better safe then sorry

thought hotshots strips were a bad idea?

 

[mrdizzle]

thought hotshots strips were a bad idea?

they can be if your around them for extended periods of time, but in most rooms they dont work because of the air-exchanging. so long as its in a small confined area they work and work quick.

luckily he cant have too many mites because the plants are big, but once the plants grow, so do the mites. its like AIDS for plants

I keep on in my bathroom where I keep mothers and cuts, never have mites until they get into the flower room

 

[MediMary]

^^ LOL

The three clones are obviously not getting introduced into the veg room I might be ugly but I ain't that stupid,

Im cleaning out my turbo klone today, going to put the three clones in there by themselves in an isloated room, will alternate treatments thats were recomended, then nuke when the avid gets here... (couldn't find the three pack combo, decided to go with avid out of the three products listed.)

Nobody ever tried that product I asked about?

 

[GanjaAL]

hope it works out MediMary.

I have one room for clones and mommas so my situation had me in a stir. I have checked them all and they all look good. I have removed all leaves that had eggs which were only a few and should be introducing ladybugs today some time... also a fallow up on judo at the end of the month. My worst nightmare came true... spider mites. I hate them wankers!

Oh... I almost forgot... I mist them with water from underneath once a day at feeding time.

 

[green punk]

If you must go nuclear then do so... the size of your garden and where you live should determine what pesticides you use. Personally I feel the usage of the trio(Avid, Forbid, Floramite) are way overdone. This is the reason for the super-bugs. Small scale gardeners using industrial strength poisons irresponsibly. The introduction of trio to your garden is the beginning of you personally (creating) introducing the super bug to your garden/region. These poisons are just that poison. The residues left on in plant even clones is not worth exposing yourself or others to. Cannabis treated with these products is unethical at best. Headaches, nausea, harsh, coughing (not good kind of cough). Why would you want your medicine to be treated this way. This is the crap B. C. bud has historically been laced with. So if you want to grow your own Beasters use that crap.
I recommend using SNS 217 and or Liquid Ladybugs as a dunk for whole cutting. Alternate the products, this will kill them. And they don't become resistant.

 

[MediMary]

the only thing i got to treat is three clones unrooted they are abut 3 inches tall..


interesting hearing everyones opinion thanks...:)

superbugs that can hibernate..hope I don't have bad dreams tonight....lol

 

[Snowblind]

Spider Mites do hibernate!


Little 3 inch clones? Put the clones in your fridge to kill the Mites! I would figure out a way to do this....im not joking its worth a shot to treat the problem without using harsh chems.

They dont like cold..........below a certain point it will kill them. I just dont know what that point is. Can anyone tell me what temp will kill the mites....what temp kills cannabis?

Get a fridge, leave the light on, set the temp low enough to kil the mites yet not kill the plants......get a small beer fridge or something of the sort.

 

[brncow]

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[Jsän]

hey Medi, just had to say because i was high and forgot, try not to get the safers into the open cut. I have no idea if it is bad but better safe(er) than sorry.

but really, 3 un-rooted is easy. rinse them really well with warm water. then completely submerge them for 15min.

i just pulled 3 cuts off of my OD blueberry kush to bring inside. heavy rinse (with the hose!) submerged in a slurpee cup of water for 24hrs. before they even came inside.

no bugs on me.
then inside for a 15min azamax soak, just to be sure.

my Odessa came home infested as well. the above took care of it first shot, around other vegging plants.

 

[GanjaAL]

Welll I just bought 1500 lady bugs for 11.00... scary looking LOL. They were crawling everywhere. I released only about half for my little 11 babies and they were all over the place. The rest went outside in the grass area. The bag said they lay eggs and the offspring eat in the larva stage. This may be the ticket from now on.

 

[RMCG]

If you are going the lady bug route, you need to release every few days for like a month before they will really make a dent.

Azatrol/Azamax in the res or foliar.

SNS-217 works well IF you can hit every single bastard with it. Tops and bottoms of every leaf. Repeat after 3 days when the eggs (if any) start to hatch. Expensive as hell though. I've seen some 'homemade recipes' using 2-3% rosemary oil from Whole Foods/Natural Food stores, but haven't tried them yet as people were complaining about burning the plants with it.