Wondering what are the "BEST" methods people use for dealing with the evil little bastards? Something that kills them good and keeps them gone..Thanks
Holaz fellow farmers!
First off I want to say there are different kinds of mites. Some mites have more immunity than others and there are even inter-species differences in they're resistances. Which further complicates the issues of dealing with them. What might work on one mite might not work on another :surprised..... and to even complicate maters worse
if you piss them off and don't kill them they will hibernate. I have a friend that couldn't get rid of his mites till he tore out his old wood floor and replace it with linoleum. How long were they hiding down there 6 months, a year?
Avid, floramite, judo, etc. are pretty toxic chemicals. IMHO,
toxic chemicals are like fast-food. Only good as a last resort. If you can spray every other or every third day you should be O.K. with this organic recipe even with your arnold schwarzenegger mites.
The
bombs are gone,,, temporarily... Pulled for reformulation. The
Pyrethrum-TR was to strong, I don't know why the the rest including the
doktor doom and the other Prescription Treatment products like
Attain-TR were pulled. I guess they couldn't sell them in a bunch of states most being medi;
can't mess with the medi states :wink:
I'm going to give you my mite destruction recipe, I'm not sure everyone will luv or be able to get all the products but hey, another option never hurt, huh?
Here is my organic IPM rotation:
day 1: Neem (Trilogy
Neem Oil) upto 2 Tbs. Gal
day 3: Pyrethrum (
Pyganic) upto 1 Tbs. Gal
day 5: Monterey Garden Insect Spray (
Spinosad) upto 4 Tbs. Gal
day 7: Troy BioSciences Naturalis-L (Beauveria Bassiana) upto 2 Tsp. Gal
back to day one.
You can mix a wetting agent with any of these (my favorite is
ThermX 70 an all natural
yucca extract) I really like mixing neem and thermX. In fact neem can be mixed with the
Pyganic or
Nutralis-L with devastating effects. :fighting0003:
When you were spraying, you had to of missed a spot? Welp that's when
Stirrup-M comes in (another Troy BioScience product) it's a
mite pheromone. This will bring the little borgs to your spray and kill them.:punch
Also get a good sprayer. Sure the little homedepot sprayer is just fine for the little girls in the veg room. But were talking about trees here and your going to want to hit every part of the plant that is huge. A great inexpensive sprayer to start with is a sump pump 5 gallon bucket and
.5 gal per minute fogg-it nozzle (the green one) less than $100. For less then $300 you can get a great atomizer from NGW. on the high-end Dramm has a backpack sprayer for a little less than $500 and Hey this might seem like a lot but were talking about the borg here and some of the sprays might cost you over a hundred. Wouldn't want to wast any.
Look for anything with a high percentage of
SPINOSAD its a natural poison made from plants!.
I used it for mites and thrips and after 3-4 sprayings they were all gone!.
Its easy to find just look on ebay for
spinosad. plus its pretty cheap too.
Spinosad is great stuff. Anything that's from an abandoned rum distillery on a Caribbean Island is the shit in my book.
