Broadmites 3 weeks into flower...keep or toss?

thetreegrowerrr · Nov 25, 2013

Well I just learned about this new pest that has raped my garden. I'm 3 weeks into flower so I can't spray anything lethal like forbid or avid. I honestly think everyone is getting hit with these and it sucks! Some of my plants have black pistils on the little buds. Some don't. But do have leaf damage. I was gonna order ogbiowar foliar to spray them down with but don't know if they will make a come back. Or if there even worth keeping do to them being stunted. Shit really sucks big time. These fuckers are plaguing gardens. I heard they are the hardest to kill on top of it. Not to mention not being able to see the bastards. So what do you guys think order the OG treat and keep or toss and cry and start over.

sanvanalona · Nov 25, 2013

If you are able to heat up your room to 115+ for 1-3hrs you will be able to tremendously help the problem. they are totally little shits to deal with but i have found this method to work exceptionally well when in a situation like yours and attempting to kill them and save my crop.

thetreegrowerrr · Nov 25, 2013

Damn that's really hot. I know soaking the whole plant in 107-115 degree water kills them instantly so I can see how this could help. Will this solve the problem or will they come back?

thetreegrowerrr · Nov 25, 2013

Soaking them in extremely hot water in flower is obviously not an option haha just wanted to state that

sanvanalona · Nov 25, 2013

This did not kill most of my plants, lost like 2 out of 40+ and I kept the heat on for three hours 4 different times, 3 days apart from each heat treatment. I got them around Jan/Feb of last year and no They did not come back and I was even the only guy in my area that did not get infected with them over the summer, many many crops were crushed because of that plague like insect! Make sure to test the temp of the room where your plants sit as that is where the heat is needed. Best of luck to you.

OH and about the water, not even vegging plants will respond well with such high temp water submersion, on the other hand they will do fine in hot air temp.

thetreegrowerrr · Nov 25, 2013

Can I just turn my AC off and let my bare bulbs heat the room

thetreegrowerrr · Nov 25, 2013

A friend of mine has the OG biowar he uses it all the time...I have used it before it works great not for this type of borg but I'm gonna use it and try it on this but it takes 72 hours to brew a nice tea. What about mighty wash everyone uses that on spider mites and kills them very fast I wonder if it will work on these... Or the sns217 I have watched the sns do work on spider mites under a scope. All in all this shit sucks ass.

thetreegrowerrr · Nov 25, 2013

So I found a great post on another forum. Says to use nukem for organics. Mighty wash does nothing. In veg avid/forbid/indicate 5 combo. I think I'm gonna have to toss these I can just see the life being sucked out of them. I doubt they will recover at 3-1/2 weeks into flower

thetreegrowerrr · Nov 25, 2013

I'm gonna try nuke em nothing but great reviews with that on broadmites. They even have a "attention if you have broadmites" on the website. Explains how to use and stuff to combat them. It also kills aphids spidermites white fly root aphids powder mildew and some other stuff. I guess some guy sprayed a fly and it died under a minute. I'm gonna call around see if any of my shops have any in stock. If this don't work in the trash can they go. :(

Aligee · Nov 25, 2013

Id trash them and start over, lucky your only at three weeks in, and would also advise to stay FAR away from any clones coming out of SOCAL! i lost over a year in runs from BROADMITES that i got from someone i thought i could Trust! clearly was not the case!
Lost a lot of $$$$$
Good luck!

larebowm · Nov 25, 2013

release the hounds..seriously go buy a shitload of predatory mites and give them a thanksgiving dinner..

some garden centers have predatory mites for sale.

mr roboto · Nov 25, 2013

Toss everything, truuuuuuust me on that!! Oh if you can , douse those plants with gas and torch those bastards...I would have torched mine back then but I just thought of it

larebowm · Nov 26, 2013

mr roboto said:
Toss everything, truuuuuuust me on that!! Oh if you can , douse those plants with gas and torch those bastards...I would have torched mine back then but I just thought of it

napalm
lol

salmonslammer · Nov 26, 2013

ya agree on the tossing out on this one and what ever you do clean everything and spray entire room ect with avid before restart just my 2 cents:D

mr roboto · Nov 26, 2013

thetreegrowerrr said:
So I found a great post on another forum. Says to use nukem for organics. Mighty wash does nothing. In veg avid/forbid/indicate 5 combo. I think I'm gonna have to toss these I can just see the life being sucked out of them. I doubt they will recover at 3-1/2 weeks into flower

larebowm · Nov 26, 2013

man thats a real bummer sorry to hear about that.

Billygoat · Nov 26, 2013

I know your not going to want to hear this, but. Cut them down and trash them all. Clean the room and start over. Trust me when I say this. Your wasting your time and money trying to fight these little devils. I had them roughly for two years and didn't know it. I got them once I came off a 4 year break of not growing. First return crops where ok, than everything else went down hill. I fought these little devils with everything.

You are wasting your time. Clean the room and start fresh. If you try to take them to the end. Your yield will be very low. The only strains that might yield something are high resin strains. For some reason, broadmites don't like them as much. I took tissue samples to Humboldt State and they confirmed for me the issue. Clean the room, wash everything down and fog the room with flea and tick foggers. Start fresh with fresh clones and make sure you have a microscope that has 100x or stronger and keep a close eye on the fresh room. Forbid and Avid is what you want to use.

Trust me, when I saw it's not worth even trying to finish this crop. You are just wasting time and money. Allot of growers up here in North Humboldt had now clue. Till I brought in my labtop and showed them the video of the little devils under the microscope. The problem with broadmites. Is, you can't see them and growers don't think that there is a issue, because they can't see them like regular mites.

Good luck,
BG

monkeymun · Nov 26, 2013

Yep, I'd be scrapping them and starting over. Good luck bro!

thetreegrowerrr · Nov 27, 2013

I sprayed twice with OGbiowar root and foliar packs brewed up a 48 hour batch. Soaked them down with the atomizer on full blast! Shit works....picked up a jewelry loop. The fungi has crystallized over the little fuckers!!! It's crazy shit. I'm gonna spray the rest of it tomorrow on them. So that would be three treatments. I also soaked the whole room
In forbid at 10mls a gallon sprayed the buckets everything all crooks and crannys I did that twice as well...with the atomizer on full blast!! I'm gonna continue too look everyday with the loop and see if I spot anything. I'm gonna order a kilo of this shit spray everyweek on new crops from now on. The forbid 4f says it kills broadmites they say 2mls a gallon I did 10mls! Haha drenched the room! Ill keep everyone posted! I have hope. Plants look good. Thanks for the replies.

thetreegrowerrr · Nov 27, 2013

It's also SFV OG so she's high resin bootch.

Broadmites 3 weeks into flower...keep or toss?

Broadmites 3 weeks into flower...keep or toss?

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