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I'm pretty sure it does kill them, but if your not dunking every plant everyday there's no way you will make contact with every mite.Good suggestion. I did save a baggie of infested leaves for that purpose but I've been unable to locate live RM's on them now. Maybe the treatments, and the delayed action of the Azamax, I have given have killed more that I originally thought.
I do see what I think are eggs on the saved leaves, still moist in the baggie, but I can't tell if they are still viable. I will keep looking though and let you know what I learn.
Does anyone know how to tell if an egg is still alive? I can't seem to find this inf. after many hours of searching.
I sure wish someone who has already done this experiment would chime in because I don't feel I can begin the big cleanup plan without knowing it will work.
Peace.
I'm pretty sure it does kill them, but if your not dunking every plant everyday there's no way you will make contact with every mite.
I don't know, but I wouldn't be surprised if using successive treatments would have a negative effect on them. I do use the iso for spider mites, but they're a bit meatier. :)I understand. Thanks!
You seem to be pretty active on the boards here. Do you happen to know if isopropyl will kill russet mites and their eggs? I can't seem to get a straight answer after days of looking and asking.
Peace and Good Health.
That will kill the beneficials. You'll have to reinoculate.I plan on doing a slow 130F flush of the soil with 3x the pot soil volume to get them there without killing all the beneficials.
I don't know, but I wouldn't be surprised if using successive treatments would have a negative effect on them. I do use the iso for spider mites, but they're a bit meatier. :)
Have you used Google Scholar at all? I'm running across quite a few papers, obviously none are intended for cannabis cultivation but we've got to cross over when and where we can.
That will kill the beneficials. You'll have to reinoculate.
I have not used Google Scholar. Did not know there was such a thing. I will figure out how to use it and do that. The more inf. the better.
scholar.google.com and it can also be used to find legal decisions, just be sure to check the radio button.
Thanks. Peace.
Foodborne illness-causing bacteria are different than what we're working with in soils. Also, the "beneficials" we're working with in soil aren't limited to bacteria. They include fungi, protozoa, amoeba, nematodes, etc.It's interesting you say that. I was under the impression, from reading the forums and work in food service, that it takes 180F to kill bacteria.
Good answer! Thanks! Peace.Foodborne illness-causing bacteria are different than what we're working with in soils. Also, the "beneficials" we're working with in soil aren't limited to bacteria. They include fungi, protozoa, amoeba, nematodes, etc.
That sounds pretty effective. Do you dilute the iso at all? Peace.My brother once gave me mites...ruined a whole room of AK47 :mad:...anyway, when I use soil I bake it in the oven ~200 for 45-1 hr before putting in the pots, sterile soil. Then I add back some benes I got from the nursery or ebay, forget where now. To clean the room I did the following and it cleared up my problem permanently.
no plants in the room, heat the room to 90-100 degrees for a day, activate the little bs. then I used a fogger, a regular old high poison insect fogger from HD. next, keep the room heated for 3 days, run a fogger again. Next, clean every surface I can with soap, lysol, whatever you like to use to get rid of the poison residue. Nothing living in that room after that!!
Another thing I've done, usually early in the grow, is to dust the ground and entire plant with diatomaceous earth, cuts up the crawlers. I stop dusting the plants a couple of weeks before flower starts. Also used 90% iso alcohol as a spray all over the plants at anytime in the grow but it tends to really dry out the leaf surfaces so be careful with that.
That will kill the beneficials. You'll have to reinoculate.
no, I put a spray cap right on the alcohol bottle
Thank you for that piece of information, it was something I didn't know. :DSo, it would appear my slow flush (takes about an hour and a half) of 3x the pot volume with 135F should kill the nasties and preserve many of the beneficials. Cool. Very cool.
No 'cide' is labeled for use with cannabis. That doesn't mean it necessarily is a bad thing, it just means that, legally speaking, you've gone outside the purview so to speak.
If that's the case, then there is truly not a thing that can legally be used on or for cannabis. Wanna use JMS Stylets oil? Can't, legally speaking. Want to use SM-90? Again, you can't. Want to use SNS something? Nope, it's a no-go.But I believe that through internet forums, speaking to strangers, a recommendation for a pesticide against the labelled use should be unacceptable. We (us, the societies made on cannabis growing forums) should be condemning the use of pesticides. *period*.
I do not believe we should be circumventing pesticide laws, nor praising unfounded use of these dangerous tools.
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