I really appreciate the discussion and the stories!
The room we were growing in doesn't have a carpet and isn't attached to the house. So we can do a lot to get rid of the mites that we couldn't do in living areas. We can't use Pyrethrum because we have cats. We also haven't been able to buy
Azamax (and I don't know why).
Here's what we're doing:
- We chopped and bagged all the plants and disposed of them. We disposed of the soil, too. We left the fabric pots outside and won't use them inside the house again.
- We're repeatedly spraying the tent and floor with hydrogen peroxide and alcohol sprays.
- We're also using No-Pest Strips, Spinosad, Neem Oil and diatomaceous earth in the room.
- Spider mites must consume plants to live, so we won't have any plants in the room for several months. We'll set the temperature and humidity to levels in the room to encourage them to hatch and then starve to death.
- Our next grow will be in a different room, in a new tent. I'll describe the new setup in my Grow #2 thread. (We don't have the new tent yet and need to rearrange some things.)
Overall, I think it's best to know the enemy. We made plenty of mistakes. Knowing what we know now, we'll hopefully do much better with our future grows. I think it's most important to be vigilant and hit them hard when they're discovered.
