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yellow powder could be pollen from the plant herming from the stress
Gotcha @Golden Zia -- however as far along as he is in flower, can we conscientiously recommend a toxic avenger like Avid? It seems that the Avid would be better used on young, vegging plants if it's all there is to use.
The first time I read about these things it was thought it was a fungus. Guy out in the midwest said he'd been seeing it in his grow for a while, used a fungicide and went on his way. IIRC it was a sulfur-based fungicide he used, so I would think a burn could help here. I'd also wonder about isopropyl alcohol treatments, but can't say whether or not it'll work.
Please remember, I've never experienced hemp russet mites or broad mites, this is only what I recall from reading what others did and said worked for them. Unfortunately, I can't remember exactly what fungicide this cat was using.
In the meantime, some light reading for you via Google Scholar: eradication hemp russet mite.
With the degree of infestation that your flowers had I am gonna guess that the veg and mom areas may also be pretty hard hit although not as visible, any how I might suggest a closer time regime to treat your moms and vegglings. Instead of two weeks I would do two applications with in 7 days.so i cut down the infected plant and put it outside in my cold garage, i then went into the flower room and sprayed a 50/50 solution of isopropyl alcohol and water. That was last night. today i went and picked up some mighty wash to try and fight them off over the next 3 weeks to try and salvage my harvest. Also dropped the temps as much as as possible for now while i treat. I sprayed the flower room with the mighty wash today. i am gonna spray this all natural," safe for flower" pesticide sample stuff i got, the alcohol solution and the mighty wash in a cycle to keep the little bastards guessing. i also picked up some avid for my veg/mother room. gonna go ahead and try to nip this in the bud <----ha see what i did there lol. i am gonna spray avid in the veg/mother room in two intervals over two weeks. i understand the risk involved as i have used eagle20 as well. full mask and gloves are a must.. have i pretty much covered all my bases?? I am open to any further insight or advice if any one has anything else. thanks everyone
With the degree of infestation that your flowers had I am gonna guess that the veg and mom areas may also be pretty hard hit although not as visible, any how I might suggest a closer time regime to treat your moms and vegglings. Instead of two weeks I would do two applications with in 7 days.
i have just talked with a good friend of mine and he filled me in. I will be treating mothers and new clones with a regime of avid florimite and forbid. 3 treatments of each 3 days apart rotating between products so mites dont become resistant to a certain treatment. Although This isnt the most natural way, i know this will kill them. i cant take any chances on bugs fucking up my next harvest or any others after that. .
responsible use beats resistance - just don't use over the recommended dose on any of those and don't use them more than once a week.
to be honest though buddy...you're a little far along to be fighting a winning battle. that stinky powder on your stems is millions of those mites, which are small enough to be carried off by gusts of wind. If you've touched your flower plants and gone anywhere else in your house without washing up, it's pretty much a guarantee you'll be dealing with these for a while.
I really hate recommending a clean-out, but dude if you want to beat them you need to get all your plants out of there and just treat cuts with the chemicals.
pyrethrum and beethoven bombs will keep them back bigtime if you're comfortable with bombing your grow.
I beat these bugs by killing any plants that I saw even one mite on (you need to look for them - if you're seeing signs of their damage you're already infested), as well as any plants next to infected plants. The rest of the garden got sprayed down with h20 out of a pressure nozzle every single day, sometimes 2x a day.
If you have control over your environment you can also pull your temps down and your humidity up - these mites LOVE it hot and dry and they reproduce twice as fast under favorable conditions. If you're trying to keep them at bay, I wouldn't run temps higher than 75 deg. or humidity below 40%. That will slow them down alot.
Is that treatment time frame according to label directions? IIRC, Forbid has you wait something like 7-10 days between treatments, treating twice and then rotating to another single-site mode of action miticide.i have just talked with a good friend of mine and he filled me in. I will be treating mothers and new clones with a regime of avid florimite and forbid. 3 treatments of each 3 days apart rotating between products so mites dont become resistant to a certain treatment. Although This isnt the most natural way, i know this will kill them. i cant take any chances on bugs fucking up my next harvest or any others after that. .
fucking eh, i hate bugs, especially the ones you can't see easily.
hope you can nip in the bud as you said ;-)
i had never heard of the beethoven bomb, just checked out the website and says its not for use on food crops...