Did I mention the "drought " brought on spider dick head mites! I'm going to kill these bitches.my research leads me to purchasing safe-t-side by Monterey... I foliared some neem but I want them gone now, times a wasting!
Oh, that sucks. Get your rh up to slow them down, while you employ heavy artillery. Neem isn't good enough, but a derivative of it,
Azamax is: active ingredient is azadirachtin, several brands have it.
Azamax is OMRI listed. The important thing with any pesticide, but especially organics, is to follow dosing instructions carefully, and even more important, you want to reapply on the recommended interval. Spraying once is never enough; it's the repeated application that gets not only the adults, but also eggs and young.
The alternatives of
floramite and
avid are out there and they are very effective, but they are also very powerful man-made chemicals that can persist on the plant after it's harvested. If you go that route, be aware of the risk you're asking the smoker of that product to take.
To minimize, if not eliminate, such risks, spray these materials only on cuttings, plants in veg or no more than a week or two into the 12 hour bloom cycle. The earlier the better so as to not only give the chemicals time to break down, but also because the plant hasn't yet produced buds, thus allowing them to grow as uncontaminated by residual traces as possible.
If you're past that point in your cycle and the mites hit the scene, use only the organic pesticides out there, and only the ones with minimal residual activity. Stay on top of your application repetitions because that's how you get young, old and eggs.
