Shit happens so fast at home while I'm at work. Fuuuuucccckkkking spider mites reappeared visibly around three days ago but this time... I was prepared! Cleaned the whole room top to bottom with Zerotol then followed up with a Neem/Castile spray on just about everything outside the tents. Followed up by doing a Castile spray on every plant to knock the population back, then today I did another with Neem and Castile, finally the last part comes tomorrow in the mail - persemillis and californicus predatory mites will round out the IPM.
The mites got so bad I didn't notice until the stippling, white dots, on the leaves appeared and then I found webs. I will be wiping those off with paper towels but thankfully I was really enough that the spray won't affect my flavor. I killed the lights for the past three days, bagged the infested plants up to allow humidity to build and today the activity was pretty low. Interesting to know they don't like high humidity or the cold which I have them both of.
Anywho, the mites got everywhere including my veg plants and next cycle. They are doing fantastic though the plants to the right, Copacabana Haze, were affected by the spider mites - the Diesel Deluxe pheno in the second pic took the mites the hardest. Honestly, going to kill the clones of that pheno because it grows so poorly and took those mites badly. Still curious what the Copacabana Haze might do as it does grow better. The plants to the left are Panama Haze which weren't really affected by thre mites are doing well.
Lastly, today would be day 0 for flower on the second cycle but I want to release the Beneficials and top everything one more time for clones. Definitely was a stressful couple of days but the room needed to be cleaned and I had a gang of fungus gnats.