I am so Pissed i hate thes F*****N things. every single grow i have made in my garage in the winter time has gotten infested with these stupid things.I have never had them inside the house but i have two young kids now and cant have them inside.I Get about 2-3 weeks into flowering only to wake up one morning and see webs all over the place. they come so fast out of nowhere.what the hell can i do. i dont have alot of time to be sprayin shit,dipping shit.i feel like giving up except i really dont want to. im tired of payin 400 bucks an ounce once a month.Anybody have an easy (nontoxic) solution. and by the way im goin out of town next week for vacation so im probably screwed.Also i started three seeds to do a seed run.and i have a question about that. is it ok to do a seed run with (no pest strips.)i know they work great but i aint smokin nothin that was grown using them but will it be ok for a seed run?sorry for the vent but im so damn frustrated.
New Grower Gosh Darn M*****f****N spiderMites
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Seaweed extract! Reduces spidermites by 50% and aphids and other flying pest completely avoid plants that have been given seaweed. They hate the taste/smell. Its non toxic and good for your root system! I live by seaweed my favorite of all plant food its why ill never stop using sea grow nutes.
where do i get it and how do i use it? any others?
A4
11th Year Anniversary
If you already have webs they have been there for a while, you just haven't noticed them yet.
There is no easy solution to it. What I would suggest is to use a few different products to keep them under control through this grow. When you are to the point you can do a thorough cleaning of your room then go top to bottom. In my opinion, it is impossibly to rid your grow room of mites while you are growing. You can reduce them dramatically but it is going to have to be empty to get rid of them.
So, use a three step approach. You need Neem Oil, Insecticidal Soap and a product called Azamax. The insecticidal soap you can get at Lowes or Home Depot and get started immediately, the neem and azamax you will have to get from a grow shop or online. I would start today, as in right damn now, if I were you because they reproduce fast and will take over quickly.
So get the insecticidal soap, mix per instructions and spray the plants completely. From top to bottom and especially under the leaves. Especially under the leaves! I said that twice because that is the most important. Also spray the soil down real good. If you can get the neem or azamax quick, two days later you will want to use a foliar spray of one of them. Same thing, mix per instructions and spray the entire plant. Two days later, use the other product. So every two days you want to use a different product for at least 12 days. Two cycles of each.
Spider mites develop resistance to natural products pretty quick, which is why I am recommending using three different products. You want to spray every two days because the products will knock out most of the mites but it won't kill the eggs. They will hatch and you will need to reapply. Basically you are wanting to kill them, let the eggs hatch and kill them but with as short a time frame in between to keep them from laying more eggs. EVERY TWO DAYS. Don't slack up because they look like they are gone, they aren't! I can almost guarantee it!
If you follow those instructions, that will knock most of them out. Like I said, you can't kill them all because there is too many places to hide while growing but it will get it to the point you can finish out your grow.
Once your grow is finished, clean the grow room or tent out of everything. Plants, soil, pots, anything that is in there, get it out. Use a water and bleach solution and get you a garden sprayer, one of the one or two gallon size. Mix 1 part clorox bleach to 10 parts water, a 10% solution, and spray the entire room, ceilings, walls, floors, everything. Soak it down with that solution and let it set for an hour. After it has set use some paper towels and wipe everything down. Once that is dry, get some rubbing alcohol and paper towels and wipe everything down with that. Thorough. Use a spray bottle if you need to get in cracks and such and you can let that dry without wiping it down.
Take the 10% clorox solution and wipe your lights down, wipe your cords down, wipe everything down that you bring back in the room. Everything. If you are using a tent, do the outside as well.
I know this seems overkill but it isn't. I have had them before and that is how I was able to rid my room of them for good. Another thing I have implemented is, clean room sticky mats. They are expensive but they last about a month for each pad. I put the pads down in front of my door and it cleans the bottom of my shoes before I go in. I have a room though, something like that really isn't useful for a tent.
That is my recommendations based on experience with them. Best of luck! They can be beat but it takes determination and persistence.
There is no easy solution to it. What I would suggest is to use a few different products to keep them under control through this grow. When you are to the point you can do a thorough cleaning of your room then go top to bottom. In my opinion, it is impossibly to rid your grow room of mites while you are growing. You can reduce them dramatically but it is going to have to be empty to get rid of them.
So, use a three step approach. You need Neem Oil, Insecticidal Soap and a product called Azamax. The insecticidal soap you can get at Lowes or Home Depot and get started immediately, the neem and azamax you will have to get from a grow shop or online. I would start today, as in right damn now, if I were you because they reproduce fast and will take over quickly.
So get the insecticidal soap, mix per instructions and spray the plants completely. From top to bottom and especially under the leaves. Especially under the leaves! I said that twice because that is the most important. Also spray the soil down real good. If you can get the neem or azamax quick, two days later you will want to use a foliar spray of one of them. Same thing, mix per instructions and spray the entire plant. Two days later, use the other product. So every two days you want to use a different product for at least 12 days. Two cycles of each.
Spider mites develop resistance to natural products pretty quick, which is why I am recommending using three different products. You want to spray every two days because the products will knock out most of the mites but it won't kill the eggs. They will hatch and you will need to reapply. Basically you are wanting to kill them, let the eggs hatch and kill them but with as short a time frame in between to keep them from laying more eggs. EVERY TWO DAYS. Don't slack up because they look like they are gone, they aren't! I can almost guarantee it!
If you follow those instructions, that will knock most of them out. Like I said, you can't kill them all because there is too many places to hide while growing but it will get it to the point you can finish out your grow.
Once your grow is finished, clean the grow room or tent out of everything. Plants, soil, pots, anything that is in there, get it out. Use a water and bleach solution and get you a garden sprayer, one of the one or two gallon size. Mix 1 part clorox bleach to 10 parts water, a 10% solution, and spray the entire room, ceilings, walls, floors, everything. Soak it down with that solution and let it set for an hour. After it has set use some paper towels and wipe everything down. Once that is dry, get some rubbing alcohol and paper towels and wipe everything down with that. Thorough. Use a spray bottle if you need to get in cracks and such and you can let that dry without wiping it down.
Take the 10% clorox solution and wipe your lights down, wipe your cords down, wipe everything down that you bring back in the room. Everything. If you are using a tent, do the outside as well.
I know this seems overkill but it isn't. I have had them before and that is how I was able to rid my room of them for good. Another thing I have implemented is, clean room sticky mats. They are expensive but they last about a month for each pad. I put the pads down in front of my door and it cleans the bottom of my shoes before I go in. I have a room though, something like that really isn't useful for a tent.
That is my recommendations based on experience with them. Best of luck! They can be beat but it takes determination and persistence.
A4
11th Year Anniversary
Sniper, you should be able to get rid of fungus gnats with bacillus thuringiensis. I put it in my soil right after it gets down cooking and it has knocked all of my fungus gnat problems out.
If you dont have to many plants. Take warm water and dish soap and wipe them down with a paper towel. Wipe the under side of the leaves and stems. Mostly the underside of the leaf. Wipe the room at the same time also. Wait a couple days and do it again. Repeat. Learn about there life cycle.... this is the only way i have beat them. Im finishing the prosess as we speak. I had to leave my genetics with a friend cause of a house fire.... when i got them back covered in mites. Pain in the ass. I wear a head lamp when doing it so i can see them and their eggs. Ill prob let some lady bugs go to get any straglers.
Snipe I feel your pain, and than some... Take it from me it's a never ending battle! No pest strips work good, can also take one no pest strip per plan cover with garbage bag over night three days apart and that will nuke em, though as allready mentioned in the thread you have to do a mutliproduct approach... I resorted to I think it was either forbid or eagle something:.. Cheapest place is eBay you can get like a ounce for $20 will last you forever, but DO NOT USE on flowering plants, I was spraying the vegging plants right before putting them into flower and kept them at bay for like a month... I ended up battling mites, gnats, and mold... I gave up! I ended up folding up my grows for 6 weeks and just TONIGHT! Finally bleached the room down one more time, and than tomorrow the plan is to put the new tent up, any equipment I used in previous grows got sprayed down with Physan... I'm still not totally convinced they will not come back... I'm going to cut the chances down as much as I can by not letting the cat in the room no more(was there favorite hang out spot and probably the vectors to a lot of my troubles)
i also down sized my tent to a 4x4 so hopefully that will creat the negative pressure to keep good air movement.:. Keep a oscillating fan on your ladies, a lot of air movement makes it hard for a lot of pathogens to take hold... My main culprits were poor air flow and a straight up dirty ass grow room... Now I'm starting to get a hang of this coco hopefully things will start looking up,
also snipe during that time with those battles I did do a couple of seed runs and the seeds all turned out fine... Really sending you a HUGE :karma Cloud:
:Sharing One:
i also down sized my tent to a 4x4 so hopefully that will creat the negative pressure to keep good air movement.:. Keep a oscillating fan on your ladies, a lot of air movement makes it hard for a lot of pathogens to take hold... My main culprits were poor air flow and a straight up dirty ass grow room... Now I'm starting to get a hang of this coco hopefully things will start looking up,
also snipe during that time with those battles I did do a couple of seed runs and the seeds all turned out fine... Really sending you a HUGE :karma Cloud:
:Sharing One:
So can I use no pest strips during a seed run
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