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Rosebud
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My old buddy 2dog, WHO I MISS, used to vacuum her plants very gently. I tried it once and decided no.
I am not familiar with what you sprayed. You really need to read the label and follow it. Then repeat if it tells you to. The thing about the borg, is they will become resistant to whatever you use. THG doesn't mess around and that may be the way you want to go. I have done it organically, but i don't think that is the best way for you. Go get um!
I am not familiar with what you sprayed. You really need to read the label and follow it. Then repeat if it tells you to. The thing about the borg, is they will become resistant to whatever you use. THG doesn't mess around and that may be the way you want to go. I have done it organically, but i don't think that is the best way for you. Go get um!
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The Hemp Goddess
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I doubt that you are going to be able to just go out and find an effective miticide. Check E-Bay for Forbid, Floramite, or Avid. You are not going to be able to treat your girls in flowering--it is too late. IMO anything that is going to work you cannot spray on this late. Don't just go willy-nilly spraying them with anything--this just makes them stronger and harder to get rid of. They are The Borg. I hit mites fast and serious with a strong miticide or I never get rid of them. I have tried many many products in the past and the only ones effective against a bad infestation are the ones I mentioned above.
Thanks folks, I may just have to harvest -- sheesh. I just got back fr4om town. I picked up -- in no particular order: Spectracide (indoor fogger), Spectracide Malathion concentrate, Rose Defense (Green Light), Bayer Natria mulit-insect control, and something from the Hydro store called SNS 217 which is exclusively for Spidermite control. Now what to do? I also met the man who wrote the pamphlet and he told me to wet them down with soapy water first and then spray the plant with SNS -- repeat. If this doesn't work I will just have to harvest early. I'm going to spray them with a mild soapy solutionj and then wet them down good with the SNS, which is Rosemary oil. NOW
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Rosebud
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Have you already done that? Why would you dilute the oil with the soapy water?
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The Hemp Goddess
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Rose, I think the soapy water is supposed to make the spray stick to the plant better.
Hemper, I really really really wouldn't do that. You are going to taste that stuff when you smoke them. Soap and oil smoke really really nasty. I would not use a product that someone here was not familiar with. I have found that most hydro guys are really not that knowledgeable.
In addition, THC is soluble in many different kinds of oils. I would hate to see you end up with a gunky mess that you couldn't even smoke--soapy hemp oil. Are cold showers a possibility?
Hemper, I really really really wouldn't do that. You are going to taste that stuff when you smoke them. Soap and oil smoke really really nasty. I would not use a product that someone here was not familiar with. I have found that most hydro guys are really not that knowledgeable.
In addition, THC is soluble in many different kinds of oils. I would hate to see you end up with a gunky mess that you couldn't even smoke--soapy hemp oil. Are cold showers a possibility?
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Just wanted to give my condolences on the mites big bummer hemperfi. I have yet to deal with them so I don't have much advice, but given past experiences I would heed to THGs advice. I hope its not to late my friend she was lookin like some tasty smoke.
Good luck buddy a little mojo for ya friend.
Good luck buddy a little mojo for ya friend.
Well, it's too late now -- I already did it. I didn't spray the clones yet tho.... Let's see how this stuff works. I waited a while, and nobody answered, so I went to war. I did look through the scope again before I began, and the mites seemed nonpulsed by last night's spraying -- they were still quite lively. They really are creepy. When that bug sauntered by under that scope it looked like something out of science fiction -- and it looked huge in the scope -- quite unnerving.
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I would recommend slowing down a little on this. Rose answered you in 28 minutes. I answered in 41 minutes. Your plants are at a critical stage now. Please try and take the time to get advise on this before trying unknown treatments. An hour or two is not going to make that much difference.
Trust me, soap and oil do not smoke good. I speak from experience.
Trust me, soap and oil do not smoke good. I speak from experience.
I believe you Goddess. I am slowing down as I type this -- it was a rough day, and expensive. I dropped my phone in the lake as I was tying up my dingy when I came home. The stuff I sprayed them with cost 35 bucks -- the rest of this stuff I'm going to take back. I asked them specifically if the SNS 217 would hurt either me smoking the weed or make it taste funny, He told me I could drink the stuff without it hurting me and if I hit them with it a couple of times, a week or so before I harvest, there should be no taste either. We will see.
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I have used rosemary oil and it worked. It shouldn't need the soap as a...what do you call that??? too much pot today, surfactant?
Remind me how long they have left.
Remind me how long they have left.
Ain't none of them moving around now -- I have been watching one in the scope die -- before they were running out of the light, this one doesn't seem to be able to move -- just flayling around a couple of arms -- in obvious distress...
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Rosebud
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It is weird isn't it? when they look you in the eye? Yikes, freaks me out.
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The Hemp Goddess
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Yeah, they can be really creepy looked at through the scope. Mites are bad, but they are not the end of the world. I doubt that this will eradicate them.
I would get a tough miticide for your vegging plants.
I would get a tough miticide for your vegging plants.
I don't know if they have been irradicated, but I do have a serious body count, and I can't see anything moving now. Plus, the eggs are not clear anymore. They are cloudy. I'm thinking that if I can just keep them down to a serious minimum for another couple of weeks, I will still get a pretty good harvest.
Yeah, Rosy, bizzare world down there -- very creepy indeed. As soon as the girls go to bed I'm going to jump in the shower -- I itch all over, and I know it's just in my head, but none-the-less....
Yeah, Rosy, bizzare world down there -- very creepy indeed. As soon as the girls go to bed I'm going to jump in the shower -- I itch all over, and I know it's just in my head, but none-the-less....
I haven't been able to find any on the clones yet, but they are bound to be infested, so I will go on ebay and find mitaside -- tomorrow. Right now I'm going to go pick another leaf and dive back into that strange, fascinating micro world. I'm pretty high -- I was just looking for my phone to call my diver friend to come over here and get my phone up off the bottom of the lake. lol
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Roddy
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The clones are likely the source?? Where did you get them?
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The Hemp Goddess
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Get a strong miticide like Forbid, Floramite or Avid to use on the smaller plants. I can pretty much assure you that the rosemary oil will not eradicate the mites and that is what you need to do--eradicate them. Otherwise you are simply allowing the mites the opportunity to become immune to the treatments. I am not exaggerating in the slightest when I say they build up immunity to treatment very fast.
