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Spider Mites Please Help!!!!!!!
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Threre is a newer product called Azetrol that works well. Also Neem oil is very effective. Not to mention products you can get at your local hardware store in the garden dept.
Use different combinations every three daze or so. Allways "mix it up" with different products every so often.
Use different combinations every three daze or so. Allways "mix it up" with different products every so often.
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for a cheap remedy just put few drops of washing up liquid in a sprayer/mister then shake bottle and spray this sticks pests to leaves and they die make sure to spray every part of plant especially underneath the leaves.
another measure is ice cold water spray plants and most will drop off leaves as they hate the cold.
avid is considered the best if you can get it.
or try what ive just bought hotbox sulfume.
pkj
another measure is ice cold water spray plants and most will drop off leaves as they hate the cold.
avid is considered the best if you can get it.
or try what ive just bought hotbox sulfume.
pkj
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Spider mites are by far the worst pest to have, because they are the hardest to kill and can literally kill any plant.
They are by far more active in warmer climates than cold ones, they also suck sap from the leaves leaving tiny white spots on the leaves from where they suck on.
The damage they do is just like thrips, but with spider mites they pierce the surface of the leaves and can show tiny holes or white speckling damage, unlike with thirps they eat the surface of the chlorophyll.
You can tell when you have infestation of spider mites, because you will have distorted growth, shortened internodes and petioles.
When you have bad infestation you will see webbing with larva in them.
You get spider mites from either store bought soil mostly when your soil is not sterilised. Most brands do not state whether they are or sterilised, chances are if you buy cheap soil, you have a less likely chance of the soil being sterile.
Also, bringing outdoor plants indoors, or getting plants from someone else who was infected with spider mites.
Spider mites live on the plant itself and are under the leaves most of the time and are usually are so tiny you can’t see them with the naked eye.
In order to get rid of spider mites one of the best ways to start to get rid of them is to use NO-Pest strips .
NO-Pest strips work well and should always be used with other methods.
Neem oil helps get rid of them as well.
Also by raising the humidity in your grow room high will kill the spider mites off, by them absorbing too much humidity and will burst.
You can use soap solution like Safer Insecticide Soap to get rid of most aphid problems.
Use some tobacco juice and chilli pepper powder added to this for mites. (see below how to make tobacco juice)
Pyrethrum should only be used in extreme circumstances directly on plants,
It starts to breaks down around a week and is easily washed away with clear water or.
If your plants are in flowering and you have spider mites, using safer chemicals is your best bet.
The tobacco and pepper soap solution works well and should be used daily, spraying on the underside and top leaves and later the whole plant.
Since spider mites are very residual to common products, you have to find or try any number of ones until you get rid of them. make absolutely sure you treat as stated, other wise you will get resistant spider mites and then you have a bigger battle on your hands.
Also do not allow pets that go outside a lot to near your indoor plants, mites have been known to be carried in from pets to plants.
PLEASE NOTE, below are ways to get rid of spider mites, but no 2 mite infestations are identical, you almost always have to use different products to get rid of them, also make a habit to check for at least a whole month after thinking you got rid of them, that way your chances of the spider mites that became resistant breeding and then having a bigger problem.
Here are some more products that may help get rid of spider mites:
Chemicals
Hot Pepper Wax, Safer Yard & Garden Insecticide (which can be used right to the day of harvest), GNATROL (used in hydro in the water as well as soil), Doc's Neem Pest Soap, Safer Sticky Stakes,TR-11000 Pyrethrum.
Anything that says dicofol on the back. (should be used in vegging or early flowering)
Tabacco Juice recipe
Take 3 strong ciggeretes soak them over night in water
Boil it for 2 to 3 miniutes, let it cool off and spray the plants 3 to 4 times a week. You can add safer soap if you like to the mixture.
(make absolutly sure you use gloves/face protection while handling and spraying)
Neem oil works very well too!!
They are by far more active in warmer climates than cold ones, they also suck sap from the leaves leaving tiny white spots on the leaves from where they suck on.
The damage they do is just like thrips, but with spider mites they pierce the surface of the leaves and can show tiny holes or white speckling damage, unlike with thirps they eat the surface of the chlorophyll.
You can tell when you have infestation of spider mites, because you will have distorted growth, shortened internodes and petioles.
When you have bad infestation you will see webbing with larva in them.
You get spider mites from either store bought soil mostly when your soil is not sterilised. Most brands do not state whether they are or sterilised, chances are if you buy cheap soil, you have a less likely chance of the soil being sterile.
Also, bringing outdoor plants indoors, or getting plants from someone else who was infected with spider mites.
Spider mites live on the plant itself and are under the leaves most of the time and are usually are so tiny you can’t see them with the naked eye.
In order to get rid of spider mites one of the best ways to start to get rid of them is to use NO-Pest strips .
NO-Pest strips work well and should always be used with other methods.
Neem oil helps get rid of them as well.
Also by raising the humidity in your grow room high will kill the spider mites off, by them absorbing too much humidity and will burst.
You can use soap solution like Safer Insecticide Soap to get rid of most aphid problems.
Use some tobacco juice and chilli pepper powder added to this for mites. (see below how to make tobacco juice)
Pyrethrum should only be used in extreme circumstances directly on plants,
It starts to breaks down around a week and is easily washed away with clear water or.
If your plants are in flowering and you have spider mites, using safer chemicals is your best bet.
The tobacco and pepper soap solution works well and should be used daily, spraying on the underside and top leaves and later the whole plant.
Since spider mites are very residual to common products, you have to find or try any number of ones until you get rid of them. make absolutely sure you treat as stated, other wise you will get resistant spider mites and then you have a bigger battle on your hands.
Also do not allow pets that go outside a lot to near your indoor plants, mites have been known to be carried in from pets to plants.
PLEASE NOTE, below are ways to get rid of spider mites, but no 2 mite infestations are identical, you almost always have to use different products to get rid of them, also make a habit to check for at least a whole month after thinking you got rid of them, that way your chances of the spider mites that became resistant breeding and then having a bigger problem.
Here are some more products that may help get rid of spider mites:
Chemicals
Hot Pepper Wax, Safer Yard & Garden Insecticide (which can be used right to the day of harvest), GNATROL (used in hydro in the water as well as soil), Doc's Neem Pest Soap, Safer Sticky Stakes,TR-11000 Pyrethrum.
Anything that says dicofol on the back. (should be used in vegging or early flowering)
Tabacco Juice recipe
Take 3 strong ciggeretes soak them over night in water
Boil it for 2 to 3 miniutes, let it cool off and spray the plants 3 to 4 times a week. You can add safer soap if you like to the mixture.
(make absolutly sure you use gloves/face protection while handling and spraying)
Neem oil works very well too!!
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Hey smoker8....hang one of those no pest strips in your grow room (unless you are an organic grower) and the spider mites will be gone in a couple of days, never to return again. Keep it in the grow room. I've done it and it works. If you don't know what I am talking about....google "no pest strips"
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