Broad Mites and my existing arsenal?

[MountainBudz]

Ok guys, been having a problem with broad mites. After 8 months since my last grow, i've been shut down. As of now i'm about a little over a month in veg. I have noticed that the mites are attacking selective strains and not every plant I have. They really like the Kali Mist and the SSSDH.

I'm on a very very tight budget right now and have been doing the whole heat treatment thing which imo isn't really helping all that well. already lost 2 plants with this method and damaged several leaves as well. I've also been foilar feeding aspirin and watering plants with one aspirin per gallon which might be helping some.....

Now it is time to attack them with what little I have put back from over the last couple years. You tell me what you would use and i'm going to tell you what I currently have that I can use. Right now I can't afford anything, so I have to stick with what I have.

1) Hot Shot No Pest Strips (would like to use these as a last resort)

2) Malathion

3) Neem Oil

4) Liquid Sevin

5) Hi-Yield Permethrin Plus Concentrate (38% permethrin "which is very very high imo" Might be good.

6) Bayer Natria Insect and Mite Control (Active ingredients are Sulfur and Pyrethrins)

Please help fast lol. These things are a nightmare!

 

[MountainBudz]

I would also like to add that even though I do believe this is a broad mite issue (have not seen ANY mites with my 60x-100x scope) and have looked for days literally everywhere, I do remember my last grow I had a flowering plant that the buds were severely discolored. Almost turned the buds white in most spots and very dry looking. Lots of leaves yellowing and falling off.

One day while checking trichs I seen a small clear looking mite crawling and could never find anymore though I looked and looked. Ever since my yields have suffered drastically and my plants always seem to look over watered, stunted and not much flower production. Right before all of this I was pulling huge yields every 3 months! Does this sound like broad mites to you? Never seen any webbings (pointing towards spider mites).

I have also noticed on this grow that some of the smaller new leaves look like they have had the juices sucked out of them. Almost like the leaves just aren't getting water or have been snipped from the main branch causing the leaf to wilt and shrivel. No spots whatsoever, no coloring although maybe a dark shriveled color might describe it. But otherwise the plants look healthy. Not all leaves but maybe one or two on each plant.

The other thing that comes to mind is humidity may be playing a part. My humidity stays at 30-38% constantly and I do know this is low and don't know how it might affect plant growth.

 

[Intimea]

Aspirin for recovery, and hot temp to kill those f****g bastards

Search and read some posts of Retro Grow

https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=305657

good luck

 

[MountainBudz]

Thanks for that info bro. You might have over looked it in my post but i'm already doing those two things.

Does anyone have pictures of the eggs on these little bastards?

When I search threads and google for egg pics, they all look different. I couldn't see one certain specie of mite having so many different forms of eggs. Anyone have legit photos to share on here?

I'm not seeing eggs anywhere and checked every plant up and down top to bottom leaves, stems and all and never seen one mite or egg. I might have seen a few pieces of perlite dust on the leaves but that's it.

I cant afford to lose this crop. I need help. Please......

 

[the gnome]

a simple google search for *broad mite eggs* will pull up the pics you need.
any pics of the suspected plants would be an immense help.

so what are you using to scope the BM/eggz?
a jewlers loupe shows the distinctive looking eggz pretty easily,
BMs are very small and unless they're moving they are hard to see
unless you've had prior exp. spotting em out.
a $15 65X---100X zoom scope with an LED is what you need to adequitely spot these devils out

 

[MountainBudz]

a simple google search for *broad mite eggs* will pull up the pics you need.
any pics of the suspected plants would be an immense help.

so what are you using to scope the BM/eggz?
a jewlers loupe shows the distinctive looking eggz pretty easily,
BMs are very small and unless they're moving they are hard to see
unless you've had prior exp. spotting em out.
a $15 65X---100X zoom scope with an LED is what you need to adequitely spot these devils out

Thank you Gnome for your detailed response. I am using a 60x-100x LED scope like you mentioned and im not seeing any of those eggs that show on google images nor the mites. I check daily for the last two weeks, nothing.

All i'm seeing is little trichs all over the place, i'm fairly experienced with trichomes and that is all i'm finding.

I will try and put pics up this morning of the plants so you can get a good idea of whats going on. I will say that they have been through a little over and under watering issues in there life that has been corrected a bit over a week ago. The second thing comes to mind is possibly PH problems but I don't have a way to check my PH and im broke as a worthless joke right now.

I could almost bet though that my PH is on the lower side of things. I might give them some hydrated lime next watering, I know the whole issue with hydrated lime and dolomite lime being the better choice but I actually think this is hydrated dolomite lime. Maybe that will help things a bit.

 

[MountainBudz]

https://www.google.com/search?q=lad...ide+hydrated+lime+label&imgrc=g2YUWSzCG1uhpM:

This google image will show you the ingredients in the lime I currently have. Looks good to me.

 

[MountainBudz]

But it does say derived from Calcium Hydroxide so I guess ot isn't dolomite.

 

[Mikell]

Your lime is made from lady bug poop?



Calcium hydroxide is typically very fine and has a CCE near quicklime. I would be very careful applying to established plants.

Applying fixes to an as yet unconfirmed/unidentified issue is a sure fire way to go wrong quick.

As mentioned, broad mite eggs are distinctive (speckled surface). While finding adults can be rare, if you have an infestation you will find eggs with proper scouting.

Can you describe the method of heat treatment used?