oldmanriver1
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heat treat = heat the room up to 50c for an hour or 2 or around 122f
Here's what I did....
The day after I first identified cyclamen mites I heat treated veg and flower rooms with plants in them at 120F for 90 mins, didn't hurt the plants at all.
My flowering room is 10 x 10 with 8 large plants. I let loose 4000 N. Californicus, 50,000 Swirski mites, and hung 90 sachets of Swirski mites. Been watering with aspirin every watering.
In veg I killed every strain that I knew I could get back from others, took cuts off of everything that was too big to dip, and burnt the mothers.
Dipped cuts/plants in Phantom/Indicate 5.
3 days later dipped them in Avid/Indicate 5.
3 days later (today) watered plants with Kontos/Indicate 5 (not sure if the I5 was necessary but used it anyway.
Going to dip clones one more time tomorrow, probably in Spinosad. Then water them with Kontos when they root.
None of the plants treated with insecticides will be flowered.
Will probably have to bomb my whole area when the flowering plants are done, just to be safe. Sucks that it will kill my predators, but they will probably be coming down with the plants anyway.
So far so good. New growth is looking nice and shiny again. Keeping my fingers crossed.
Thanks to everybody who contributed useful information in this thread. This is a very scary pest to have, but I'm feeling confident....
Here's what I did....
The day after I first identified cyclamen mites I heat treated veg and flower rooms with plants in them at 120F for 90 mins, didn't hurt the plants at all.
My flowering room is 10 x 10 with 8 large plants. I let loose 4000 N. Californicus, 50,000 Swirski mites, and hung 90 sachets of Swirski mites. Been watering with aspirin every watering.
In veg I killed every strain that I knew I could get back from others, took cuts off of everything that was too big to dip, and burnt the mothers.
Dipped cuts/plants in Phantom/Indicate 5.
3 days later dipped them in Avid/Indicate 5.
3 days later (today) watered plants with Kontos/Indicate 5 (not sure if the I5 was necessary but used it anyway.
Going to dip clones one more time tomorrow, probably in Spinosad. Then water them with Kontos when they root.
None of the plants treated with insecticides will be flowered.
Will probably have to bomb my whole area when the flowering plants are done, just to be safe. Sucks that it will kill my predators, but they will probably be coming down with the plants anyway.
So far so good. New growth is looking nice and shiny again. Keeping my fingers crossed.
Thanks to everybody who contributed useful information in this thread. This is a very scary pest to have, but I'm feeling confident....
heat treat = heat the room up to 50c for an hour or 2 or around 122f
Why exactly are you doing 10 other steps after heat treating the room? i suppose heat treating doesnt kill the eggs? I think imma just heat treat a few times rather then doing all those dips sprays. Plus its been said just spraying water on them daily will make the mites leave the plants.
Heat treating kills eggs. Water will not help.
Why exactly are you doing 10 other steps after heat treating the room? i suppose heat treating doesnt kill the eggs? I think imma just heat treat a few times rather then doing all those dips sprays. Plus its been said just spraying water on them daily will make the mites leave the plants.
And ive only been able to get the room up to 97 twice (once with plants in), id imagine when i can figure out how to get to 120 the mites are Done.
Plus using all these different toxic pesticides one after another is just self defeating LOL...They'll learn .
You make my point for me. You need to read my previous post several more times, apparently. If you are too lazy to read or do a search of the thread to protect your crop, why should I care about it? You are just wasting space and making the thread more cluttered. You are being selfish. All you think about is "me". It's incredibly childish. Why should I help someone who refuses to help themselves, and continues to clutter the thread with redundant questions? By doing this and refusing to read, you are disrespecting those who have worked hard on this thread.
One more time for the obtuse:
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That's my last response to you. You just don't seem to get it. The thread is long BECAUSE of people like you. You're a waste of space.
its great you trying to help peeps here but you said your mites keep coming back so im guessing your method isn't working. I don't mean that in a mean way but isn't that the case? or have I missed a post somewhere?
Yes. You have missed many posts. Mites come back. That's what they do once on your property.