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home made mite killer

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Lofty

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i've got a mite prob, i've had them for 3 years, i just do my best to keep on top of them. i've got some chillies boiling on the cooker rite now but has anybody got a really good home mixture i can hav a go at that will do them som serious damage.
 
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Lofty

Member
hey unicorn how u doing? sounding like a bit of a geek there, on joking, thanx for the info, i'll get som but i'm making up a solution tonite so i can spray them a couple of times over the next week.

thanks man, i'm ready to get my head down its late and i'm tierd!
 
JJScorpio

JJScorpio

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Go and pick up a no pest strip and hang it in your room for 2 or 3 days and then put it in a ziplock bag. Do the same thing the next week and they should be gone. Having them for 3 yrs is a long time. Mites can damage a plant very quickly....
 
jocat

jocat

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fuck those chemmies dude, if you've had 'em for three years then start spraying with einstien oil and after 3 months your done with it, got to do a weekly treatment and don't spray your advanced blooms, but at least it's 100% natural, who profits when you buy a no pest strip? prob those fuckers at exxon or some other dick, plus the fact you smoke it, do you really wanna line there pockets & your lungs? i would think NOT, just MTC. Jocat
 
sensirocker

sensirocker

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um how about AVID???????? i dont think anything on the market works better than AVID. 10 drops in a liter of water in a spray bottle..... spray the shit out of the plants, re-apply after 4 -5 days... ive never seen them back... Safe to spray 2 weeks before harvest or somethign.... neem oil and all of those other things confuse me because they never work as well as AVID..... god i hate neem oil.
anyone else use this stuff?
 
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if i have a mite my problem...which i have not in long time...i use the no pest strips..
i put one in at lights out than when lights come on i pull it out...i repeat that in two days...than again two days after that and there done...i just gave you a organic remedy cause you were looking for one it seamed...peace
 
JJScorpio

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You can also go the neem oil route if you want to go non pesticide. I do not use the NPS late in flower because of the pestide so even if I dont have them, I put the NPS in for a couple days midway through flower. I can not imagine the grief getting them with a couple weeks left, lol......
 
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Lofty

Member
thanx for all yr help guys, its interesting noboby has mentioned chillies and garlic, is this coz they dont work?
 
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Trichome Toker

Member
NO PEST strips!

Get them at home depot.

You don't have to spray them, they don't hurt the plants, just hang them in the room and they kill everything, even mites.
 
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I had saved this from another thread...


> This may not be important but it may be the answer to a very large problem
> in tc labs. It stems from an observation I have made during many years of
> growing ( and tissue culturing ) orchids. Red spider mite and five spotted
> mites are significant pests in any greenhouse with long-term resident plants
> such as orchids, bonsia, etc. The crops are not rotated out -so once a mite
> population becomes established it is very very hard to control.
> We have found a majic bullet for controlling insect/mite populations in our
> collections.It is a mixture of light mineral oil (pharmacy), Neem oil,
> detergent(dish washing variety), and oil of eucalyptus(pharmacy). The
> mineral oil is a sticker and extender of the other constituents. The Neem
> oil is a broad-spectrum insecticide. The detergent is an emulsifier for the
> various oils and the oil of eucalyptus is a powerful miticide. Two important
> points about this mixture are; it is edible (non-toxic) and it has an
> extremely long residual effect. It seems that mites have a particular hatred
> of oil of eucalyptus. Two applications per year have cleared the entire
> greenhouse of these pests 100%, with no hazardous chemical use. Using
> synthetic products with serious potential for harm (personal and
> environmental) produced a losing battle in the same conditions (cygon,
> aramid, etc). Let me know if you would like the proportions.
> The reason that I am mentioning this is to suggest that a similar mix
> including oil of eucalyptus may be useful in the flask room. It may only be
> necessary to leave some trays of evaporating oil near the flasks to drive
> mites out of the area- or to combine that with an initial spray. I have not
> done any experiments with including it in the growing medium but that is
> another option that you might look at. I can tell you that mites go the
> other way when oil of eucalyptus is around.
>
> All the best,
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Thanks to who ever originally posted this. Maybe add some tobacco juice or hot sauce and ya just might have a killer combination...
 
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Lofty

Member
cheers indica sativa, did u ever find out the proportions of the mixture, it sounds like it cud be the answer. :chin:
 
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shovelhead

Member
Check in the cannibis infirmary for a thread called "mite eradicater",a mixture of baking soda and vinegar,has worked pretty well for me,I rinse it off in the kitchen sink wit the spray attachment,this itself gets rid of a lot of them.
PS,in the UK baking soda is bicarbonte of soda
 
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Guest

You're gonna fuck up your plant with crapola before your no pest strip ever arrives lol,listen to unicorn lofty
 
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Lofty

Member
thanx guys i've made up a home made solution for now and ordered some diatomaceous earth. cant get nps, drugstore.com do not ship to uk.

thanx again :joint:
 
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Guest

Thats a bummer,I'd look to another place.Good luck bro but the only thing I know that will work in a few days is an NPS I'd try hard to find some for the future
 
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