twodogplant
Member
You may remember me from such posts as this one, where I tried to identify these mites in my coco and rockwool and the consensus was that they were beneficial soil mites:
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=328598
Let's say I want to kill them anyways, regardless of if they are beneficial or not. What miticides can I use safely as a coco coir drench that will kill these guys without causing undue damage to my plants?
I thought about using Avid since that successfully gets rid of most russet mites but those live on leaves and the treatment is on leaves and these mites I have are ONLY in the coco. I know this because I've taken brand new sticky traps and laid them flat just above the medium and shaken the plant vigorously and look on the sticky trap for the mites and I've never seen one, but when I just lay the traps down in the medium overnight and look at them the next day, there are invariably a few already stuck in the goop and a few crawling around the edge of the trap as shown in the video in the aforementioned thread.
So because of this, I need something I can primarily use as a coco drench that might also be able to get sprayed on leaves just to be on the safe side. I don't care what it takes I just want these bastards dead. Right now they are only in vegging mother coco pots and I'd like to get rid of them before I start another flowering run in rockwool.
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=328598
Let's say I want to kill them anyways, regardless of if they are beneficial or not. What miticides can I use safely as a coco coir drench that will kill these guys without causing undue damage to my plants?
I thought about using Avid since that successfully gets rid of most russet mites but those live on leaves and the treatment is on leaves and these mites I have are ONLY in the coco. I know this because I've taken brand new sticky traps and laid them flat just above the medium and shaken the plant vigorously and look on the sticky trap for the mites and I've never seen one, but when I just lay the traps down in the medium overnight and look at them the next day, there are invariably a few already stuck in the goop and a few crawling around the edge of the trap as shown in the video in the aforementioned thread.
So because of this, I need something I can primarily use as a coco drench that might also be able to get sprayed on leaves just to be on the safe side. I don't care what it takes I just want these bastards dead. Right now they are only in vegging mother coco pots and I'd like to get rid of them before I start another flowering run in rockwool.
