mites in flowering, damnit!!

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I was inspecting some plants today and noticed a few lil mites on the bottom leaves of one plant. so i checked the surrounding plants and noticed a few on theirs as well. When i say few, i mean 2-4 on a leaf max. So i bugged out!<no pun intended>

i took all the plants out of the flowering room, some are at 22 days 12/12 and some less, sprayed underleaves and over top well with fungicide3(garden safe) and some tomato/fruit spray from the nursery shop. I think i caught them early enough, but dont like the idea of spraying plants in flower. Here's my questions

1. do i follow up with another round of spraying in 3-4 days?
2. do i rinse them off with plain h2o after the next round
3. how far into 12/12 can i treat'em, or should i treat them?

i plan to inspect the plants again tomorrow evening to see what happened, i let the plants dry off b4 i put them back under the lights also.

 

[Guest]

http://www.drugstore.com/qxp88409_332828_sespider/hot_shot/no_pest_strip.htm
...when lights go out turn off ventilation...the humidity will sky rocket add the no pest strip...when lights come back on remove nopest strip and turn ventilation back on...repeat the process one week later and there will be no mites...peace

 

[pizzadude]

so u do it for just one night, then repeat?

 

[pizzadude]

as per core's "advice"

i checked inside and since my plants are in flower, the white hairs on some plants have turned yellow/orange/red, will this be horrific or will they be ok? I am concerned that i may have fried the gals terribly.

yesterday i sprayed head to toe with bug sprays, then used a pest strip overnite. In the morning today i took the girls out and misted them all heavily to wash off any residuals i could. Gonna do the pest strips again tonite as when lookin' before i seen a lil mite fucker walking.

 

[Guest]

as per core's "advice"

i checked inside and since my plants are in flower, the white hairs on some plants have turned yellow/orange/red, will this be horrific or will they be ok? I am concerned that i may have fried the gals terribly.

yesterday i sprayed head to toe with bug sprays, then used a pest strip overnite. In the morning today i took the girls out and misted them all heavily to wash off any residuals i could. Gonna do the pest strips again tonite as when lookin' before i seen a lil mite fucker walking.

The hairs turning brown has nothing to do with nutes... now they might be pollinated (which would cause this)... but I would say be very careful misting them in flower, as it can cause bud rot very quickly if buds are tight.

 

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they turned brown overnight after being sprayed with insecticides, no pollen anywhere near these gals Klutter

 

[Guest]

they turned brown overnight after being sprayed with insecticides, no pollen anywhere near these gals Klutter

Oh shit, my bad I didnt catch you were dosing them with insecticides... yikes man. I never use them (organics only, dont wanna smoke more chemicals than needed) - best bet is to just watch them and see what happens and dont do it again! Shit throw the insecticides away, there are plenty of alternatives that dont require them... if you fried the calyxes then they're fucked anyway so I dont think there's anything specific you can do to 'bring them back' except washing them off, which you already did...

 

[Core]

yea man its best that u use the original thread..i know its hard 2 wait for repleys but bumpt it once and a while.....i dont have xp with mites but i would repeat the treatment nway...i lookt up some info and gardensafe states thats its best to use it every 7-14 days and as a 7 day treatment with heavy infections...and i would rinse'm off the next day...

 

[pizzadude]

i'm pretty sure the sprays fried the platns. The pistils are crispy, but i'm gonna monitor them over the next few days. If they dont snap out of it, i'll toss'em.

Core, thanks for chiming in even though you don't have any experiance with mites, this being a thread about mites and all.

 

[cocktail frank]

you'll be fine dude, ride it out.

 

[pizzadude]

thanks CF! I got no other choice really, need the meds and the guy that sent me some of these clones is kinda wacky

thank g-d i got a large sour bubble turtle in veg still