Room clean-up after "SPIDER MITES"

[Hutch]

To what extent & with what should I clean my flowering room after harvest? I had a pretty nasty infestation of spider mites 2 weeks before harvest. To take care them I used a No Pest Strip with lights off & all ventilation off for 12 hrs for three days straight. That appeared to take care of the plants, but are they still lurking about just waiting for another crop? Give me some input guys, what am I facing

 

[avgjoe]

I'm pulling up a chair....

NPS helped me out too but I dont want to be battling these guys over and over.

 

[little-soldier]

get some floramite and spray your entire room/equipment/plants and you wont see them again. U can also use avid but I would prefer floramite. U cant go wrong with that

 

[avgjoe]

Will floramite work for thrips as well?

Does a strong H2O2 solution work well for cleanup? Seems better than using bleach if it works.

 

[gromer]

Avid is great and yes costly as hell.Floramite is even better and even more costly but worth every penney.Neem applications and similar organic substitutes such as cinnamite and garlic will combat the mites but it wont knock em right out the park like avid or floramite.And YES I am finally myself realizing that if you got em bad yer gonna wanna clean EVERY miniscule surface of EVERYTHING not just the room but stakes pots tables other various equiptment cus the little bastids will hide anywhere.I mean anywhere to avoid being killed and then they will be laying ,waiting,hating ready to pop up months later when youve let your gaurd down and are least expecting it.All it takes is one,just one of those tiny little disease infested,never shoulda been created ,little lifesucking bastids to pop up and yer done back where you started.
So yeh the stuff is expensive,you gotta be donned head to toe in a rubbersuit with a ventilator to use it but it is totally worth it.It actually KILLS them.I love seeing their lifeless empty little exoskelotons left on the leaves after and application.You just blow on the leaf lightly and its whisked away on the breeze,ha ha die sucker!!!If you couldnt tell I hate mites.Hope this info helps somone,Peace Gromerr Pott!!

 

[BurnOne]

Spider mites can come into your grow room from the bottom of your feet if you've been outside. Pets can haul them in as well. It's best to always assume spider mites are lurking in your grow room. I spray a neem oil solution on all my vegging plants as well as around the floor of my grow room. Predator mites work well on flowering plants. As far as costs go, have you seen the price of a bag of good weed lately?
Burn1

 

[Hutch]

Thanks for all the replies. Sorry to have taken so long to get back to this thread. Some things came up that just had to be dealt with. I only want to use something that wouldn't harm the the end user, the person applying the product & of course the plants. I read somewhere on here that Master Thia (?) makes something useing peppers. Does anyone know about this?

 

[Suby]

If your looking for 100% effective then floramite is the way to go.
Myself I am cheap so I first wash the room with bleach solution and then I do as B1 and I use neem on all my plants and on the walls, by flowering there is enough neem built up in the plant to discourage the vast majority of "borg" so I avoid spraying when in major budding mode.
Neem is preventative and with pests your bringing them in all the time, neem is a good failsafe.


Suby

 

[yohomz]

A few years back I had a BAD mite infestation. I would just get a fogger if I were you. I ended up buying an industrial strength one and it absolutely destroyed those ****ers. Make sure you take your stuff out of the room if you decide to do this though, and after give it a good wipe down and vaccuming/mopping.

 

[Hutch]

Thanks guys for all the input. Looks like maybe neem oil wins out. One question though. At what strength should it be mixed & does it need to be washed off the plants. Again, thanks for all your time & help.

 

[avgjoe]

Another product worth checking out is azatrol. Dont quote me on this but i think it is the active ingredient of neem oil isolated and oncentrated. It is supposed to be organic and safe. local hydro store recod it to me.

one downside is that it effects digestive system rather than just killing them, so you dont see an immediate effect. i believe it can be added to he reservoir for hydro applications as a preventative.

 

[Suby]

Thanks guys for all the input. Looks like maybe neem oil wins out. One question though. At what strength should it be mixed & does it need to be washed off the plants. Again, thanks for all your time & help.

I believe it's 1/4 tsp per liter but search the site to be sure, I like to add fulvic acids in a very light dose if I'm using it on plants as a foliar.

Sub's

 

[JackTheGrower]

I ran across this.

http://groworganic.com/maincat/z/0120.html

THe poison free Victor...

???


Just thought to mention it.

 

[sip]

floramite