SMC Spidermite Control???

[barletta]

Has anyone used this product with success?
http://www.4hydroponics.com/grow_room/spidermite.asp

I have gotten the mutthas 1 other time, in a separate room, and was able to knock em out with just a heavy neem regimen. I caught them quick this time, no munch spots. They were in the flower room, and I was able to remove the 3 plants that I found them on. I hit the rest of the room 2x's with neem, and pinesol'd the room. I am going to be hitting them with neem again 2moro, and I have stickys, and this SMC on the way.

I want something just in case the lil fukkers build a tolerance to the neem, and this stuff was cheap and made wild claims. - SAFE!!! EFFECTIVE!!

 

[phatnuggetz]

SMC will do it. thats all you need, its a great product and is totally safe, no need to worry about burning your plants. It kills eggs and spider mites. It is also known as sm-90, wich is that exact same ingredents to the tea! way safer and more effective then neem and pyrithrins! good luck!

 

[barletta]

Yeah, I'm not too worried, I caught them early, and wiped down just about every leaf in my flower room. Went back 2 hrs later and there were a few drawn to 2 plants (cannaloupe @7wks, shit x ssh) and having an orgy. I took those 2 and a ssh that had 1 bug on it (she comes down thursday, and the sun won't hurt I don't think) out IMMEDIATELY. Sprayed everybody else, swept, wiped, mopped, did a decent job cleaning the room. Washed the outside of all of the containers/height boosters, then got busy with the spray and wipe action. EVERY LEAF lol. Sprayed the medium tops a good bit (enough to soak into all that top dress sh1t), windexed my lights/hoods, and put em back.

I was checking all day today, and nothing, but I know they are lurking. I plan on the same THOROUGH neem treatment 2moro, hang the stickies, neem end of the week, maybe the smc next wk. I will go nuts this time, and keep the room clean to knock em out. I wouldn't mind getting some lady bugs to do their thing, they are cheap, organic, and effective. I will be bomming and re-building the room after the fall, so I just need to keep them in check till then.

I have yet to find a single bug or egg on my MrNice Spice or Spice x SSH, and they are the majority of the garden. If they get out of control, I know which plants to run through. I don't have a mom of the shit x ssh, and the cannaloupe was the last of her kind, so hopefully I don't have any 'magnets'. The 1 other time that I got em, I wiped them out (for the 4-5 months until I tore down) with just neem. I def got them this time from bringing plants raised on my deck into the room. I am not a neat freak by any means, but I haven't seen a pest in the room for about 8 months until the other day, a week after I had to bring 4 plants in.

EDIT - Thanks phat, I been puffin bubble, and got on me ramblings....
sm-90, leftover root eater, no?

 

[phatnuggetz]

sounds like your on top of your shit! you will be fine!

 

[marijuanamat]

I've got a very good receipe for a miticide,ingredients to make 1L are 3g of tobbaco put into a 1.5L jug adding 1L of boiling water over it and let it stew and cool for a few hours agitating it a few times to get as much nicotine out of it as you can.
Add 5ml to 10ml of neem oil to the tobbaco juice and a few drops of washing up liquid (cheapest with no addatives is best) until it emulsifys which will make the juice a lighter color when it emulsifys and no oil will form on the surface of the juice after a few mins,then you can either add things like ground black pepper,hot chilli sauce or garlic,or strain it without the other stuff through a tea strainer or coffee filter.
Add it to you spray gun and your good to go and use it every 2-3 days for the first week checking each day to see how its working.
I find most die after the first spray but you still get a few get missed and eggs hatch so i use it until i can't find any more.

 

[m@rg]

i can vouch for spidermite control
used 1 treatment of neem and 1 xchem spray and a few were still live and kicking.
this stuff wiped them out dead in 1 spray

ill always keep a bottle handy from now

now just a graveyard lol

 

[Hazeseeker]

Agree with ya there M@rg , stuff works a treat, i was in a panic when i noticed a few on the Cheese clone a week or 2 ago, first spotted the webs then noticed 6 or 7 of the critters under the leaves, went to the local grow shop to see what they had and the guy there recommended to try this out, gave the plants, pot and the top of the compost a spray (twice for the cheese clone just to be on the safe side), really good stuff

Peace
Hazeseeker