yerboyblue
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Here's my 2 cents.
If you didn't catch the mites before you have flowers on the plants, sorry, you have mites and will have to live with them until the next cycle. You can only slow them down at this point. You CAN kill them, but it will really mess up your quality, more than the mites would. Let's say you have some nice buds going but they have mites. You can pyrethrin bomb them, kill the mites crawling on them, but the eggs will still live. The eggs will hatch and your buds will smell like pyrethrin. You can do it 2 more times, and MAYBE (most likely not, speaking out of experience) kill the mites off, and your bud will be covered in pyrethrins, and the mite damage anyway.
Okay, plan B, suffocate them with CO2. So you flood your room with CO2, but did you evacuate your entire room of oxygen before you did so? They don't need much to survive. I would like to hear from someone that this method was effective. You just spent money on CO2 with no effect.
Plan C, spray the buds and leaves with neem/pyrethrins. This will kill the mites, but you will have neem and pyrethrins, as well as the mite damage that is already there, on your harvest.
Plan D, use a systemic like Avid. Cool, now you have dead mites and mite damage as well as something poisinous as hell coating your buds. Ya, plan C tasted bad, but at least it doesn't give you cancer.
If you have flowers and mites, either cut down, or throw an A/C in there and make it cold. You will still have mites, but you might prevent the entire thing from being covered in webs.
Let me say on prevention. If you get clones from someone, spray them with a neem/pyrethin mix as soon as you get them. I prefer natural guard, it is the shit and is cheap. Make sure to run the branches through your hands as you spray, so you get the top and bottom (they live on the bottom of leaves mostly) of ALL the leaves coated with the stuff. Seal your rooms up extra good, and put filters on any air intakes that are coming in. When you come in from outside, take off your shoes, socks, clothes and put on something clean before you enter rooms with plants in them. Also check plants regularly before you flower them. If they have mites, spray everything in that room with the neem/pyrethrin mix, even if it doesn't look like they have mites. All at once. I get mites in my veg room regularly and keep them under control through early prevention. In between cycles, clear out the flower room, bug bomb with some raid bombs (no plants in there!) and hit the room with some peroxide or bleach.
Bottom line is cleanliness is key. You can either take the extra steps and be mite free, or cut corners and risk it. I've been mite free in flower for 2 years because I spent the extra minute before anything enters the flower room.
If you didn't catch the mites before you have flowers on the plants, sorry, you have mites and will have to live with them until the next cycle. You can only slow them down at this point. You CAN kill them, but it will really mess up your quality, more than the mites would. Let's say you have some nice buds going but they have mites. You can pyrethrin bomb them, kill the mites crawling on them, but the eggs will still live. The eggs will hatch and your buds will smell like pyrethrin. You can do it 2 more times, and MAYBE (most likely not, speaking out of experience) kill the mites off, and your bud will be covered in pyrethrins, and the mite damage anyway.
Okay, plan B, suffocate them with CO2. So you flood your room with CO2, but did you evacuate your entire room of oxygen before you did so? They don't need much to survive. I would like to hear from someone that this method was effective. You just spent money on CO2 with no effect.
Plan C, spray the buds and leaves with neem/pyrethrins. This will kill the mites, but you will have neem and pyrethrins, as well as the mite damage that is already there, on your harvest.
Plan D, use a systemic like Avid. Cool, now you have dead mites and mite damage as well as something poisinous as hell coating your buds. Ya, plan C tasted bad, but at least it doesn't give you cancer.
If you have flowers and mites, either cut down, or throw an A/C in there and make it cold. You will still have mites, but you might prevent the entire thing from being covered in webs.
Let me say on prevention. If you get clones from someone, spray them with a neem/pyrethin mix as soon as you get them. I prefer natural guard, it is the shit and is cheap. Make sure to run the branches through your hands as you spray, so you get the top and bottom (they live on the bottom of leaves mostly) of ALL the leaves coated with the stuff. Seal your rooms up extra good, and put filters on any air intakes that are coming in. When you come in from outside, take off your shoes, socks, clothes and put on something clean before you enter rooms with plants in them. Also check plants regularly before you flower them. If they have mites, spray everything in that room with the neem/pyrethrin mix, even if it doesn't look like they have mites. All at once. I get mites in my veg room regularly and keep them under control through early prevention. In between cycles, clear out the flower room, bug bomb with some raid bombs (no plants in there!) and hit the room with some peroxide or bleach.
Bottom line is cleanliness is key. You can either take the extra steps and be mite free, or cut corners and risk it. I've been mite free in flower for 2 years because I spent the extra minute before anything enters the flower room.
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