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Spider mites AKA The Borg
- Thread starter Flowerman
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yah the idea was to use some decoy plants sprayed with your mix
to draw the borg away from your prize flowers & send them to bug heaven.
I think they need the other plant to go to;
we know they are not stupid........................
to draw the borg away from your prize flowers & send them to bug heaven.
I think they need the other plant to go to;
we know they are not stupid........................
Danknuggler
Active member
This is what I plan only I'm also gonna spray the carpet,walls,and trays.I need to hit up the garden center at walmart any suggestions on a plant to use as a decoy?
Lady bugs are really voracious spider mite eaters, and are doing a great job right now at controlling the borg at my outdoor site. I have seen a few praying mantas, but I am not 100% sure if they are eating mites yet.
This mantas is the size of a grain of rice.
This mantas is the size of a grain of rice.
Danknuggler
Active member
I went ahead and sacrificed a Tangerine Kush I had in a 16 oz cup as my decoy plant.It worked a little I guess but really they are not gone at all but I vacuumed off all the webbing I could find and will continue to do that as I'm almost done with 4 chem d's,1 huge Bubba and some apoth 91's and Im not trying to spray that stuff around in there.I mixed up a gal. of Floramite/stirrup m does anyone know how long it will keep in the sprayer so I can use it after I harvest?nuggler
Hey Danknuggler,
Been reading what you're up to and I think I have one suggestion that could help. I read that you used a decoy plant that was in a 16 oz cup. The ones I use are quite bigger than that, like 5 gal pot sized. A good plant to get from the store is pretty much any large leafy plant like maybe a bad looking ficus. I go for the not so good looking ones as they are probably more likely to get infested. Hope these help, and we shall have a celebratory smoke session once you have vanquished your foe.
Been reading what you're up to and I think I have one suggestion that could help. I read that you used a decoy plant that was in a 16 oz cup. The ones I use are quite bigger than that, like 5 gal pot sized. A good plant to get from the store is pretty much any large leafy plant like maybe a bad looking ficus. I go for the not so good looking ones as they are probably more likely to get infested. Hope these help, and we shall have a celebratory smoke session once you have vanquished your foe.
Ladybugs are as good as gold. I checked my outdoor plants today, and cannot find any traces of "The Borg" after unleashing some ladybugs on the plants. They were moving from leaf to leaf at a frenzied pace for a few days, and I am very impressed at the job they did. They were like machines.
I usually dont have any problem indoors with mites, but if I do I will unleash the ladybugs in there also. It only took a few to get the job done outside.
I usually dont have any problem indoors with mites, but if I do I will unleash the ladybugs in there also. It only took a few to get the job done outside.
yah ladybugs work good inside but can get out of
hand and really take over; even other parts of house.
they end up dead all over the place as you step and crunch them.
hand and really take over; even other parts of house.
they end up dead all over the place as you step and crunch them.
Danknuggler
Active member
I did actually also spray down and sacrificed a OG Kush in a 2 gal pot along with a very large cola on my chem d that was totally covered in webs.That cola was sprayed down and then got completely cut off and thrown out along with the other 2 plants.Didn't work.Probably a few reasons.1 main thing is IF you can get EVERY mite to come over to your decoy plant they are not gonna pick up every egg and bring it with them are they?This method won't kill the eggs at all as far as I can tell.If it worked for you congradulations you got real lucky but I don't recommend anyone relying on the decoy trick to actually take out any kind of mite infestation.Also if your infestation is bad enough no amount of decoy plants of ANY size can get EVERY mite to be attracted to those decoys. I read up on stirrup m and well its not like putting a can of soda pop out near some ants and every f'ing ant will swarm it. The stirrup has a pheremone that excites the male mites and causes them to move around a bit more than usual hence the "stirrup" and gets them into contact with whatever miticide you are mixed with a little better than had you not used it.I read a study of stirrup m used with 6 different miticides and they found only a 8% increase in the fatality rates of mites and as low as 1% increase with some brands of miticide mixed with stirrup m.But is really only effective if sprayed ALL OVER the plant surfaces as you really should to get this mix to completely do its job.However when you are as far into flower as I am it's a no go. My fix was to also remove the chem d which was the most infested and a blue dream because it was very close to being done and also a mite magnet.Everything else was carefully vacuumed with a shop vac and I will continue to do this until harvest.AFTER this round is done I'm gonna disinfect the entire room and clean all my equip real good and start over new and now I have what I need to prevent more poss. mites in the future. nuggler
Oh my god I feel just horrible. I'm so sorry to hear this didnt work for you. The only reason I decided to post it in the first place is because I tried it and recommended it to a few friends of mine and was able to go over to their places and see how it worked. I really dont have a good theory as to what was done differently between our methods. I feel like a jackass because I was starting to get excited that others would be able to benefit from this technique as well, but I suppose I'll have to work on a refined version of it. I apologize for wasting your time.
Danknuggler
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Oh no man it's a live and learn thing I aint mad br
ne question you may be able to help with is do you know how long that mix might last. I have about 3/4 of a gal left of what I mixed and if I could save it till next time that would be cool to know cuz it costs so much.nugglerBLUNToPOTomuss
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systemic treatment with floramite
systemic treatment with floramite
How do you treat systemicallywith Floramite? I heard this is the BEST way to apply floramite as it kills eggs adults and larva......
Do you still mix the same ratio as the spray? and if so can you stack bloom nutes on top when feeding/treating?
systemic treatment with floramite
How do you treat systemicallywith Floramite? I heard this is the BEST way to apply floramite as it kills eggs adults and larva......
Do you still mix the same ratio as the spray? and if so can you stack bloom nutes on top when feeding/treating?
LOL, I have been moving my flowering outdoor plants to a room inside at night, and found a few ladybugs on the wall in the house. I put them in a jar and dropped them on the plants again, and away they went searching for new "Borg" victims.
I'm loving it!!!
Hello all,
I buddy of mine got a sudden and unexplained infestation of mites. He as freaked.
I told him some folks are having good luck with floramite.
So he order 1 oz off Ebay.....He said it was like 2 days and the stuff was in his mail box and two days later there was no sign of mites anywhere. I too was impressed.
The stuff works fast, vary fast.
I have been fortunate to not get the borg but if I do I am prepared...I ordered an ounce for way cheap and it got to me extremely fast...even came with a pipette (eye dropper) which makes it way easier to mix up small batches.
There are a couple of folks selling floramite on ebay so go check it out.
minds_I
I buddy of mine got a sudden and unexplained infestation of mites. He as freaked.
I told him some folks are having good luck with floramite.
So he order 1 oz off Ebay.....He said it was like 2 days and the stuff was in his mail box and two days later there was no sign of mites anywhere. I too was impressed.
The stuff works fast, vary fast.
I have been fortunate to not get the borg but if I do I am prepared...I ordered an ounce for way cheap and it got to me extremely fast...even came with a pipette (eye dropper) which makes it way easier to mix up small batches.
There are a couple of folks selling floramite on ebay so go check it out.
minds_I
Well floramite just doesnt fly with me. Im putting this plant into my body and the bodies of others. No thanks to chemical insecticides. As for the vil mites. Its a fucking battle that you must be relentless with. I have tried near everything[ neem oil, zero tolerence, neem away, ladybugs, insecticidle soap] all that any of these did, at best, is keep things at bay, if you let your defense down they come back....bad. What seems to work really well is Pyola insect spray from Gardens Alive. This is my first indoor grow and its so very different then growing outside. Things look good but next grow they will be a lot better.
