Spider mites while flowering(?)

[TheDarker]

Hi guys im here again with another problem, today i saw the leaves and it looked to me there are some insects i checked under the leaves and i saw nothing so they seem to be only up the leaves so im asking to you what i should do now keeping in mind that the plant is flowering.

photos arent so good sorry ill give you better photos as fast as i can

 

[Natural high]

You are flowering some extremely small plants so it shouldn't be any problem getting rid of any spider mites, not that I could see any from the pics. Are they outdoors?

 

[Ununionized]

It's not a lot of chewing but to ensure against mites, take a spray bottle, put it on mist ya know and spray the leaves a couple of times a day. Oddly enough, mites are dry weather critters and they will pick up and leave the place - plus, the water's great for the plants.

You gotta spray underneath. If ya don't, you're doin' little to nothin. And, ya need to keep the mist going til you feel sure everything there, got wet.

I was telling another guy about killing mites with soap. But - you don't really need to do that with those plants and like the other member said the plants are kinda young therefore more tender generally - vulnerable to kinda folding up if you treat em bad so - I don't think they need to be soap sprayed. If ya DO spray em, turn RIGHT around and spray the plants down with plain water. Any kinds of critters killed by soaped water, die within seconds. The water soaks into their system, obviously there's generally no breathing water for air breathing critters: they can hold their breaths for LONG times: but once that water's inside the exoskeleton and breathing vents' protected zone, the inner critter's got a MAJOR problem because air's excluded and you know once that water's inside a space that small - that's the LAST place that water's gonna miraculously evaporate out and if you've ever drowned critters with some kind of softened water you know how instant the kill is. It's a MAJOR chemical hit when the water gets into the critters.

If you have a dog's flea tick collar and you put the thing in front of a small fan and waft it over the plants, that'll kill a lotta critters, too.

Do you know what diatomaceous earth is?

That stuff kills critters generally but something even easier to get hold of is just boric acid.

You sprinkle that stuff around baseboards for roaches and earwigs. Incidentally those things will chew on plants, too. Insects caught somehow, finding greenery around that's water dense, it's nutrient rich to a pretty fair degree - they'll eat it.

There are also small snails. The snails can be gotten rid of but it's another game. You gotta spread some around in those places you think they'll crawl: either around th bases of your plants, or field tossed, all through the area so the snails almost CERTAINLY are gonna come over the stuff, within a certain range of the plants.

Tell ya the truth man, the diatomaceous earth is some kool shit. Unlike Boric acid which is just easy to get cheap, local, and it does a good job but can be toxic to plants,
diatoms, the tiny critters whose shells diatomaceous earth - they're GOOD for plants.

And you can put the stuff in a sock and just rub it and pound the sock so the dust settles on the leaves, and if you can cover them evenly it'll protect the plants.

You put it on the ground around the plant's base, too.

You can also put the stuff in sandwiches and eat it - the survivalists teach about it being a calcium and selenium source i think. Can't remember but it's like - no toxicity problems, very, VERY earth/critters except bad ones, friendly in general: there are exceptions, it Selenium poisons the critters. People do things like when they store say, 5 gallons of wheat or corn or whatever - there's ALWAYS some critters in that stuff so they spread a cup of that diatom earth in there, shake it around and coat the food and it does nothing except actually ensure no kinds of maggots can hatch out and just plunder the grain.

 

[Loc Dog]

You can get a powerful USB microscope on e-bay for under $20 delivered. Get the strongest you can. Russett and Broad mites are very small, and only take a few per leaf to make the plants very sick and useless.

I see no signs of mites. Plants would be screwed. That is very small to flower.

 

[TheDarker]

the plant have something like 3-4 weeks of life, they are auto, one of the fastest i found, what about i cover for a moment the flowers and spray around on leaves neem oil?

 

[TheDarker]

You are flowering some extremely small plants so it shouldn't be any problem getting rid of any spider mites, not that I could see any from the pics. Are they outdoors?

yes the plants are outdoor

 

[Natural high]

yes the plants are outdoor

Go easy on the neem as the natural predators should go a long way to defending your plants. They look like they need a sunnier spot though.