The Borg Strike again

[colonelbogey]

Hi all.

just discovered spider mites in my clone / veg room. A friend brought me 15 Godberry clones about 2 weeks ago. Room all clean till then. Just noticed all of them are infected and has spread to the other clones and mother plants. About 20 plants in total. DOH

I am considering trashing the lot and starting over rather than trying to do battle with the little f*******s.

Have got 7 ladies in bloom on about day 35 of 12/12 and 4 clones that had been moved to the flower room as the start of a perpetual grow. I am concerned the borg will beam across in to the flower room. the clone/veg room is a 1 meter square box built in the corner of the flower room.




Should i just ditch everything from the clone room, spray down the room and start over? or should i try spraying the clones and mums (with spray safe) and hope they dont spread to the flower room?

Any suggestions?

 

[Barnt]

Use no pest strips that can be found at home depot. I had an infestation after getting some clones from a club. After putting the strip in the cab they disappeared after a week. I did nothing else.

Using the no pest strips are still a little questionable as they are obviously giving off gas that poisons the little buggers, so is that gas coating the plants? I used to use them for my snake cage when they got mites which worked great, but apparently its bad for the snakes to breath in the crap given off. So, if you do go this route, it probably would be best that you didn't live in the same room as the strip, and only use it long enough to break the cycle (kill the mites and break the egg laying cycle) and then remove the strip.

I've heard you can just put it in a plastic bag and it will keep it fresh. Then you can use it again if you didn't get them all the first time.

 

[colonelbogey]

Thanks Barnt. Hopefully something similar available in the UK. Will have a hunt.
So definately not the trash option then?

 

[Syndicate]

I wouldn't trash plants over a few mites myself, I hate trashing plants especially moms.If your thinking of trashing the mom's and vegglings to keep the mites from infecting what you have in flower, chances are if your thinking it ....they've already done it, so IMO trashing the veggers is pointless.

You probably won't have much luck finding no pest strips (Diclorvos) in the UK most industrial and even a few 3rd world countries have banned the use of Diclorvos, and I hear you have some pretty strict pesticide regs there?

If you can source something like avid or floramite, you have to follow some precautions about using them though, more so with avid I believe.As these sprays have long residual in the plant material 30 days for floramite and I think a bit longer with avid (though I am not sure) they should ideally only be used on vegging plants.Their residual effect makes them ideal for treating plants about to be put into flower and would IMO opinion be the best choice for treating your vegglings.You might be able to source something like these from a neighbouring region?

As for your plants in flower, you are probably left with more of a control situation with them, which will be made easier once the source of the infection is dealt with.Things like higher humidity and colder temps (good thing winters coming in the northern hemisphere eh?).Pyrethrin sprays and safers soap alternating with fresh cold water sprays can make a inhospitible enviroment for them.I used to be an advocate of neem oil but havent felt the need to spray a smelly sticky spray in flower(or anything actually) since I started using floramite on my moms and vegglings.

Best of luck.

 

[foomar]

This worked on a lot worse than what you have , £5 ish fro B&Q.

 

[colonelbogey]

Syndicate- Thanks for the words of encouragement, I have also had mites on a previous grow, all efforts to eradicate them failed with locally available sprays etc. I just hate the little buggers and want rid of them asap. Temps are quite low at the moment, but so is humidity, you say they dont like high humidity?

foomar- Thanks for the tip fella, will check it out.

Jury still out.

 

[Syndicate]

Yeah they dislike high humidity, but high humidity and colder temps can foster mold and powdery mildew, so ya gotta be careful.