The Mite Fight Thread

[JamieShoes]

I see Borg threads everywhere... almost as many as the bloody mites...
so I propose this, a running thread and poll for all those fighting and who have fought the dreaded spidermites.

If you have had them and beaten them please vote and let us know how you did it.

If you fought and lost, please let us know how you treated your plants, maybe we can learn.

If you have mites and are fighting please hold off voting til you either beat the little f*cukers into submission or worse...well...y'know..


so what do say... will you stand and fight with me?



(lol bet this thread dies an immediate death) :smile:

 

[ROJO145]

Ever since I hung one of these......ZERO problems ever!!!Kills any flying or crawling thing in your grow dead!!

 

[Brother Bear]

i used NPS and it did not work for me

AVID did work
i flowered out all my gals in flower
trimmed my mothers donw as far as i could leaving little vegetation left
Sprayed AVID
wait 4 days
Sprayed AVID

several months later i still have no mites

 

[norcalkell]

HOT SHOT AND AVID!! I NEVER WANT THIS AGAIN!! OH HELL NO, f%^& THAT!!!

i USE AVID IF I GET ANYTHING NEW AND RPLACE HOTSHOT EVERY TWO MONTHS. TARGET HAD THE BEST DEAL. I USUALLY PICK UP THE ENTIRE CASE.

MY SKIN STILL CRAWLS JUST THINKING ABOUT TRIMMING ALL THAT AND IT WAS THE BEST DANK I HAD GROWN..

 

[BobbleheadJed]

HOT SHOT AND AVID!! I NEVER WANT THIS AGAIN!! OH f^&* no!!

That would make me cry. Takes a strong person to take those photos, let alone post them. Thank you for that. Nightmare causing, but needed.

 

[norcalkell]

JUST LOOKING AT IT MAKES ME WANT TO SHOWER...

 

[ROJO145]

LOL....Ive seen it like that Kell,fuckers work fast!!I also spoke with a couple friends of mine that say the same thing BB,or that over time they returned even with the hot shot.I have had excellent results with them tho.I battled the fuckers for 3 months before I started winning,the mite eradicator(theres a thread somewere)also worked fairly well,but I love my hotshots!.Any of the soapy,peppery,vinegary,fizzy,organic sprays just slowed them down it was always an ongoing fite,until.......hotshot.

 

[JamieShoes]

Guys I'm really glad this thread is gaining some posts... we already have 3 or 4 different treatments to try out based on your experiances and apparently its having a multitude of tactics that will get them beaten, the lil f*ckers get hardened to most chemicals and sprays if they're not erdicated by it..so the more tools the better!


anyway, I'm off to the shop for supplies..wish me luck :smile:

j

 

[JamieShoes]

p.s has anyone tried high humidity as a tactic? if so did it work or did you just get mildew?

 

[MoleMcHenry]

I got the borg real bad a few grows ago and solved it by doing this:

1. Got a small bottle of floramite from ebay. Sprayed them down very good. Killed them.
2. Put hot shots in the veg and flowering areas. I think these are good for mite prevention, and they're cheap.
3. Cleaned up grow area real well. Hot soapy water was my friend.
4. Each time clones move into pots, they get sprayed with floramite
and/or
5. Each time plants move into the flowering area, they get sprayed with floramite

I got a bottle of neem oil and used it in the days before my floramite from ebay arrived, and it only teased the mites and made them meaner. Neem didn't work for me.

I've never tried Avid, though people have nice things to say about it.

Hope this helps. Death to the borg!

 

[JamieShoes]

thanks for the input mate... I'm taking notes and stocking up my arsenal :smile:


I just went in and hit the whole of the 3 areas with Pyrethrm which I had in a pressure sprayer full of ice cubes (my mate told me he does this and they hate the cold water, dieing on contact)... place is dripping, stinking and clean!... later tonight I'm gonna ramp up the humidity in the tents to about 85%... I'll check again tomorrow and hit em with another dose in a few days... if that fails... I'm starting on some other tactics :smile:



j

 

[JamieShoes]

oops I just read elsewhere that I'm not to use Pyrethrum this far in flower (end week3)

the product (from beyer) that I have says it's for edibles and can be used up to 2 days before harvest... am I doomed?

 

[imnotcrazy]

Same as Bear...... Mites > Spray Avid > Wait 4 Days > Spray Avid = NO MORE MITES

Neem and Floramite was like giving them a refreshing shower

 

[JamieShoes]

ok so... I drenched the room in Pyrethrum, then read I shouldnt have, but then read it'd be ok (thanks guys)... just now I rinsed the whole place down in water to wash away the chems (while still havng plenty of light hours to dry things out)... but after I did... although most of my leaves are clean as whistle, theres still a few "wee bastards" crawling about uunder the odd leaf.

now do you think any left will be in the process of dying, or just getting immune?


my next course of action is to ramp up humidity tonight to 85%

 

[barletta]

No mercy, tiger

 

[JamieShoes]

give em another blast tomorrow? ..

or check tomorrow after the humidity rise (apparently they burst)

 

[barletta]

Give the ones you sprayed a chance to die. They are dying, but prolly still laying eggs. Think of it like every time you treat em, you will get 90-99% killed. The tougher the stuff you use, and the more regularly you use it, the closer to the 99 you get. Once you get em, a good environment, and healthy plants will keep em away, IME. I suppose that the mites in 'high density grow locations' (towns in cali/nl/england, etc...) have a higher resistance than mine did, but I was able to get em with a few strong neem + cocowet treatments. I did have to wipe EVERY leaf of every plant 3 times in a week, and the smell of neem made me sick for the next 6mo, but that and a clean environment got em. No filters for intake, dogs, garden dirt, etc...

My current setup is generally humid, so that helps. I have had to do 1 'full neem' treatment since changing rooms, and that was prolly an over reaction, but the plants loved it. Just don't sleep on em. Get em hard and early and thoroughly.

EDIT - the fact that my room is in the coolest, darkest, most humid portion of the house (down below), encourages spiders, aka plant protectors. If I didn't have them, I bet I would have issues with pests. Those predators that you mentioned do work wonders, but they die off, and you have to replace em. My buddy was fighting them (like a lazy ass) and losing until he was just buying a box of ladybugs every 2-3 mo, and then he was pretty much good to go.

 

[JamieShoes]

Coolio Iglesias... I'll look again tomorrow, I also decided to remove a fair bit of leafage tonight too.. so if I do have to wipe every leaf down, theres a lot less of em at least :smile:

might get some bugs too... i just dont want their little carcasses going *pop* in my joint :wink:

 

[JamieShoes]

round two *ding ding*

today I hit the stragglers with another beyer product called "Masai" which came reccomended by another (dutch) grower. I also ordered some combat bugs... after tonights rinse down, I found almost nothing to speak of after an hour of looking (2, maybe 3 and they hardly seemed lively).. but lets not count our chickens just yet :smile:


happy mite fighting all

j

 

[sickworm]

Ever since I hung one of these......ZERO problems ever!!!Kills any flying or crawling thing in your grow dead!!

Im with ROJO, thes things OWN spidermites. I've tried sevral diffrent things and this was by far the easiest, cheapest, best workingest way to kill them.