curious if anyone else has had a similar experience..
i came across mite damage in my veg room yesterday. pretty heartbreaking but i've been expecting it. it is the height of the outdoor mite season here, and i have a real open type of environment, with passive ventilation to outdoor. they likely migrated from outdoor.
i spent hours combing thru the plants with the loupe, pulled a few suspicious fans, and finally spotted a couple. but that was it so far. two live mites out of all the plants. they were the common two-spotted type.
i simply couldn't figger why i only caught two. didn't make sense, if you see one there are generally thousands. i stared at the plants a while contemplating, soaps, iso spray, insecticides, or tossing the whole grow, trying to make sense of it.
that's when i saw him.. a red mite, visible to the eye, boogying across a master kush leaf like a crazed commuter late for work. those guys are pretty much always predatory, eating the ones we hate.
so i scaled back all the attack plans. i don't want to take him out with the bad ones. right now i'm in a holding pattern, gonna watch for a couple days and see where it progresses.
i'm wondering if my little red friend(s) has been keeping the others in check.
question is, has anyone stumbled over a similar situation ? and would you just start with the chemical attack right away regardless ?
i came across mite damage in my veg room yesterday. pretty heartbreaking but i've been expecting it. it is the height of the outdoor mite season here, and i have a real open type of environment, with passive ventilation to outdoor. they likely migrated from outdoor.
i spent hours combing thru the plants with the loupe, pulled a few suspicious fans, and finally spotted a couple. but that was it so far. two live mites out of all the plants. they were the common two-spotted type.
i simply couldn't figger why i only caught two. didn't make sense, if you see one there are generally thousands. i stared at the plants a while contemplating, soaps, iso spray, insecticides, or tossing the whole grow, trying to make sense of it.
that's when i saw him.. a red mite, visible to the eye, boogying across a master kush leaf like a crazed commuter late for work. those guys are pretty much always predatory, eating the ones we hate.
so i scaled back all the attack plans. i don't want to take him out with the bad ones. right now i'm in a holding pattern, gonna watch for a couple days and see where it progresses.
i'm wondering if my little red friend(s) has been keeping the others in check.
question is, has anyone stumbled over a similar situation ? and would you just start with the chemical attack right away regardless ?