Superiorbudz
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I am 2 weeks till harvest, and was wondering, if i stop growing for a couple weeks after harvest, would that eliminate the spider mites?...and also clean the hell out of my growroom?
Spider Mites question
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medme
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if you are not gonna use your room,,,, i'd spray it with mite killer,,, i used it once and had no problems after.... it was a clove oil type.....
Steve McStoferson
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if you remove every plant from your room and then clean every single part of it, you will still miss some of them, but it will really help in reducing their numbers. The key to getting rid of mites is persistence, they hatch every few days and have such a short reproductive lifecycle so it takes a lot to keep on top of them.
They take longer to hatch when the temps are 65 or lower, you have a good chance of killing them then.
I've recently been battling mites and I grow perpetually so I can't really remove all the plants from my room for a period of time. I mixed up a spray solution that I've been using every couple of days on the plants and I'm having great results. My infestation has drastically decreased. I have ab out 15-20% of the mites I had a week ago.
I have a 32oz spray bottle, I use a drop of dish soap, 3-5ml of pure 100% rosemary oil, and fill the rest with water. If you spray directly to the underside of the leaves, or wherever mites will be, the rosemary oil actually destroys their cells and they die within 15 minutes of coming in contact with it. I'm not sure if it kills eggs, but I heard it will. I spray my plants daily, and will continue to until I see no more signs of mites. It has a great smell and is completely harmless to your plants. There is a product I believe called SNS spray that is mainly the same mixture, it just costs a lot more. The piece of mind of having a safe spray for your plants is worth the effort.
good luck getting rid of those bastards
They take longer to hatch when the temps are 65 or lower, you have a good chance of killing them then.
I've recently been battling mites and I grow perpetually so I can't really remove all the plants from my room for a period of time. I mixed up a spray solution that I've been using every couple of days on the plants and I'm having great results. My infestation has drastically decreased. I have ab out 15-20% of the mites I had a week ago.
I have a 32oz spray bottle, I use a drop of dish soap, 3-5ml of pure 100% rosemary oil, and fill the rest with water. If you spray directly to the underside of the leaves, or wherever mites will be, the rosemary oil actually destroys their cells and they die within 15 minutes of coming in contact with it. I'm not sure if it kills eggs, but I heard it will. I spray my plants daily, and will continue to until I see no more signs of mites. It has a great smell and is completely harmless to your plants. There is a product I believe called SNS spray that is mainly the same mixture, it just costs a lot more. The piece of mind of having a safe spray for your plants is worth the effort.
good luck getting rid of those bastards
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well I just went through a spidermite infestation....an this lil concoction of habanero peppers (sp) was a good fix....first spray puts a thin residue of hot peppers sauce on the leaves where the mites were...I couldnt believe it the results...cost me a whole $1.19 to fix my problem...when the mites decided to have lunch...the end result was died of starvation an hot mouth hahaha... its a bit messy cause its not a 1 time treatment... but so far its all good...
"Now then, for all you fervent horticulturists..."
Spider mites are alive; you can make them dead. All life is fragile, but... "how do I kill the mites without hurting my crop?"
I will not use pesticides or harmful chemicals on my plants; thus, I have found an all-natural way to rid the infestations that sometimes occur. Curing your plants takes time and care, but you can rid your babies of the mini-spiders that suck your plant's life's blood.
Spiders have skin-like exoskeletons; the tissues are sensitive to change. Molecules soak though their pours, skin and orifices; thus, what may bother you - a giant living organism - might prove fatal to a spider the size of a pinhead. This is so when using a common group of proteins found in Nature. I will teach you how to naturally and inexpensively rid your plants of the dreaded spider mites.
The Habanera Pepper (sometimes pronounced Habenero) is the key ingredient in pepper spray. Once you make a batch of CALICLEAN you'll see why. One may buy habanera peppers in any vegetable section for about 6 dollars a pound. The peppers are light orange to dark red, and are about the size of a bic lighter when fully mature, most are half that size. Go buy a pound, now!!! If you have mites, time is of the essence.
NOTICE: The spray you make is not harmful to humans (hab peppers are an ingredient in all really good south of the border salsas), but irritating to mucus membranes and soft tissues, it will make you cough - as its like breathing chili powder, so use care.
"GEE, MY PLANT LEAVES ARE DOTTED WITH WHITE SPOTS AND TURNING PALE OR YELLOW."
If you have taken a powerful magnifying glass to the underside of your plant's leaves you will have seen the little off-yellow dots with a brown center that move about slowly over the plant leafs and veins - the mature mites. These big mites leave web-strands like other spiders. Web strands between leaf and stems (as they cross back and forth to new vulnerable leaves), and between leaf serrations are indications of a healthy infestation and big mites on your plants. You may also have seen almost too-hard-to-see little brown dots crawling slowly about. These are the baby mites that will grow into big suckers. You may also have seen groups of little white dots near the central leaf brachiation and the main leaf veins. These are clutches of mite eggs. They will soon hatch and produce up to 80 mites per clutch, per mature mite. You are screwed if you do nothing. But fret not, you can save your plants, and they will recover and thrive - with diligence.
HERE IS WHAT TO DO
Making the Calicleaner
1.) Get a sauce pan - fill with one pint of water - put on lowest flame possible (do not boil !!!).
2.) Chop 4 -5 Habanera peppers fine. Chop open seeds and central membranes, as the power lies there.
3.) Simmer chopped peppers for 20 minutes - making sure not to boil (you will destroy the active proteins).
4.) When you put your head over the pan and the wispy-steam stings your eyes, the Calicleaner is ready.
5.) Pour the Calicleaner through a fine mesh strainer - a little fine grit is OK - let cool in a clean bowl.
6.) Pour room temperature contents in a mister spray bottle. Your are ready to apply.
HOW TO APPLY Calicleaner
1.) Put on gloves, and wear a mask, or at least put a bandana around your nose and mouth.
2.) Turn off all fans - you do not want this spray in your eyes!!!
3.) Spray the bottom of EVERY leaf - starting with the bottom leaves first, work up to the top.
4.) After the bottoms are done, hit the tops and the stems.
5.) Squirt liberally in new leaf pods - tightly wound new leaf growth (the small mites hide there).
6.) Get the heck out of the room till it clears.
7.) Repeat procedure with each plant.
8.) Spray the soil, the pots, and the floor or earth around the area to kill dropping mites and stop migration.
9.) Wash hands with soap and water when complete - the stuff will heat-up skin for 4 hours.
10.) DO NOT WORRY. Though the stuff is lethal to mites, the plants love it.
WHAT'S NEXT??
Congratulations! You have successfully killed the mites that you sprayed - on contact!. Plus, the mites are thwarted in biting again as they get a lethal dose of hot mouth. Your plants should be turning green again with in half a day. Though the leaves are scarred, they will recover and work again - producing vital sugars for growth.
However, you are not done. Some mites will escape the spray, though you have killed 95% of them. Thus, you will have to do the spray again tomorrow. As a matter of fact you will have to spray every 2-3 days till you see no more mites - usually up to two weeks. SOME EGGS WILL HATCH!!! Thus a week after the first spray, do a super job again, the baby mites are likely out and about. Kill 'em right away.
Use your magnifying glass to inspect each plant carefully, when nothing moves and you see no more webs, your plants are clear. YEAH!!
Additional precautions: make sure your containers and pots do not touch, mites migrate. Clean your floors and equipment so live mites do not return (spray them down with Caliclean). Since no person can kill every living mite in their situation, eternal diligence is now part of the equation. One mite may turn into a million in a month.
Other helpful hints: wash your plants with clean water spray between sprayings, this cleans off dead mites and eggs, and refreshes the plant leaf compromised by the vampire sucking mites. Keep the room cool, 78 degrees to 68 degrees if possible during treatment. Mites hate the cold - thus weakened mites will drop dead. If lower leaves are infested with eggs and mites - cut them off! DO NOT LEAVE CUTTINGS NEARBY! Burn or bury your cuttings far away.
Spraying notes: Mites tend to collect where the leaves join at the nexus and overlap. If you can, lay your plants on-end or position upsidedown (be real careful) to make sure all undersides are sprayed. Cut off curled leaves where they collect. If you're a rich person you may make a full pound to ten gallons of water and dunk them - even better!!
The best part of using Calicleaner is you may use it always - even during flowering. As the solution is all natural, no one is harmed but the mites: "Nature to deal with Nature." Your money goes to a farmer not a chemical corporation.
Caliclean works,
ok so this is a copy from another web site,,, i didnt make this up... just follwed the instructions as listed above.... and I am sold... works fantastic
I couldnt believe how quickly the mammas turned around in an afternoon.
Good luck to anyone with mite problems..as I have found this works well
"Now then, for all you fervent horticulturists..."
Spider mites are alive; you can make them dead. All life is fragile, but... "how do I kill the mites without hurting my crop?"
I will not use pesticides or harmful chemicals on my plants; thus, I have found an all-natural way to rid the infestations that sometimes occur. Curing your plants takes time and care, but you can rid your babies of the mini-spiders that suck your plant's life's blood.
Spiders have skin-like exoskeletons; the tissues are sensitive to change. Molecules soak though their pours, skin and orifices; thus, what may bother you - a giant living organism - might prove fatal to a spider the size of a pinhead. This is so when using a common group of proteins found in Nature. I will teach you how to naturally and inexpensively rid your plants of the dreaded spider mites.
The Habanera Pepper (sometimes pronounced Habenero) is the key ingredient in pepper spray. Once you make a batch of CALICLEAN you'll see why. One may buy habanera peppers in any vegetable section for about 6 dollars a pound. The peppers are light orange to dark red, and are about the size of a bic lighter when fully mature, most are half that size. Go buy a pound, now!!! If you have mites, time is of the essence.
NOTICE: The spray you make is not harmful to humans (hab peppers are an ingredient in all really good south of the border salsas), but irritating to mucus membranes and soft tissues, it will make you cough - as its like breathing chili powder, so use care.
"GEE, MY PLANT LEAVES ARE DOTTED WITH WHITE SPOTS AND TURNING PALE OR YELLOW."
If you have taken a powerful magnifying glass to the underside of your plant's leaves you will have seen the little off-yellow dots with a brown center that move about slowly over the plant leafs and veins - the mature mites. These big mites leave web-strands like other spiders. Web strands between leaf and stems (as they cross back and forth to new vulnerable leaves), and between leaf serrations are indications of a healthy infestation and big mites on your plants. You may also have seen almost too-hard-to-see little brown dots crawling slowly about. These are the baby mites that will grow into big suckers. You may also have seen groups of little white dots near the central leaf brachiation and the main leaf veins. These are clutches of mite eggs. They will soon hatch and produce up to 80 mites per clutch, per mature mite. You are screwed if you do nothing. But fret not, you can save your plants, and they will recover and thrive - with diligence.
HERE IS WHAT TO DO
Making the Calicleaner
1.) Get a sauce pan - fill with one pint of water - put on lowest flame possible (do not boil !!!).
2.) Chop 4 -5 Habanera peppers fine. Chop open seeds and central membranes, as the power lies there.
3.) Simmer chopped peppers for 20 minutes - making sure not to boil (you will destroy the active proteins).
4.) When you put your head over the pan and the wispy-steam stings your eyes, the Calicleaner is ready.
5.) Pour the Calicleaner through a fine mesh strainer - a little fine grit is OK - let cool in a clean bowl.
6.) Pour room temperature contents in a mister spray bottle. Your are ready to apply.
HOW TO APPLY Calicleaner
1.) Put on gloves, and wear a mask, or at least put a bandana around your nose and mouth.
2.) Turn off all fans - you do not want this spray in your eyes!!!
3.) Spray the bottom of EVERY leaf - starting with the bottom leaves first, work up to the top.
4.) After the bottoms are done, hit the tops and the stems.
5.) Squirt liberally in new leaf pods - tightly wound new leaf growth (the small mites hide there).
6.) Get the heck out of the room till it clears.
7.) Repeat procedure with each plant.
8.) Spray the soil, the pots, and the floor or earth around the area to kill dropping mites and stop migration.
9.) Wash hands with soap and water when complete - the stuff will heat-up skin for 4 hours.
10.) DO NOT WORRY. Though the stuff is lethal to mites, the plants love it.
WHAT'S NEXT??
Congratulations! You have successfully killed the mites that you sprayed - on contact!. Plus, the mites are thwarted in biting again as they get a lethal dose of hot mouth. Your plants should be turning green again with in half a day. Though the leaves are scarred, they will recover and work again - producing vital sugars for growth.
However, you are not done. Some mites will escape the spray, though you have killed 95% of them. Thus, you will have to do the spray again tomorrow. As a matter of fact you will have to spray every 2-3 days till you see no more mites - usually up to two weeks. SOME EGGS WILL HATCH!!! Thus a week after the first spray, do a super job again, the baby mites are likely out and about. Kill 'em right away.
Use your magnifying glass to inspect each plant carefully, when nothing moves and you see no more webs, your plants are clear. YEAH!!
Additional precautions: make sure your containers and pots do not touch, mites migrate. Clean your floors and equipment so live mites do not return (spray them down with Caliclean). Since no person can kill every living mite in their situation, eternal diligence is now part of the equation. One mite may turn into a million in a month.
Other helpful hints: wash your plants with clean water spray between sprayings, this cleans off dead mites and eggs, and refreshes the plant leaf compromised by the vampire sucking mites. Keep the room cool, 78 degrees to 68 degrees if possible during treatment. Mites hate the cold - thus weakened mites will drop dead. If lower leaves are infested with eggs and mites - cut them off! DO NOT LEAVE CUTTINGS NEARBY! Burn or bury your cuttings far away.
Spraying notes: Mites tend to collect where the leaves join at the nexus and overlap. If you can, lay your plants on-end or position upsidedown (be real careful) to make sure all undersides are sprayed. Cut off curled leaves where they collect. If you're a rich person you may make a full pound to ten gallons of water and dunk them - even better!!
The best part of using Calicleaner is you may use it always - even during flowering. As the solution is all natural, no one is harmed but the mites: "Nature to deal with Nature." Your money goes to a farmer not a chemical corporation.
Caliclean works,
ok so this is a copy from another web site,,, i didnt make this up... just follwed the instructions as listed above.... and I am sold... works fantastic
I couldnt believe how quickly the mammas turned around in an afternoon.
Good luck to anyone with mite problems..as I have found this works well
Steve McStoferson
New Member
thanks for posting that, I'm gonna give that habanero trick a try in combination with the rosemary spray I've been making.
kiwibloke
Active Member
Hi Steve,
tried to get some of that SNS 217 sent to me but i can't get it into the country without a full govt testing regime so that soeta fucked that up. Then I saw your rosemary oil in water. Their stuff is only 2% so your mix does the trick does it ?? Spot of dishwashing liquid for stickability and off you ??? I noticed later in the post u mentioned an habanero mix . .how did that go for you??
Thanx for ya time
Kiwi Kris
tried to get some of that SNS 217 sent to me but i can't get it into the country without a full govt testing regime so that soeta fucked that up. Then I saw your rosemary oil in water. Their stuff is only 2% so your mix does the trick does it ?? Spot of dishwashing liquid for stickability and off you ??? I noticed later in the post u mentioned an habanero mix . .how did that go for you??
Thanx for ya time
Kiwi Kris
kiwibloke
Active Member
scored a small bottle of pure rosemary oil - 50 mils for $NZ 23.50 (about $30 something US) . .that worked pretty well. As to the Chillies. . .i'll need to score them from a specialty food shop . . .not too many left after the continuing quakes we r having in Christchurch !!
oakley2112
New Member
Ive been using a lil skim milk and water seems to be working fine..i dont think they will ever go away i mean yes you can get rid of them all..maybe. But got forbid your not in a full hazmat suit and no dirt or dust on you the next time you go in your room..good luck guys..fight the good fight
cross1420
New Member
how about foggers or bombs, do they knock out a infestation pretty well?
kiwibloke
Active Member
Yeah, you could possibly use bombs but I forsee several potential drawbacks.
1) Bombs involve some sort of delivery system. In this case, the Air Force springs to mind, (unless you're envisaging something alot smaller) - a federally funded organization, at the end of the day . . . . do ya really want the feds poking around in ya business???
2) Evidence from Iraq and Afghanistan, I think you'll agree, show that the Air Force haven't had an error free ride. I'd say you'd be more than a little P.O.ed to one day find the neighbouring houses/apartment buildings mostly flattened. but your place and hence your spidermites intact !! Again a definite chance of arousing the interest of your local Cannabis Oppressing and Prosecuting Shitheads!! - not to be confused with policemen from the general human population.
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papaduckie
Well-Known Member
OMG every house plant and ganja can and will get spider mites best solution I have found and effective is 1 or 1.5 tsp dishsoap to a 32oz sprayer and it will kill em all and eggs. I lived in alabama and mississippi and that dishsoap will kill fire ants at 1 cup per 5 galons of water and it wont hurt plants. I know this from having at 1 time 82 house plants at the same time. so I would say spray with dish soap water at 1 tsp soap to 32 oz water sprayer you`ll be amazed how much money it will save ya
