Serious note…how did you get “rid” of them? or did you focus more on preventing them from coming back after you threw away all infected crop? IS there like a fogger you could use that doesn’t cause a film and is safe to use in commercial grows?
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Oh snap. I saw a guy at the grow house like that the other day. I had no idea. Lol
Sucks you can’t like something more than once. Thats funny.
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What a rush that would be. LMFAO.
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@obiwancannabis… I prefer more star wars xmen analogies lol but that’s funny as fuck… long live Ripley lol
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Dr zymes , green clean, suffoil x… works well you can also use water and h2o2 with some alchol or lemon juice!! They are soft bodied so anything woth acid like lenon juice or alcohol should kill them… they make spridermite bombs as well ,pyrethrin is what are in most bombs ive seen!!! Also bleach and water are a maricle i dont suggest using in flower but i. Veg you can spray the shit out of your plants w diluted bleach water!! Really you should have multipule IPM sprays for mites they become immune to sprays!!! They are assholes once you get them its eother u need to rest totally or hope u get the problem fixed!!! But personally i only use predator insects amd predator mites to take care of my garden!!! Bugs eating bugs
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Pro tip:::When you get new genetics in you should ALWAYS QUARANTINE THEM FOR A WEEK OR MORE AND TREAT THEM NO MATTER WHAT!!! Thats how you midigate that threat!!! They litterly lay eggs every three days and it takes tht long for the eggs to hatch they can litterly blow ur grow up in a matter of a week!!!
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ues they can fuck your whole grow with quickness. Ive hade it happen and i trashed 78plants and monthes of work i was pissed. Luck you can save them by cloning and treating the small clones. This way you get to keep your strains and only lose time and money from nutrients.
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Ive battled mites Several times in my career trouble shooting different grows. I know guys that have been growing foe 20 plus years that will shut their rooms down as soon as they see those little bastards. I Have raised the co2 in my rooms way over 3000 ppms and wore o2 suits in to clear the room. Ive used all types of sprays, ive used Nematodes, lady bugs…name it, I mite of tried it. Lol All of those helped, but none got rid of the mites, specially in flower cycle. I have walked in a room with a shop vac and sucked the whole cola stem and all i side to snatch those bastards out. Still inly helped for a couple days. I have left a room that looked clean, came back in 2 days and it looked like the movie theater scene in gremlin. Millions of them webbed cola to cola, plant to plant. Hate to say it, but when your flowering and have colas and mite its just shitty. I have a method that works to eradicate them, with out tearing everything down, but its done during the vegetative cycle. Of your keeping the buds the best you can do is nematodes, lady bugs, and an annoying mite vacuum. Its only going to help jeep the numbers low, and Like someone said earlier tho, under a scope you will still see the eggs and stuff in your product after you’ve trimmed.
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zymes for infestations during flower. When harvesting if mites are still present, chop the plant as low as you can and hang the whole plant upside down somewhere away from your dry room. The Mites will always congregate at the injury site of the plant, so just chop the trunk/stem again and discard the end covered in webs and mites. They will also start climbing the string in a strange way, which can allow for a mass exodus.
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thanks! Did not know they hangout like that. The ol’ bait and switch haha
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I battle every year… I use a 3-in -1 organocide
Watch them leap in despairity I lower my ratio but up the amount of times a year I spray to begin and as they tolerate up the ratio
When you hang it upside down the mites will naturally make their way up to the tip top and form a massive mite ball. I used to use a torch and go in there every day and reburn those bastards.
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