4th week of flower growing 6 plants noticed silverish leaves on monkey slapz scoped them the 2 dot mites yikes! On all of them Tossed 4 kept 2 and sprayed them, tent and everything in basement used trishield @PreyBird1 @nacho151 or anyone else use this or something else or should I just toss them and start over
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That should work. After treating remove the damaged leaves. @happilyretired might have a better way to get rid of those nasty critters.
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I fight them out door every year big time. I’ve tried everything. If you want to save money, you only have to buy two products, and use one of them every 7 to 10 days. stylet oil at half strength which is 1 ounce per gallon of water as a deterrent. For a heavy infestation to ounces per gallon of water with 2 ounces of Captain Jack’s dead bug. With a heavy infestation, you would spray them at least twice 3 to 4 days apart and then after another three or four days take a close look and if it looks like they’re mostly gone, go to your maintenance schedule of 1 ounce of oil per gallon of water Every 7–10 days. Both of these products you can take all the way through bloom.
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Thanks @happilyretired i had a pre mix captain jacks applied 2 times last week i find one occasionally just don’t want them to multiply.
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You probably won’t get rid of them this round completely. But you should get most of them. Captain Jacks is bacteria and makes them stop eating, It lasts for a a few days the stylet oil, it stays on the plant until it’s absorbed, washed off or just dissipates. It’s a very light layer of a very light oil. Mites have tube like a mosquito they stick in the plant and suck out nutrients. The stylet oil works in two ways. As a preventative when they go to feed on the plant, the oil blocks their tube and they think there’s nothing to eat, and they move on or starve. As a mite annihilator, it coats them and their eggs, and they suffocate because they breathe through their skin. The stylet oil well pretty much takes care of the mites. Captain Jack’s works on them too but not as well the beauty of it is it works on everything else. So if anything came in with your mites like a moth or something that’s gonna put worms in your buds the captain Jack takes care of that. when you find there’s been a moth around and you have worms, it’s too late. You don’t know they’re there for a long time and they do a lot of damage and cause bud rot. All of that being said, that’s way pest management protocol is so important. Kind of like getting the flu shot, assume it’s coming and do what you can to prevent it. 
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That’s some good info @happilyretired my first time with indoor pest, being in flower don’t like using anything i consume, I guess a bud wash at harvest, gonna be part of my maintenance to spray early from now on thanks again
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Oh crap man mites are terrible. You need to remove as much of the leaves as you can. @happilyretired is right on with stylet oil. Or horticultural oil its all food grade mineral oil either way. And if you can and this sucks but get a trash bag and put the plants pot in it pull the sack up to the stem and tie it using a big zip tie and the reason is you dont want tape water in the rootzone. And heres the suck you need 2 people for this part…Take the bagged up plant the the shower and one peraon has to hold the pot over the shower and rotate it and the other person has to spray water from the bottom of the plant, so the sacked pot towards the top all while holding it in the shower and rotating it. But you have some pretty big buds. And spraying water is not good for the flowers pistile/hairs. Damn mites are a bitch. I use the horticultural oil and also
So heres the steps
- Remove as many leaves as you can.
- Sack the pot and zip tie.
- Take it for a shower
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It looks like you’re dealing with mites, which can be tricky during flowering. Trishield can help, but follow the directions and avoid spraying close to harvest. If the damage is bad, it might be best to start fresh to protect your buds.
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Has anybody had any experience use cannacure for mite infestation? I found some so have mass defoliated and have a bottle of that on order. Thanks in advance
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Is there a similar product to captain jacks? Can only find it from ebay for delivery to the UK but I try to avoid ebay if I can help it. Thanks in advance 
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@ukgrower the short answer is yes.
@happilyretired Thankyou, I will give that a go, I was going to order some.predators but I believe u have to wait 2 weeks after treating to introduce them, the plant should really be finished by then if the mites dont finish it first lol
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70% alcohol sprayed to saturation on the plant stems and all leaves and soil surface good at lights off…that’ll do it…plants will be fine.
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Is that ok to do close to harvest? I think these have maybe a couple of weeks left. Thanks for getting bk to me
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Yep…can’t hurt them at that point..it’s better than smoking all those spider mites
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Wicked thanks mate, i will get some and do it today thanks for replying
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Clean your entire grow out after harvest…if you have fabric pots trash them…everything else, gets bleached heavy…two or three times…lights, hangers, get a new filter…clean the whole area….how did you get mites in the first place?
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Im not sure tbh the plant was outside until 32 days ago when I noticed it at a friend’s flowering i.put it in my tent, there was no sign of any mites or other parasites. But then over the last couple of days I have noticed the discolouration, the leaf damage and webbing. I.am using fabric pots but have a fair few autos waiting to be put in. Im considering binning the lot and getting a different system all together. Probably an autopot system, proper disaster that im still hoping I can come.back from lol.
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Never ever bring a plant inside from outdoors…that’s what fucked ya ..fabric pots…trash them…scrub everything top to bottom with bleach…anything in that area is contaminated and MUST go…restart everything
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Nightmares ent they man it will will be done in a coupla weeks im hoping i can hold um off until then and then ill be doing a clean sweep. Won’t be touching anything thats been outside again, steep learning curve lol.
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