HOW TO KILL SPIDER MITES 100%: " Naturally - no chemicals"

[OneHitDone]

An update for anyone interested, have used 2x applications of the pepper spray. It definitely kills mites looked at the underside of leaves with a 40x lighted scope. Looks like it blew them apart saw tons of dead mites, though I did find a single live one. Picked up a fogmaster Jr fogger for the rest of the applications for better coverage. Only 1 week into flower, so I will be spraying every other day for at least another 2 weeks or as long as needed. Also looking into predator mites to be safe after the spraying is completed.
Im lucky I love peppers and eat very hot food often did not seem to bother me for more than 5 min after application, though my ungloved hands did heat up for hours.

Just be sure not to touch your peepee after handling your peppers

 

[AAjax]

Just be sure not to touch your peepee after handling your peppers

Yeah gotta be careful

Anyhow an update after another week of spraying with pepper and in between with hydrogen peroxide a check with the loop shows 0 live mites. I will continue to observe and apply as needed. To be honest the hydrogen peroxide wash seemed to be equally if not more effective. A good non toxic combo IMHO.

http://www.happygirl.ca/pump_sprayer.htm
used this mix at the bottom of this page to great effect.

 

[Chunk style]

Try this.
http://sheltercovebrewingcompany.com/index.php/2015/08/18/allnaturalspidermitekiller/http://sheltercovebrewingcompany.com/index.php/2015/08/18/allnaturalspidermitekiller/
Works every time.

 

[OneHitDone]

Try this.
http://sheltercovebrewingcompany.com/index.php/2015/08/18/allnaturalspidermitekiller/
Works every time.

Dude, do you know what a shop vac will do to your leaves? lol

 

[Chunk style]

Dude, do you know what a shop vac will do to your leaves? lol

I was worried about that, too, but it doesn't hurt them at all.

 

[OneHitDone]

I was worried about that, too, but it doesn't hurt them at all.

You must have a pretty tame shop vac.
Mine is hungry and starts cropping and tattering leaves if given the chance lol

 

[Chunk style]

You must have a pretty tame shop vac.
Mine is hungry and starts cropping and tattering leaves if given the chance lol

I have a Dewalt handheld, and it is probably pretty tame, but this method saved two huge greenhouses from imminent destruction, so I wouldn't have cried over a few lost leaves, anyway. I have really tall girls, and the majority of the webbing is on the top colas, so if I lost a few leaves up there it would just provide more light for the colitas down below.

 

[The Flapjack Kid]

HOW TO KILL SPIDER MITES 100%
By Calibuzz - 30 year grower

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Cured Clone - see new growth!

You have Spider Mites? YOU HAVE A PROBLEM!!! Unless you are diligent and work hard, the problem will not go away, your crop is doomed as one by one they fail and die.

As a Native American, proud of our heritage and ways in keeping with the environment, I give to you a method that is naturally harmonious, and pure. The method is so benign, you may use this method even during flowering - without a single harm to your precious plants.

The best way is not the easiest by far; to do the perfect job takes comitment - so all you lazy bud heads who want a quick fix: "look elsewhere, or coat your precious medicine with chemicals and poison...and remind me not to smoke your herb."

Editor's note: One will find a bit of cross talk in this thread, and some rude posts. The Editor aplogizes that many have strayed off the central subject and prefer to haze each other. However, one will find many other concerned members with great suggestions and feedback. - calibuzz

"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,

Check often; check carefully; your plants will thank you with fine flowering! Be good to your Natural Medicine, and it will be good to you.

Good Luck and best wishes, "How Ni Kan, Megwetch," Peace be with you always,

Calibuzz

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Image one: Cured Clone - see new growth.
Image two: Cured Nursery - all plants mite free after caliclean!
Image three: After the Storm - I was out hiking the mountains and witnessed this.

There is hope at the end of every rainbow; don't give up!

 

[The Flapjack Kid]

Will Cayenne pepper spray work as well? I have organic 160,000 heat unit cayenne pepper powder.

 

[Freddie Millergogo]

Will Cayenne pepper spray work as well? I have organic 160,000 heat unit cayenne pepper powder.

Dr. Bronner's Peppermint Soap and a pinch of Caynne You can get that soap at better grocery stores, drug stores, GNC, Vitamin Shoppe. 4 table spoons per one gallon of water. The soap has lots of oils. A 32 oz bottle is like $14 but will last forever. They sell it in 4 oz and 8 oz bottles too. Someone on the web sells a gallon for $20..

You can usually get Cayenne powder at the Dollar Store.

Also google "CaliClean" aka pepper spray which is Habenera/o Pepper simmered.

 

[Cherrinmark]

Dude the pepper spray is b.s !!!! I sprayed my mite infested ladies today n not even 5 hrs later now i checked on them and they r wilted and look like they r burned up and wilted and drooped they all look like they are gonna die im soooo pissed!! Months of hard word to get bad advice and ruin it all!!!

 

[AAjax]

Dude the pepper spray is b.s !!!! I sprayed my mite infested ladies today n not even 5 hrs later now i checked on them and they r wilted and look like they r burned up and wilted and drooped they all look like they are gonna die im soooo pissed!! Months of hard word to get bad advice and ruin it all!!!

Hmmm, I had no ill effects from using it at all, in fact the plants seemed to love it. That aside its a very high maintenance process that I didnt find to be a complete solution. Used a peroxide wash that seemed more effective followed up with green lacewing larvae. I wouldnt use the peroxide past 2 weeks into flower, though If I had to the pepper spray seems to be a better option later into flower. In a veg situation I would recommend green clean, awesome stuff that works wonders. Dont know if I would try it in flower as it is oil based. The lacewing option is the lowest maintenance and most effective option for later in flower or if you dont mind dropping the $ all the way though flower with multiple applications. If you go that route get the larvae not eggs as it immediately addresses the issue IMHO.

 

[indican3]

Giving it a go!

I got Ghost Peppers and Habaneros and combined them, I figured Ghost Peppers would work even better, but decided it may be best to use both.

After drenching my plants in this stuff I coated the plants in with diatomaceous earth powder. I think the mites are going to have a real hard time now

Details:

Hot Peppers 2.99$ x 2 (still have half of them left)
Spray Bottle 2.99$ (could have gotten a cheaper 1$ version but this one has better spray coverage, and potentially less prone to clogging up.
Clean dish cloth (for straining)

 

[Freddie Millergogo]

Hmmm, I had no ill effects from using it at all, in fact the plants seemed to love it. That aside its a very high maintenance process that I didnt find to be a complete solution. Used a peroxide wash that seemed more effective followed up with green lacewing larvae. I wouldnt use the peroxide past 2 weeks into flower, though If I had to the pepper spray seems to be a better option later into flower. In a veg situation I would recommend green clean, awesome stuff that works wonders. Dont know if I would try it in flower as it is oil based. The lacewing option is the lowest maintenance and most effective option for later in flower or if you dont mind dropping the $ all the way though flower with multiple applications. If you go that route get the larvae not eggs as it immediately addresses the issue IMHO.

Bro - did the Lacewing larvae actually clean the undersides of the leaves chomping on eggs and mites? Did you actually seem them eating stuff up and killing it? Thanks for the tip.

 

[AAjax]

Bro - did the Lacewing larvae actually clean the undersides of the leaves chomping on eggs and mites? Did you actually seem them eating stuff up and killing it? Thanks for the tip.

Yes they did. They hunt at night so you don't get to see them much mostly their handiwork, sucked out eggs and shells of mites. Worked great

 

[Nugachino]

A spray for you. A spray for me. Mmmmmm burningness of the tongue.

Thanks for the help Calibuzz. Didn't want to put chemicsl shite on my girls if I could help it.

 

[iHearAll]

you can definitely boil the water capcaicin doesnt break down until 400 degrees F

 

[iHearAll]

Dude the pepper spray is b.s !!!! I sprayed my mite infested ladies today n not even 5 hrs later now i checked on them and they r wilted and look like they r burned up and wilted and drooped they all look like they are gonna die im soooo pissed!! Months of hard word to get bad advice and ruin it all!!!

lol did you spray and cut your lights on? the water droplets amplify the light and then the internal moisture of the leaf gets drawn out and you're left with a crispy leaf. I promis this stuff works but you have to apply it correctly.

if you have an intensity control you maaay be able to spray with the lights on but you should spray with lights and fans off. then cut your fans on and leave your lights off. i do it at night or an hour before the lights cut on in the morning. same goes with every foliar spray.

 

[Freddie Millergogo]

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Giving it a go!

I got Ghost Peppers and Habaneros and combined them, I figured Ghost Peppers would work even better, but decided it may be best to use both.

After drenching my plants in this stuff I coated the plants in with diatomaceous earth powder. I think the mites are going to have a real hard time now

Details:

Hot Peppers 2.99$ x 2 (still have half of them left)
Spray Bottle 2.99$ (could have gotten a cheaper 1$ version but this one has better spray coverage, and potentially less prone to clogging up.
Clean dish cloth (for straining)

Be careful with Diatomaceous Earth. Use the food type of DE and still wear a little mask. Probably wash your clothes after that. You do not want to inhale it.

 

[indican3]

Be careful with Diatomaceous Earth. Use the food type of DE and still wear a little mask. Probably wash your clothes after that. You do not want to inhale it.

Thanks for the tip, was already aware of the risks (somewhat) and did this all outside. Still yea mask next time, a little to much airborne particles and I believe experienced some mild irritation.

Sure did the trick though, coated it so well I'm still misting off D.E. from the leaves weeks later