Spider mite sulfur burner experience.

Keighan

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So...I knew this day would come, fucking spiders..mitey motherfuckers at that, haven't had them until now and even after countless hours of prior research, when the day comes it's a smack in the face and a kick in the balls, instantaneously it seemed as my eye met the mite I was suddenly brain dead. So in a panic to recoup what I thought I already knew I hit the web, and 4 hours later here we are, I am in week 1 of flowering (I know I should have eradicated this problem before flip, but I swear there was 0 symptoms and I diligently checked) the mite problem is a problem, but I feel it can be eradicated, I have two diligently infected plants that seem to have been hit hard but the rest have no symptoms and little if any mite infestation, so given this is my first experience with s.m. I was hoping to post my game plan, take advice from the great r.i.u. community and see if we can't document this eradication. 1. Remove all plants from flower room and bleach everything, 2. Do a cold water spray/drench followed by a low power vac to assist in removing water + mites and eggs 3. Do a sulfur burning regime on day 1(after vac and dry) of 1 hour intervals in 6 different spots of my room. (It's a 6x16 room so it's narrow and long) I will do an hour of sulfur burning at fat left,midde, and far right alternating hour intervals from floor to ceiling floor to ceiling etc. After that I will water drench once a day for a week, with another sulfur burn regime on the 7th day, followed by companion planting of basil and other mite deterring plants reason 1 for this plan is I have soil life, and I'd like to keep it that way, so alot of these commercials would directly compromise my growing style (worst case scenario these chemicals will be implemented and soil biology will be reinoculated) I do not know the effects of sulfur on soil biology but I don't deal a residual layer on my top soil could leach enough to greatly impact. And reason 2 is, I have partitioned rooms in a dirt basement, plants are on pallet covered in poly but still.dirt floors, so I don't know how succesful I'd be in a complete eradication in implementing this plan I'm hoping to keep populations at a minimum after a two to three week sulfur and drench regime we will hopefully have companion plants companionin and predator insects thriving. Let me know your opinion and Any advice is appreciated,

Keighan
 
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