thcheaven
Well-Known Member
A Quote from the april '08 High Times, Jorge's RX section.."In the United States, Ladybird beetles (ladybugs) are collected in California in the sierra mountains. The Ladybirds are hibernating and full of fat (stored food) when they are collected, and they are refrigerated to keep them in a state of low metabolism. When they are released, the ladybugs warm up and start looking for a mate; food is the last thing on their mind at this time. Once they mate and lay eggs, young larvae hatch out. The larvae that cannot fly have a ravenouse appetite, and their favorite food is aphids. SELDOM DO THEY EAT SPIDER MITES.
If you introduce 100 ladybugs into your growroom on monday, there will be only a few left on friday. Most of them will be ready to look for a mate and will take off toward the "sun"-which is actually a high-intensity discharge light (HID). They'll fly straight into the hot lamp and pop like popcorn!
Now i don't know how long it takes for ladybugs to hatch, and the fact that they don't eat spider mites, but they don't seem to be the answer to spider mites at all.
I have bombed twice w/ pyrethrins, and twice 3 days later w/ nylar. to NO avail. I left for 5 days only to come back to some of my best looking buds being covered in webbing and ate the HELL up(Ruined).
If anyone has any ideas please post asap, i'm 3-4 weeks from harvest and DO NOT want to lose it to a freak'n bug. HELP!!!!!!
If you introduce 100 ladybugs into your growroom on monday, there will be only a few left on friday. Most of them will be ready to look for a mate and will take off toward the "sun"-which is actually a high-intensity discharge light (HID). They'll fly straight into the hot lamp and pop like popcorn!
Now i don't know how long it takes for ladybugs to hatch, and the fact that they don't eat spider mites, but they don't seem to be the answer to spider mites at all.
I have bombed twice w/ pyrethrins, and twice 3 days later w/ nylar. to NO avail. I left for 5 days only to come back to some of my best looking buds being covered in webbing and ate the HELL up(Ruined).
If anyone has any ideas please post asap, i'm 3-4 weeks from harvest and DO NOT want to lose it to a freak'n bug. HELP!!!!!!