Hot summer temps and spider mites

Carl Spackler

Well-Known Member
Just a friendly reminder to all fellow outdoor growers that now is the time to begin inspecting and/or treating your plant material for spider mites. Hopefully everyone has found a nice, sunny location to place your babies, unfortunately this environment is ripe for spider mites to have thousands of babies of their own on your carefully cultivated crop. The hotter the temps, the faster their life-cycle (as quick as one generation every 4-5 days.) Choose your weapon(s) for control carefully as most insecticides are designed to control insects, not mites. Simply applying a insecticide may even worsen the problem as their are less predator-insects present to keep mites in check. Pick a miticide that has a proven track record and residual such as Abamectin (my ammo of choice) then, read and follow the instructions to the letter. I also suggest you rotate to a different miticide if necessary. If one female mite and another male mite that are resistant to any one miticide get together they will undoubtedly produce offspring that are highly resistant to your control.
Use a magnifying glass and look carefully on the underneath side of your leaves.Check your plants as frequently as you can to avoid what could be the worst thing that can happen to a grower.
 

sodalite

Well-Known Member
i like using neem before there is a problem it works mites are never a problem. kingcronic mites will ruin your plants taking measures to get rid of them is cheap. my bottle of neem costs me about $20 and i get 2-3 years out of it. and that is using it on plants in the yard to-non mj plants. a little goes a long way.
 
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