Spider mites for christmas!! FML

So I have a pretty bad spider mite problem they all came in over nite yesterday, I apllied azamax and rubbed off all the mites i saw and i tried to get all of the eggs but thats frickin impossible, this is a first itime problemfor me, I was wondering what all aza max does? the lady at the green house store keep pushing it but she didnt seem to know what it did she just knew it worked. do i need to worry about all those eggs or will it take care of them? I sprayed under the leaves and Put a little bit in my ladies feeding water. Just looking for some insight please and thanks
SS808

I don't no a thing about aza. Neem oil & safe soap or a little bit of organic dish soap, that is all i like to use. Killed all of the ones i had in 4 days, spray every other day for 8days 4 applications.

Neem Oil mixed with water as instructed on bottle, mixed with a pinch of liquid dish soap, and mixed with pyrethrin


Pyrethrin - http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=10051&productId=100655378&langId=-1&catalogId=10053&ci_src=14110944&ci_sku=100655378&cm_mmc=shopping-_-googlebase-_-D28X-_-100655378

...Couldn't find a link for neem oil, but it's definitely at lowes and home depot. That combo of ingreds listed up there will stop the mites, kill them, and wont effect your plants health or their taste; as long as you dont harvest for a few days. It's all natural and all destroyage.

Have you tried alcohol and water?

You can also use "organic spray", made from natural killers of spider-mites. "Garden safe, houseplant and garden, insect killer." It is made with a botanical "natural" insecticide. (Made from plant-extracts.)

That is a "day of harvest" style insecticide... Dilutes in water, and is safe up to the day you harvest for consumption.

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Look on General hydroponics web site about azamax to find the info your looking for
Three applications and youll be fine.
you can use that stuff right till the day you harvest.
The shits expensive but it works great.

I went on and tried it i got small bottle like 12oz. i think and

Sorry i dont know what happened....anyway i mixed it with the last watering on Xmas eve and i just checked on them a few minutes ago looking over every leaf and they seem to have left already....So i support AzaMax all the way...Oh and the directions said too use 5ml per gallon like 1once every 10-14 days, i think, i Only used 2.5ml per gallon

Hey siva, I have been fighting the nasty lil bastards for about 3 months using less evasive methods at first.(pyrethrum spray,alcohol/water spray,and soap spray,no pest strips) These will only slow them down.I ended up shutting my flower room down completely for almost 3 weeks now.And have been bombing it with hot shot foggers every week.I cleaned the room down with bleach water and removed the carpeting completely.A week ago,I went out to the local hydro store and bought azamax.$20 for 4 ozs. I mixed it@ 2 tbls/gallon (max ratio) and sprayed all my plants including lil ones with it.Most of them reacted poorly to the high ratio even though they were watered a couple hours before the application.But looking a few days later I only found dead mites. the next watering(3-5 days) I added aza in soil knowing it takes 10-14 days to get into plants system.Im at 1 1/2 weeks now and i see no mites on lil ones and just a few live ones on my 2 mother plants.The new growth is now looking better but they did not like that much.I am going to re-apply today at med. ratio.
Dont be fooled thinking there gone.If you have the 2 spotted ones like I have.They are VERY tough to get rid of with out serious action taken.They will multiply very quickly once in the warmth of the flower room.If there are any alive or eggs still on a vegging plant and you put it into flower room,they go crazy!Are your plants vegging? If they are you want to make sure youve killed them all before flowering them.Trust me,I found out the hard way,but have learned alot about the subject throughout the battle.They killed 2 of my plants in flower that would have been done for xmas.Im not putting anything in flower til I know there gone.Hope this helps and I'll keep you updated. Peace!

The aza Max worked for me so far i used very small amounts of it (about 2.5ml per.gal.) and soil fed, then used the same ratio and sprayed the leaves they were gone in two days, that was on xmas, i have only seen 2 since then. I search every leaf, everyday, and my ladies are 6weeks into flowering, but i have incountered a new problem, i have either over fed over watered or both im not really sure. if i knew how to attach my other post i would, A thanks for the reply Trichopathic much appreciated! i hope You get your flower room cleaned out! the bombs i hear wont get all the eggs, i would also try the dish soap with some neem oil to Scrub down the room as well, Maybe it will help, Dont know just an idea.
Thanks again,
ss808

I had a lot of mite problems. i also have used a lot of azamax. It works fairly well, but you have to keep using ti every five or so days. It never kills eggs, period. I waited until i had nothing going in the room and let off foggers finally. i prolly still didnt get them all, so even though I havent seen a mite in a month, i still use the azamax. Oh btw i make a Azamax solution and DIP my plants in it between veg and flower table. i know it sounds extreme, but it is safe, and it works.


Oh and Azamax is an antifeedant. It causes the mites to be unable to metabolize food.