Spider mites where are they coming from?

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Quinteli

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Oldreefer said:
I had spider mites once...had visited a friend who had'em...brought'em home.
I use a mechanical pesticide....Diatomaceous earth. Bye bye bastards.
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Yeah there saying I should throw away everything I was going to try and kill them. Those look like mites to you?
 
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Quinteli

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So I havent seen a mite in like 5-7 days. Sprayed with asmax and sold drenched with asmax, then olive oil and a little dish soap. Then might wash 2x. One more soil drench and then neem oil spray and water spray.20200530_211228.jpg20200530_211258.jpg20200530_211250.jpg20200530_211255.jpg
 
Lucky Luke

Lucky Luke

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bastards to get rid off.
Prevention is better than the cure.
Could of been on the seedlings if u got em off someone else. But they come in on your clothes and things- especially if u have been to the hydro store.
 
sarahJane211

sarahJane211

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Quinteli said:
Ok I'll throw them out tonight. I was going to try and kill them but I dont know what the are. Should I throw away the fox farm soil that a bought aswell it could have came I. The bag I bought. I dont go to anyone's garden and I'm preety clean. I have White Widows with 3 weeks of flower to go and the look great. I
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Just spray with Spinosad, no need to throw anything away.
Spray every week for a few weeks, and all the insects will be dead.
There's crazy people on this site who try to convince you to chuck everything, it just isn't necessary.
Spinosad is even considered 'organic'
 
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LivingBehind

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sarahJane211 said:
Just spray with Spinosad, no need to throw anything away.
Spray every week for a few weeks, and all the insects will be dead.
There's crazy people on this site who try to convince you to chuck everything, it just isn't necessary.
Spinosad is even considered 'organic'
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I heard and it might only be a rumor mind you, that people died after using this....Some died days some months and some even years later !!!

I dont think those two are totally unrelated....

I once have mites and I burned down the whole complex.
 
sarahJane211

sarahJane211

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LivingBehind said:
I heard and it might only be a rumor mind you, that people died after using this....Some died days some months and some even years later !!!
I dont think those two are totally unrelated....
I once have mites and I burned down the whole complex.
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Yes, I agree the forums are rife with baseless rumours from ignorant posters.
Every commercial grower in the world uses fungicides, pesticides and herbicides on their crops.
There's no way to avoid eating food without them, pointless to even think about it.
Accept your death when it comes, rather than live a life of fear cowering over what might happen.

You can't even avoid Spinosad by buying from legit organic growers, as it's classed as 'organic'.
 
GrowRijt

GrowRijt

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For anyone wanting a inexpensive home bug remedy. I have been using and testing this for about a year now. I had heard people using 1:1 water and rubbing alcohol. I think that it is too harsh for the plants and the PH is off. But the alcohol works. To up the effectiveness I use hydrogen peroxide. H202 Essentially burns cells as the oxygen molecule separates. Because we are large we don’t feel it much. But the bubbling when coming into contact with proteins ( your skin) is that process in action.

so for a standard spray bottle.
10 oz water
3oz h202
3oz isopropyl
1tblsp dr bronners peppermint soap. Or dawn.

the PH of this should 7~. The soap evens it out. I had brought clones in from my outdoor last year and got some aphids running amuck. I did the neem bit. Did lady bugs. No avail. Did some version of the mix above. Two weeks they were done. Young plants had no burn or affect. Happy green bug free leaves. No reason you couldnt use this even a couple weeks into flower. The only residue being small amount of soaps that should rinse off easily.
 
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Quinteli

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GrowRijt said:
For anyone wanting a inexpensive home bug remedy. I have been using and testing this for about a year now. I had heard people using 1:1 water and rubbing alcohol. I think that it is too harsh for the plants and the PH is off. But the alcohol works. To up the effectiveness I use hydrogen peroxide. H202 Essentially burns cells as the oxygen molecule separates. Because we are large we don’t feel it much. But the bubbling when coming into contact with proteins ( your skin) is that process in action.

so for a standard spray bottle.
10 oz water
3oz h202
3oz isopropyl
1tblsp dr bronners peppermint soap. Or dawn.

the PH of this should 7~. The soap evens it out. I had brought clones in from my outdoor last year and got some aphids running amuck. I did the neem bit. Did lady bugs. No avail. Did some version of the mix above. Two weeks they were done. Young plants had no burn or affect. Happy green bug free leaves. No reason you couldnt use this even a couple weeks into flower. The only residue being small amount of soaps that should rinse off easily.
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Yeah I dont like the mighty wash, it smells like raid a bit. I only sprayed twice though. The Azmax isnt as strong, I sprayed like twice, they came back I killed them by hand and sprayed agian. Then I did the olive oil and dawn, very organic. In going to hit them with some neem oil next, havent seen a mite in 8 days, leaves look good
 
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Quinteli

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Lucky Luke said:
bastards to get rid off.
Prevention is better than the cure.
Could of been on the seedlings if u got em off someone else. But they come in on your clothes and things- especially if u have been to the hydro store.
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I think the either came from the bad of soil I got or from outside, brushing against a bush, I dont know where they came from.
 
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