Spidermites and empty tent for next run

Predator mites work well. They are meat eaters and not plant parasites. They eat all the spider mites and then die. Probably good organic fertilizer.

Thank you all for answers.

If you wonder how many days have been to webbing... Well, it started with few infecteg leaves, and I was spraying with some carcinogenic pesticide from ebay. Under the leaves, on the coco, over the leaves... But two days later... it was a mess! Million more mites. Sprayed again. Nothing. Tried with vacuum cleaner, it was good for few days and then webbing was there again. And then I gave up, just water the plants and let them finish, like 3-4 weeks. Buds looks nice, they're washed with water and not infected. Plant material gone to outside burner, coco gone to compost. But now I am just scary that they live on tent walls and maybe there are some eggs, and waiting to me to put new plants into flower tent so they can eat again...

Gond00s said:

I’d hit the room with fogger a couple of times imo

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foggers do not hurt the mites. i have no clue why but they dont. not even the ones crawling in the open. They used to work great. Not any more.....tried hot shots , raid and doktor doom.
Straight vinegar every day for a week or less. Treat the new kids with neem or something.

getogrow said:

foggers do not hurt the mites. i have no clue why but they dont. not even the ones crawling in the open. They used to work great. Not any more.....tried hot shots , raid and doktor doom.
Straight vinegar every day for a week or less. Treat the new kids with neem or something.

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Or sulfur. Which is a building block of cannabis!

KonopCh said:

Thank you all for answers.

If you wonder how many days have been to webbing... Well, it started with few infecteg leaves, and I was spraying with some carcinogenic pesticide from ebay. Under the leaves, on the coco, over the leaves... But two days later... it was a mess! Million more mites. Sprayed again. Nothing. Tried with vacuum cleaner, it was good for few days and then webbing was there again. And then I gave up, just water the plants and let them finish, like 3-4 weeks. Buds looks nice, they're washed with water and not infected. Plant material gone to outside burner, coco gone to compost. But now I am just scary that they live on tent walls and maybe there are some eggs, and waiting to me to put new plants into flower tent so they can eat again...

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they wont lay eggs on the walls ....they are too busy trying to find food. You will be ok with one week of spraying with vinegar.

Throw all of it away and get a new house haha. Throwing that coco in the compost was a bad idea. I would consider your compost infected now.

Rckola said:

Throw all of it away and get a new house haha. Throwing that coco in the compost was a bad idea. I would consider your compost infected now.

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I don't care about that. In 2 years they will be frozen, cooked and old. Then maybe I will use that soil for outdoor flower/tree garden.

I would try cleaning very well, and once it is clean, use an insecticidal smoke pump. As it is smoke, it will spread well everywhere, I have always used it after some spiders have come out in some cultivation.

When vegging your next plants, treat with neem oil every handful of days (4 days ish). Also, make sure your temps dont go above 80 degrees. If you keep your temps down, the little eggs that are smaller than grains of hands are less likely to hatch. You will not successfully remove every egg from your tent most likely, even if you blast with bleach for days.

After cleaning room, raise the temps to optimum temperatures for spidermite breeding, causing the eggs to hatch and clean whole area again
Optimum temperatures for spider mite development are between 85 to 95oF

These guys are WAY overestimating the mite (thats better then underestimating) but reguardless , your compost pile is MUCH stronger then the mites. They are not going to hang out in the compost pile , hell if you look close enough , they wont even hang around the room the plants were in. They are starving and looking for more food. They wont quit moving until they find their food source. Nothing in that tent can handle straight vinegar.
they are not breeding either, so the eggs were all on the plant....except the few that fell off. Thats the only eggs in that tent.

Ok so the eggs of mites survive some time and if only a single egg survives then they will come back.
and because it then starts with a tiny number - you will not notice them and think, you were successful....
but all it takes is a few weeks, and here they are again.

- disinfect downright everything that came into contact with chloric bleach or other hard disinfectants. Also use different types in row. spray everything but protect yourself!!!

- UVC CFL lamp with OZONE. Let it shine in the sealed growroom for an hour - but open the window to the room and leave the house. Beware! its dangerous to humans as well!

- If you use insectizides you need to spray 2-3 different chemicals at once (to be more precise, each chemical needs to induce a different eradication mechanism against mites. Otherwise you'll only nurture future resitances... !!! Most of these insecticides are very dangerous to humans as well !!! best not using them at all.

- theres a chance if you put an infested plant to the outside at the fields that they may disappear from climate and predators. Esp in somewhat northern climate.

- Oil helps and they cannot gain resistancy against it, but its never a 100% solution.

Hope this helps

btw thanks for sharing these crazy pics, never seen it bad like this... did you get rid of them from the weed entirely with budwashing?

btw the mites and even eggs are so light if there's windsheer like opening a door they can fly around through the air and reach new terrain. it surely helps to disinfect an extended areal.
and prevent reinfection. your compost is safe, spidermited cannot feed there. anyway, compost is so full of tiny lifeforms, a crawling hell

disassemble and clean the tent out on a nice day with a hose and stuff. Do preventative pest treatment next run up or run beneficial insects, and if you have house plants consider treating those as well

Nizza said:

disassemble and clean the tent out on a nice day with a hose and stuff. Do preventative pest treatment next run up or run beneficial insects, and if you have house plants consider treating those as well

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Good thinkin about the house plants bud !!!

At which ratio should I mix neem oil per liter?

KonopCh said:

At which ratio should I mix neem oil per liter?

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I do 10ml/g with cold pressed neem

I just throw a hot shot pest strip in there

A. Nuke the room the tent is in with something that requires a gasmask when working with it.
B. Throw the tent away or sell it on craigslist as well used.

KonopCh said:

At which ratio should I mix neem oil per liter?

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i use 30ml per gallon. 7-10ml per liter woul;d be kinda strong.