I'll try to save you a lot of time and money. There are several remedies that everyone will throw at you like water and alcohol, cold water, vinegar water, soap water and these only seem to keep them under control. I had mite issues for the last 3-4 months but finally got rid of the little fuckers with attention to detail and a great product called organacide. To get rid of mites, I remove all leaves that I find them on if the infestation is small. Small being when they are only on the lower branches and parts of the leaves. If they are on the whole plant only remove the worst ones. Then spray from the bottom up getting the center stems and the bottom of every leaf. Dont miss a single one. Laziness here will only screw you later. Once you have sprayed the whole plant from the bottom up, I come back from the top down spraying the tops of all the leaves. Once the plant has been sprayed, I spray the pot, floor and any equipment that wont get damaged that is anywhere near the effected plant. Also isolate the plants that have them from the ones that dont. If you do this properly, you should be mite free after 1 spray, but I always do a second one 2-3 days later just in case. As far as the Organacide, that is a brand, not a type of insecticide. It is the only miticide that I know of that kills the eggs as well as the mites. Read all of the other ones, they are for mites and do not effect the eggs. for example- Dont Bug Me, Bang, Azamax, any Neem oil all kill only mites which means that you have to respray 2-3 times to supposedly get rid of them, but spray after spray they kept comimg back on me(I used all of these). Tried Organacide out and havent seen them since. If you have any questions feel free to ask. All the above steps are only for veg plants or the first week or two of flower. If you are well into flower, your only real option is bug bombs. If you go that route, be careful. You can blow up your house if you do it wrong. That is not a joke.
Hadn't realized you had some hempy buckets going, I was just looking into that the past couple days. Yeah bugs suck, and wow, I didn't know powdery mildew was so damn tenacious! I think you're right, you'll probably have to sterilize everything before you put anything else in there. I'm rootin for ya!
