Warriorbuds
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Reverse Osmosis(RO)...basically the water you can buy at grocery stores out of reverse osmosis machine...What is RO water?? please
F$*k you spidermites...f$*k you!!
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Hettyman
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We don't have RO water machines in the shops here in England, and I've sussed R/O since then, considering getting a small R/O pump filter unit thing.Reverse Osmosis(RO)...basically the water you can buy at grocery stores out of reverse osmosis machine...
Oh yes, and it certainly is the Fuckin Catalina Wine Mixer
Nizza
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i got hot shots for my outdoors and used them around the garden so that there would be a very small amount there. I think that if you directly vent the stuff onto your plants you will have big problems because the chemical used is toxicWell another summer and an increased grow temp due to HPS upgrade means that my little budd stealing friends are back.
This time I ordered a Hot Shot strip (and paid postage cross atalantic) and Might Wash. Two thorough applications of mighty wash, 3 days apart, knocked em right back, but still they returned. (I even blasted the plants quite regularly with water too to blast mites off into my bath, where I showered them down the plug hole). I also introduced the Hot Shot no pest strip, for periods of 12-16 hours every three days, with the exhuast off and only a few CFL's to keep the light cycle going without raising temps to affect the strip, and for 5 hours every morning between, before the lights came on, and in a TINY 2x2 tent. Still came back!!
I will say this, DO NOT USE HOT SHOT NO PEST STRIP!!!I was very careful not to expose myself, my wife, or our pets to this pesticide, and only had it in the tent when that room in the house was uninhabited, with the door shut and a window open so that anything that got out of the tent was quickly diluted and removed. I washed my hands directly after touching the plants or the no pest strip, and put it in an airtight bag in an out building when not being used. I even looked in to the residual life of the chemical, and thought that 4 weeks of clean growing, and a couple fo However, one day, stupidly, I smelled my budds to seen if damp smell from over spraying of water had gone..BIG MISTAKE!! The residuals of the no pest strip, choked me, hurt my eyes and throat, and induced mild vomiting. It also left a taste in my mouth for hours!! As such, it is being wrapped up and put in the fucking bin!!
I am now gong to be dunking the plants upside down in a bucket of pH adjusted water and shaking dry over the bath, every 3rd day, to keep mite numbers down untill these babies arrive:
http://www.defenders.co.uk/pest-solutions/biological-red-spider-mite-control.html
I will let you know how this goes. Hopefully well, cos I much prefer letting nature take its course. Plus Spider mites are renowned for a quick survival of the fittest evolution thing, where only the toughest eggs survive pesticides and continue the mite colony. Lets see them evolve around getting eaten
PSUAGRO.
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Well as an absolute LAST resort you can use Bifenthrin (Ortho defense max/sold at major stores) it's pretty low concentration in this ortho product makes it safer, highly effective at killing most insects/eggs and their recurrences. It's been used on food grade crops for decades in the US, if you eat corn products or drink beer you've ingested bifenthrin...I've personally used this when I grew for profit and it totally wipes out mites easily and effectively.........I would NOT recommend it's use in the flowering stage/like with most other products.........good luck
edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bifenthrin It has it's pros/cons,so it depends on your situation
edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bifenthrin It has it's pros/cons,so it depends on your situation
Villa
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You will have great success with these I know I did. After there gone mist your plants with plain water a couple times a day.
http://www.defenders.co.uk/pest-solutions/biological-red-spider-mite-control.html
I will let you know how this goes. Hopefully well, cos I much prefer letting nature take its course. Plus Spider mites are renowned for a quick survival of the fittest evolution thing, where only the toughest eggs survive pesticides and continue the mite colony. Lets see them evolve around getting eaten
Hettyman
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Thankyou for your input (love the sig by the way)
Do you mean spray the plants when both mites, and beneficial predators have gone?? Also It is unfortunately my flower room that has taken the worse hit, and don't want to raise the humidty too much. Having said that, my plants are easy to carry, and I can always shake off excess over the bath after spraying
209 Cali closet grower
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if can drop the temps to the low 70s, that will slow them down. and start over with seeds?