Legal Yooper
Well-Known Member
Being a noob grower I never thought I'd get spider mites in the winter especially when its been below freezing for at least 2 months and there's about 3 foot of snow on the ground. BUT I frickin got em and being a noob I didn't realize what it was till I saw webs... so I got em bad..
Heres the set up. Dual closet DWC tote grow, one side flower other side veg. The flower room has one tote with 3 beautiful Northern Lights that have about 2 to 3 wks till finished. These are what must be protected.
The good news is I haven't seen any mites in the flower room. yet..
The veg room has 2 totes, one with clones from the NL and the other has 3 mature White Widow (about 14" tall and bushy as hell) that are infested. The clones also have a few but not nearly as bad as the WW. One of the WW is nearly dead from the bastards... I sprayed all the undersides of the clones leaves with water. The mites dissapeared but a few returned a couple hours later so they got another bath, Does the water kill the bastards or just mess them up for awhile? I also lowered the room temp to about 55 for a few hours let it climb back up to about 65 then lower it again. With all the sprayin the humidity is up around 60%
BATTLE PLAN
First off I'm broke as hell so buying anything is not an option for a few days. I do have iso alcohol and bleach.
Everything tells me to remove the WW tote and put it out in the snow bank BUT by removing the mites preferred source of food (the WW) will that guarantee an infestation of the NL clones and/or flower room... They can have the WW if they'll leave my NL alone.. lol
Since the veg room is infested would spraying it down with an alcohol water mix every day for a wk or so with a good bleach cleaning kill these bastards or a least keep their numbers down till the buds finish or will they just run on over to the flower side and invade my babies? I realize the flower room will eventually become infested I just want to slow it down as much as possible.
Everything I've read says to isolate the infected plant but I cant find anyone with this situation and I would hate to infest the flower room prematurely... I rambled on long enough if you've read this far I really appreciate it and sure need some advice. Peace!
Heres the set up. Dual closet DWC tote grow, one side flower other side veg. The flower room has one tote with 3 beautiful Northern Lights that have about 2 to 3 wks till finished. These are what must be protected.
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The veg room has 2 totes, one with clones from the NL and the other has 3 mature White Widow (about 14" tall and bushy as hell) that are infested. The clones also have a few but not nearly as bad as the WW. One of the WW is nearly dead from the bastards... I sprayed all the undersides of the clones leaves with water. The mites dissapeared but a few returned a couple hours later so they got another bath, Does the water kill the bastards or just mess them up for awhile? I also lowered the room temp to about 55 for a few hours let it climb back up to about 65 then lower it again. With all the sprayin the humidity is up around 60%
BATTLE PLAN
First off I'm broke as hell so buying anything is not an option for a few days. I do have iso alcohol and bleach.
Everything tells me to remove the WW tote and put it out in the snow bank BUT by removing the mites preferred source of food (the WW) will that guarantee an infestation of the NL clones and/or flower room... They can have the WW if they'll leave my NL alone.. lol
Since the veg room is infested would spraying it down with an alcohol water mix every day for a wk or so with a good bleach cleaning kill these bastards or a least keep their numbers down till the buds finish or will they just run on over to the flower side and invade my babies? I realize the flower room will eventually become infested I just want to slow it down as much as possible.
Everything I've read says to isolate the infected plant but I cant find anyone with this situation and I would hate to infest the flower room prematurely... I rambled on long enough if you've read this far I really appreciate it and sure need some advice. Peace!