Hey....I googled n found this......I know it's a bit old but I thought I'd add my 2 cents anyway.
A mate of mine had three plants under a 600w'er, two of them were covered in spidermites half way through and ruined the buds, he seperated the other one and it looked OK.
The two infested ones were seperated and then thrown out, but the other one looked fine at harvest time. But when drying, he noticed a few mites were on it (they were spaced about 2 ft apart from the infested ones for about a week...those bloody mites must have done one mega journey!) --- anyway, he hung them up to dry and one week later found that there were actually ALOT of mites on it...they had migrated to the bottom of the stalk (where it had been cut) i guess for moisture. Anyway, 8 days after cutting and letting them dry....Time to manicure them.....he found that, even though they were crispy and dry after 8 days....MANY were still alive and cranking!! He saw this while trimming the buds over news paper, he'd see little red bastards walking around.
This goes to show you this little cunts are resiliant as hell. If you ever spot them, don't be tempted to keep the plants and 'see how it goes' or apply pesticide (He did this twice, properly...with stuff recommended for spidermites) and they recovered, and even perhaps became immuned to the pesticide. DESTROY THOSE PLANTS!!!
...and "BeaverHuntr" is right lol....you smoke a nug with mites on it and it'll crackle like a seed, like fireworks in your face!! Yuck!
A mate of mine had three plants under a 600w'er, two of them were covered in spidermites half way through and ruined the buds, he seperated the other one and it looked OK.
The two infested ones were seperated and then thrown out, but the other one looked fine at harvest time. But when drying, he noticed a few mites were on it (they were spaced about 2 ft apart from the infested ones for about a week...those bloody mites must have done one mega journey!) --- anyway, he hung them up to dry and one week later found that there were actually ALOT of mites on it...they had migrated to the bottom of the stalk (where it had been cut) i guess for moisture. Anyway, 8 days after cutting and letting them dry....Time to manicure them.....he found that, even though they were crispy and dry after 8 days....MANY were still alive and cranking!! He saw this while trimming the buds over news paper, he'd see little red bastards walking around.
This goes to show you this little cunts are resiliant as hell. If you ever spot them, don't be tempted to keep the plants and 'see how it goes' or apply pesticide (He did this twice, properly...with stuff recommended for spidermites) and they recovered, and even perhaps became immuned to the pesticide. DESTROY THOSE PLANTS!!!
...and "BeaverHuntr" is right lol....you smoke a nug with mites on it and it'll crackle like a seed, like fireworks in your face!! Yuck!
