SPIDER MITES - but time for harvest is coming

Grow Cycle Harvesting
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Hello beautiful people, I have a mild infestation that I’m treating for a month and a half now. I was wondering how AND WHAT should I do when I cut the plants in few weeks…like they will still have living and eating spidermites and I tried with the first plant to wash the buds (gently and with peroxide water) and the little disgusting monsters were still there after 1 hour bath and I am desperate now.

DO I HAVE TO TOSS AWAY ALL MY PRECIOIS FLOWERS?

Please guys.
I need answers/
Willl Those creatures die while I dry the weed?
Am I fucked?

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Peppermint oil, soap for washing dishes and a litre of water. Works a charm without using chemicals. Your shout but worth a punt surely.

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What have you been treating with?

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Good luck shop vac tword end of flower …bring the vac outside when done and wash it treat it what ever just kill the ones u suck off… Late in flower you dont wanns spray anything past week 5 imo … I battled em for 8 months worst nightmare csme true …mother nature gave me a time out… I tried everrything and alternated it … Just made resistant mites now your really screwed … Gotta throw in towel eventually and stop for a lil period of time nuke the room raise temps if possible and have no plants inside for a ehile so all missed will leave im on a almost 5 month cool down now it was so releuving dumping a quart of isopropyl alchohol on all my plants and burning em all down killed all the mites that time

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Neem concentrated oil and pure soap - both super expensive but they helped a lot, following the instructions: but those suckers are tough as hell

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Smoke em out.

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Yes they are! You can also use Pyrethrum based products and mixture of water and Peroxide and you can use Spinosad based stuff in flower. A 50/50 Alcohol and water solution kills them now, you just can’t use in flower because it dissolves the Trichomes. The way to do it is use something different each day, this way hopefully they will not get resistant to any of them. Their immunity to Neem has complicated matters! Also good suggestions on companion planting and other organic deterrents given above by @Davyg

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Alchohol because its anti bacterial properties is all u can spray after week six…will take trics as well as shop vac but it will get you to harvest be prepared to be disapointed because when they really start dropping leaves your plants almost stall and harvesting early isnt the eorst option at thid point …neem oil is a no no in flower seriosly tasinting taste no good to smoke for your health as well pyrethrins work they nake bomb fogs thst work good but i like to use a product called prevacyn by gh its capsacin and canola oil snd its peper spray oil super potent i have to spray and leave my house for 2 hours atleast… Then i come back acud rain base rain h2o2 alchohol mighty wash sns 203 and repeat cycle and they came hack stronger then ever i drowed the dirt i drowed the green dunked em upside down for 45 minutes green down in a trash can surran wrap the dirt in so it cant fsll in the csn…it csn and it will lol u have to give up u will never try as hard as u will once your plsnts are gone to clean properly and dont start right back up if you got a bad infestation they need a cool down to leave so dont jump back into it right aeay it could happen again fast

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Hydrogen peroxide. Your buds will be fine homie!!

Just keep knocking them with peroxide. What @fano_man says about alcohol is also true but it can ruin your triches. Stick to the peroxide.

I’ve harvested twice with pets. Once with mites and once with aphids as you’ll see in my journals. I’m still getting baked on those buds daily!! :flushed::sunglasses:

Most importantly you’ve learned a valuable lesson in growing.

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