So I’ve found spider mites in my veg tent and have been working on eradicating them now for about 5 days. I noticed them walking up my green coated wire tie downs. My first course of action was to mix 1 TBSP of both Neem oil and Bonner’s soap in a quart of Ph 6.5 water and sprayed all plant top an…

I didn’t see any of the larvae and I contacted the company. They told me that it can take 7 to 10 days for them to hatch, this was news to me. I thought they were supposed to hatch in about 3 days, so I am still waiting to see them hatch. The company also said it would be difficult to see them when …

Man been a while since I’ve been here. Update is inconclusive. I say this because I got a second round of the lacewings and this morning noticed spider mites not in the grow tent but all around like the scene in I am Legend where Will Smith had to pull the trigger on his Zombie eradicator setup. I p…

Something I have tried and it seemed to work is Mosquito Bits [image] When I applied Capt Jacks sprinkle the bits on the media and lightly water in and is supposed to kill the larvae A few days ago found a few mites and sprayed with MITE MASSACRE and see none anywhere since. And did the bits a…

Mosquito bits work for fungus gnat larvae and as far as I know won’t do anything for mites. The other product you used is an oil based product and will kill mites that come in direct contact with the spray by suffocating them. As far as being effective in breaking their reproductive cycle such as …

I would have to say that the green lacewing experiment was a bust. I found a small group of spider mites on one of the plans. I sprayed thoroughly with Captain Jacks and I am going to order some predatory mites that are supposed to eat like no tomorrow. I was waiting for temps to go down below 90 an…

Not sure where you’ll be ordering them but this link details various predatory mites as well as their environmental requirements Mite Predators - Greenhouse, Indoor & Outdoor Mite Control Predatory mites for any organic growing setting! Control & get rid of spider mites, russet mites, …

I’m gonna look up a couple of different ones, but man a person could go broke trying to control these things. Thanks for the info.

Tell me about it I’ve tried many things but at this point just going to keep them off the green and in the rough soil and after watering reapply some DE (I put perlite first to help with water wicking into DE) around the base of the stem making sure all ways are covered in dry DE. If it gets wet th…

Love the use of the weights. Well done. I’ll let you know ho the mites work. My hope and they are advertised to “go” after them meaning they won’t stay on the plants they will go where the mites are. I sure hope this works. I just want a solution that’s not spray based. Almost time for the Charlie B…

I bombed the room a couple of weeks ago and added some predatory mites and I am mite free to this point. I might be purchasing some other mites that are supposed to maintain the garden. We’ll see though. Oh yeah, I also added some plants that insects don’t like. Citronella, basil, rosemary, sage and…

Spider mites...my battle plan

Troubleshooting Pests

Skydiver February 22, 2024, 4:58am 231

Read this post about spider mites at harvest and thought I would share.

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