Here is a good read for battling spider mites.
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The vape sounds great until I looked it up and saw what they sell for, lol!
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Well I was going to top dress some of the ladies with additional nutrients but had some lunch / dinner and I guess I took a little siesta.
The second order of lady bugs came so I’m just gonna release a couple hundred I’m the tent for the night and get to that tomorrow.
Still have mites running around but much less than before.
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I don’t use mine that often, but I think it is worth it for someone who wants to get acquainted with vaping/smoking herb.
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Wanted to add the link below for another product offering to combat spider mites. Ordered it and will be here tomorrow and will apply and report back on effectiveness against the mites.
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I received the NS Killer.
For $78 a pint this stuff better work for what’s in there. Glad they have a money back guarantee.
25ml per liter will make 19 liters of diluted spray.
If it does work it’s worth twice the price lol
Looked up the ingredients Triethanolamine has some warnings but not so sure that is 100%?organic in my metal thinking anyway.
Will try it out tonight before lights out spraying the leaves top and bottom and the top of the soil too.
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Did it work for you
Too early to tell yet.
I sprayed last night and this morning I still see some mite running around the saucer tray but haven’t checked the soil with magnifying glass yet.
Will know better later as to effectiveness in the coming week
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Happy Sunday @Skydiver, you sure been working hard. I was just wondering if I was in this situation , what would I do? Well I see it is a problem and for weeks now I have been looking extra close to everything for bugs, the fan rotates and when it blows down where I am at I see little tiny pieces of dirt move and freak out thinking I just seen a bug crawl 
Then I realize what it is and but I am now thinking bugs bugs bugs, I go out at night and shine my green hog light and see millions of little bugs floating around in the air on my porch. Bugs are everywhere. Man I spray Off on me, the chigger kind all the time 3 times a day, it is bug city here where I live, I cut the grass and i have dozens of chigger bites, this year real bad, So what I would do if I couldn’t get rid of them suckers is I would punt. I would get me bombs made for spider mites and blow the house up, even put them in the yard ! LOL ! I am just saying and maybe not what I would do, but just thinking at the moment, I would give up a whole grow, collect what I got, and buy a few dozen bombs, go to the lake for the weekend in the camper and come back to drop seeds and start bug free, that is what I would want, no more spider mites and I am the kind of guy that will go to extreme to accomplish that. So far I have been lucky, everything is in one room and I have it pretty much bug free so far, Have a good Sunday brother. 
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The spider mites even if not totally eradicated can be managed through to harvest.
I value my health and the health of people around me and the environment too much to use the toxic poisons that are used by the ton daily to make it “easy” to kill everything.
The chemicals people use to kill bugs or freshen the air or kill “weeds” are toxic to all. If you take the time to read those ingredients and then look up each one that you don’t know what it is and find out the hazards of using them you might change your practices. The bug bombs leave a residue on everything.
Since changing my diet while curing myself from an incurable condition based on current medical quackery I have found for example that mosquitoes don’t bother me nearly as much as they did in the past. I guess because I’m healthier and I don’t taste as good as I used to. Years ago I used to use that DEET mosquitoe repellent and than I read up on DEET and said WTF are they doing to people. Toxic shit being put on the skin being absorbed into my body…no thanks.
To each his/her own but after reading and researching products ingredients I’ve tossed out all the toxic shit they market to us to use to clean, kill, freshen and so on and use basic things that have been used for millennia safely.
Bugs are everywhere and that is the natural order of things. We as humans try to kill them all and sterilize our little bubbles we exist in but all that does is take money from my pockets while poisoning myself and my environment and those bastards that make it profit from my lack of knowledge…win win for them and lose lose for me.
Mother Nature has the ingredients needed to handle just about anything the problem is through the last century due to marketing and chemical companies and them not being able to patent Mother Nature’s ingredients they produce the quick fixes and we pay for it in the long run. We lost the recipe cook book for many cures / solutions to problems we face.
I hope you continue to be bug free!
And happy Sunday to you too @zparkie2
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I could get 100% deet but no way your’re right it is poison for sure, but I think the off is 40% deet and even thats high but the chiggers are so bad, they get in your nuts and itch the crap out of you real bad. Lately I just don’t go outside in the summer, before this last i mowed the lawn and even with the off I got many bites, this last time I stripped my clothes off and ran inside and showered real good and got no chigger bites. maybe season is over, I hope so.
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I hope it is for you too that sucks…
Here are a couple articles for a quick read
The second one has some natural homemade sprays as alternative to DEET…oh by the way DEET has been approved by our wonderful FDA…diks…lol
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Thank you for them articles. You have filled ilgm with so much great information ! I am still reading the ones on beneficial bacteria and fungi.
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Well I still have some mite…tiniest mites yet.
Decided to try an experiment on isolating one of the plants after treating and up potting from 1 gal to 2 gal pot.
Here is what I tried.
Sprayed down the entire 1 gal cloth pot top to bottom (not plant) with 50/50 mix of 91% iso and water. Then sprayed plant top to bottom with 3% straight HP then removed leaves that were affected and then used 1 quart of HP and saturated the soil…bubble bubble boil and trouble.
Put some kind soil at bottom of 2 gal and transplanted adding some Roots Organic ROD to top off. Then mixed in 60ml neem cake and 30ml crab meal and mixed into the soil and then watered with mix of coco water and water and moved to the closet. Will see if the HP bath took care of the mites and any eggs in the old soil. Hopefully this process and following isolation from the veg tent fixes this one. If so I will be repeating the process one plant at a time because trying to treat 13 1 gallon pots all right next to each other has worked to a degree but not completely. Will top dress entire surface with DE later today after the top of the soil dries a bit besides I want to be able to see the top soil for any movement of mites.
Not sure if saturating the entire soil with straight 3% HP did any damage to roots or not but probably damaged the critters in the soil so will reinoculate with some tea etc in the near future.
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Dog dam mites…seeing a few small ones now on the fresh brand new 2 gallon pot…on the sides crawling sprayed with some HP. Put some DE around stem too.
Where did I put that agent orange…micro dot
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Jesus man! These mites are no joke, making me rethink my desire for an indoor grow
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On a lighter note I just sampled the bubble gum I Jared 2 days ago and it is tasty and it works too…mites…what mites
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Ok I figured out where all the mites were coming from.
There was only one and it was on my dick Tracy magnifying headset and I was seeing it everywhere…Jk
So they are a lot fewer mites in the veg tent today and I think the multi pronged attack is taking its toll on them. Breaking the life cycle is the real trick for sure.
My last application of NX Killer seemed to have a positive effect on the ones roaming around on the large saucer the 1 gallon pots are sitting on. Will have a better idea this evening when I pull them out one at a time and check leaves and pots.
My transplant of the Blue Dream into a 2 gallon still has the smallest of mites wandering around the outside of the container not many but they are there so I grabbed some lady bugs out of the fridge and put about 15 on that one. Still spot spraying them when I see them with iso/water mix…dries them out and they slowly die. I’m also thinking I messed the roots up some on her by using that straight 3% HP soak as I was surprised at how warm the pot was while removing her from it when up potting. Must have been the HP reacting with elements in the soil…cooking it a bit.
Gonna mix up a batch of Ning-Icide tonight and give them a coating for instant killing power.
They need a break soon from all this stuff being tossed on them. Five of the 6 in 5 gallon pots are looking great but one is having issues and haven’t noticed many (haven’t looked hard today) on those. Needed to attend to the flower tent and am trying to not do anything with veg tent with mites until I do everything needed in flower tent first to avoid contamination in flower.
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Hey @Skydiver, I got a light bulb moment when I was in murderous mood seeing these effing mites nearly killed all of my heirloom tomatoes. Instead of mixing my juice with water, I poured the whole damn quart bottle of isopropyl 70% on it and sprayed them clean. It works triple effective. Alcohol by itself kill these damnable critters already. It also strips capsaicin much more so than water can do. Together, it kills a lot more. Use it on your veg plants though. Alcohol dissolves trichomes so you don’t want to strip it off the flowers.
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