What I have concluded after using many many I mean many concoctions that to date my most successful method of eradication (maybe) of the veggie mites (sandwhich) - remember that song anyone…
Is using meat eating spider mites (predatory mites) so far I’m not seeing any issues with the Veggie Mites. They are so small it’s tough to tell them apart but all the ones that were crawling all over the clover and killing it are nowhere to be seen and the clover stopped dying so my guess is that the meat heads are kicking the veggies asses.
Arbico Organics check them out…I would call them and discuss your particular situation … temps, humidity etc as some species thrive at say higher humidity than other species do and so on.
I’ve trie lady bugs…fun to watch didn’t make a dent
Azamax derived from Neam cake ok just didn’t end them
Neam cake in / on soil but after planting and neem needs time to get into the plants structure to be effective in dissuading veggies from eating.
Castile / Bronners soap… ok
Hydrogen peroxide and water ok
Rubbing alcohol straight and with water ok
Spinosad (captain jacks) ok
NS Killer mmm ok I guess
Flying Skull Nuke em…don’t remember exactly how good it was.
Neem oil mixed up ok
Diatomaceous earth -food grade- kills them if they walk through it while it’s dry but they not that dumb so it keeps them of the plants unless it gets wet- thing watering them
Ningacide a recipe from @Ning consisting of really hot peppers (high capicin sp? Content) some garlic cloves all mashed up and strained out and diluted with water…ok
Maybe one or 2 other things I tried…long freakin list
In my opinion plain old water works too it removes them from the plant via force of the spray and by adding one of the above solutions to water that adds the kill effect…BUT
They are still in the soil and are reproducing and wanting to climb back up to eat.
My last grow I had them in one tent and
The trick is (for me anyway) is to keep them off the plants so I removed all tie downs (on ramps) and kept diatomaceous earth at the base of all of them raised up just at base and if that got wet when watering I added more until I designed this high tech apparatus.
I ordered 2 species one eats veggie mites eggs larvae etc and the other is more in the soil oriented and gets fungus gnat larvae and spider mites and caterpillar larvae etc. and as far as I’m concerned since applying about a week and a half ago they are doing their job.
I also got some predatory nematodes that also dwell in soil and eat other nematodes like root nematodes and also fungus larvae etc.
Mother Nature at its best
Now I may at some point need to reapply more down the road but as of now I was confident in their control to start tying down the ladies the last 2-3 days not worrying about them cause I got back up! Lol
I have a thread I started titles spider mites my battle plan your welcome to look through.
Last grow the way I did it reduced my yields but I no longer had to keep freaking spraying them down all the time. The last 2 months I didn’t have any veggies on the plants nor did I have to spray them off again.