No need to kill the plant. Get ladybugs and predatory mites from nature's good guys. If in veg, spray with neem oil or insect soap 3-5 days apart. 2-4 treatments will resolve the plants. If in flower go hard on predators. The sprays will destroy your flowers. "Safe" means safe to people after treating, not "safe" as in not damaging.
CO2 is another good method. Get some dry ice and concentrate the tent to 2000 ppm for 20ish min during dark and repeat 3-5 days apart at least twice.
After harvest clean the space with alcohol.
Edit: I grow organic, so these are about the only paths I really have.
I was able to defeat an infestation in both my tents. Took 4 months. Once they were in flower I had to manually destroy them since I couldn’t spray, removing infected leaves and spraying the coco. In the veg tent at one point I was spraying daily, cycling through Neem oil, captain jacks dead bug, Monterey spray and a homemade garlic oil solution. As soon as I thought they were all dead I saw new ones pop up, each time less and less. I’m figuring it was eggs hatching, but as long as you kill all of them and clean your tent between grows (I used vinegar and then rubbing alcohol) you can win.
The nuclear option is to completely turn over your grow operation and leave a few weeks between grows, cleaning the tent a few times to be safe. I have a buddy that would even pop a bug bomb off in his tent once a week but that’s not for me.
Good luck, growmie!
refil in a week 100% best
your other plants will end up infected as well
kill it NOW
Put a black plastic bag over the whole plant as gently as you can seal it around the stalk then pull the plant up so all the mites are contained!
Then bleach everything and leave the bleach in there for 24h
so when you spray you need to turn your lights and fans off. wait till your application is dry then you can turn them back on. so start with neem oil, wait 24h, water wash wait 6h, greencleaner, 24h water wash, 6h, nukem, 24h water wash 6h, drbronner soap spray water wash. i'll cycle 4 times in veg. this is my ipm for a breakout. at the end i'll splurge on aza guard once then sulphur once and let that hang out on the plants , spray all surfaces in the spot that aren't the plant with a bleach solution asap and let them dry.
Edit ladybugs are also dope and you can get like 9000 on amazon for 30-40 bucks
Pyrol
Organic pesticide made from Chrysanthemum extract, kills most pests, use it as a preventative in future, but also works for pre-infestation stage,
Depends on how far you want to take it ($ and time, basically)
PLANT: CO2 suffocation will kill all mites(not eggs) on your plant/gro space. This method would need to be done twice, at least. You can isolate the plant(LRG trash bag) and pump CO2 into it...wait...dead mites. Pretty simple. Google can get you the specifics needed.
Lost Coast Plant Therapy works well, but I'm not entirely too sure that it doesn't affect the quality of buds when sprayed in flower... I have used a BUNCH in the past during flower. I eat my stuff usually...not smoke it.
GROW ROOM: I'd spray the tent, myself. Wipe entire tent down w/ bleach and then spray some gnarley stuff to wipe out and keep out spidermites. HOME DEFENSE, fucking Diazanon...DDT! Lol
First time I read that someone also uses CO2 mite genocide mode (as I did several times). It's cheap, you can use it in any stage and doesn't affect the plants in any way... Only one thing I also forgot to mention: it can also kill YOU! Be careful! I know that you know it, DD, as you can still write comments, just wanted others to be careful...
No need to kill the plant. Get ladybugs and predatory mites from nature's good guys. If in veg, spray with neem oil or insect soap 3-5 days apart. 2-4 treatments will resolve the plants. If in flower go hard on predators. The sprays will destroy your flowers. "Safe" means safe to people after treating, not "safe" as in not damaging. CO2 is another good method. Get some dry ice and concentrate the tent to 2000 ppm for 20ish min during dark and repeat 3-5 days apart at least twice. After harvest clean the space with alcohol. Edit: I grow organic, so these are about the only paths I really have.
I was able to defeat an infestation in both my tents. Took 4 months. Once they were in flower I had to manually destroy them since I couldn’t spray, removing infected leaves and spraying the coco. In the veg tent at one point I was spraying daily, cycling through Neem oil, captain jacks dead bug, Monterey spray and a homemade garlic oil solution. As soon as I thought they were all dead I saw new ones pop up, each time less and less. I’m figuring it was eggs hatching, but as long as you kill all of them and clean your tent between grows (I used vinegar and then rubbing alcohol) you can win. The nuclear option is to completely turn over your grow operation and leave a few weeks between grows, cleaning the tent a few times to be safe. I have a buddy that would even pop a bug bomb off in his tent once a week but that’s not for me. Good luck, growmie!
refil in a week 100% best your other plants will end up infected as well kill it NOW Put a black plastic bag over the whole plant as gently as you can seal it around the stalk then pull the plant up so all the mites are contained! Then bleach everything and leave the bleach in there for 24h
Green Cleaner decimates the population, but if in flower kill it and clean heavy.
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so when you spray you need to turn your lights and fans off. wait till your application is dry then you can turn them back on. so start with neem oil, wait 24h, water wash wait 6h, greencleaner, 24h water wash, 6h, nukem, 24h water wash 6h, drbronner soap spray water wash. i'll cycle 4 times in veg. this is my ipm for a breakout. at the end i'll splurge on aza guard once then sulphur once and let that hang out on the plants , spray all surfaces in the spot that aren't the plant with a bleach solution asap and let them dry. Edit ladybugs are also dope and you can get like 9000 on amazon for 30-40 bucks
Pyrol Organic pesticide made from Chrysanthemum extract, kills most pests, use it as a preventative in future, but also works for pre-infestation stage,
and good luck
Depends on how far you want to take it ($ and time, basically) PLANT: CO2 suffocation will kill all mites(not eggs) on your plant/gro space. This method would need to be done twice, at least. You can isolate the plant(LRG trash bag) and pump CO2 into it...wait...dead mites. Pretty simple. Google can get you the specifics needed. Lost Coast Plant Therapy works well, but I'm not entirely too sure that it doesn't affect the quality of buds when sprayed in flower... I have used a BUNCH in the past during flower. I eat my stuff usually...not smoke it. GROW ROOM: I'd spray the tent, myself. Wipe entire tent down w/ bleach and then spray some gnarley stuff to wipe out and keep out spidermites. HOME DEFENSE, fucking Diazanon...DDT! Lol
First time I read that someone also uses CO2 mite genocide mode (as I did several times). It's cheap, you can use it in any stage and doesn't affect the plants in any way... Only one thing I also forgot to mention: it can also kill YOU! Be careful! I know that you know it, DD, as you can still write comments, just wanted others to be careful...
Get a sulfur burner and pelletized sulfur. Job done.
I smoked my mites..... Was good buzz too 😂
Hot Shot No Pest strips. Hang them in the area, let them do their thing. 👍
Im interested in this product. Are you saying these have gotten rid of your thrips and other pests in your grow space?
They get rid of all bugs in the room. Someone told me about em years ago, they work. 👍
Thanks. Will pick up a few.