burnin123 said:
what ever remedy you use ..IMO...you need more then one weapon...treat every few days for two weeks...no need to scrap ya ladies cuzz they have bugs..worst case is your yield will be affected. Good Luck
your imo is so very, very right. If you treat with a single remedy you will probably fail to control them much (Im leaving AVID out, for obvious reasons - those being the fact AVID is not for human consumption and is systemic - sure it works but it also will kill you, so the balance sucks) as well as making them resistant to what you use so the next guy down the line who gets a spidermite you treated a few thousand generations earlier will have a "treatment resistant" spidermite which is enough to make me want to cry just typing it.
Spidermites do not need our help becoming even tougher to deal with.
I would trash my crop if you are in flowering cycle post week 5. But thats me. Then I would Clean room with bleach & water. Wait 5 days do it again (cleaning) wait 5 days do it a last time. The eggs are pretty tough - this is overkill one might say but they arent me and they arent trying to completely control a spidermite infestation that is out of control.
You have webs already - this means they have been busy for a while now - weeks. Do the tops of the leaves appear to have tiny yellow dots on them? They do! Wow how did I guess? I have a personal vendetta against spidermites and want to see them eliminated completely from the world. Extinct. Im sure humans will be first.
Neem oil when you are in veg or week 1 of 12/12 specifically Einstein Oil *if* you can stand the stink and flavor it imparts. After week 1 of 12/12 stop using it.
Horticultural oils and soaps if you had caught them when you were supposed to - back about 10 to 14 days in the past. The webs and description you give tells me that they will win this battle. Even if you use floramite or Azatrol (or are dumb enough to use AVID) you will have a final product which has millions of dead spidermites all over it (snap, crackle, pop! thats not cereal its the sound of dead dried out spidermites being smoked... Gross.... I try to limit my dead bug inhalation for some odd reason. So even if you use the Big Chemical Guns your end result is dead bugs and your flowers having been soaked with toxins. And yes, floramite and Azatrol are toxic and no I wont debate it with anyone here now. Yes I have evidence - from the world health organization and the EPA that what Im saying is accurate. And finally does it sound appealing to ingest plant material that was exposed to a massive insect infestation which you will be taking into your body along with whatever mix of deadly crap you sprayed on them all dried to their dead bodies and to the product in question too?
For me the answer is a simple one. Nope. I would toss the plants, clean clean clean, try to figure out where they came from (window? pet? shoes worn outside then into grow area? Were they clones and just rode in on them and you didnt bother to dip them, so really you invited them in and provided their transportation, food and water so they could torch your crop? I mention this so next time it wont happen - because you will be more careful, right? And *IF* There appear any spidermites next time it wont be when you notice the webs it will be noticed in your daily crop examination where you spend that 10 minutes each day looking for bugs, testing ph, noting growth strengths or abnormal looking leaves or just spending the (for me) mandatory 5 minutes every other day with a hand-held 10x 20x and 30x magnifying glass pouring over each plant from stem to leaf tip and from top to bottom. You catch them then and its a LOT easier. Ive manually removed them and used water spray and doctor bonners soap mixed with water and baking soda to control them sucessfully - because I caught them early and didnt let them get to the point where the solution is likely to kill you as well as them (AVID, Floramite (much less so) etc. I wont get near that crap, and if you knew what it does to you then you wouldnt either unless you are suicidal / death wish fantasy is Leukemia or something.
Althea
