HELLLLPPPPPP i have spider mites!

[samnsara]

.. I have never finished a plant indoor before but due to the forest fires and heavy smoke here in Wash we had NO SUN so I had to rush my plants (all diff grow cycles) indoors and turn my shower into a grow room.

I have started plants in there before but never had to flower them artificially. So one 2 foot plant died...I have 2 more taller and two more smaller. The Bigger ones looked funny so DUH I put on my glasses and discovered the webbing. NOT as bad as some pix I looked at but plenty enough to make the leaves mottled. So I get the organic 'not harmful to humans and pets' spray... and sprayed all the surfaces of all the plants and the dirt. I see no more bugs or webbing.

My question......IF I get all of them now and stop this now... will my plants recover? will I have a harvest this year? I know that even just one mite will make a comeback so I may be spraying up until harvest..IF I get a harvest.

[appleannie1943]

1. I use something called Safer Soap on all my vegetable plants. You can spray up until harvest. I

I get mine at Agway but any commercial garden center should carry it. If not, it can be ordered on line. You mix it with plain water so a bottle lasts a long time. It got rid of the spider mites on my indoor herbs last winter.

[tenaciousdem]

2. The Borg

There is nothing worse than spider mites. When they realize they're being attacked, they begin having an orgy. If you see one, there is 10,000 you don't see. Short of a nuclear bomb, nothing gets rid of them. Many claim they have the cure all for spider mites, however, in my experience, they just use whatever you spray them with as salad dressing. The web's they spin are used to protect themselves against predators, not to trap a food source.

You have a few plants and you can contain them. The best thing you can do as to not damage the plants and contaminate them with poison, rinse them with water periodically.

I am a former master grower of a very large grow in Denver Colorado. Once your grow is infested with them, trying to eradicate them is impossible. Even if you throw everything away in the building and fumigate, there will be survivors waiting to attack you again. The only way to rid a building of all spider mites is to literally bring the temperature in the building down below freezing for several days.

They are indeed a commercial growers worst nightmare. Your work in a grow becomes a hundred times more laborious and a hundred times more expensive just trying to contain them.

Sorry to be the Debbie downer, but it's the truth. Spider mites are pure fucking evil!

[Hornedfrog1985]

3. Use avid 2ml gallon.

Nothing works better. All the natural hippy crap wont work.

[tenaciousdem]

4. Good luck

With that salad dressing!

[CountAllVotes]

5. Might as well toss em out

Once you have these things you cannot get rid of them.

They have basically destroyed the crop.

Have nothing to add other than get rid of 'em!

[WhiteTara]

6. Neem Oil is magic.

They won't die instantly, but it's Organic and you can spray up until harvest

[CountAllVotes]

7. What is harvested will reek of Neem

It is magic yes. I brush my teeth with it.

[magicarpet]

8. A good spray bottle (quart) teaspoon of dish soap.

When you spray the plant and the fine mist is caught in the webs making them easy to find. Take a pencil and gently break up the web with the point of the pencil without damaging the plant.

Make sure to saturate the bottom of the leaves.

Make sure to spray the soil generously in case they are living there.

Do this every few days until they are gone.

[SCantiGOP]

9. I am an intelligent person

I have the best brain.
Suggest you box up your plants and send them to me and I will determine if they are any good.