My beautiful ladies are 7 weeks into flower, but I have a terrible spider mite problem! What can I do this late in? I am growing organic.
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@ladyjane you can do some different treatments. There are recipes floating around Percy’s one is a black tea spray. I’m not to sure of the mix hopefully someone will comment with it.
It looks pretty bad maybe cut off some leaves and get rid of them straight out once you cut them.
fingers crossed you get over the line.
Coffee. Make some very strong black coffee, let it cool. Then mix with dish soap and and using a hand sprayer, spray the hell out of the plant. I used a compressed air paint sprayer myself, it works great.
Caffeine is a natural pest deterrent and plants make caffeine to do so. So super charging the caffeine, and adding soap, which helps it stick and stay glued to the plant, while the bugs get over caffeinated.
Try 2 different applications, that worked for me.
Good Luck.
@woodi2 sounds good, but what about bud rot? Can I still spray the flowers this late in?
@ladyjane, yes your 7 weeks into flower but they could go 10-12 weeks so your ok.
Bud rot, if your outdoors then spray at night, right at dusk. That's when I do mine. It's usually because I forget and I'm running out there before dark. I have some at different stages of flower and some are very hairy and there hasn't been a problem. If your growing indoors, spray them at lights out and place a (or a couple) oscilating fans on her, or them???
If you spray with straight coffee they will dry quickly. Even when you add a healthy amount of dish soap, it still dries fairly fast. The soap helps it stick to the plant and bugs. I wouldn't worry about bud rot at this stage.
I sprayed once and then I sprayed again a few nights later, like three nights later. I wanted to spray after a night or maybe two but life happened and they got it on the third night. Mine are outside and after a week now there's still no signs of the critters. Now I had aphids, BAD! but this mixture seems to work on a lot of different critters. I mixed it strong, 1/2 cup coffee to 1/2 gallon water. Boil carefully.
It's the only thing that I've found that really works and the only thing I'll spray on a flowering plant. Good luck.
The only product I know of that you can run in flower, (and Id still be reluctant) however it is dubbed "safe", is Dr. Zymes.
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