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What are your best spider mite treatments?
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What are your best spider mite treatments?


Decided to grow a black pearl over the winter indoors first it had meal dew now mites just as it started to branch out.

What are your best spider mite treatments?
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  2. Almostofar

    Everyone has their own way of dealing with them, here Is how I would address It.
    The plant looks small, I’d wrap the container In a bag holding as much soil as you can. Mix a 5 gal bucket with safer soap and dunk the entire plant upside down into the bucket. The following day I would spray It down with straight water and the following day dunk It again, followed by another rinse. Then I would start a preventative/maintenance product, I use Purge III In a metered dispenser (set to 20 min.) placed behind a small fan to assist In dispersion.

  3. Best_Picture8682

    Dr Woods Peppermint Castile Soup
    Dr Woods TeaTree Castile Soap
    Alcohol No more than 70%
    Hydrogen Peroxide 1%

    In a 32oz spray bottle,

    1/4 cup tea tree
    1/4 cup peppermint
    1 Tablespoon peroxide
    1 cup alcohol

  4. Scrappyz_zg

    I’d restart tbh, that’s a pretty bad infestation .. if you have any other plants near that, they are probably toast as well

  5. Annual_Locksmith_518

    Dish soap and water in a spray bottle will wreck them. 100% better than seven dust, for me.

  6. ADZ1LL4

    If u squish them and they smear, they’re not spider mites or detrimental. If they stay solid do as the others suggest, or use Neem oil.

  7. seemebeawesome

    You have to break the life cycle. Killing the adults is relatively easy. But an egg can hatch an start laying more eggs in as little as 4 days.

    Most inexpensive method is to submerge the plant in a dunk with hand soap for 15 minutes every 4 days for 6 total dunks. Do not use detergent, detergent breaks down the oils in the plant leaves. Use Castile or safers. And when you dunk make move the plant around. You want to make sure there are no air bubbles a mite could hide in. If you don’t mind spending get a miticide with either avermectin, abamectin or azadiractin.

    Day 1 dunk, day 2 spray, day 3 wait, repeat 3 more times or 5 without spraying.

    Side note, with insecticides don’t ever mix the solution at a lower rate then directed. Some insects with resistance might survive. Which means you are breeding insecticide resistant bugs

  10. theegreenman

    If you want something that works 💯. Spiromesifen.

  11. grownandnumbed

    Had a bad infestation on my strawberries. Insecticide soap got it on one go

  16. 2NutsDragon

    The best way is to get a bin, line it with a plastic bag, throw the plant inside, tie the bag shut, and wave goodbye as the trash truck drives it far far away.

  17. BananaNutBlister

    If you’re growing multiple plants, make sure none of the plants are touching each other. Spider mites can’t fly. They’re pedestrians. Put an air gap between plants so they can’t walk from one to another.

    Also if you’re growing multiple plants, the easiest solution is to just discard the infected one(s). But careful repeated washing with soapy water (or detergent) can clean them off. You can wrap double sided tape around the base of the stem to prevent them from walking up the stem from the soil. Nicotine is also a good pesticide. When I was a smoker, I’d empty the tobacco from a few cigarettes into boiling water and make a tea that I would spray on my plants.

    Full disclosure, I was growing pot at the time. I found that some strains were more resistant to spider mites than others and ultimately I removed the more susceptible strains from my garden and breeding program.

  19. Emperor_of_Fish

    Definitely isolate the plant from your others and check others really well for spider mite infestations.

    Things I’ve used before at work are neem oil, soapy water, sulfur dusting, and predatory mites. The sulfur dusting and predatory mites have seemed the most effective to me. I can’t speak for the food safety of any of these options though as I’ve never looked into it. I imagine it’s probably fine, but definitely check.

  20. AtLeastItsnotWWIII

    I get permethrin from the farm store. Reading online, it says not to use it for spider mites because it will kill predator bugs that eat spider mites… but pretty much everything else people are suggesting here will kill all other bugs too.

    Permethrin will kill spider mites and pretty much any other bug on or near your peppers.

    [Using Permethrin For Pests – How To Use Permethrin For Pest Control | Gardening Know How](https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/plant-problems/pests/pesticides/applying-permethrin-in-garden.htm)

  23. RayMcNamara

    Dunk it in diluted neem oil and soap. The whole damn plant. Then do it again for a few days in a row. You’re not just trying to kill the living mites, but you also gotta kill the ones that hatch in the days after you killed the living ones. No half measures. Damage the plant if you have to, the mites sure will.

  26. Adventurous-Start874

    If you have an elm tree near by you will probably never get rid of them.

  27. xX50calKillaXx

    Use a solution h20+30% of the purest alcohol you can find add a couple teaspoons of neem oil and or your favorite mite killer but neem oil works great. You’ll want to spray the whole plant dripping wet. It will dry quickly but do not do this under direct light. I can almost guarantee they will be dead within minutes. You can also spray your growing environment with this solution to help dissipate the infestation.

  28. SFplantie

    PureCrop1, diluted per manufacturer instructions. Safe to use indoors but the pH is pretty high when diluted in plain water. Some plants don’t like it and the leaves will get burned. Adjust pH with citric acid if your peppers can’t handle the high pH. Kind of a hassle but wipes out spider mites very effectively.

  30. ReinaRocio

    Dilute peroxide (1 part peroxide: 4parts water). Spray liberally and wipe down the plant to remove webs gently

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