While I was roaming the internet, I came across a couple articles that are very simple and straight forward for pest elimination. These would be a great place to start for any beginner that gets caught up in a pest problem. Hope these help Spider Mite Elimination Guide: Spider Mites - How To Rid Your Garden of these Pesky Creatures Fungus Gnat Elimination Guide: Fungus Gnats - How to Eliminate these Houseplant Pests
I have tried everything...............And the thing about spider mites is unless you kill 'em all they come back. So when you read articles about S.M. control your wasting your time, you dont want to control them you want to kill them all. Wash 'em off with water, spray them with alcohol, raise the co2, ladybugs, predator mites. These are all useful, but in my personal experience after a while it gets old looking at leafs everyday with a microsocpe trying to judge how to kill today........fuck that I guess if you you have one or two plants you could kill them off with the above methods IF your dilligent but ..........If your like most of us, that can barley figure out how to get water to plants in the rear of the room, and have plants packed in as close as we can get 'em ............ There are two ways. Hot shot no pest strips, and neem oil. These two used together will eliminate mites and gnats completley. Floramite. Availble on the net, very expensive and very effective. I'm not knocking other the methods, they all work. This is what worked best for me. I did not read thru all of the ops links but I but some where it tells you to put a layer of sand over your soil to smother fungus gnats.............That shit does not work and you'll have sand every where ........... peace B please forgive shitty post me no high yet
I have a guide in my blog on here about spider mites. Where to start, etc. The end all for me (and I've used floramite and it's not rid a population completely) is Forbid 4F. It will eradicate the population in one treatment. It is a mitecide and ovicide, it's one of the few that kills the eggs too. It is systemic for 20 days, so if you miss a couple eggs...when they hatch and eat they die. It's a gnarly chemical, should NEVER be used in flower, etc. I wouldn't use it as a first attempt, it's more of a final...I can't kill these bitches with other methods kinda thing..lol.
I definately hear you there. Ladybugs are great. I just don't know if they'd survive the winter weather traveling through the mail.