I have to say tho,
@BH has an AWESOME write up about mites that should be read!
Yeah dude is amazing at knowing these things.
I personally haven't sprayed my outdoor yet at all this year; We did have some beetles taking a crack at the plants, and I have seen Aphids on a few of them, but we released about 3,000 Ladybugs out there on each plant, and a few in the Father in Law's tent, and even though he has sprayed his plants with a few pest control sprays, his don't honestly look any better to my non sprayed ones so, for now? I'm letting the Ladybugs have at it and it's doing pretty well to be honest.
I do see on like a few of the plants, that I've got some white mold stuff coming in on a few that are gonna need some Green Clean to take care of it, so I cut some branches off them to open some air flow up a bit more, and to make it easier for spraying them with the Green Clean.
It'll be my first time spraying this year which I'm happy about. I see Ladybugs on almost every plant watching them like soldiers LOL. I also see them humping on the plants so I give them space when I can (Ladybugs attacks mites at every stage of their life) to be sure to have more
Father in Law has this "stuff" he got.... You add it to the water before watering the plants, and it's supposed to "make the plant taste bad to the bugs"...... I'll be Honest here, I've got no idea what exactly is in that stuff, but it doesn't seem to really work, and adding something to the plant that will make it taste bad seems like.... I dunno I haven't used any and have ZERO intention of starting.... If it makes the plants taste bad to bugs I fear what it would do to the actual buds to be Honest.
I personally don't use Neem oil at all; The smell is repulsive and this is coming from someone who's got congealed Chicken Blood in the shed for small Catfish bait. It also seems to damage the leaves a lot and all around not work that well.
Spider Mites mate, lay eggs, and even if you spray that the eggs can take like 2 weeks to hatch, which means you then spray everything again after 2 weeks to try and kill them. My plants are too big to spend that much money spraying that stuff, and Ladybugs are 10 dollars. They have been doing very well, and though I have leaves that are damaged from the beetles and a few Aphids trying to get a foot hold on my plants, my plants literally don't look worse than his, and he's been spraying the entire time.