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Well I thought the bastards were gone but have seen a few last few days. I hope to get through and have 1 more week to go. They haven't done anything to my plants but after this I am going to bomb the hell out of the room and maybe start over with some new stuff and clean it up like a operating room.
LW:
Thanks for that, I hope I wasn't sounding like mine was the only way though. I didn't mean it like that. I think I even offered advice on alternatives.
If the THC hits your brain you did it the right way.
Avid kills mites dead
Yes it does. It is not available in my area and many others. Bachelorpads, couldn't you have turned off your ventalation at night, or at least way down? If the mites were exposed to it just at night, they would die I think.
avid is available on e-bay in a super concentrated form for $40 and ppl are buying it up.. try lookin there!
The no pest strip is def killing these things.. but new ones keep coming from somewhere.. there will be a bunch of dead ones on a leaf and then new live ones.. I might try one of those noise maker boxes they sell at wally world.. the ones with the high cherp sounds...
Anyone know if avid is detrimental to human health if just used during veg?
My room was a lot different when i had mites. Everything was still in dirt and, well, basically nothing was good about the room in my opinion. In those horrible conditions where everything was wrong, AVID worked, Nothing else did.
So i guess i should say it differently.
If you have mites and have exhausted all other "reasonable" methods and they keep coming back, AVID will solve the problem for you permanently regardless of your conditions.
I should mention that since i have been growing aero and dwc, I have not had any mite issues. I firmly believe that hydro plants are easier to protect against mites due mainly to the increase in humidity that occurs. There are other reasons but, i believe this is the primary reason they have trouble thriving.
I doubt anything about AVID is good for you. It is a systematic miticide so it will continue to kill mites for pretty much as long as the plant is alive. I would imagine that when it all comes down to it, a trace amount of AVID would be on the buds when they are done just from touching other parts of the plant that got sprayed during veg (trace would be a very very small amount). Pretty much, if you are worried about chemical traces that could be left in the nugs, don't use it. I did smoke cigarettes for 5 years so i am not all that concerned with chemicals in my body obviously. If it makes you nervous, don't use it. If it doesn't worry you, give it a go. Problem solved.
most of our produce comes from mexico where i live so if i was woried about a few spare chemicals i wouldnt have much to eat..
I will keep avid in my book of tricks but only as a last resort
where can i find some of these no pest strips ?lol
im in austrlia y0, we dont have walmarts
There is NO such thing as a "small case" of spidermites...
and NOW you KNOWM
aussie dude- you might be able to order them online from an american company.. just google up "hot shot no pest strip"
Our chemical laws are different so most chemicals between usa and aus dont come from the same place. Your over the counter cough syrup has codine in it.. a controlled substance in usa. I never thought I would enjoy having a cold until i had one in australia.. haha.. i went to the chemist (thats what you call it right?) and said i had a cold and they gave me what in america would closely resemble tylenol with codine. I felt gooooood after a shot of that stuff.
So then I went and got a couple of piercings in a painful place and was reccomended to pick up this (some brand name) which was supposed to be some kind of anti inflamatory.. when I met up with my aussie friend after she got off work and she saw the pills sitting on the counter and was a little concerned. I cant remember the name of them.. but basically they were the austrailan form of Midol (womens time of the month pill).. and I had NO IDEA.. it did help with the swelling tho.
I tossed my no pest strip a couple days ago because the odor was so strong it was hard to even be in the same room with it even momentarily. I had it up for a week and everyday i would go in and find about 700 dead bugs and barely any alive.. id wash um off.. and the same the next day.. i dont know how the freak so many bugs regenerate so fast. I pulled the strip out and im back to about a thousand new live bugs a day that i kill twice a day with acid water.. they are eating the plants alive and i have no idea what to try next. Im going to the local indoor garden center to get some neem oil tomorrow.