What's worse for your health: Smoking bugs? or Smoking pesticides?

I can't help but wonder.

When I was a young man back in the 70's, we often got bricks of weed coming up from Mexico...sometimes the entire plant -roots, dirt, rocks and all! (not kidding)....I distinctly remember seeing a bunch of little red mites crawling throughout the weed on one occasion....one of the older guys said, "Well, think about it...If the bugs eat the weed, then they are full of weed...so it can't be that much worse than smoking the weed, itself." LOL! Of course, this seemed logical to me at the time.

Now, there is a plethora of various chemical compounds -both organic and synthetic- that people use without much regard for anything else than alleviating the bugs. Neem oil, for example, smells like shit! It dissipates....but what becomes of the dried oil residue? It can't possibly all just go away. Pyrethrum is the same deal. It works....but it smells...and depending on when and how it was applied in relation to harvest, some of it will be on your plants, too. Organic, yes....but so what?

Smoking bugs? Smoking pesticides?

bugs covered in pesticides is the worst!

False dilemma, you don't have to smoke either. I like slow release dichlorvos. Short half life leaves zero residual. Plenty of other pesticides and fungicides that are not detectable at harvest if used properly.

Been smoking roaches all my life lol

I've never understood how people get bugs in the grow room. Never had any just curious how this is always an issue with growing indoors.

Lordhooha said:

I've never understood how people get bugs in the grow room. Never had any just curious how this is always an issue with growing indoors.

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I think it is mostly from bringing outside stuff inside. Clones, clothes, shoes, tools and pets are all things that never enter my indoor grow rooms.

I have only ever had springtails. But only in soil with composted products and they are really common in Michigan to come indoors after the fall season.

my awesome sealed grow room shares a wall with the other half of the barn, where my dirt floor is used to do all of my garden work, and stores all of my outdoor lawn maintenance equipment. I dont even wash my lawn mower when finished, just pull it right into the barn and park it. I suspect my next trip in a fungus gnat or such follows me in, I never saw mites in my space, but have no fear.

as far as I can see mites come into the room from really good friends, ones invited in the space. Or ones you might rub on at the grow store, or even ones you toke with in their grow space. They come from really cool bud tenders too, especially ones selling clones, where all mites originate maybe. I've only ever seen mites once in my life, on house plant wife brought home. I had a blast checking out what it takes to kill them. I bet a thousand internets those ones jumped off of one of the above on to the poor house plant.
They dont give two shits about dogs, droppy shoes, or dirt on your floor either. I got all of that for almost a decade, no mites. fungus gnats once in awhile, gone when noticed. I notice in pictures of rooms that mites choose a plant, over another plant, wondered why.