Civil.Dis0bedience
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Anyone know any good threads or articles with lots of info on dealing with mites? i know there has to be one on here but i cant seem to find it
Info on mites?
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wiseguy316
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u didn't look very hard. neem oil, no pest strips
Civil.Dis0bedience
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yea thats what i keep reading..but i was thinking more of a indepth type thing were someone actualy compares and tests different products? and i read sns 217 is better than neem oil..but that it is also 100 percent rosemary extract..anyone know if food grade rosemary extract will work just as good? cause that sns shit is expensive
wiseguy316
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no pest strip 7 bucks done deal
Civil.Dis0bedience
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you used this?..just seems to me as they wouldnt be a thorough as spraying some shit all over the plant..you say its all i need huh?
Pullin' weeds
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I spent a year dealing with mites with neem and aza products - They kept the bugs to a minimum, but never got rid of them completely.
No Pest Strips took care of 'em in 2 days. That was 4 months ago, and I haven't seen one since.
No Pest Strips took care of 'em in 2 days. That was 4 months ago, and I haven't seen one since.
GoldenGanja13
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Whats a pest strip going to do for Spider Mites ?
wiseguy316
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just kill them, thats all
GoldenGanja13
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How? Spider mites live and breed on the under side if leafs. So how are pest strips helping you? FYI Spider mites mature and lay about 100 eggs in 3-4 days and 70% are hatched into females.
wiseguy316
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6000 posts and you didn't do your homework, as soon as the eggs hatch they will die and won't be laying anymore eggs. look up no pest strip,,then get back to me..peace
SimplyM1tch
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Yea...aggreed i had a bad spider mite problem put it in killed all of them within 3 days, but unfortinantly 2 months later they have returned....i think ima go buy a new one ;P
Civil.Dis0bedience
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hm guess i'll spray them all with organicide,then hang some no pest strips, then let loose the 1500 lady bugs i bought for no reason 
wiseguy316
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no pest strips will kill the lady bugs too
Civil.Dis0bedience
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damn..well thanks +rep im going to buy some tomorow lowes is right near me hopefully theyre only on the plants i moved out the main room.
wiseguy316
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depending on the size of the room your probably only need 1.
Civil.Dis0bedience
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room is 10x8
wiseguy316
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1 will do, if you keep it closed
GoldenGanja13
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Ok I did my Home work and let me share some high lights with you ~
The strips are almost entirely composed of a vaporizing chemical called DDVP. This pesticide was originally registered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in 1963 over the objections of USDA pharmacologist Dr. Thomas Von Sumter.
In 1965 a public health service com mittee, worried about the absence of tests regarding the hazards of long-term chronic inhalation of DDVP vapors, voted to discontinue registra tion. USDA scientist Dr. John Leary rejected this advice the following year and left his job a few months later to work for Shell.
Dr. Sidney Wolfe of our Public Citi zen's Health Research Group exam ined the toxicologic studies, submitted by the no-pest industry for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and found the data suggested a toxic effect even though the indus try concluded otherwise.
Further questions remain unanswered about the quality of the testing process itself, since other raw data are not available for scientific analysis.
Other animal studies done for Shell for possible cancerous effects of DDVP reveal, on closer examination, conclusions different from the official assurances by the testing laboratory. According to Wolfe and Dr. Melvin Rueber, a cancer specialist and EPA consultant, these suggest cancer-causing properties. More conclusive results should come from a National Cancer Institute feeding study.
Just a few weeks ago, Dr. Law rence R. Valcovic of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, told the EPA:
"There is sufficient evidence from non-mammalian systems to indicate that DDVP has the intrinsic potential for inducing genetic alteration . . . I would recommend that human exposure be avoided if possible."
Dr. Valcovic's concern is with the silent violence of low level chronic exposure which millions of people here and abroad have unknowingly, endured.
Shell, on the other hand, does not seem to be as concerned. It pays its laboratory testers and gets its com forting interpretations while the cash registers merrily ring up millions in annual sales.
Shell has agreed to put a warning, required by law, on its package, against using the no-pest strip in res taurants, hospitals and other sensi tive places.
Mothers may wish to avoid having their susceptible infants lying in bedrooms with a no-pest strip emitting its vapors that poison the nervous system of airborne insects.
The glacial EPA has been conduct ing for nearly two years a proceeding to determine whether the no-pest strip should be allowed to stay on the market. .
RawBudzski
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LADY BUGS FROM home DEPOT
wiseguy316
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still think it won't kill mites? i never recommended making hash with the bud after, i said for 7 bucks it will kill the mites,,it also says on the package do not spend more than 4hrs in any room that it is in.