hot shot pest strips Pest Control

These things kick ass in killing all spidermites with no spraying of your plants big thanks to the stranger that gave me the info at my local hydro shop and wavels a member of rollitup to confirm that these things really work

• hot shot pest strips Pest Control

i second that.. those things work great!

Garden Knowm said:

i second that.. those things work great!

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For the life of me these hotshot pest strips should be talked about way more when i think of all the bullshit that i have put my plants through and the money ive spent on sprays and natural pest control just makes me sick. but not anymore

are your plants in an enclosed area? separate form humans and animals?

Garden Knowm said:

are your plants in an enclosed area? separate form humans and animals?

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oh ya thanks for the concern GARDEN KNOWM I LOVE THIS SIGHT/ROLLITUP

So this dosnt leave any kind of traces on the buds? Could I cheat and use this in my organic grow? Im just paranoid about gassin up my room. Please but my mind at ease.

PS: Would this still be effective even with multiple fans in the room?

Yeah, it's just a strip of pesticide that sits in a plastic sleeve. It doesn't affect your plants that I know of. I'm using some of them, and I don't know if they help or not. Gnats seem to dance around them, and I've seen both mites and whitefly near them.

I still spray my plants with horticultural oils as pesticide/fungicide.

HTH

I read what you wrote about your experience with Hot Shots, and I was wondering how many you used for how big of a room.

I recently had a mite problem and bought a bunch (6) of those things, and never recovered completely over a 5 week period. I caught them early too. I was able to keep them confined to only two plants which is better than loosing everything, but I would have to say that the Hot Shots were fairly ineffective.

I just finished cleaning the room completely out, scrubbed it all down with chlorine, bug bomb...the works. Rinsed my table down good with clean water, and now have 4 Hot Shots in a 7' x 10' room with an 8' ceiling. Is that enough?

Regards,

Dave

I just wanted to bring this old thread back up to prove a point....

There is a lot of mis information about Pest control on this forum, especially in regards to the Hot Shot no Pest Strips. You will find 7 different threads, some like this with experienced forum memebers touting the value of NPS, and others where people totally trash them as a poison that will ruin your crop. Instead, they suggest actually applying pesticides to the plant itself, or suggest some organic solution, which, while informitave, is often infeasable or impossible for the person who's resorted ti using these 7 dollar strips....

I mean, theres even a thread titled "I made my Med poison" where this guy claims hes become violently ill because of using these strips... My guess is he just dosent know how to flush or cure... (not that Im some big shot, just a guess..)

Isnt it possible, if not incredibly likely that weve all gotten that random sac, probably the fruit of some unknown muddled strain, cared for and kept after by ...who knows what means???

In other words, isnt it likely that all of us have used meds either stored near or grown somewhere near or dried near a NPS or some other kind of residual pesticide that, if the theory some propose that plants easily absorb, and store these compounds somewhere (...at no harm to themselves or impedement to their development......) would have harmed us, or caused some illness or damage? I mean, they say this medication is among the most inocuous know to man... even the commercial grade found in inner city streets is touted as relitavely harmless compared to alcohol, ciggarettes... no to mention the various pollutions that plauge our environment. Isnt it especially likely that this material would have been at some point exposed to some sort of technique or treatment that we wouldnt have approved of?

I dont mean to ramble, but Id just like a definitive answer. Its frustrating to read a thread started in 2005 thats like 46 posts long where the values and supposed risks of these NPS are tossed back and forth forever, with every organic hippie crying foul, and then to find a thread like this one from four years later, seven posts, all thumbs up.

I guess what Id like is a definitive answer. As someone who thougth to use these strips without any suggestion from anyone else, I have become very worried about my girl. Its my first sucess (up to this point) and I need to know definitively if this will cause harm to me. I have removed the NPS, as there are no signs of pests, btw.

So my question is, can anyone once and for all do the world a favor and actually answer this? Did you use NPS? If so, did your girl make you sick, even after flushn' and curin'...

Would a Water Cure do anything to remove pesticides?

These things work!

These are effective for flying insects. Crawling mites, spiders & ants wont be effected unless they crawl on the strip. You'll need some sevin for those.

If concerns over contamination are present consider the water cure method.

So youve used meds that you treated with these? Say I left one in my room for about a mont at the beginning of flower.... it had already ben out of its package and in use in my cars trunk for like a year haha.... Also, the whole time it was in there my ventilation sys was going, and its in my sleeping area, and its not like im dying (not that I know of anyway hah)

You'd trust this med even without a water cure? Im thinking of the water cure anyway, cause its quick hah

also, just looked this up..

its from the 60's but still
TOXICOLOGICAL EVALUATION

Level causing no toxicological effect

Man : 0.033 mg/kg/day

Estimate of acceptable daily intake for man

0 - 0.004 mg/kg body-weight.

EVALUATION FOR TOLERANCES

USE PATTERN

Pre-harvest treatments

Because of its very short persistence and lack of systemic action, the
use of dichlorvos on growing crops is limited and somewhat
specialized. Its most common pre-harvest use is for the control of
aphids, red spider mite (Tetranychus telarius), white fly
(Trialeurodes vaporariorum), leaf miners, and other pests of crops
growing in greenhouses; and for the control of mushroom flies in
mushroom houses. The crops and uses for which dichlorvos has been
registered or approved in various countries are as follows :

Cotton, date palms Iraq
Deciduous trees Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Great
Britain, Hungary, Italy,
Netherlands, Switzerland
Greenhouses Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Great
Britain, Hungary, Switzerland
Horticulture Austria, Great Britain

Mushroom houses Great Britain, Hungary,
Netherlands, United States
Ornamentals Germany, Great Britain, Switzerland
Vegetables Austria, Great Britain,
Netherlands, Switzerland
General use Austria, Ceylon, Chile, India,
Japan, Mexico, Pakistan, Venezuela
Dairy and meat United States
animals

Dichlorvos has been approved in the United Stated for direct
application to livestock, including lactating animals. It has also
been approved to control flies, fleas, and mites in animal barns,
piggeries, and chicken houses. In the United Kingdom it can be used in
pig and poultry houses for ectoparasite control.

Post-harvest treatments

To date, the use of dichlorvos on food as post-harvest treatments has
been largely experimental. However, the results have been so promising
that it may find extensive use for protecting raw and processed
agricultural products. Uses of dichlorvos investigated are as a direct
spray or dust treatment to grain; as aerosol or impregnated-resin
strips applied in the overhead space of storage bins for the control
of insects infesting grains; and as sprays, vapors, fogs, aerosols,
and impregnated-resin strips for controlling insects in facilities
where foods are stored, handled, processed, transported, and marketed.

I have been using Hot Shot No-Pest Strips without any problems.

I use them to clean clones which I have bought at the club. I put one No-Pest Strip in my clone box to make sure I don't have any bugs. It is enclosed.

I also put one in my flower box, before I put anything in it. I have never had a problem.

The active ingredient in the Hot Shot No-pest Strip is Dichlorvos.

If you look it up you will see that it is a toxic chemical. If you read further you will see that it is used to control :

Quoted from "[SIZE=-1]A Pesticide Information Project of Cooperative Extension Offices of Cornell University, Michigan State University, Oregon State University, and University of California at Davis. Major support and funding was provided by the USDA/Extension Service/National Agricultural Pesticide Impact Assessment Program. "

[/SIZE] "Therapeutically, dichlorvos is used to treat a variety of parasitic worm infections in dogs, livestock and humans. Dichlorvos can be fed to livestock to control botfly larvae in the manure. It acts against insects as both a contact and a stomach poison . Dichlorvos is available in aerosol and soluble concentrate formulations . It is used as a fumigant and has been used to make pet collars and pest strips ."

Yes that's right, they fed it to cows and other livestock.


Quoted from : "WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION"

"Use pattern - On plants as a pre-harvest treatment for fruit,
vegetable, rice and field crops. on stored products and in food
processing premises and similar locations in the form of aerosols,
impregnated resin strips and in automatic dispensers. In some
countries it is added to stored grain as a dust, spray or emulsion.

On livestock generally as sprays and aerosols and in pellets for oral
dosing of poultry, pigs and horses as an anthelmintic. In agricultural
premises as a spray or aerosol. "
It has been around for a long time.

If you want to use it, I suggest that it only be used in a closed area, i.e. don't use it in your bedroom.

DO NOT EAT the No-Pest Strip

Then read all about the toxicity and understand the dangers (not much).

If you are concerned about using it, take it out when you flower or early in flower.

i also use these in a sealed room-

no mites, or puking.

i found little to no effectivity on the strips and the thought that it could be for anything more than a shed or summerhouse scares me worse. i use avid, its a very potent spray you will use once with total sucess. respirators reccommended, no burn just paralyzed mites that get one bite. i use it through veg and it washes out in around 21 days.

Thanks for helping disseminate info on this very critical subject guys!