HotShot No Pest Strips work great for spider mite control!

Guahould said:
Well I have tried many ways of controlling those little bastards and they still keep coming back... It is very stressing,, if there is a product like this that actually works how some claim ,, then I am all for it .. Please anyone that knows where I can get some in the Hamilton (Canada) area ,, would be greatly appreciated.. I tried to order on Amazon and big red highlighted print stating unable to ship to address ...
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spider mites will continue to keep coming back, a friend of mine informed me that typically it is going to be a constant battle of preventative/maintenance procedures to keep them at bay. unless you are growing in a clean room, with hepa filters, and changing your clothes everytime you enter your grow you probably will risk infestation...
 
when dealing with spider mites you have to know your surroundings.. go look on plants in the backyard...this is probably their home base, they come to your front line and you attack. they die and come again. treat at the source.

would you use these in late flower?
 
Everyones talking about pestacides and "safer" ways to control spider mites. What ever happened to controlling your climate? Climate control to me is the best way to slow/prevent/keep spider mites at bay. By reducing your room temps and humidity you create a harsh environment for spidermites to live. i.e. taking a tropical animal and throwing them in antartica, wont survive.
 
quiksilver said:
Everyones talking about pestacides and "safer" ways to control spider mites. What ever happened to controlling your climate? Climate control to me is the best way to slow/prevent/keep spider mites at bay. By reducing your room temps and humidity you create a harsh environment for spidermites to live. i.e. taking a tropical animal and throwing them in antartica, wont survive.
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Good point but you want to lower temperature and raise humidity.
 
I just wanted to let anyone who is struggling with mites know that Hot Shot No Pest Strips work great for obliterating mites. I read this entire thread when I first encountered mites. I tried a few other methods; miticide / Doktor Doom, I had a professional mite exterminator spray my room, and I ordered predator mites and lady bugs. The Dr. Doom knocked them back, but they keep coming. With the exterminator the result was the same. With the ladybugs and the predator mites I had shipping delays due to Thanksgiving and it was just taking too long in general. Let me tell you why. You have to wait five to twelve days after you have sprayed most pesticides in your room before introducing predators into the room. Meanwhile, the mites are eating your plants and are multiplying quickly. Once I decided to go with the hot shot no pest strip, I was able to knock them back with the Dr. Doom again instead of waiting any longer. By comparison to other methods, using the no pest strip is like mite genocide. As long as you follow the directions, there is a constant poison that fills the air that isn't strong enough to kill the plants or affect your health as long as you don't basically live in your grow room. For the mites, the pest strips never go away. After three days they are all dead. I waited two months before posting on this website after using the strips and the mites will not come back. I mean as long as I have them hanging I could walk into my grow room everyday covered in mites and it wouldn't matter. As far as I'm concerned, it's the only solution, especially since I have a perpetual system, making it extremely difficult to use a product like Avid. Avid by the way does not prevent mite and other pest attacks like No Pest Strips do.

If you want it to work all you have to do is follow these steps:
-Create a sealed room AKA the air in the room is stagnant
-I use double the recommended dose and spread the strips out evenly

Thank you so much to the person who started this thread, you have saved me SO much time, SO much money that I can't even fathom. Good luck to anybody struggling with mites. You can find it at Home Depot in the pest section.
 
TonyPizzle187 said:
I just wanted to let anyone who is struggling with mites know that Hot Shot No Pest Strips work great for obliterating mites. I read this entire thread when I first encountered mites. I tried a few other methods; miticide / Doktor Doom, I had a professional mite exterminator spray my room, and I ordered predator mites and lady bugs. The Dr. Doom knocked them back, but they keep coming. With the exterminator the result was the same. With the ladybugs and the predator mites I had shipping delays due to Thanksgiving and it was just taking too long in general. Let me tell you why. You have to wait five to twelve days after you have sprayed most pesticides in your room before introducing predators into the room. Meanwhile, the mites are eating your plants and are multiplying quickly. Once I decided to go with the hot shot no pest strip, I was able to knock them back with the Dr. Doom again instead of waiting any longer. By comparison to other methods, using the no pest strip is like mite genocide. As long as you follow the directions, there is a constant poison that fills the air that isn't strong enough to kill the plants or affect your health as long as you don't basically live in your grow room. For the mites, the pest strips never go away. After three days they are all dead. I waited two months before posting on this website after using the strips and the mites will not come back. I mean as long as I have them hanging I could walk into my grow room everyday covered in mites and it wouldn't matter. As far as I'm concerned, it's the only solution, especially since I have a perpetual system, making it extremely difficult to use a product like Avid. Avid by the way does not prevent mite and other pest attacks like No Pest Strips do.

If you want it to work all you have to do is follow these steps:
-Create a sealed room AKA the air in the room is stagnant
-I use double the recommended dose and spread the strips out evenly

Thank you so much to the person who started this thread, you have saved me SO much time, SO much money that I can't even fathom. Good luck to anybody struggling with mites. You can find it at Home Depot in the pest section.
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I have to agree. This is my first post here although I have been a lurker here for quite awhile. I have been growing from around 1987 or so. Mostly outdoors until about 5 years ago when I really began to take it seriously. I had horrible spider mites, then the fungus gnats kicked in and then thrips. I initially tried hippie methodology which led to a war that went on for quite awhile. I would have liked to have won this war with organics and spent a F***load of time and money doing so but lost. Although Ed Rosenthols Zero tolerence works fairly good and smells great but didn't actually win the war(but definitely helped with the bastard mites). I have also used Diotomacious earth, neem oil, pyrethrin bombs/sprays, Azatrol, and Avid. As much as I hate to be funding a company putting out products that are so detrimental to life, I did not win the war against the cannavampires until I used the Hot Shot No Pest strips. Stating that, when I first introduced them, they did not do much. It wasn't until I hung them directly into the air-path of my fans is when when they actually started to work. They are junk unless you pump air through them. I do not use these in the flower room though. I have kept that room fairly clean and only deal with thrips from time to time. I use the strips in my clone, mother, and veg areas religiously and I have not seen a spider mite in over 2 years. Thrips though is real bitch. I would start on that but I am starting to ramble and not even I want to hear me. Good luck everybody and may your god bless you if you have one.
 
Another happy user of No Pest Strips here. I have a grow in one of my bedroom's and have 2 cat's.. No problems, everybody is happy and no sickness, etc...
These NPS dealies kill ALL pests, not just the ones you want to target. They even killed my spider problem up in the attic where the grow vents to.. Yes they will make you lightheaded if you spend 30 minutes+ in the garden. Use a breathing mask or something... But they work... Also this active ingredient Diachlorvos or whatever you call it, it says it evaporates over time, including in your herbs... So those of you flowering and using these, the stuff should evaporate from your herbs as you dry & cure it... Just sayin...
 
One other thing, you are ingesting this chemical when you eat processed food. They use it in grain storage and other food supplies to keep the pests down. They have a certain limit to how much can get into your food.

I think this stuff is quite safe to use moderately, like a few hours for a few days. I would go organic before doing these however, and if you need the nps later, then fine.
 
yo peps just had my first round with mites and lost. so i hope the hot shot really works thanks for the help. dito on the thanks if it work spent money on aza max its crap this is my second grow so wish me luck happy grow to all
 
just got my infestation on my 2nd grow about 3 weeks into veg. i suspect it came from some wood i got at home depot for making my grow walls. that or it could be from bringing plants inside/outside.

got 2 hot shot strips on opposuite ends of floor walls

also last night sprayed them with organacide pretty hreavily. in another few days ill water blast them and organacide and wait for the hot shot strips to work their magic.

ill report back in
 
its the same stuff they use in flea n tick collars for you dog and cat
it wont hurt you or you plants ,
 
sniffer said:
its the same stuff they use in flea n tick collars for you dog and cat
it wont hurt you or you plants ,
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They feed it to cows to control parasites in their stomachs...

It's is widely used at your local dairy farm. :joint::peace:

It won't kill rats at the research lab :leaf:
 
I'm like,,PISSED?
I got plant infected 'outside' with spider mites.

I bombed those cokesucker with Malathion! And then I'm gonna soap the piss outta the bastards and wash that off. Them I'm gonna spray them bastards night and day with a high jet of water!

God damn pests!! What to hell do I do? I'm makin tobacco tea (gotta freakin boil that). I'm just gonna soap the piis out of them and wash it off,,,every other freekin day,,THink that will do her?

I can't afford all that gobbledygoop,,azamax,,,,,,,,,whatever,,,,,,,,,I'll soap the bastards and,,that'll have to do,,,that don't do her,,,I'll blast em with Malathian every few day......pisses me off,,,,dammit,,,,ok there,,,,,,i vented,,,,,,,,,sorry.
 
Unfortunately with this hobby, effectiveness tranlates into $$$. Grab a No Shot Pest Strip and try it out... If that doesnt work i highly recommend Bayer Disease and Mite Control. both you can get at most hardware stores. Dont use it if your plants are in the last 30-45 days of flowering..


eggbert54 said:
I'm like,,PISSED?
I got plant infected 'outside' with spider mites.

I bombed those cokesucker with Malathion! And then I'm gonna soap the piss outta the bastards and wash that off. Them I'm gonna spray them bastards night and day with a high jet of water!

God damn pests!! What to hell do I do? I'm makin tobacco tea (gotta freakin boil that). I'm just gonna soap the piis out of them and wash it off,,,every other freekin day,,THink that will do her?

I can't afford all that gobbledygoop,,azamax,,,,,,,,,whatever,,,,,,,,,I'll soap the bastards and,,that'll have to do,,,that don't do her,,,I'll blast em with Malathian every few day......pisses me off,,,,dammit,,,,ok there,,,,,,i vented,,,,,,,,,sorry.
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I was super excited to try out lady bugs. Not that im a fan of insects, just seemed fun to watch. Sure enough it was fun to watch munch away at those little bastards!

Unfortunately the lady bug army was not able to cope with the massive breeding of the mites. After all lady bugs have lives too: spinning in circles, running up and down fan leaves, and massive orgy at the base of the pots. So i freed most of them to the rose garden.
 
I've got a nice infestation going, i noticed the spots awhile ago but thought it was the new nutes i was using. Turns out i was wrong...I've got a strip going now and have been using 1:1 iso. alc spray.

Hopefully this will solve my woes...i was planning on revegging this girl to take some cuttings from her.
 
This shit works but its no good for you just read the back, dont go into the room for more than 4 hours a day dont use it around animals and children, I cant even get it here had to order from the usa to get it. Once i read the box i said fuck it i need to kill my intruders (the spider mites) and used it but next time i will use something a little less harmfull. just saying
 
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