wholly shit READ THE DAMN post properly ...first of mites are attracted to certain chemical smells released from plants when they are weak and dying.... when people grow with chemicals they are 90% of the time stressing the grows to their max.. which in return releases the chemicals that attracts mites.. AND there are some chemicals/salts/metals that are used in our chemicals base feed, that replicates the smells our weak and dying plants release that attracts the damn mites... please don't sit and try to talk to me like your running 100% pure zero chemical grows... and have been for years ... I'm so sick of arguing how things work with people that only know one or two damn things about growing... how bugs feed and live and what irritates me more is people with little to no college education in plant sciences.
Lol I have my education, and you?
Im laughing at the fact you say mites are the fault of those using chemicals indoors.
As if mites are only attracted to chemically grown plants.
Stress hormones may be picked up by mites, but even TLO plants create auxin and other stress induced toxins...
And yeah... ive grown chem free with dry amendments for a long time as well as hydro... so I can say I have experience chemical free.
Still can get any pest under the sun in organics. Your little crustations and azomite mix in your soils might deter a lot of things, butbya can still get colonized.
Id say a messy grow area is the culprit not the nutes. By that's just my uneducated stance