Risky Business @ 74 days
Hello HydroRed,
my apologies for using this thread as a way to reach out to you but i cant figure out how to contact you directly through the site. Anyway i found an old post (
https://www.rollitup.org/t/fucking-broad-mites.899385/) you put up back in 2016 on Russet mites and how you dealt with them.
A little background...I have a small (3X3) tent setup in a typical basement. i have lost two gardens in a row this year to these fuckers. i have read so much on them it makes my head spin. The first garden i honestly didnt know what i had until it was too late. I fought the battle with 86 Mites and green cleaner (i was 2 weeks into flowering when i figured out what was going on) but lost the battle. I then bleach cleaned all my equipment, tent, vacuumed the grow room (it has old carpet), washed all my smart pots (and bleach soaked them) then washed again, new soil, etc.
a month later (thinking i made it past their lifecycle) dropped some seeds and started over, within 2 weeks my poor seedlings had them and were struggling to survive. i switched up to some mighty wash and alternated that and the green cleaner. But as expected the little guys couldn't fight them off and i lost everything again. i should mention i think the mistake i made was bringing the equipment out of the grow room into another room in the basement to be cleaned them moving them back in, i am thinking those bastards were outside the grow room at the point of cleaning but who knows.
anyway sorry for the book. at this point i am done fucking around with these pricks and spending money trying to "deal" with them. I have been researching the Pyrethrum fogger and have even reached out to the manufacturer with some questions but they wont help cause i am not a commercial setup. The reason i am reaching out to you is, in your very extensive post on how to deal with them you mentioned "DO NOT USE THE FOGGER IN A CLOSED TENT." Its really hard to find info on how to deal with these things outside of a commercial setup and even harder to find someone who has dealt with them in the past. I had some questions that i hoping you can answer:
1) do you think if i completely open the tent, set it off in the grow room but keep all basement doors open (aside from the ones leading to the upstairs or outside of course) i can let the fogger treat the entire basement?
2) do you know if this stuff leaves behind any film or residue that needs to be cleaned?
3) if a dog ( i keep his ass out of the basement to help prevent problems like this in general but sometimes he sneaks down there but he never gets into the actual grow room) licks a surface that the fogger has come into contact with, do you think they will get sick?
4) does it harm electronics?
once again sorry for posting this here, i just went your most recent posts and picked one and thank you in advance for any knowledge you can throw my way!
chuck
