That's not photoshop, so much smoke in the air plus the cloud effect.
I remember seeing some testing either here or on the farm showing tests from a plant treated with e20 in veg showed up with o ppm or ppb can't remember which threshold they used. Same plant showed I believe avid still in the plant from veg.
back in the day i had some animal cookies tested that i sprayed avid in veg and yes it still showed up positive...so thats why now i try to never spray the shit. really if theres an infestation just toss all the plants out.
thats interesting that it showed 0ppm for E20.
Ya I definitely remember it, I wanna try and find it now to verify. I remember it being something that sounded legit (fwiw). I agree on the intense systemics, but I don't do outdoor so I don't judge. What would avid protect against for a full season that would be a problem in a healthy garden? Is full season the same deal where a healthy plant for the most part will fight stuff off?
Props for the avid hate. Sungrown will come a long long way when more people aren't using those gangster systemic pesticides in july. I also applaud the sacrifice of part of your crop to avoid the issue.i think in general avid should just be avoided, it seems to stay in plant system much longer.
when my partner found hemp russet on a plant this year, instead of spraying avid we just chopped that whole plant down and burned it. so mendo420s whole attack on me saying greed motivates me just pissed me off...because 90% of norcal farmers would have doused that plant in avid and still taken that shit to market. we probably lost at least 3-4 lbs of bud from burning that plant but fuck it...
hemp russet is literally everywhere up here too....i think they are spread via flies and other flying insects. both neighbors at both properties are total novice idiot growers with infested crops and i think the mites are coming in on flying insects.
for organic options we have been using "organicide" on any plants with signs of PM, mites, etc and its working pretty good. still, id rather not even spray organics. its better to lose parts of the plant than to spray everything else with shit.....at least the uninfected stuff will be clean smoke.
You're going to get a mixed reaction on that question. I think even a healthy plant will fall victim to cats, mites, and others even if its healthy. It will however be better able to withstand different insect threats than if it were already off balance.
I'm kicking myself for not spraying bt and spinosad as a preventative around the onset of flower and than a couple weeks later. The best gardners learn from their previous mistakes as well as the mistakes of others.
I would be very surprised if the resulting harvest from a clone or mother plant that has been treated with avid in april, would then test positive in october 7 months down the line.
Pyrethrin products usually have petroleum distillates added.
Nematodes work well to control thrips ticks fleas etc on a large scale if you're at the same property over multiple seasons. Nemattack SF Is what I use