Had em, they suck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm not convinced that the no pest strips do anything to prevent spider mites but it can't hurt! The only other preventative things you can do is take a shower and put on freshly washed clothes every time you go into the grow room and do a preventative spray or fogging! Do try to remember not to go into your rooms after working in the yard!! There is one thing I would suggest for gnats, cut the sticky strips and tape them to the front end caps! I went for a couple years and never had them, now I have them and can't get rid of the little fuckers!!!!!!!
I wonder if the sticky strips have an attractant on them, if they do it might bring the pests? I'll plan to fog the room outside the grow, it is a store room that I sprayed around the perimeter baseboard a couple times so far with spider killer spray. I have not seen a single bug in the grow, but did find a quarter size spider in the store room a few months ago. I soaked him with spray and waited 2 days before I could remove the corpse, with a shovel and gloves.
I check on the plants 2-3 times a day, so showers are not going to happen, and I have started using a special shirt and jeans for that work as the smell that gets on my clothes could cause a problem. Maybe add something to the nutes to make the plants more repellent to bugs? I don't want to poison the buds, just discourage the bugs. The Botanicare nutes have done well so far and I think they are pretty much organic and I am reluctant to spray/fog plants that don't have any problems, so prevention is my goal at this stage.
