Buds with possible mites = bad to smoke?

Ender87i said:

Yeah thats true about the street-level buds.. im sure theres plenty with mites.
And also i agree the mites probably take off when the bud dies..

But what bothers me, which i notice the most, are the small strands of stringy hair in the buds!
I mean, its obvious that its some kind of webbing material that gets left from the spider mites...
Even if the mite problem was minimal, and no webs even got formed, the strands of hair still remain on buds after harvest!

Do you guys know what im talking about? like you could take a pile of buds and try to pick one of them up, and
a different piece of bud will be hanging from it by an invisible string lol... thats what bothers me is that crap.

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i just had a problem like you described on one of my plants. i didn't even try to neem when i could. they all stayed on just one plant in the space until harvest. never seen leaves so mite ridden, but no webs in the buds.

i have them hanging to dry right now and will let you know if i notice any of those "strands of hair", or possible webbing.

and yeah, i don't think it's bad in the situation you describe. webbing is one thing, but mites and no webbing? probably negligible. plus, we take in much more crap on the daily. we swallow a half dozen spiders in our sleep every year on average. a few mites in the bud, when lit on fire, probably no biggie in my book, but i am not one of these pussies that is constantly using purell and eating off of clean plates.

If u have a ton of mites you can use a vacuum hose with no attachment to remove a lot of them.
There should be no issue with smoking mites though.

You can spray up til harvest but only some things. If in flower use a neem oil based product or insectisidal soap. You ll apply it then day or 2 before harvest kind of rinse the garden like a rain and it will wash most of it off. Dont use a chemical based killer or such within 2 weeks of harvest.

Disgusting as it may be, it's highly unlikely that a pathogen (any pathogen) can survive the heat and fire in burning reefer and then infect you with disease. But, before you do your final trimming, whack the branch of dry buds against a wall. That will dislodge most of the mites. If you've already trimmed, put the buds on a screen and shake the shit out of them. Spider mites will pass through window screen mesh or a food strainer screen. If finished buds still have webbing, you'll have to carefully pick them clean.

Just pick the webs out with your thumbnail, mites are long gone in my experience. Great tasting herb in the vape, couldn't even tell. Rather smoke webs than neem and soap.. Customers are stupid though, they'd rather smoke sprayed shit than find something visually.

LinguaPeel said:

Just pick the webs out with your thumbnail, mites are long gone in my experience. Great tasting herb in the vape, couldn't even tell. Rather smoke webs than neem and soap.. Customers are stupid though, they'd rather smoke sprayed shit than find something visually.

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I vacuum clean my buds, and i still see mites when i look through my microscope.

Ender87i said:

AAAAHHH!!! LOL...

But seriously, does anybody know what im talking about, the hair thing?

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The stringy things are a type of fiber. I’m currently battling this parasite under my skin. I was going back and forth the the hospital. With finally getting it resolved. But ya. Looks like cotton or something. Real freaky. I was poisoned my my ex. That’s how I’ve digested it.

Kimmyw129 said:

The stringy things are a type of fiber. I’m currently battling this parasite under my skin. I was going back and forth the the hospital. With finally getting it resolved. But ya. Looks like cotton or something. Real freaky. I was poisoned my my ex. That’s how I’ve digested it.

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First …. Mites ate the OP - dead thread.

Second - he isnt talking about Morgellons disease.
He was talking webbing from mites.

Totally got this vibe …..

Kimmyw129 said:

The stringy things are a type of fiber. I’m currently battling this parasite under my skin. I was going back and forth the the hospital. With finally getting it resolved. But ya. Looks like cotton or something. Real freaky. I was poisoned my my ex. That’s how I’ve digested it.

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