I began using Medical Marijuana some years ago after a pretty bad car accident. Took a nice bump on the head and suffered from severe nausea for about five years.
I lost close to fifty pounds in six months from not being able to eat. When I did eat, it wouldn't stay down.
A friend of mine told me about how good Cannabis is for nausea, I tried it and literally within minutes, I was hungry, ate, and my body was able to metabolize what I had eaten. For me it was like a miracle!
I began to make regular visits to the dispensary and noticed that there was no consistency in the quality of the product with regards to what was used on it as pesticide. Seemed like over half of the time, the medicine tasted like poison. And it often made me sick. Though without my medicine I couldn't eat, so I had no choice but to take what I got.
Over the years I learned that most of the dispensaries receive donations of product from people that use heavy duty poisons to - Let's face it, protect their profits.
I have become somewhat of a crusader against poisons in general.
Having had the experience of smoking poisons in my medicine, I refused to use any type of chemicals on my plants, and of course lost many plants to spider mites.
I feel very lucky to have finally found a safe way to deal with the problem, and felt that sharing that discovery was the right thing to do.
Some of the dispensaries that I have spoken with about trying my product have come right out and said that they would just continue to use poisons. I gave a couple of them free samples to try as I know it works and is safe, and the problem of spider mites is a very common topic of discussion among growers. Though even when I gave them the solution for free, one of the dispensaries wouldn't even try it, Even as an experiment on one small plant. This fellow told me that he had mites on twenty indoor plants. I said, "Cool", here is a free bottle take it home and try it, it will knock out the mites and then keep them away- Safely". He just just kept saying; "Well, I guess it could work." (That bottle sat on the shelf for over a month)
So, they of course are not looking for a safe alternative for their members, they are happy with using poisons though they have used so much of these toxins that we now have what are called - Mendo Mites and no amount of poisons will kill them, kinda like over using anti-biotics creating super bugs. (Some of the stuff is even carcinogenic and illegal in California)
Farmer Tom's works great on Mendo Mites as it does not use toxins to kill them. As an anti-feedent, it starves them.
This is why I promote dispensaries that do care about people, animals and the earth. And they have found that their plants are healthier and more vibrant and they have no guilt about knowingly hurting people.
Going All Natural is also why I use glass bottles for the product. I found that the plastic containers emit toxins into the products that they contain.
Now, I realize that all those plants that I lost to mites over the years was actually a blessing in disguise. If I do see mites on my plants it is no longer a death sentence to them, I do not get that sinking feeling anymore as I know that I can easily force them off of my plants just by feeding them.
Happy Harvests!
-Farmer Tom