Hot Shot Pest Strips...are they safe?

Originally Posted by dxfan227

Battling some root aphids over here. Already hit them with the IMID this morning ( Bayer Tree and Shrub)...would also love to get my hands on some Met 52 but cant find it for sale..except for like 600 bucks.

I want to also use a hot shot pest strip, but the packaging says to only use it in areas that will be uninhabitied for 4 months, my grow cab is in my bedroom....so is this stuff safe? I sleep in the same room everynight. Thanks guys

wondering the same thing.. does anyone know if keeping one of these in a tent that has passive ventalation out of the room would be dangerous?

If your tent is in the same bedroom you sleep in i would not use one. Hot shots are more for fungus gnats or bugs that dont live in the root ball. Root aphids live in the root ball, you might get a few adults leaving the pots but its not going to solve the problem of the babies eating ur roots. You need to do drenching/soaking to try to even dent the aphids of Permethin/Pymethrin or if you are rich and want to spend 400$ on Met52 go for it. Hot Shot strips are not going to kill root aphids.

Originally Posted by PsYcO420

If your tent is in the same bedroom you sleep in i would not use one. Hot shots are more for fungus gnats or bugs that dont live in the root ball. Root aphids live in the root ball, you might get a few adults leaving the pots but its not going to solve the problem of the babies eating ur roots. You need to do drenching/soaking to try to even dent the aphids of Permethin/Pymethrin or if you are rich and want to spend 400$ on Met52 go for it. Hot Shot strips are not going to kill root aphids.

was goign to use it simply to keep tabs on everything, i used bayer tree and shrub...have ehard good things....you?

Yeah.. I use em but not in my bedroom. Like I said nemotodes and there is a fungus you can get that gets after em. I asked some friends but they have never had them and had little advice.

I use em but my grow room is in the garage.

I have a Hot Shot Pest Strip question.. I was looking for fly strips at my local store today and could only find this hot shot pest strip. My 2x4x5 is in my garage and I have been noticing what looks like small white eggs the size of a pin head on my lower leaves so I want to catch these bugs (I don't know what kind they are) so I got this strip. Will the "vapors" it puts of harm my plants? My tent has a 435cfm pulling the hot air from the ttop of the tent and ventin it outdoors through a vent in my garage so any vapors that are excreted from the strip shouldn't be setting too long in the tent. It's the stickiness of the strip I am after anyhow. If anyone can help I would appreciate it. Thanks!

Hot Shot pest strips are weak in my friends 8k grow he has like 20 of these all through out his grow room and still flys make it a couple circles around the room before they start die. I recommend using Azamax it can be used as a spray or a soil drench which would definitely take care of bugs in your soil.

I would not use them were you sleep (after spending a couple hours in an enclosed space with them they gave me severe headaches). I've used them in the past and they work best in a quarantine room with minimal ventilation. I like placing them in front of a fan with the clip so that the active ingredient is pushed out in higher quantities. I would not use them in flower as there is little research how diclorvos is metabolized in humans/animals when smoked. I know they use it on threshed wheat in silos for long term storage with little carcinogenic or poisonous effects when eaten.

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