Ortho Bug Clear

Today at Ace the lady I like to call my “grow mom”. Been the garden center supe for over 20 years. Horticulturalist, blah blah blah... she’s a badass. She told me her and her husband started using this product. She said it “obliterated them” like she straight summoned Exodia on her bugs. She said she stops using 3 weeks before flipping to flower and switching back to natural IPMs and only indoor cause this shit kills everything. Anybody out there have more experience running this product or more information. I plan to follow the pecan instructions since they are the lowest application rate like she recommended. I have an Heirloom cut of Purple Urkle coming in and last time I snagged cuts from them they were dirty and I had to set my house on fire. I built a quarantine shed and would like to clean a clone and bring inside eventually.

I guess it will work. It isn't made for indoor after glancing. Active ingredient Bifenthrin . I use it for my other grass. I think it has a short halflife if my memory is correct. I would not personally go that route if I was going to consume the bud .
After further review I read it doesn't have a shot half life. It also leaves a residue. So you will be smoking it .

rijkmus1 said:

I guess it will work. It isn't made for indoor after glancing. Active ingredient Bifenthrin . I use it for my other grass. I think it has a short halflife if my memory is correct. I would not personally go that route if I was going to consume the bud .
After further review I read it doesn't have a shot half life. It also leaves a residue. So you will be smoking it .

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It will leave a residue indefinitely?

That is the question how long. It is longer acting and kills bugs for a period of time. Everything has a halflife. Let's say that the halflife of Bifenthrin is 100 days which I believe is close. You want to spray 2 weeks before flower. Plus 10 weeks flower that's 12 weeks. Not long enough. I am afraid of bugs. I am not an expert either. I learned about Bifenthrin for use on lawns for insects. There are other safer options. Did you try Spinosad.

I use bifenthrin as a perimeter around my house to keep Little Fire Ants out, works very well for this purpose and is safe around pets once dried. Dont think I would use directly on my cannabis though.

You dont need to use anything crazy in the clone stage, clones are very easy to treat since you can just dunk the entire thing. Wettable sulfur will take care of any mites and pm. You can also just use citric acid based product like athena ipm, lost coast, etc.