I'm not trying to challenge you but everyone is waaay overreacting to this pesticide issue. If it can be safely sprayed on cauliflower and broccoli, then it is safe to spray on cannabis. If you've ever bought commercially produced cannabis I guarantee you it has been sprayed with pesticides. I've been smoking weed for 35yrs and up until 5yrs ago I only smoked weed distributed through the black/grey market and I am certain it all had pesticides. I've worked with commercial growers and I KNOW they spray their crops with
pyrethrins (in flower, with less than a month to harvest). And you are lucky if what they're using is that mild. I grew up smoking weed (and every other piece of produce I ate) sprayed with malathion and diazanon. I know that some growers still spray malathion (which I am absolutely opposed to).
(I'm not speaking about you here. This is a general statement.) All this hippy-dippy bullsh*t is pissing me off. Everyone is munching out on Twinkies, Doritos, Pepsi, and Coke. Eating food full loaded with corn syrup from genetically modified corn and every other thing with so much extra flavor enhancers, chemically treated oils, and food coloring that is scarier than a label on a bottle of household cleanser. Then they complain if the fruit they eat isn't organic. I grew up in the middle of agriculture with crop dusters dumping thousands of gallons of pesticides over my house and worked in fields and packing sheds. I didn't start getting sick till I lived in the city. The only people I grew up with who died young were from overdoses, suicides, murders, and accidents. Most of the farmers/ranchers I knew lived well into their 80's+, except the ones with liver damage from alcohol.
My point is, use the mildest pesticides you can that get the job done and wash your harvest. My buds are soaked in a dilute H2O2 bath for 5min then rinsed with fresh water. I wasn't going to wash them this year but I also wasn't planning on using anything more than
Azamax. The growers selling to dispensaries are using Triazacide for Broad Mites, or another even stronger commercial
pyrethrins.
Everything in this world kills us, especially time.
Now excuse me, I just found out one of my little cousins murdered somebody yesterday and I have to go support my family.