I'll be straight up. Yes I have. But again, let me say, All crops are tested and if used properly it is safe. It is not a chemical. It is Organic. The plant will metabolize the bi-product in a months time and will be completely gone with no traces of it left in the flower if used properly. Im not saying I like it either, Im just saying that used properly it can be safe. It comes to the individual grower to ensure he/she uses it properly. But read the scientific papers about
Avid and you will see it can be used safely. Personally...Id rather spray
Avid where the plant can metabolize it and get it out of its system, instead of spraying Sulfur whoich will leave sulfur on all your flowers and that DOES NOT break down, and then you have buds that taste like sulfur. You think that is safer then using something organic that the plant can metabolize and used properly is safe for consumption and leaving no residue at all on your flowers. And when you use sulfur burners indoors, you need to use a mask also. Sulfur pellets has just been regulated in California also, just because one particular state buts controls on a pesticide, that makes it bad? What about the states where it is still legal? Ultimately it is up to the grower to use it properly. And again, let me say...
Avid is a form of Pennicilin. It is the organic waste product of bacterium and humans consume forms of pennicilin. And it does break down, I know this for a fact because I have done extensive testing myself, but spraying samples and then taking them to be tested myself. If tested, and no amount of
Avid is found at all, is it bad? I dont know, I can't debate the morality of it, Im just saying the way it is. If your a farmer and this is your livelihood, the whole debate gets very muddled. But people seem to think it is a chemical, and it is not a chemical! It is bio-warfare. and when it comes to heavy russet mite infestations, no amount of anything is going to work. Do you wanna smoke dead mites? Or spray
Avid before buds form and take care of your "Borg" problem and then let the buds grow and it is safe. Or you can just keep spraying every other chemical known to man and keep spraying till the day you harvest and that is supposed to be better? But with Russet mites, they will eat all your flowering tips and destroy your whole plant, you will not harvest any bud that is smokeable. It is a very muddled and murky waters about the debate on
Avid. But if you can produce buds that test out having no
Avid at all in the final product is it still contaminated? Just posing the moral dilemna. For me, If I can spray before buds start forming so no residue is on the actual flower(Unlike any other control) and used early enough that it is completely gone from the final product......and then you can still put food on the table and pay car payments and mortgages.........very muddy waters indeed.