Spider Mites (Help!)

[squiggly]

Wow that's extremism but if it did the job till next time. I was visiting a friend who owns a hydro shop and he's an old bastard who hates everything and most stuff is crap bla bla you have talked to guys like this. Thing is he was crazy over a product he just got in called Mighty Wash from NPK Industries. It kills spider mites dead and cost is reasonable. He took it home and used it on a plant and he said they were all dead in 10 minuets can't believe his eyes. I'm going to order some in for my shops and try it out. It's called frequency altered water and I don't understand it but it works. I did some reading all it did was make me want to laugh but if my buddy says it works, it must. No chemicals 99% water.

I agree that it works, the results are clear.

I hate to hear about "frequency altered water" though. This just doesn't stand up to reality.

Here's my guess:

1. The 1% "inert" essential oils are actually providing the efficacy.

2. The oils cannot be patented for this purpose (due to lack of funding for proper efficacy studies--which are very expensive). OR the mix has already been patented and it has expired.

The reasoning is simple. If they don't claim direct function for the essential oils, then the patenting isn't an issue (and they don't have to tell you which ones, to avoid imitators). If they can at the same time convince you of a "homepathic" remedy like frequency altered water, they are able to protect their brand and still make a claim that regulators can't fight.

If, after all of that--the stuff works, it's no harm done to them.

It is harmful to people's brains, though--because frequency altered water is a bunch of hogwash if I've ever heard any. It's just intelligent marketing from people who had a product that worked who couldn't patent it and didn't want it stolen by someone with a better distribution network.

It worked and they're sticking with it. I don't blame them, but I will call bullshit on the fanciful claims.

Irregardless, if you have mites this appears to be a great solution for many. It was going to be my next rung on the ladder if the infestation hadn't folded when it did.

 

[woodsmaneh]

I came to the conclusion that it's quackery of the highest order but it does appear to work. Thank's for the explanation.

 

[Seamaiden]

Squigs... I've gotta say this, specifically because you *are* in school.

Irregardless is a double redundancy and not a word. Regardless is fine. :)

 

[caveman4.20]

I'm pretty sure irregardless is right cuz myselfphone didn't correct the spelling on that one. Just saying. My cell phone is a smart phone. Peace

 

[Seamaiden]

Ohhhhooo hhooo ok!

I'm pretty sure irregardless is right cuz myselfphone didn't correct the spelling on that one. Just saying. My cell phone is a smart phone. Peace

LMFAO!

May I suggest we don't rely these devices for stuff like this? Just sayin'. E.G. Your vs you're.

You'll know the difference when you know your shit, or you know you're shit. :D

 

[squiggly]

She's right.

I do that all the time. Even those of us with grammar Nazis for mothers make mistakes.

 

[Seamaiden]

Ah, if only we could all share in each others' gifts. I'll use my sons as an example. Their reading, spelling, grammar--all completely fucking atrocious, drives me up the wall. But their mathematical skills? By the 3rd grade with each boy, I was unable to help them with their homework. By high school? Ha! I would just look at them blankly, "It's the what the sign the who the sign? What? I'm cosigning a loan? You're too young!"

 

[squiggly]

Lol. I had the best of both worlds, lucky me.

My mother was the daughter of an English teacher (who was the daughter of an English teacher) and herself was a calculus teacher in high school.

People always point out that I'm smart. Blame my mom--she took an interest in my learning at an early age and didn't let up till I left home. I owe it all to her.

 

[iamhellsangel]

Squiggly...ahh the dreaded S mite...go to your Garden centre and buy Beans,yup! the kind you eat grow em in a room where you no they will not get contaminated WITH the dreaded S mite.as many as you can grow do so..see they love the beans and will migrate to em...then you throw the beans out..after 4/5 days..repeat..

 

[Seamaiden]

I just buy dried beans from anywhere I like, and I also use what I purchase at the market very well/easily. I prefer to grow what I cannot find easily or cheaply, so I'm growing Jacob's Cattle beans, Pawnee Shell beans, Indian Old Woman, Tiger's Eye, um... what else...? I whole lotta beans, because I LOVE beans. LOVE love love beans.

 

[iamhellsangel]

I luv my weed with out beans ...my crop jus got BF..bad, got seeds to last a life time..