I was a sailor, I was lost at sea
I was under the waves
Before love rescued me
I was a fighter, I could turn on a thread
Now I stand accused of the things I’ve said
Love comes to town I’m gonna jump that train
When love comes to town I’m gonna catch that flame
Maybe I was wrong to ever let you down
But I did what I did before love came to town – BB King and U2
Well, the stretch-o-matic Pineapple Haze #6 went hermie on me. Pretty sure I caught it before blasting my other plants.
The bugs may have pushed it over the edge if it was borderline. Poor Bez trimming his bud with thrips (and mealybugs and aphids still) I think flying around his head.
Found some mealybugs on my sticky stick things. Pretty sure I caught aphids early enough but was still seeing, “honeydew,” on some leaves and couldn’t figure it out until found mealybug (looks like tiny moth).
Had sprayed many times (7 days apart) with Ferti-lome Triple Action (mainly neem with 0.25% Pyrethrins) and that seemed to help but not halt.
Replaced as much topsoil as possible and sprayed with a Bonide that leaves a dust when it drys from a foliar spray. That seems to have halted most but still see a mealybug when shake plant on occasion.
I have been growing in this closet approx. every six months for about ten years now and had aphids once early on and mold once about 20 years ago (and same during winter with too cool temps and too crowded).
We had a long severe drought here and then rained and rained and rained until the drought was over but then the rain stopped again and now we are going back to drought. Seems the critters (bugs mainly) come out in force after a drought and then so little available here in the desert for the bugs to eat (except for like my rose bushes I water).
My indoor marijuana plants have everything that is attacking my rose bushes and I have been spraying them all summer and still may lose one. Crazy man!
Besides bugs the rose bushes have leaf septoria, botrytis, and powdery mildew. I have a huge lilac that powdery mildew has almost destroyed it and have been spraying it with high dollar stuff with little effect.
All my houseplants have the same stuff! Been spraying them also and sprayed the rose bushes with my neem/pyrethrins (no bees winter here but my rose bushes haven’t seemed to have noticed it’s winter) and the neem worked better than the high dollar stuff.
I have some Spinosad may use next on my indoor plants. I suspect open doors and maybe even through the screen window where my houseplants sit (more like trees).
Been careful about changing shoes after trimming roses and washing hands and keeping trim material away from house plants but oh well stuff happens.
Decided to expand some as have extra light and plan on ordering another grow light early next year but kinda stuck between Timber and Chilled (already own one from both). Don’t even want to mess with the potential shipping mishaps that can happen this close to Christmas like I just recently struggled through with Amazon and a US carrier.
Have a high side and lower side.
Here is view of lower side with two heavily trimmed revegs (will they hermie?) with other a clone. Check out the shop lights I use for side lighting.
Just a heads up they are 5500 Lumens has 5000K Led color temp (good for vegging), uses 50 watts and can plug in 4 as a daisy chain. And only $14.00 dollars.
I’m a big believer in side lighting and also using some florescent tubes because the one thing fluorescent lighting has that LED’s don’t have (and plants love it) is ultra-violet light. Anyway, decent shop lights at decent price and plants will love em (need all spectrum throughout grow just more blue at start and red at finish).
No, I don’t work for Walmart (can’t hardly even get my wife to go in)! Just a good deal for $14 even if just used to veg.
Here are a pic of Pineapple #5 and #3. Number 3 will be at thirty days flower tomorrow on the 6th. The bud hairs are ruffled because when I spray plant I go back right away and spray the buds with plain water to wash away any neem, etc. off the buds.
Clones
Recent harvest at the jar to paper bag process Been upside down some days in open air then to paper bags for some days (usually 2-5). Then overnight in closed jar put back in bag for awhile then back in jar etc. Put em in with slightly crunchy on outside and back to non-crunchy overnight and so on.
Peace and Love to you!