The bugs are winning!
Here are a few recent pics of my grow closet.
A thrip just flew by (sigh) but it is mainly the mites it seems I can’t get a handle on.
I have made clones from clones and even ejected all original from seeds (somewhat finished #3 and #5…#5 threw nanners and was chopped about a week ago…likely due to bugs, spraying, etc.). I now have a #1 (largest clone in bigger pot) and a #2, #3, and #5.
I have cloned a clone from #4 (male) and about to toss the original clone (still have pollen from original male collection).
Will try and transplant #2,#3 and #5 today (they need nutes). Have other clones as doubles took yesterday and tossed original clones.
Been spraying Neem w/pyrethrins and Spinosad and Dr Earth’s Final Stop mainly and switching between them so different spray everyday.
The Dr Earth (variety of oils like garlic, cinnamon, rosemary, etc.) seems to have worked the best for mites although the oils do some damage to plants even with lights turned down. Especially spraying daily (glad I got a bunch marked down)!
Can see below damage caused by daily spraying. My main objective at this point is to finish a #1 and #2. The #1 was very robust and came up a good week before the others. The #1 and #2 are the only females I didn’t get seed from (have seeds from both #5 and #3).
Some of these likely will not make it (hell, the whole bunch may not make it) but are doubles anyway. Can see daily spraying damage on these.
And notice the leathery look of the leaves.
Anyway, so now decided I will use this time to my advantage to pull carpet and build wall for next stall and tile floor (should barely be warm enough to set up my tile saw…nothing like cutting tile with wet hands in the winter).
So maybe this a good thing as will get squared away on my grow space and give time for bugs to go away. It’s so weird as I have been growing here continually for many years with no bug problems and have always been safe when going from my garden outside to grow inside (change shoes always…have my indoor shoes).
I can seal off both rooms and bomb but hope that is not necessary. I don’t like using nasty insecticides (even though I have some) because I also have 3 dogs and 5 cats with only two of the dogs inside all the time.
I see now why when they show major grow operations they have a sealed double door system. Mites on large scale would put em out of business for a time.
Certainly now my eyes are wide open to bugs on cannabis and how fatal they can be!
Next time will show pics of new tile floor and new stall and maybe all NEW plants…lol!