Well, I’m waiting on the essential oils to be delivered. I went to the local grow shop in the meantime and ended up getting/being talked into the Azamax, aka neem seed extract, since it effects all forms of mites.
I sprayed that first day and haven’t seen anything alive since then but went ahead and sprayed again last night, 2 days later. The bottle says every 5-7 days but can spray sooner if bugs present… I know the life-cycle for spider mites is every ~2 days so figured just stay on it with that cycle. Last time I followed directions for the spinosad(every 5 days) and it wasn’t effective until I ignored that and sprayed more often, so figure it’d be the same deal here.
So far so good
Tri Force all bouncing back to form. So far I’m seeing like a 60/40 spread on Kryptonite vs TK leaners but still hard to tell. It’ll be a little easier to spot the one’s that are coming out like her once I can take clones and see how those grow out. Comparing clone to clone is A LOT easier. The clones of my StarShine male used for the ssdd bx1’s looks almost identical to the clones of his SSDD F2
#1 mom, but as a seed plant you couldn’t really see that.
I was hoping the TK leaf morphology would be more prominent in these, like finding plants with 3 or 5 bladed leaves only, but I’m guessing that is a double recessive trait as ALL of these plants are coming out with 7 bladed leaves 
Granted I could’ve just grabbed the 11 seeds that don’t show that trait and it actually does exist in this line, but statistically I’d think I’d at least get 1 showing out of 11 if it is truly in there. Part of me really wants to cull all the fat bladed plants and pop more seeds as I honestly don’t think any of them will have what I’m looking for, but I really need to see at least one flowered out before I start making drastic decisions for the line. Sometimes the mix and match of dna won’t do what you think 
The Two Milky Way’s, Kryptonite #1, and NorthStar #4 are still getting ready for flower in a couple more weeks. Need at least another week or two of spraying azamax, and then up-pot before I can flower them out. Not trying to risk bugs in the flower tent, but also can’t afford to throw these out and start over. Cabinet’s getting real low 
Gotta take another clone of the kryptonite and maybe the ns4 before flower just to make sure they stay around…
Flower tent is doing really good! I’m thinking of setting up something with the ecowitt gateway. Soil moisture sensors and such. I went back to flooming the reservoir, just having a small pond pump at the bottom of the reservoir pointing up disturbing the water surface in order to keep it oxygenated. And then I set the flood timing to start half an hour after lights come on and flood for 4 minutes, then repeat 5 hours later, and then 5 hours after that, and then once during lights off about 7hrs after last flooding which should be about 7hrs before the next flooding when lights come back on. Basically trying to give the girls a bit more of a dry cycle as oppose to staying constantly wet. I’d eventually like to have it all automated. It’ll turn the pump on whenever the driest pot needs it, but that’s going to be a bit of a process to get to and I haven’t even started yet.
May try and pick up some neem oil or something else, idea’s welcome for spidermite control. I lost the Kryptontie and Milky Way mom’s too but I got clones of the MW at least. Gotta take one of the Kryptonite before flower. Thankfully the other mom’s and the flower tent were spared.
glad to know the neem is useful tho and how long you use it for.
