Hmm, interesting and makes sense for outdoor plants. Just be gentle to not knock off trichromes. The water cure is just submerging the nugs and cola under water and leaching out gunk… plus drowning the mites.
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Seriously,
I outdoor grow, I did it last year with a harvest that had 2 plant severely infected plants, each plant was around a pound harvested and i didn’t want to have to scrap it, so I tried everything and nothing really worked… So I ended up harvesting, and during harvest I decided to try a bunch of different methods to see what the best result was in case it happened again… I should do a write up on this… what absolutely worked was the 4 gallon method described above and I gave them a pretty good dunk and swirl in all 4 buckets, and then hang them to dry, be prepared… IF there are any mites left on the buds hanging them upside down will force them to seek higher source of food as the plants dry…you see them pile up at the end of the stalk… on the buds that were washed there was almost zero mites crawling on the stems at all (some next to unwashed buds had mites so I can’t say 100% it got rid of them all…) but what I didn’t expect was to completely infest my drying room with mites… so that was another ordeal… but what I can say is looking under a eye glass the washed buds look so much more colorful, the buds dried greener looking and you see nothing but leaves and beautiful sparkly tricomes, the flower dries in roughly the same amount of time if you are through with your drying process. The buds that were not washed look dusty and you can see everything that probably lived, pooped and collected on the leaves in the 8-9 months it grew in my greenhouse (indoor plants I would really not see a point as they are filtered air and controlled surroundings) but outdoor grow… my lungs hurt thinking about smoking buds not washed and grown outdoors… it just makes sense now to me and i saw the results first hand am I am sold on the process… everybody grows different and has different results, but one day i will try and get all my photos together and do a write up. I learned a lot last year, that is so far making this year more interesting… Lady bugs have kicked ass over any spray so far… I saw one plant getting mite bites in it’s leaves. they were about The next day i got 2 containers and released them in the dirt under the first 2 plants in the row… and then did 2 more the following week on a couple big plants that I had that i wanted to be sure… they have seriously been doing their job, all new growth since releasing them a month ago is amazing… they are about 5-6 feet now and just now started showing some white pistils… (805 weather) but all the plants have bigger leaves, super dark green, no evidence of mites or anything on the plants for that matter… I did notice a lizard population increase around the greenhouse though… lol… OMG i have been rambling…too many doobies while internet surfing… lol
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Hey everyone haven’t done an update in a while… honestly I have taken a lot of pictures but got stoned every time I took them and spaced posting them. So here is the scoop… Reefer is loving life, I did a 20% water change like 2 weeks ago and constantly checking the pH. The water seems pretty stable, it’s clear, with very little maintenance from me… Reefer gets fed twice a day and his colors are awesome! The plant is looking green as could be, but doesn’t really seem to be getting any bigger or have new growth, but the root growth… holy cow… there is one long ass root that almost touches the bottom of the tank, and there has started poking other roots out the bottom of the bottle as well…just seems weird the plant hasn’t changed at all.
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Hahaha sorry took me 3 times to remove 2 pictures I had already posted… lol damn weed, lucky I remembered to post tonight !!
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