Thanks again for the continued dialog and suggestions.
I’m embarrassed to report that I picked up an old school pH test kit yesterday to double check my meter. The meter is definitely wonky, and from what I can tell, I’ve been watering at somewhere around a pH of 4. Geezus.
I flushed them with bottled water at pH 7 last night until the run off came up to about 6.
I also bought a new hygrometer which shows an RH of 35 in the room. I will follow the bucket suggestion to get that up even higher for a few days, and she how she does.
I spent about an hour talking with the staff member at the store yesterday. She, too, is concerned about the thrips, and wants me to bring in a couple leaves this week for her to check under a 60x. She reinforced what has been said here that it will take a few treatments to really get rid of them. Obviously, she didn’t know about my pH blunder when we were talking. I’ll report that when I see her again next week.
Fingers crossed and red-faced with embarrassment. Will update in a couple days.
Oh man, this one looks just like my mothers atm. I have them overwintering in the kitchen with fresh air thru the window. So dry air could be my problem too. They didn’t look so bad initially, they were actually pretty healthy but they too had thrips and therefore I started to use some insecticide containing pyrethrine on them and forgot to shut off the light after the treatment, which is recommended until they’re dry again. A day later the looked like this and now they’re not really coming back to life again for several days. Luckily, I have copies of everything and will take cuts of these and start all over again. I always have double copies over the winter because of this. One time the kitchen works best and other times the other room works better. It’s a constant battle for keeping my genetics alive. Also: there shouldn’t be any nematodes in my soil as I have treated it with sf-nematodes against fungus gnats, which should keep everything away. But the hint for better vpd action is probably a good one for me. I just closed the window.
Ok, sometimes it helped to get plants back to life by spraying a fungicide containing azoxystrobin. It is advertised to have a vitalising effect on the plants and indeed it worked most of the times. I will spray this tomorrow as a last effort and nevertheless will also take the cuts from the copies. You never know…
My plants look like that when they are over fed too many nutrients too many waterings and too much babying. The wrong kind of light or a worn out bulb sometimes they get like this as well. I would chop all the best parts off and try to get something rooted out of all the attempts. Toss the mother out when you get a clone going. Just my 2
Neem seed meal and meal worm frass long term for the win.
Regalia for extra protection from diseases.
And either Pure crop 1 or Neem meal seed tea brews to kill pest. Pure crop 1 raises brix levels.
Or 10,000 PPM Co2 for 2 hours will kill all pest and not harm the plants, this should be done in a sealed enclosed area.
They sell homemade Co2 stuff online for grow tents. You would need a safe enclosure to apply the high dose of Co2 to kill pest.
You can use straight 3% hydrogen peroxide to clean the plants temporarily, it helps and doesn’t harm buds, but it will damage seeds, hydrogen peroxide breaks down the shell and it’s perfect to use for germination of seeds, I use Gauze Sponges to pop seeds, open air.
Then I rinse out the Gauze Sponges and reuse them.
Hydrogen peroxide keeps the mold away in germination of seeds, I never see mold on tails using it.
If you can clear that plant up a bit make it to spring plant that cutting right into the ground and veg it out for a bit make sure you take some cuttings off of it before July and make some fresh clones.Reconnecting them back to the earth recharges your mothers.I got all my Texada back to 7 leaves and they stay healthy all year from a fresh mom popped in the ground.Do a quarantine when you bring it back in to kill any squatters.
Yeah it doesn’t seem to be capable of hitting 10,000.
Hopefully this year I get my enclosures built. I seeded up RKS in an enclosure last year and it did great.
I didn’t get any Skunk smells, and the seeds are in a paper bag now, I doubt if it was even a THC strain.
Nutty north genetics on strainly sent them to me. I wouldn’t buy his stock there. The freebies were CBD, so pretty much probably a Fed account on strainly lol.
