She’ll survive then. You won’t like the look for a few weeks.
Is this still in veg? If so, maybe delay flipping and let the new growth spread out to increase yield.
Interesting stuff here…
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Day 14 of flower. Bud sites just starting to open up now.
Im tempted to give them a good plain water + light h202 spray tomorrow night to wash off any residue I might have left behind.
Obviously I’d prefer to just test one plant at a time when trying this kind of stuff but when you’re in the middle of a pest crisis you have no time for trial runs 
The guys at the local grow shop have been treating me like I have some sort of plague they’re basically walking me out of the store at this point. And refuse to hand me stuff in case I give them my bugs lol.
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The bugs bug people much more than plants, usually. What were you spraying for, There is a product called Safer Soap which is generally not a problem for plants and the bugs no likey!
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Spider mites, possibly 2 spotted my loop isn’t good enough.
Been spraying with Bug-b-Gon insectisidal soap which had no negative impacts, this only seemed to happen after I added peppermint to my formula.
I might go all out organic if the bugs are really bad. There are a host of predatory mites, as well as bacteria and beneficial nematodes that like to feast on insect larvae.
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Organic wouldn’t work with my indoor/marital situation. I might switch to hydro and ditch soilless altogether on my next grow.
This is the first time in 15 years of growing I’ve ever had a problem with pests. Guess I was just lucky
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This is what I am talking about.
I love the idea of adding beneficial organisms to my mix, it’s just the wifey hates the thought of it. When I mentioned the predatory mites she damn near had a heart attack. She used to help me and we bonded in the garden but ever since she found out there was something living in the room that wasn’t a plant she hasn’t came in since.
It’s been a wild ride fighting these bastards…
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OK, one more, then you are on your own.
I have a buddy who swears by this system.
Wow! Sorry that happened. I have never mixed peppermint so strong it burned my eyes and won’t for sure now. Hopefully effected areas drop and everything else grows out. Keep an eye out for hatching eggs and have a way to deal with them.
Thanks for all your help! I’ve been looking more into your and everyone else’s suggestions and as long as I make it through this grow I’ll be much more prepared in the future!
Everyone here is awesome!
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yes i think a good IPM (integrated pest management?) is absolutely necessary, it is so much easier to spray weekly and treat plants when they are small/in veg than having to deal with an infestation. ideally i’ll use 2 to 4 different products rotated weekly for my IPM, including fully dunking young plants once or twice probably. thrips was shitty because they don’t need a partner to reproduce and my plants were huge when i discovered the problem. never want to deal with that again.
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so i have 5 5gallon pots of coco i want to reuse, but pretty sure i got thrips and fungus gnats too. i was thinking about putting the pots outside in freezing cold weather for 4-8 weeks. do you think that will kill any pests and eggs?
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Should work, if you can bag it and cut off air for long enough that will kill off anything needing oxygen.
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Bag it and freeze it. I’m guessing you can’t get neem seed meal/cake huh?
not sure about the eggs. I might freeze, thaw and refreeze to be sure to catch some hatchlings.
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i am also going to heavily drench the pots first with insecticide since they are empty.
i’m going to mix up some isopropyl alcohol and water to spray shit right now. should have spinosad in 1-2 days to treat with. just going to spray the small plants and the soil for now as my other plants are 1-2 weeks away from harvest. after that i will sterilize the tent every 3 days for 3 weeks to keep getting any hatchlings.
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Sounds like you have a plan of attack. If your main concern is thrips, they usually live out there lives in/on the leaves. Fungus gnats, however, will be in the soil.
has any one tried sierra natural products to organic control kill insects?
I had several 11-12ft tall plants this outdoor season. I began watering with neem oil in the first week of rooting, continued for 2 more weeks into the veg cycle. That was overlapped with lactobacilli into the 4 week of flowering. Once a week they received a foliar spray of water/unsulphured blackstrap molasses mix. That took care of any ants. Those plants remained pest free for the rest of their lives. This location is in the hot, rainy and kudzu covered southeastern U.S. jungles.
Starting early with lactobacilli formed a protective barrier of beneficial bacteria that muscled out any chumps that tried to roll up on their turf. Mold was also kept at bay, considering the density of the buds on those plants.