Other 3 I am raising for a patient. Andrea and these three are suppose to be two gorilla glues and two northern lights. They are suppose to be feminized.
I ran out of pots and had to improvise with my last plant. The stores around here have no nursey pots or cheap plastic pots anymore. The cost of buying online is stupid high then you add on the new shipping rates and pots are out of my price range online.
If you need pots or buckets it is far cheaper to buy 5 gallon buckets with the store logos on them than buying flower pots.
I have aphids in the tent. I saw a few on every plant, they are still tiny and pale colored. Should I toss the plants take down the tent and let it sit in the sun for a week? Or try and manage them?
I have my tent in the unfinished part of my basement. I have the washer/dryer in there and the central air. Both have openings to the outside plus there is the flue for off gassing out the roof. That is there ways they can get in the room from the outside. The dryer doesnt have a screen on the outside and I do not know about the two flues out the roof.
I took the plants out of the tent yesterday and took the tent down. I sprayed off all the plants with the hose. I broke a top of off two plants and broke some others on some more plants.
I then sprayed the plants with a soapy water+neem oil mix. The tent I took outside and sprayed it down with some malathion. Thirty minutes later after the smell dissipated I washed it out real good with bleach water. I put it back up im my basement early this morning.
I busted out they old magnifying glass and went over all the plants. I did not see any more mites or eggs. I sprayed them again with soapy water mix and put them back in the tent after they dried off.
The plants look good to me. Any leaf damage that looks like something was chewing on them is from my shop vac. I used it took suck up all the lose material in the pots. I also hit the stalks and there were a few tips and leaves that got a little too close.
Andrea the bottom right plant had the infestation. It had two fan leaves with a bunch of mites. The rest of the plants had a few but there were white spots on multiple leaves on every plant. They were all clear this morning.
I will post some more pictures once my grow bags come in and the plants are transplanted. I have a mixture of dandelions, stinging nettles, green willow tips and comfrey brewing. I will use this on the plants once I transplant them into larger grow bags.
Here is my outdoor plant. It has the thinnest leaves out of this grow. I am using it to experiment training techniques. It has been topped, tied down and I super cropped it two days ago.
hey there @SEMOActivist! i found this grow journal by following you from your spirit train seed run. i hope this thread of yours gets more attention, but sometimes new threads can get buried.
sorry to hear about your aphid (and mites?) issue, yikes! that’s the emergency nuke button you’ve gotta activate when you see them. i hope you’re able to get them under control. i haven’t personally had to deal with them yet, but i rue the day when it’ll happen! i know there’s a thread on overgrow about different ipm sprays and schedules.
there are some very simple recipes you can brew up, as well as slightly more complicated ones, but nothing too hard to cook up i’d say. your plants are doing so well, it’d be a shame if those aphids were able to take them down. i hope some other og’ers can chime in with thoughts and ideas. maybe @DesertHeartGardens@ReikoX@CrunchBerries ?
apart from that, damnnn those turtles are hella cute! maybe even cuter than @breadwinner’s ducks, but i dunno…
No sign of aphids after nine days. There are still a couple fungus gnats flying around but that is not unusually they are everywhere. The spraying with the hose and the soapy water+neem oil mix has been rough on a couple of the plants. A couple of times I sprayed them with the mix and left the lights on high. That is not a good idea, be sure to turn the lights down. Where I am at you really do not want to spray them right before lights out unless you want to risk PM or some other mold or fungus growing on the plants.
Group Shot before transplanting into new pots. The wishbone in the upper left corner fared the worst and one of the northern light on the bottom left has some issues from the rough treatment.
Man after a couple of days in the new pots and having the tea drench they are doing great. I did have to remove the wishbone from Pistil Positive Creations. It just wasnt doing good and I needed the space. I have it out with my training experimental plant.
Group shot: You can see the difference from the picture I posted two days ago. Sorry for the poor quality the auto focus on my camera is crap.
The wishbone is starting to liven up. I dont know why it was struggling more than the others in the tent. Some sun and fresh air has done it a world of good.
The dang bugs I had to deal with made me veg too long. I have three plants that look like they are going to fill up the tent and crowd out the others. I have three plants in the back that you can barely see. The three big plants are suppose to be northern lights.
Group shot of the Tent under Flowering Light. I still havent seen any bugs and since I transplanted into the fabric pots I havent seen any fungus gnats in the tent.
Making some more tea. This batch will be ready in another day. About 1/3 of the biomass I use is green willow branches with the leaves still attached. I also added to this batch some creeper vines with the orange flowers, Comfrey, nettles and some blooming Queen Ann’s Lace in a five gallon bucket.
The two big ones in the front are Northern Lights and in the back left is a spirit train and back right is an unknown. The fungus gnats are back, I saw several flying around when I removed the three male plants. Other than that there is no sign of any other bugs.
I have been using a light mix of Alaska fish fertilizer, Jacks 20-20-20 and my own willow green shoots with leaves plus random other greens and flowers in a tea. I will be switching out the Jacks 20-20-20 for the 10-30-20.
I water with that every third watering. I do give them some tea mixed with water every time I water.
Another male in the tent, down to three. both Spirit Trains and Gorilla Glues turned out male. I have two Northern Lights and an Unknown left in the tent.
Like my spirit train seed run I start with nine plants and get five females and four males.
My outside plants are a wishbone and another Unknown with thin bladed leaves.
This unknown is the only one inside or out that is starting to get a smell so far. Its not going to be a sweet, floral or fruity smell. It has a hint of sour body odor other times a earthy musky smell.
