Great tips mate,
Beleza
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Another nugget here! Enjoy!
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Like they say in the commercials “this stuff really works”
Just did a full 2hr leaf inspection after having my biggest dose of pest pressure yet and there are still spidermites everywhere… DEAD fucking mites, all off them yew 
I feel a little sadistic rejoicing in so much death but fuck mate I don’t say this lightly, this is one of the best things I’ve ever made for the garden. Big big ups to you @Tinytuttle
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Glad to here it’s working well ! Ya it usually fucks them up almost instantaneously… love the name on j the bottle!
Next steps is getting that Brix up to assist them even further!
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Don’t let up bro. Hit them every few days. When you think they’re gone, hit them again.
Little bastards…
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Proudly display their corpse also to let them know its a killing field! Lol
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That would be the ultimate goal to up the Brix levels to 12 or more, I need to educate myself more about this. The idea of having plants so healthy that pests don’t even try to harm them is the dream. I wonder how much good lighting affects the Brix, I feel the lack of direct sun my plants get may affect the uptake up sugars in leaf cells… it definitely affects my yield and root vigor, 3hrs a day of direct sun is far from ideal.
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Yes mate I’ll be spraying twice a week for now, have you ever noticed any pests becoming tolerant or even immune to the soap over time? I’ve heard it happens quite regularly with other pesticides
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This one will be a ripper, these guys are pioneers
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I don’t think they grow immune to being suffocated. The other cool part is that if you read up on other products, like, nuke em perhaps. There is information on people trying to replicate their product.
Take you jwa as the base, and add citric acid, some yeast, and one other thing (blue kush got my brain, sorry). 
You have a pretty good recreation of nuke em.
Add essential oils in the right combination, boom, another product.
If you want to change it up bro, you are only held back by your tenacity. What you have is the start of it all though, the wetting agent. Go ahead and create a 3 way combo and change it up on them every time.
I would recommend visiting the protocol 0 thread. It’s a very interesting and simple approach to avoiding bringing pests into you indoor grow.
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Haha I almost watched that one just tonight I went FCP vermicimpost Deep dive 02
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I think you have a great question there I also believe in environmental factors as well such as the more ideal VPD numbers
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I like that idea of rotating a few different mixes for the pests, have you added sulfur before? I hear it knocks everything out instantly. I hear rosemary essential oil works well too.
Unfortunately I am constantly moving my pants from outside to back under the veg lights at night and then back out in the morning until they are ready to be left outside full time to flower in the natural 12hr light.
If I’m understanding it correctly ‘protocol 0’ is only if you have a controlled sealed indoor environment to keep everything sterilized once the cuts are clean. Or am I missing something there?
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I’d research your problem bug species the one you want to target like ones in the vid may reproduce every two to three days which may not be often enough break that egg-larvae-pupa-adult lifecycle great vid thanks for sharing that was a long one! Those folks are all -in and on a whole diff level then most IMO
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It’s basically always spidermites, they blow in on the wind. They ease right off during the wet season but then I’m on pm and budrot patrol… thankfully I rarely have mold issues. I honestly think because of my lack of direct photosynthesis my plants rhizosphere is never going to fully get what it wants then resulting in a lack of root mass and giving the plants immune system no real chance of becoming strong enough to resist pest pressure. I’m transferring to fabric pots soon which obviously dry out a lot quicker so this will help the lateral root grown, plastic pots in the tropics have been a real headfuck with my watering schedule… I’m a firm believer that watering techniques are the most important part of the grow, especially in humid conditions.
I still haven’t watched it yet my 2 year old wouldn’t let me haha but those guys are the real deal, I used to follow them when I was on social media… true ghees 
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Yes sir
I wasn’t totally aware of your complete circumstance, so I figured ubwould throw that out.
Sulfer is something I plan to employ in the future for sure. It’s cheap and effective. If you foliar teas, it can benefit the plant as well I’ve heard.
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I don’t know if I can take a whole episode with Josh and Kelley. I always find myself following along and agreeing and then they throw out some mystical cosmic hippie shit and I dismiss what they previously said. 
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Haha I hear you mate, first time I heard Josh talk I turned it off but they are on to something special that’s for sure
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I’m also looking at doing a neem soil drench to give the plants a systemic dose of neem. That could be another tool in your box my friend.
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Since I started doing soil tests and amend using High Brix, my bug situation has gotten better and better every year. It takes a long time, its been 3 years now. Still cant do much for the moths and resulting caterpillars but put up the bug screen this year, but most of my bugs and pests seem to have a much more balanced presence. I get less and less outbreaks of one pest decimating my plants.
The bummer with spider mites mostly lies indoors. I dont even bat an eyelash if I see one on a plant outside. My beneficials out there keep them in check these days. Haven’t seen an infestation on any one plant since back when I was doing strictly outdoor container grows. Last year I had one instance of aphids, but that was my error as I planted Nasturtiums under the cannabis and attracted them instead of across the yard to draw them away. My point being, soil tests and High Brix gardening is pretty much the cat’s pajamas imho.
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