Tirah valley clone, 2022
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Beautiful plant. Iām looking forward to having some big ones myself at some point in the future.
Resin building quickly nowā¦still small but real thick.
Iām trying to think of the last Indica bud I smoked. 2018, maybe. Been awhile. Iāve smoked some modern ( dispensary)crap in the meantime, but nothing did a thing for or to me.
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Hola @Upstate
Just finish the drying
and strip the branches
certainly a robbing hashplant
I have my hand sticky and green
from the resin.
I hope you all Enjoy it
somewhere in your life
Bare
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The plants are humming along, getting bigger every day. Smells are evolving. More stank in there now. Pungent, gas/ diesel type smell with a few.
Miss Pistachio is still heavily pistachio/ citrus smelling with a strong musky undertone.
Another has that sweet perfume smell. Iāve smelled this before. Exactly. Years ago,a co-workers cousin smoked me up with some super tasty indoor. He wouldnāt tell me what it was. I knew someday I would find weed that smelled like that pot tasted. I wasnāt expecting to find it in these plants, but I got lucky. Maybe it will taste like that weed too.
I posted pics of a sequence showing a few baby aphids, one in particular , so you can see what it looks like at a distance. ( start at the bottom)They look alot like dust and look different than other aphid babies and seem like they could be easily overlooked. This one looks stuck in a trichome forestš
Thereās just a few here and there but I keep up hand picking them off. They are tough to entirely eliminate. All it takes is one survivor. They donāt seem to like the Tirah very much, thankfully.
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The plants are humming along, getting bigger every day. Smells are evolving. More stank in there now. Pungent, gas/ diesel type smell with a few.
Miss Pistachio is still heavily pistachio/ citrus smelling with a strong musky undertone.
Another has that sweet perfume smell. Iāve smelled this before. Exactly. Years ago,a co-workers cousin smoked me up with some super tasty indoor. He wouldnāt tell me what it was. I knew someday I would find weed that smelled like that pot tasted. I wasnāt expecting to find it in these plants, but I got lucky. Maybe it will taste like that weed too.
I posted pics of a sequence showing a few baby aphids, one in particular , so you can see what it looks like at a distance. ( start at the bottom)They look alot like dust and look different than other aphid babies and seem like they could be easily overlooked. This one looks stuck in a trichome forestš
Thereās just a few here and there but I keep up hand picking them off. They are tough to entirely eliminate. All it takes is one survivor. They donāt seem to like the Tirah very much, thankfully.
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Thatās a great looking plant!!
I hope the aphid population stays low until you finish up 
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I bought some pistachios yesterday just so I could āknowā what thatās like, I mean Iāve eaten pistachio before but itās been a really long time so I had to refresh my smell memory catalog 
lol thatās a wild smell to be coming from a cannabis plant! I bet that it smells Amazing!
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This is just the exoskeleton he left behind 
, hope you keep them in short numbers, nasty creatures ā¦ 
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Oh yeah, youāre right. I see. So they hatch out of that nymh stage and become what? The ones with wings? I bet thatās it. There are also little tan/ yellow babies that are round in shape and are smaller than the nymphs. These seem to be born roundish and stay round. They are both aphids of course.
You know what they say. Know your enemy. Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
For sure. Some plants have almost none. Others are bug free upper two thirds of the plant. When I can get under them and look thru the leaves towards the light they are real easy to spot. What I didnāt know til just last weekend is the lowest branches were acting as a nursery. I sprayed them but will keep the branches in case I reveg.
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They become fat nuisers 
if you see anyone with wings, theyāre thrips, aphids are easier to manage ā¦ 
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Hola Gang
We all when true that
and we know That Horticulre soap
is what you needs.
I would not wait Aphids seem beningne
wrong Youāl see soon enough.
Bare
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Hey @Barefrog, do you have any impressions of your buds that you just harvested? Any interesting smells/aromas? Thanks brother! peace
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No thrips thankfully. Some aphids grow wings so they can fly to other plants. Iām sure.
Thank you for helping me solve the nymph mystery. No wonder they wouldnāt seem to die when I squished them. lol I was thinking how tough they were!
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Iāve been fanatical about killing them. I keep up. I Spent 6 hours looking the plants over just this week. Really only one plant i couldnāt easily get to that they had become a problem on. One week is all it takes for their population to rebound. Spring is almost here. If I still have an issue Iāll let the plants get frosted 
Can I use soap during flowering? I have castile soapā¦
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, thereās always something to learn ā¦ 
Hola Gang
First the Tirah is awesome
Bud wise and stone wise.
As for aphids First if possible
bring your plant in the bathtub
put the pot in a plastic bag and
tie up the bag around the tronc
That way no water in your ground.
I would get an adjustable garden wand
it has many type of jet on it.
Now clean That plant start with a soft jet
but donāt be shy to use a stronger jet if necessary.
Yes your plant will look like your wife
before the hair dresser No worry it will
pass.
If infested do it once a week,
if you brake branches Cool now
you have clone material.
Have fun
Bare
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Iām not sure if it has any negative effects on your trichomes, but Iāve had to do it before. Still smoked fine as far as I could tell
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Yeah soap canāt dissolve the trichomes, but Iāve seen soap contaminated tests around 2012-2013 where the trichomes did have trace amount of soap. So my thinking is that trichomes can absorb soap 
I might be wrong, this is just speculations from my part with a small data set.
Pz 
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Found this, thereās some logic on it ā¦ 
from my research and in other hand my experience , I tell you how insecticidal soap work , the outer layer of soft insects is covered with a waxy layer to protect them this allows them to save water and survive , insecticidal soap destroy their skin and kill them , same waxy layer cover trichome heads , itās wax fat , soap dissolve it , at this time it just shaken and loosen up the cuticle of trichome , when you next time foliar feed or just spray plant with something all trichomes wash out and just stalks remain , simply you loose heads , same thing happen to cuticle layer on plant leaves , you may notice when you spray plant with insecticidal soap leaves are cleaner , itās because the outer layer containing waxy layer and dirt is washed out , thatās why if you over do insecticidal soap you can burn leaves , because they will more sensitive to light ,
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Thatās literally one of the best ways to treat those bugs. You can use a hose outside and if you do it enough they seem to move on. But, it works. Itā a lot of work but water knocks them right off. Then you have to clean the room if your plants make it to harvest but water can get you there.
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Hola @GMan
I do it in the shower indoor
Outdoor I found milkweed
is really neat I plant a patch
in the middle of the land and
the canna on the perimeter of
the land.
It will bring all kind of insect in your yard
yes your plant will have some bug But
in the end it all balance out Their is
always more predator then bad bugs.
Just rinse your OD a day or 2 ahead of cropping
Bare
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