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My technical background in engineering did little to prepare me for this first effort, but will facilitate the development of a closed-loop system for future grows, now that I've gotten my feet wet. I can automate a significant part of the process with a handful of sensors, a few micro...

Harvest nearly done. Despite problems, I should have some respectable bud. Curing began two days ago for the first plant and the last one goes in the jar today. Sent from my iPad using 420 Magazine Mobile App

Spent some time inspecting the damage today, and for the first time in a long time, turned the LEDs off and turned on a fluorescent. It makes a big difference using natural light. I spent an hour or so clipping leaves, cursing as I filled a gallon container with leaves fried from pH burn, as...

Inspecting the damage is heartbreaking... Sent from my iPhone using 420 Magazine Mobile App

I'm still confident I can get substantial bud if I ever make it to harvest! About 30% of the scrog has the pH issue and only three of close to 100 colas had webbing. I'm sure they're not done. It's a race to the finish! Sent from my iPhone using 420 Magazine Mobile App

It seems that I was using the wrong terminology. Nute burn is from overfeeding, and that's not what I have, apparently. The guy at the hydro store reminded me that low pH causes nute lockout, so the girls are getting starved, not overfed. He said when I first noticed it, I should have flushed...

I didn't need this. I just returned from the garden and found the mites have invaded the weakened colas (2 or 3 at present). This is on one of the nute-burned ladies. This is the first webbing I've seen in 3 months! So grotesque! I don't know how to deal with this, being on the bud and so...

I felt so guilty about sitting on my hands and letting the mites get out of control, and now the nute-burn. I thought I could cruise all the way to harvest without doing anything, but mistakenly fed nutes every watering (along with using a bottle of FloraNova bloom which had a significant...

I'm flushing because of nute-burn. I have at least two girls with soil pH in the 4.0-5.0 range. I didn't catch this right away and the nute-burn is bad on a few colas, even up into the sugar leaves. I would prefer not to put that much water through the soil (washing all the good stuff out as...

Okay, so I'm flushing now (just straight water). I have flushed them all once, and I started with a second round a few days later when they were ready. According to someone on another grow website I visited, flushing soil is done at 3 times the capacity of the pots. Since I'm using 7 gallon...

Big Sparks - it's like sky diving, all the crap comes rushing at you in the end. As if the mites weren't enough, now I've got nute burn to deal with. I think with all that's happened, my finish is going to be a bit delayed. I think I stressed the crap out of these ladies, but I'm sure they...

UrbanMonk - I don't know where I got the idea I could just give nutes every feeding, and never just straight water. Seems like a bad idea now, I've got more than one of my girls suffering from nute burn. I hope I don't lose these really nice colas, but some have sugar leaves looking a bit...

I think I got a handle on the issues in my garden. Well, besides the mites. Some time ago, I stopped checking pH. At first I checked the water I was giving the girls and it was always 7.0. The instructions with the pH meter said to mix a slurry of the soil and water to check it. To me this...

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Ladybugs are certainly more fun than spider mites. They are, however, not very effective in flower at gobbling up the mites. After I ordered 1500 ladybugs off Amazon, I continued my research and found that they work best as a preventive measure in veg. I was never under any illusions this...