The Path Of Least Resistance

[chankylanky]

Advocate, I celebrate the fact that you are growing photos as the complexity is the very reason I started with an auto. No idea as to the benefit of a dark period for there are arguments both pro and con. Looking forward to your journey!!

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[Advocate420]

Thanks ! I have recently started reading up on autos. Some exciting possibilities. I have no access to good beans though. The nice thing about photos is I can clone for self and others, keep genes I like and so on. If I can get organized with some experience I'd like to go perpetual. I'm growing for self only so quality is more important than quantity.


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[Advocate420]

Day 2 12/12
Been feeding with general organics go box once a week, molasses and microbes in between feedings and one feeding of just water.

Went to train her down this morning and for some reason my hands started doing a few hours of cleaning up some immature lower growth and weak colas that I removed. Within hours It was reaching for the sky and filling in. These things are exploding!

 

[Advocate420]

New experience for me. I put my temp/humid gauge on the soil. It's dark colored. I soon noticed little clear-ish white bugs walking over it. Looking closer I can see them in my soil. Considering the plants are doing awesome and the fact that it's a hepa filtered room with bagged soil I'm going to assume they are beneficial in nature and not freak out. I'd say it's a species of soil mite. I do not see any on plant leaves. Only in soil. Regardless of what they are my intitial plan is heavily apply a potent mix of neem oil and dr Bonnars organic soap. I also payed two aphid sticky pads on the soil.

 

[chankylanky]

Advocate, I have only tried neem oil on plumerias, and despite applying in the evening over the next days the leaves still ended up burning from mini hot spots. Do you know if your leaves will be safe?


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[Advocate420]

Because I'm using a stronger than Usual dose I only applied to the bare lower stems I trimmed and the upper layer of soil with a mist enough to wet soil. Also i know it to be important not to apply if there is heavy light. So as a secondary precaution I also only placed the neem oil moments before lights out. Right now the sticky papers are the only place they can go I hope. Again I'm not finding any leaf issues yet. I'm not sure exactly what they are. My gut feeling is they are beneficial but I can't tell you how much the idea of any crawlies and my medicine sketch me out.

 

[chankylanky]

You got me curious wondering what those bugs were. I hope the sticky pads have been helping!

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[Advocate420]

I have the yellow sticky pads on the soil for days. Not one of these have crawled on it it gotten stuck.

 

[Advocate420]

Week 2, Day 3

 

[chankylanky]

Maybe it's a good thing then that none are on the pads, as in they are staying in the ground and not venturing up.


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[Advocate420]

Yea. I did a bunch of trimming. Checking any abnormalities with the microscopes. No sign of any leaf eating things or them on my plants. I find the only in soil and around on pots. I figure when their food runs out the population should at least diminish. I have no idea what I'm doing though.
The card stays clean. The plants have no blemishes.

 

[Advocate420]

Between the bugs and some white powdery mildew I have decided to trash everything. Sterilize. And start over.
Journal completed or ended. I have killed all plants.

 

[chankylanky]

Damn. Sorry to hear about that advocate.

 

[Advocate420]

Come see me at my new journal. Starting all over. Link in signature a path to least resistance.

 

[Teddy Edwards]

Hope all is well in your world.

Thanks for sharing this grow with us.

Sorry to read about the pests and blight.

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Sending you lots of love and positive energy.