Good morning my friend, hope you are well today.A little downturn of the heat today (Mon) and tomorrow (Tue) with highs barely touching 100º f. Yay!!! But then the high heat returns by the weekend and could reach 109º f.
She's still doing good though...
Hello there @Bill284 . I am well, thank you.
I certainly appreciate the thought. However, I'm already using a 40% shade cloth over the entire garden, as noted in post #1 of this thread. If I go any darker, the plant(s) with not have proper amounts of light.
I've sprayed with B.T. twice now, but have been quite busy so haven't checked to see if she still has bugs.
Love you man. Take good care of yourself...#VIVOSUN #Love What You Grow
Bill284
Thank you @Azimuth
All are welcome to participate. I really appreciate you for tagging @Bode and @StoneOtter .And witchcraft. Don’t forget the witch craft. Plants in the ground?! Soil?! I bet you float if we throw you in the river…
I guess I should read more sorry.Hello there @Bill284 . I am well, thank you.
I certainly appreciate the thought. However, I'm already using a 40% shade cloth over the entire garden, as noted in post #1 of this thread. If I go any darker, the plant(s) with not have proper amounts of light.
I've sprayed with B.T. twice now, but have been quite busy so haven't checked to see if she still has bugs.
Love you man. Take good care of yourself...
If others have more insight, please share as I'm always eager to learn new things.
Hey there @NickHardy I do understand and appreciate you. For so many of us, this is all so very different compared to so many decades of having to grow indoors during the prohibition of cannabis. Putting our plants outside in the natural world can seem crazy. But Mother Nature does have her ways, and some of us older cats like me, actually prefer how the sun grows our buds. I personally know a number of people to prefer the smoke and the high of an outdoor, sun grown bud. I always say: While each have their owns preferences, it's all good ice cream.And witchcraft. Don’t forget the witch craft. Plants in the ground?! Soil?! I bet you float if we throw you in the river…
Nick
She looks happier now.Update Time:
1st I'd like to share that, after taking 4 large fan leaves to my local Hydro guy to examine under his digital microscope, there are no more bugs of any kind! Yay!!! So the B.T. has worked. I did 2 sprayings, 3 days apart. Because the 1st spray just rolled off the leaves like they were hydrophobic, I added something called "Sticky" from Humboldt Nutrients to the 2nd spraying of B.T. It seems to have done the trick. Take a look at these pics from today:
This is the very top of the main stalk. If you look closely, the very center has new leaves growing withOUT leaf curl.
A pic of new growth lower on the plant, again with no leaf curl.
New leaf growth with no leaf curl here too.
And here's a pic of the whole plant. As you can see, there is leaf curl, but those leaves are from when the insects were all over the place on her. All new growth doesn't have any leaf curl.
As you look at these pics, you can see little yellow speckles everywhere on the larger leaves. These speckles are the damage from all those nasty thrips, according to my local hydro store guy. So, to answer your question @Bode , yes, thrips do seem to be the cause of this leaf curl. The best I can tell anyway. Thank you @Bill284 for drawing my attention to this leaf curl being cause by pests.
Even though this heat dome continues, she still looks good, especially now after the bugs are gone. Today she did look much happier.
Looking forward to seeing some flowering...
Thrips aren't typically that easy to rid yourself of. They can lay eggs inside the plant where they are generally immune from a foliar spray. And that's assuming you got every last one of them the one spray that was effective. Not likely as they can hide in s,all crevasses.
Hey there @NickHardy ... Did someone go to Dervish and Banges and get a spell to cast on you? (bad joke, I know) I thought that might've happened, now that you're scheming to grow outdoors.
Yes! And so much cheaper too.
A witches brew for sure! LOL
Pots are still good though.
Thank you...
I do plan on continuing the sprayings to keep them from coming back, just as you said.She looks happier now.
I purchased an electric sprayer the other day.
Those bugs are a nightmare.
Keep on her don't let them come back.
Take care.
#VIVOSUN #Love What You Grow
Bill284
Thank you for the reminder @Azimuth . I plan to do just that. Yeah, I don't like those bastards either.Thrips aren't typically that easy to rid yourself of. They can lay eggs inside the plant where they are generally immune from a foliar spray. And that's assuming you got every last one of them the one spray that was effective. Not likely as they can hide in s,all crevasses.
So, as Bill said, keel an eye out. Better yet, a couple of follow up sprays three days apart are a good preventative measure if nothing else. That will help get the ones you missed the first round and many of the newly hatched ones as well.
Good luck. I call them 'thrip bastards' .
Double double bubble toil and trouble,
Hey... You're pretty good at that.
This reminds me of when I used to mix my soil with tons of ingredients and have to cook them in trash cans out in the sun for months, turning regularly and breaking my back in the process. It's so much easier these days with @GeoFlora Nutrients .
Oh no.A brief check-in:
I've been swamped with other obligations, so couldn't post. Now I'm dealing with a bad reaction to a root canal. Hurts too much to even sit at the computer. Pics and comments to come soon. I just need to get over this root canal situation.
L8R!
