Hey everyone, I just finished the transplants (FINALLY!!!). I saw & squished 8 Broad Mites on the first planter, I wasn't happy. But I only saw & squished 1 Broad Mite on each of the next two, and I didn't see any on the final 2. If I don't get rid of them soon, I think I'm gonna try dipping them in hot water like it suggests on that Entomology site.
I still haven't checked the two plants that I transplanted last week. I still have a lot of work to do.
I treated the 5 that I transplanted with a Neem Oil/Fungicide ready to use spray that I picked up. Next I'm gonna treat the 2 that I transplanted last week, clean all the dead lady bugs up in the room, treat everything in the room again, pull another 50 clones (I'm not going to use Mycorrhiza on these so I can do a comparison with the 50 I pulled last week), and then put the girls back & release 3,000 more lady bugs that I picked up today (the lady bug head count was getting low). Gonna be a long night. lol
I have 3 questions though........
The first 3 pics look like nute burns to me. I pulled a lot of leaves like these off the first 3 that I transplanted, and none off the last 2. So it may also be Broad Mite damage. But again, it looks like nute burns to me. Also, the damaged leaves were all on low branches that weren't getting much light. Could this be from a lack of light? (What do you think, nutes, mites, or lack of light?)
The next pic is of some brown roots, they were located over most of the drainage holes. Could this be from air getting to them through the drainage holes?
The next 7 pics are closeups of the colinization that I saw. I'm still a newbie, but in my research I saw a bunch of root pics, and to me this looks like better than average colinization. But again, I'm still a newbie. Tell me what you think of the colinization (poor?, average?, above average?, fucking awesome? - I don't know if this is important, but the plants will be 9 weeks old on Fri and that's what is at the edge of 5gal containers)
If anyone's interested I'll update later with new pics, measurements, and growth reports. It will probably be 2 or 3 hours though before I'm done.
I'll be checking back every now & then as I work, so please feel free to comment.
As always, +rep for any and all help.
Thanks, and I hope you like the pics.