MuntantLizzard
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Mites, bastards. freeze em out, sure your plants wont like it BUT the MItes will Hate it and die. Plants can take a freeze. about 3 hours for sure
Spider mites.....a worthy adversary. Trying to get rid of them in a perpetual flower room has proved possible, but very expensive. I was using some predator mites as my offenseive line, and I was dipping the vegged plants in azamax before putting them into flower. I was making alot of headway until the predator mites couldnt keep up. First few weeks I was sure they were winning the battle, then I started seeing the spider mites numbers increase, and the predator mites just couldnt keep up. I still have a nice population of predator mites, but not nearly as much as the spider mites. So instead of spending another $500+ (my estimate is $100 in predator mites a week for 4-6 weeks) on predator mites Im just throwing in the towel on the flower room, and by throwing in the towel I mean bombing the shit out of that room. I will harvest the remaining plants tommorow, and let the room get blasted for a few days. So trying to get rid of spider mites in a perpetual grow appears possible, but expensive. So instead of having all kinds of mites in my buds, im just starting fresh. I know someone had suggested this before and I laughed at them. I really cant afford to not have a harvest for 2 months, but I cant hook up med patients with a clean conscience knowing that there are a shit load of bugs in the bud (better then pesticides IMO but still not cool). So in order to one up the spider mites I will also be building another flower room. It will be a brain bucket ebb n flo using, 20x 2 gallon pots, and 2 more 600 watters.
A question for the growers using hoods, what type of hood would you reccomend for max coverage, but easy on the wallet. I dont have $300 to spend on a hood...or two for that matter.
A little side note for the other growers dealing with PM. I use greencure and it works for atleast a week, I have PM this time of year, every year. It hard to keep the humidity down without running my dehumidifier all the time.
Strickly i use diamond hoods x2 they give about 1.5m footprint at 500mm above the canopy without hot spots and also have you tried spray safe by Canadian express? it's safe to use against mites rite up to the chop it melts the little wankers and their eggs.
Whodat I'll post a pic of the 2 Durban's i got left to chop so you can see what it's like before the chop imo their not 2 bad, the worst i've had to chop was northern lights that shit grows so much leaf that it takes hours just to chop a 3 foot plant.
Im gonna stop bumping other ppls pics and blowing them up cuz ppl think its mine even wen i say whos pic it is lol. Looking good everyone.
neem isnt a chemical pesticide, and its not a gh brand .. its an all organic pesteicide from the neem plant. ive used it in flower countless times with no ill effects towards the roots or the plant when i foliar the neem on .
its a mix lol ,
2 vortex , 2 jack the rippers , 1 sour cream , 1 motivation , 1 vanilla kush , and one ak48![]()
u ever thought bout writing this thred as a book D? Recon its all here already lol.
so I could just press PRINT, and then send it to a publisher, hahaha...
I am scheming on another book at the moment and trying to get those creative juices flowing, this will be the 3rd book I have written in this series....
I think that I could bring the 600 into the book...could be fun.
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juicy looking bud.
how much longer?
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