Thank you! Yes the pheno is very melony and getting quite purple, likely from the cold. she will get some blue hues too I'm told. Seems abut 3-4 weeks out but flowers are all still widening a bit. The room smells overwhelmingly delicious! Super silver on one side and nycd on the other! Seems like you fought some gnats there for a bit if I remember right? I have been pre-treating my soils with gnatrol (bacteria) with good success. The buggers never saw it coming!Looking really good, great job! Never heard of a melon/grapefruit diesel, sounds like a great pheno you got. I am growing a purple diesel, it has a pine/diesel scent.
Yeah, I feel really lucky to have never had mites! They look like a terrible thing to have infesting my girls! I use quite a bit of preventative-I spray the outside perimeter leading to my grow area with strong ant type raid and that seems to work wonders. I'm building a organic super soil now for my clones - they are gonna be mamas now that I have seen how great they came out! I doubt it matters but I also use landscaping plastic as sort of bag surrounding my 5gal buckets -I did this to prevent tray spills from getting out of hand but think it helps prevent bugs from finding my roots. Thanks again for the compliment-this has been a good (and somewhat lucky) reintro to growing! Next run I think my hazes will be main lined and the nycd as is-I like a plant with natural Christmas tree shapes and the nycd gets thick!Right on, prevention is way better than the cure! Wish I had taken the same step. The gnats ended up spreading a mysterious fungus to the roots that killed one of my clones from the inside out... had to kill 3 additional clones to stop the spread. Now I know why they are call fungus gnats. I am using mosquito dunks (same bacteria)to keep them at bay along with neem drenches.
The real bad bugs are spider mites and root aphids (very tough to eradicate). I have spotted about a dozen root aphids recently but haven't seen any mites for about a month.
Investing in some neem for preventative soil drenches and some azamax ($25 for 4oz) for mite and other bug control might be a good idea. If you see a mite treat it like an act of thermo-nuclear warfare! I grow in a garage and have a cat so that contributed to my problem I think. Definitely dont go directly into your grow area if you have been outside in grass or on a hike etc.
Where'd you find your instructions? Made a nice looking unit. Was it the Diesel given you a hefty smell? How was the SSH for smell at flower? I got some SSH I will be doing soon. I don't use scrubbers yet.Well it is time for a scrubber...made one today (diy plans)-easy to build -I'll follow up when its up and runnin...it smells good in here but too good right now...Ill post a pic of the shell before I fill it. It was cheap to make and refillable.
Hahahahaha your name made me crack the fuck up!!! Nice. I found my instructions on a different site but there is one on here too-I run my scrubber vertical on the floor just fine the right instructions will give a small set of cfms to go with 4",6" etc. just build it add some carbon and you will be happy. I believe it was the the two combined...I will have to take better care as to my exhaust routing. I routed the scrubbed air and heat into the house for warmth but my vent blew towards the front door of our place. When I realized I needed a scrubber it was because I could smell it on my front porch. SSH was likely the culprit-she's a stinky bitch-good but stinky if you get the good genes. I lucked out and got some pretty legit stuff. Basically if you are flowering a super silver you will want a scrubber. Just do it-you won't be sorry and buy the carbon from your local pet store for like $11 in a blue half gallon milk carton container-good stuff-grainy! Pics to follow soon-I've been really busyWhere'd you find your instructions? Made a nice looking unit. Was it the Diesel given you a hefty smell? How was the SSH for smell at flower? I got some SSH I will be doing soon. I don't use scrubbers yet.