Californiakid's 2nd auto journal

[Californiakid]

I think people have said it already, but looking at my plants past and current, my seeds must have gotten mixed up when repackaged for shipping stealth. Lol

My last CK looks nothing like this run. It looked more like what the purple mazar was supposed to be. The purple mazar ended up being lemon haze (sativa). The sativa was for an outdoor grow. Argh! So I still have a big grab bag of expensive mystery seeds. I might as well have stuck with bagseed. Same mystery.!but no extra money.

Rant over.
Anyways enough bitching...
its great smoke.
lots of amber trichs ....nite nite

[Californiakid]

Took Critical Kush in 2 wacks a week apart. Just jarred the second and final cut. First cut dried at 24g. 2nd didn't get weighed, but I'll burp in the a.m. check weights when not too busy.

[Californiakid]

Part of a 1 inch square on a yellow sticky card, zoomed in 8x with my phone's camera. I haven't been stable enough or patient enough to take a magnified picture .

[Paracelsus]

My worm pops his head up once in a while & rummages underneath the whatever leaves I throw on top in fact I put the trimmings from now when I lollipop the plants right in the soil. What are use cilantro mint parsley malted barley powder malted barley powder big big ingredient i
In the soil and is as an amendment and to top dress

[OzBud]

We have persimilis mites (predatory) at work which I wouldn't mind if some hitched a ride home on me but we also have thrips, gnats, powdery mildew, botrytis plus a heap of other shit I don't want to bring home. I never go near my indoor plants without showering and putting on clean clothes if I've gone outside of the house since my last shower & clothes change.

[alltatup]

Don't you just LOVE carniverous mites???

[Californiakid]

Went to water this morning and when I removed the yellow sticky cards from the base of the plants, a couple had what looked like a dusting of cayenne pepper. I mean very faint. Upon closer inspection, 100x scope, I saw MITES. I have been suspecting but couldn't find any, but did see leaf damage. Never seen a web anywhere.

Watered and left for work bummed. Plants are almost done, but I worry about losing it at the last minute.
At work I started looking at pictures on the internet of spider mites and predator mites.
I feel better, my yellow card residents look like predator mites. So they my have eaten any mites if there was any, but they may be dinning on thrips. I do have a minor issues with thrips from time to time. So I will be hovering checking on things intently for the remainder of this run, to ensure that these bugs aren't up to no good.

Thankfully Paracelsus has been sharing lots of great info on organic gardening. I will strengthen my playbook for resistance for the next grow. IPM and vermiculture are in the works.

And I'll try to get pictures this evening of the bugs in question.

[Canuck147]

Looks awesome! Lights are doing a great job, look how happy she is.

[alltatup]

Really pretty lil auto!!

[Californiakid]

Some amber ! It's ready but I'm letting her ripen! More amber I say !
That and no time until after work today or tomorrow .
So, so sticky, smells so GOoD!! Waiting for cure will seem like FOREVER.

note: my lights don't quite have enough umf...so my grows seem to run a few weeks longer. Which will require bigger pots=more kind soil.

[Californiakid]

Much smaller than a flea.

[BlueBudz]

Looks like a flea

[Californiakid]

Critical Kush is a week or 2 away and Ripleys OG is a week or 2 behind

[Californiakid]

Thanks Aloner
I haven't seen anything like it before. Its tiny. The scope I used to veiw it it was 100x magnification (supposedly ), it was pretty cheap. But I saw it well enough on the yellow card to notice it, and get out the scope.

Between the 3 plants, I'm 2 weeks to a month to harvest. I hope that it was a hitchhiker that got stuck right away.

[Aloner]

All kidding aside, I have found the What Is This Bug Reddit to be extremely helpful in this regard.