Next Grow(and the one after that)

[No3odiesShad0w]

Bootsy i did actually find some spider mites..... I mean it only takes 1 egg to get the cycle started i suppose. Nothing serious though. I'm more worried that they'll spread to the screen grow so I've taken steps to make sure they don't spread. It's only about 2 more days and harvest time!!

I've noticed the trichromes are changing. More and more are getting white... Or i think they are because they're getting more noticable. Regardless if it's totally ready or not it's getting chopped this weekend. I'm so worried the mites will spread again. I'm keeping the screen grow covered in D. Earth and spray with neem oil just to be safe. Once this one is gone i can calm down a bit. Next thing i need is a tent and another light. This way if i have issues like this, i can quarantine things better. I have a barrier and the fan blowing opposite the screen grow so it should be okay. They haven't spread to anything else so for now they're will contained and hopefully gone once i chop.

I'm glad it's looking beautiful. It smells lovely
PSS CAN ANYONE TELL ME IF THIS IS READY? I just took some pictures and when i zoom in on them it looks very white.... I'm blind as a bat on top of that color blind (mildly).
The one with the X in the corner is without flash on. The other 2 pictures are WITH flash on.

[No3odiesShad0w]

Cali anything from these pictures? It's definitely looking whiter than it was.... I think Saturday or Sunday might be harvest day!

[Cali]

It’s hard to tell without a jeweler loupe but they look ready to me. I would chop this weekend and focus on getting rid of the mites before they get on the other ladies. Have you tried spraying a high camphor oil? I haven’t tried it myself but it’s a recipe from a trusted source. I keep my lavender and I do preventative sprays also rosemary is high in camphor. That or when you do Neem you have to do 3 to 4 sprays in a row and you have to use a surfactant I use soap nuts aka Aritha nuts. You have to mix the two in warm water and make sure it’s mixed in well and not separating or ot won’t stick to the leafs. Get top and bottom to the point where the leafs are completely droopy. When I doit I think I killed then this time but next day they are happy as fuck. Make sure you spray once like that every 72 hrs once again 3-4 times back to back.

[Ckbrew]

I see spider mite web at the top of the bud in pix #2. You are so close that you will have to make the call based on your desire for the color of the trichs. Looking good.

[No3odiesShad0w]

Yeah I came home from work and I saw like three giant spider mites on one leaf and I'm like you know what I'm chopping today I am not going to risk them going on to the other screen grow and I'm not going to risk any of the other ones that I have in the other room because those are clean 100%.......

I saw the web too I'm glad somebody else noticed Ckbrew They were fine and under control but for the last like 2 weeks I haven't been spraying or doing anything because I don't want to mess with the flavor or with the buds and add chemicals and stuff.... So I think they've had enough time to bounce back so I'm definitely chopping tonight...

The diatomaceous earth doesn't seem to be working much I see the spider mites crawling all over it and they're covered with it and it doesn't seem to be doing much..... Needless to say I still added some more diatomaceous earth to the screen grow and I sprayed it down with neem oil.... Hopefully the little barrier that I had in between the two prevented anything from spreading...... If they did I'm going to keep on spraying until it's gone before I start getting any buds or actual flowers....... Everything that I have segregated in the other room is 100% clean..... I'm hoping that the screen grow that's starting to bud is also clean because I've really been heavy with the neem oil and the diatomaceous earth.

So thanks again everybody for your help I greatly appreciate it..... I could say this is my first successful grow........ I still haven't smoked it and dried it and cured it but it looks more promising than anything else that I've had in the past... Considering when you squeeze the buds they're like rocks not like the ones in the past where they were like cotton balls.... I promise you guys the next screen grow and all the stuff I have planned in the future is going to be awesome and some of the ideas hopefully will knock your socks off.. because I plan on going mad scientist with this.

[No3odiesShad0w]

You could see I went a little crazy with the diatomaceous earth..... Some leaves are white. I really hope nothing got onto this plant. But I'm going to continue to spray it and load it with a diatomaceous earth and so the buds get a little bit bigger than I'm going to slow down and completely stop hopefully I'm done with this mess because they seem to be isolated only on the biggest plant. Fingers crossed. But I'll win this battle this isn't the first time I battled spider mites hopefully it's the last because I'm just going to take a preventative approach.

[No3odiesShad0w]

Well i did the 🪓. I was way too worried the mites might spread to the new plants. The trichromes were close. Maybe 50% white or more. It was a big risk. They could have gotten on the news plant if they haven't already but ... I'm happy with it. The next will be twice as good. Already have triple the amount of budlets then i had on the current grow, so it's already promising. Just have to make sure fight any mites that may be around. Not going to let them win.

[No3odiesShad0w]

After 4 days it's ready to go into the jars( I didn't water the4 plant for two days prior so it started kind of drying on the plant already) I'm getting the mini hygrometers in the mail tomorrow, So to be safe I just threw in those two-way humidity packs at 62%. I found a perfect spot in my house where the temperature is a constant 70°, almost all day all night humidity stays at 50% because the rest of my house everything fluctuates so wildly throughout the day.

It was 5 and 1/2 oz wet weight so I'm assuming I'll probably have somewhere between 2-2.5oz. But you have to remember it was severely stunted by all the spider mites... I didn't top or fim. .... I just did a half-assed 90-degree bend and just let it do its thing....... My next ones the screen grows those are going to give me a much bigger yield. There's already four times the amount of budlets that there was on the one I just cut.

[No3odiesShad0w]

SoOrbudgal. It was a bit hectic. Mainly with finances but finally got there! Only going to get better and better from here on out. I would live to grow outdoors but when i try the plant gets ripped long before it's even ready..... Sucks for me but they sure as shit didn't get high on it. Ppl just suck.

[Bootsy]

your excitement is warranted. that's a nice harvest requiring no justification. the yummy factor will bo high too. admirable to keep the mites down, hopeflly for good. Nice start with the next batch too. your place must have stunk from the flowers!!

[No3odiesShad0w]

Bootsy. It didn't smell to bad considering it was just a single small plant. This time around with the 2 large screen grows i expect my whole apartment to smell lovely..... Now if only I could bottle that fragrance and turn it into an air freshener 😂😂 I love when I come into my apartment after work and I just get hit in the face with that smell it's so like welcome and then my brain and body are just like *sighs of relief* I'm home!

[SoOrbudgal]

I hear ya there No3odiesShad0w i'm cutting back on my outdoor grow this coming summer, new area of living for me so i'm just gonna do 2 even though it's legal i'm gonna be in town now. Yes it's going to smell regardless but with so many into growing there own where i'm at we are a band of growers who watch kinda like the gas thieves running around these days, no respect. Dogs an other deterrents.

[No3odiesShad0w]

Literally every single neighbor around me smokes, the ones across the street are cocaine dealers, the ones opposite of me sell everything under the rainbow. Just a bunch of not the most respectable people...... I can't say they're terrible people I've known them for years but I wouldn't put it past them that it was one of them that came and ripped the plants....

[Cali]

Nice, really nice harvest. It only gets better and better.

[No3odiesShad0w]

I mean considering this was my last harvest versus my current harvest..... It's like night and day. One is just fluffy cotton balls of nothing The other one is solid dense heavy rocks of bud. Clearly the information you guys have provided is well worth its salt. So again thank you for the help thank you for this support and thanks for pushing me on forward.

[Ckbrew]

Nothing beats experience. Rock on.

[No3odiesShad0w]

I've been checking daily and NO SPIDER MITES!!!! Wooooo!!! Hopefully smooth sailing going forward. *Fingers crossed*. Still lightly spraying with neem and powdering with Diatomaceous earth; as a preventative method.

The stuff in the jars is chilling in a cool dark cabinet. It's only been 3 days so not much change to really talk about. Humidity is good, temp is good. I air them out a few seconds 2x a day.

Now that this is working..... I'm thinking about my next project. Mushrooms!!! Gourmet kind and colorful.
After mushrooms if the cancer hasn't killed me I actually want to try bonsai art. And try to grow myself a little bonsai tree.

[No3odiesShad0w]

A bit on the cooler side (65°F) but humidity is dead on. 🙌🎉😱😍🤩

[No3odiesShad0w]

Since Amazon didn't return my money for the broken hygrometers, they put the money into my account, i bought this Flower Power additive for the soil I've been using. Hopefully this will help increase yields along with the ScrOG technique this next one should be very rewarding!

The new ScrOG is doing the stretch..... It just started doing the stretch and I'm already running out of screen. 😱 . Very happy and healthy girl. Both are doing very well.
No more pruning for the one in bloom. The other one will get pruned as needed during the stretch. And it will need lots of pruning... It's huge!

I tossed in 2 small plants i was doing some fact finding experimentation on. I didn't want to throw them away. They won't give much but it's better than nothing. Besides I'm still messing around with it. I made a wire heart and I'm going to make it grow into the shape of a heart.

Weed art!!
And no signs of any spider mites either. Still doing light sprays here and there just to be safe.

The stuff curing is doing fantastic. Temp and humidity are dead on... It's looking more and more and smelling more and more like the stuff you get at the dispensary!!!


Should i make compost tea or should i just do a top feeding or both? It doesn't say how often i should add.....i don't want to overdo it either since it's growing so well. But there's like 4x the amount of buds on this plant. It might need some extra help to get those flowers nice and big

[No3odiesShad0w]

The whole family. Planted one of the clones into it's forever home with the living and organic soils. When it gets bigger, I'll train it for the screen

The flower power stuff seems to be working. It's been 5 days since i added it and it's growing petals on triplets all over invested of just 1. I'm impressed! And my weed heart is almost filled in. It's going to look awesome. I want to train 1 bud to grow right in the center to be like the flame in the heart.

[No3odiesShad0w]

Almost forgot. These are doing great. Curing very well and starting to get a hint of that lovely smell with like coffee and blueberry. It's strange but I'm liking it.