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Going into the second week of flower, I'm having to hit them hard with the neem spray. The close-ups of the bugs will have to be in another post because of size limits. Here's the picker tents before defoliation: And after: [whew!] The fans I took off all went into plastic bags to contain...

Photos from the digital microscope: The first one is from earlier this week after the first shot of neem oil. You can see older mites are more amber colored and juveniles are white. The second is the top of a petiole from a Blueberry fan showing a bit of color and dead mites turned opaque...

Week one of flower is here at last! The crashing mite population and the living soil getting broken-in has brought rapid growth in the heathiest of the girls, so the decision had to be made. I blasted both tents hard until all 2/3 gallon of the neem oil mix was exhausted. I've examined leaves...

I finally got to the point where I can go back to normal grow stuff like defoliation! Everybody including me got a haircut this weekend. This one's an after. And this one is a before I forgot to shoot an "after" for. I took down the would-be beanstalks. My replacement Purple Urkle before...

Tell me I'm pretty!!

Now this is more like it! The mites are surely gone and the girls are starting to grow much faster. I'm back to normal defoliation and LST - all that good stuff you do in veg in a normal grow. I've been stuck in crisis mode for so long that I am reluctant to relax about the grow. My only plant...

Another week gone (as well as a bunch of mites!). The girls were looking well enough to attack with the fiskars, so everyone got a haircut. All of the trimmings were left on the top of the soil for worm food. I also top dressed all eight pickers with more worm castings. ​ ​ This is just...

I invested in eight "patio pickers" (Lowe's version of a city picker which is a larger earth box made by the same company) and moved out of the five gallon pots trying to fix what's been ailing the girls. Not long after the move, I found that my real issue was not environmental but...

It's never been the same grow twice since I had to abandon hydro last year! That's mostly good because I've been able to transition to more and more organic means of cultivation. I've had to learn a few hard lessons along the way and the latest has been that you can't afford to grow in two and...

Northern Lights: Alien Rock Candy with NL just behind it: They are both in the same mix with pH hanging around in the 6.2-6.8 range.

This is mite damage! Hemp russet mites in all likelihood. Before you go too crazy flushing your soil or making radical changes in your tents, Google images of mite damage and see if anything looks similar to what you're dealing with. Severely infested plants should be trashed, possibly burned...

Regarding my grow skills, I would resolve to push myself much farther to the right side of the Dunning-Kruger graph!

It's been a weird week at work so Monday's update happens on Thursday. I've got another sprout so six of eight popped. I've replaced the other two and probably won't start more because all other seedlings are thriving. All Mangoes were scrapped and moved to the compost pile. I've moved the...

Five of the new crop got topped. Three burn victims were put out of their misery. Most of the remaining burn victims will be moved to flower to see what can be salvaged next weekend once Super Lemon Haze goes down. I even started another eight seeds just in case. Here's the veg tent looking...

Yet another week and not as much progress on the burn victims as I would like to see. But - I did have this tray to deal with: I've got the whole Mr. C's grow method working up through early veg at least and now I need to get it together enough to finish. These guys were started in...

I am almost about to pull another batch out of the crapper, knock on wood. I've also got sprouts ready to take the place of the unhappy ladies in veg in case things still go sideways. Everybody got reamended and watered yesterday and as of a half hour ago, most tops are showing wisps of new...

A week later and I'm a bit wiser. Once again, I waited until after watering to check pH. Guess what? mid fives across the board with just a few of the larger healthier plants around 6.0. I wound up flushing again to correct pH to 6.5, even using a bit of pH Up in the water because the tap water...

Some plants will continue trying to put out more new stigmas even as they are winding down. Chop time starts when clear trichs are hard to find among all the milky ones. Purple trichs happen when the genetics call for it. They are also pretty cool, BTW. You should see leaves yellowing (or even...

This is a thread for the not-so-healthy residents of my grow room. In case you're wondering about the title, it's a genre of music. Here's a clue: That's a bigger image than I expected. This thread is for two of the worst burnt plants from the Megacrop trial and one that had the humidity...

The end is finally in sight for this project at 11 weeks in flower. I've given the Tangies their last feed before fade and maybe I can take them by next weekend. I'm seeing enough cloudy trichs to justify taking one or two of them right now but I like to take my time until they are just right...