Sprayed plants and tent with Spinosad, watered soil with it too, then topped soil with DE. Next day, took a leaf with the 'spots' on the underside, and put it in a jar to observe. Next day (yesterday), found that the 'spots' had hatched into crawling white (almost translucent) mites. So, treatments did not kill them yet.
Treated plants and tent walls with Azamax. I've not seen any actual crawling mites on the plants, just the little white pods (eggs?). The plants are looking very sad, many leaves are wilted or yellow. Foleage not nearly as dense as it had been ( have picked off many yellow leaves), though buds are big juicy, and not really very far from where I would harvest anyway. Examining buds with a loupe lots of trichomes, and no obvious signs of damage. Though many leaves are yellow or wilted, there's no obvious signs of them being eaten, so I wonder if the real infestation is down at the roots. Or, isi that just a symptom of the plants just reaching the end of the flowering, and basically 'done' anyway. This is my first time with this strain (Ringo's Gift == ACDC + Harley Tsu). Things always got a bit weird towards harvest with ACDC, the only strain I'd grown previously, so maybe this is not even related to the mite infestation.
I'm thinking of just harvesting and cutting my losses. Would have in another 10 days anyway. This strain is high CBD:THC ratio, and all I do is make whole plant RSO from it. Should not be as affected by the exact harvest time as if growing bud for vaping. My concern is that the little buggers aren't going to just conveniently quit multiplying and sucking because the plant is now hanging upside-down to dry. One thought, is to skip the air drying, and go straight to decarboxylating them in my oven. Would set temp at 180F, convect, until dry, then finish at 235F (my usual decarb temp). I understand that that would make a terrible smoke or vape, but can't see where it would hurt my yield of CBD etc. in the finished concentrate. My wife, who is ill uses about 100mg of CBD / day, which helps her quite a bit. Though she cannot tolerate much THC, we've found that pure CBD isolate (i.e. from Hemp) doesn't help. There has to be some THC (entourage effect).
Whole grow picture colors are off due to the LED's.
Thoughts anyone?
Treated plants and tent walls with Azamax. I've not seen any actual crawling mites on the plants, just the little white pods (eggs?). The plants are looking very sad, many leaves are wilted or yellow. Foleage not nearly as dense as it had been ( have picked off many yellow leaves), though buds are big juicy, and not really very far from where I would harvest anyway. Examining buds with a loupe lots of trichomes, and no obvious signs of damage. Though many leaves are yellow or wilted, there's no obvious signs of them being eaten, so I wonder if the real infestation is down at the roots. Or, isi that just a symptom of the plants just reaching the end of the flowering, and basically 'done' anyway. This is my first time with this strain (Ringo's Gift == ACDC + Harley Tsu). Things always got a bit weird towards harvest with ACDC, the only strain I'd grown previously, so maybe this is not even related to the mite infestation.
I'm thinking of just harvesting and cutting my losses. Would have in another 10 days anyway. This strain is high CBD:THC ratio, and all I do is make whole plant RSO from it. Should not be as affected by the exact harvest time as if growing bud for vaping. My concern is that the little buggers aren't going to just conveniently quit multiplying and sucking because the plant is now hanging upside-down to dry. One thought, is to skip the air drying, and go straight to decarboxylating them in my oven. Would set temp at 180F, convect, until dry, then finish at 235F (my usual decarb temp). I understand that that would make a terrible smoke or vape, but can't see where it would hurt my yield of CBD etc. in the finished concentrate. My wife, who is ill uses about 100mg of CBD / day, which helps her quite a bit. Though she cannot tolerate much THC, we've found that pure CBD isolate (i.e. from Hemp) doesn't help. There has to be some THC (entourage effect).
Whole grow picture colors are off due to the LED's.
Thoughts anyone?
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