...so, everyone is in jars now, but I noticed , like you said,......they all massed at the end of the stems when hung long enough...took the lighter to em !! there were so many they looked like clumps of brown sugar...no webbing though..on to curing phase
so, in case anybody cares....the freakin mites re animated and came back to life after 2 hours out of the freezer......now testing overnight freeze,...just for research and because I have no other options....I think...
...could not find any info on this topic....outdoor buds looked great 2 days into drying...on the 3rd day they were crawling with mites.........I froze a bud for 30 minutes,pulled it out and looked again and they were all DEAD.....I checked for movement hours later for re-animation and still...
day 3 of my drying process and the budworms are falling out onto the floor..........niiiiice....also magnified and every single drying bud is coated in mites............ho hum.......might try to freeze them for half an hour.....any advice??...put buds in a jar and freeze is all I can think of...
....hey man,.....I am in the valley and it is supposed to be sunny this weekend, the 28th-29th...the last two days of sun.......I need one more week, but if mine dry out this weekend I might cut them before they get wet again...
daaaaaaaamn.........the ultimate bummer....only one true way to prevent it........and I am doing it right now at 413 am pacific...I have two weeks off from work right before harvest and I literally never leave them..I sleep on my deck and hang around all day....literally......Had my plants...
outdoor grower here, very very close to harvest.....biggest cola turning brown....had to cut it.......loaded with "corn burrower" in the stem....DAMN!!!!......about 4 days from harvest and there is nothing I can do at this point........probably have more somewhere,....if anything else starts...
...that really looks like spider mites...Battled em every grow I had. Read up on neem oil , it always works for me, but you gotta read up on it...dont do it before the light hits the plants, it will burn them. do it right before darkness..and you gotta keep on top of mites...they will only get...
depends on indoor/outdoor.....outdoor depends on where you are.....all my outdoor grows take about 6 months.I need every day of sun from april till sept...no matter what the seed company says.