SomeGuy's LED & Other Grows. 2014-15 Season

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Andrew2112

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Looking good there SG :clap: What strains are you running this time? I can only read a few of your labels
 
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SomeGuy

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In 8*8 tent
Sips:
SRS
Lemon og
Mint chocolate chip
Holy grail kush
Pre98 bubba
Black lime reserve
Blue dream
Slee skunk
GG 4

10gl softpot only: this is the plant in the door way I move to get in
Mendo breath

4*4 LEC 315 tent
5gl organic soft pots:
Holy grail kush
Mendo breath x2
Mint chocolate chip
Blue dream
Afgahni
Srs
Black lime reserve
Lemon og

That's all of it for now. I still am vegging all of it a few more weeks. Still a lot to do before flip.
 

SomeGuy

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FYI Found Hemp Russet Mites. Thanks @hyroot for helping identify. EASY to mistake thier damage for deficiency but there are a few signs I missed that would signal them. Here is what I missed:

-tacoing leaves (this is where microscopic eggs are left.)
-if the "deficiency" works from bottom up it IS russet mites
-dulling of the color of the main stem.
-leaves yellowing and not responding to nutrients. even using salts (SURE fire sign. if you feed liquid nutrients and do not see the deficiency get m

I mistook it for calcium deficiency or bud end rot. I have checked my notes. Here is what I found. November in the first two weeks of flower I noticed a "deficiency" getting bad. I sprayed really well for a few weeks. No pesticide just labs and some other goodies and soap, yucca extract. The "deficiency" went away and left just lowers damaged. I thoughts it was just from the spray. fast forward to coming back from Christmas vacation in AZ. plants are near finished and it looks like the "deficiency" had taken hold a bit again on the lowers. It cut my over all yield in half. I kept thinking it was something I did wrong in mixing my soil. (ive mixed the same way for over two years with consistent results).

Long story short here I am. I hit them last night with a deadly mix twice. I scoped samples from all of them and no movement. I will be continuing the heavy battle with them in the coming days. Here is what is in store:

-Every day will load spray with water and spray them down heavily to start with.
-I will alternate between 3-4 products over the next two weeks.
-Take down spray (canola and pyrithren)
-Habanero and garlic water
-Dr Zymes Eliminator (its an enzyme that digests the outer skeleton of mites)
-Method-1
-Also be using peppermint and Eucalyptus oil in my mixes with Dawn soap.

Ill let you know how it goes. Probably going to release 6000 or so predator mites onto my property this year also as a preventative. From my reading. These are relatively "new" and have been gaining steam in CA and OR over the past few seasons. The one article I read says these russets will become more of a prevalent problem than spider mites ever were.
 

SomeGuy

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I want to add. If you do a lot of foiler feeding you may fend them off and be completely unaware. especially if you use neem and soaps. I also am convinced they dont like the Labs much. Seems I knocked them back without knowing in early flower and then they recuperated and came at me again. If I realized I was fighting a pest and not a deficiency I would have attacked it much differently right away back in nov.
 

Javadog

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Wow, well, thank you for sharing bro. I am sure that I will be where you
are in time....still dealing with just the spiders, yet.

I am looking up the stuff there that I did not know and really appreciate the time.

Good luck!

JD
 

ttystikk

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I want to add. If you do a lot of foiler feeding you may fend them off and be completely unaware. especially if you use neem and soaps. I also am convinced they dont like the Labs much. Seems I knocked them back without knowing in early flower and then they recuperated and came at me again. If I realized I was fighting a pest and not a deficiency I would have attacked it much differently right away back in nov.
I've had them twice, both times gifted on clones.

You need a microscope to diagnose, they're really too small to see with the naked eye.

Life cycle is a week to ten days so hit them twice a week for several weeks to knock them down.

I used Azamax (60ml/gal) and Avid (3ml/gal) together in veg; the Azamax acted as an extender and a different mode of action. Three sprays of that 4 days apart and I never saw the russet mites again. I hate Avid but when the nuclear option is called for, having it around is a life saver.
 

SomeGuy

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I've had them twice, both times gifted on clones.

You need a microscope to diagnose, they're really too small to see with the naked eye.

Life cycle is a week to ten days so hit them twice a week for several weeks to knock them down.

I used Azamax (60ml/gal) and Avid (3ml/gal) together in veg; the Azamax acted as an extender and a different mode of action. Three sprays of that 4 days apart and I never saw the russet mites again. I hate Avid but when the nuclear option is called for, having it around is a life saver.
Yes it's tough. The Dr zymes looks promising too. Pyrinthen is proven to work also they say. I'm sure they are killable. Lol. Fortunately I haven't flipped so I can nuke away right now.

It definitley hurt yield. And you will not see them w out a scope
 

ttystikk

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Yes it's tough. The Dr zymes looks promising too. Pyrinthen is proven to work also they say. I'm sure they are killable. Lol. Fortunately I haven't flipped so I can nuke away right now.

It definitley hurt yield. And you will not see them w out a scope
I highly recommend using Azamax as part of your regimen. All by itself it's two modes of action and it acts as an extender for many other pesticides, I'm just not sure if that list includes pyrethrin.
 
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