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Dropped five seeds a finger tip deep into soil and sprayed a little bit of water once in a while.
All seeds popped within 4 days
Equipment:
Tent: Homebox Q120
Vent: Prima Klima PK125-EC2 220-360m³/h, 125mm
Carbon FIlter: Prima Klima Eco Line K2601-125, 360-480m³/h, 125mm
Veg-Light: Elektrox 2x55W CFL
Ballast: Elektrox ultimate 600W / 400W / 250W
Reflector: Adjust-A-Wing Medium
Notes for next grow:
Start feeding right away with around 0,2EC less than this round and increase it about 0.1 each week while ppm does not exceed light wattage
Top more aggressive early on about every second node and grow about 20 tops on five plants
Fungus Gnats became a problem and are living in the media eating roots. Thrips or spider mites have infected the leaves as well. Water the plants and spray the leaves with neemoil once in a while. Don't get in contact with neemoil and stop using it when switching into flower. It gets absorbed by the plant providing additional support but negatively effecting the harvest. Another reason to have a bug trap set per bucket during the whole grow!
Plants are green and happy with the close distance to the CFL
Watered two times this week - plants are drying up every 3-4 days
Added a little bit of root stimulator once
Not enough Nitrogen since last week - plants yellow up from the bottom
Fed 0.5EC of vegetation nutrients - plants green up again
Plants were topped at the 4th node
Fed up to 1.2 EC every watering after 2-3 days until the buckets are feather light
Topped the tops and laying the branches over by bending and breaking
Plants not praying for the lights at 60cm distance with the 250MH
Note: try distance at 70cm next grow
Switched to 400W MH bulb and mounted it as far away as possible - plants are healthy and happy with the distance
Repotted to 11l buckets and watered not more than before with BioRhizotonic and CalMag only - Fed nitrogen in the very end of the week
Bending and breaking to open the plants one more time before laying the trellis over, to hold the branches down
Watering and feeding all the buckets with ~6l in total every 4 days
Weaving the stretching tops into the outside trellis holes
Tent filled up in this week and is ready to blow up in flower 🥦
Watered and fed once with flower nutrients. Plants dry after 6 days.
Tip burn occured in this week and one plant is yellowing from the top down. Lowering the EC from 1.2 back to 1.0.
Underwatered and plants dry for over a day. Fed less since overfeeding.
A Bug infestation has occurred this week. Taking over several leaves. Not sure what kind of bug it is. Cleaned the bottom of the tent and set bug traps.
Fed the last time. The plants have more than two weeks to absorb all the nutrients before they are harvested.
Bug infestation is continuing. Removing the worst leaves, increased direct ventilation and hoping for the best. no webbing or bugs on buds so far. I am confident the plants will survive the next 2 weeks.
I want to identify the bug that has infested my garden. Is neem oil a good solution to prevent this problem next round?
There is damage on top of the leaves as shown in the two pictures I provided. Couldn't see anything on the bottom of the leaves.
Thank you in advance!
Doesn't matter if the insects were aphids, spider mites, whiteflies, or thrips... just doesn't matter. I've found neem oil to be pretty ineffectual, personally... rather, I have two products that are always on my shelves - the first is Dr. Zymes Eliminator (if you can't get that where you live, look for some Spinosad). This will kill any of these insects - they suck on the leaves as opposed to eating them.
The second thing I always have on hand is BT (bascillius thuringiensis) which will kill things that actually chew on the leaves - things like catepillars...
Both are organic, both can be used no matter what stage your plant is in - right up to the day of harvest - and both will kill adults, eggs and larvae .. The only other thing I use is Mosquito Bits for fungus gnats...
For your next grow, be very aware of any little mark on your leaves... if it's not something like a calcium deficiency, it's probably an insect and you don't need to actually SEE the damned thing to start protecting your plant... but always spray these or anything just before lights out.
Good luck...
Drying for 14 days with indirect air flow. Curing in jars for now on.
Smells and tasts very citronal. Happy with the quality despite the infestation. The harvest is not contaminated and it seems like all bugs just ate the leaves and let the bud alone.
FoxyT
