Start of week 8 - Well, I found some webs today. I can't see any mites, but Im not taking any chances that these are regular old spiders at week 8 of flower. Spraying pyrethium on the planters and grow room. Plants are getting insecticidal spray for the next couple of days. Otherwise, everything is looking bang on to where I want it. Most buds are rock hard with the exception of the scrogged plant farthest away from the light footprint. It looks to be maturing slower, still with lots of white hairs not yet receded. Will likely give that plant a few more weeks, as I think it may be sativa dominant.
Mid week update - 3rd day of spraying for bugs and I'm not impressed. The webs seem to be getting worse, unless I didnt notice as many before. They don't seem to be on the plants, just the planters and some walls, but they sure do look like mite webs, and not the good spider webs. I also noticed a few flying insect corpses on some bud sites, and caught a little bugger while I was watering today. Going to keep up my regiment of pyrethium and insecticidal spray. I can only assume that what I have done so far is effective against eggs, and I haven't seen any plant damage yet, aside from the slight burning from the sprays. Wish me luck.
Also, I cut out nutes today aside from my last dose of PK Boost. Going straight water from here on out, and looking to chop in about 14-18 days
Day F54 update - The webs look way better today, or should I say the lack of them. treated them again today, focusing mostly on the planters and undersides. Buds looking tasty, gonna start checking the trichs next week. Definite fade happening on all the plants, two of them more than others (multiple strains)
Day F56 update - No more signs of pests, but the leaves of the plants have taken a beating. Not sure if from the sprays or the lack of nutrients from the sudden stop of feeding.
Please see the 2 photos marked in the diary. Is this a classic PK burn? Did a feed with no MegaCrop, no cal-mag, just PK boost at diluted dosage. The coppering and yellowing has come sudden. Leaves are crispy where burnt. I hear its easy to burn with PK boost. Did I do that?
Looks like your very close to harvest. Typically growers will taper off their nutrients during the last couple of weeks then start a flush out of habit. The reason for this is plants tend to slow down or almost stop feeding during the last few weeks of the ripening stage. It looks like it could be PK burn do to this fact. A good way to check is to do a flush on the pots and see what the initial run off ppms are that first come out of the pot. if you have some crazy high ppms this may have been the issue. Another possibility is also light burn I notice in your photo that these plants are pretty much directly under the center of a 1000 watt light at 16". Hid lights emit infra red light so it can heat up the leaf surface. So I would perform a pre harvest flush and cut off all nutrients on them and back off your light. https://www.blackdogled.com/lst
I would wet trim those buds and cut off any discolored sugar leaves they will clean up nicely. Hope this helps๐
Epic start to the diary, I am all about a good story. I like the little grow space too.
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excellent + underated diary right here ! "The Scroggernaut - Either you're scrogging our you're not." well, looks like you're scrogging then ! great work so looks picture perfect