First Grow - A trip down lemon lane

Week 7 has been full of ups and downs. I learned this week that I have a severe infestation of root aphids. After weeks of one of my other autos having deficiencies and problems that were not fixed by nutes or PH, I found tons of little critters rummaging just below the top of the medium. Given that I am this far into flower I opted dry out the top layer of medium and do a 1:4 ratio of h2o2 and water treatment. Step two will be to apply a liberal dressing of Diatomaceous earth, I'm hoping this will give me enough time to complete the last few weeks of these Lemon Potions. The root aphids have started to take a toll on my second LPA plant, it's showing deficiencies and bud development has slowed. The healthier and more bud dense LPA is also infested but seems to be less affected at this stage. A week 3 top dressing of "Launch" was applied this week as well. Since this is the last top dress application for this grow I will be trying to dry out the top layer of medium as much as possible by watering via the bottom of the fabric pots. This in addition to the DE application should "hopefully" give me more time.