Hey bud nice grow for first time around before reading ur final thoughts I noticed the mites in your images. Those things are such pain in the rear and will slow growth even effect your yield in the end. Seems you dried your stuff in the tent they scattered they only like live plants. I’ve watched them do it on my last cure and torched them with a small flame was fun haha but I would suggest taking your tent apart and giving it a complete wipe down and sanitize it with a disinfectant corners and poles especially places you can’t reach when the tent is assembled. They go into corners and holes, lights anywhere possible in there. They don’t live long without plants but their eggs will survive and they will plague you again and again. Speaking from experience lol I’m dealing with that situation now I didn’t clean well enough and using all new pots and growing medium did nothing. If you see them again I found a good way to kill a good portion of a population fast but will not erase the problem. Try using 1 part alcohol and 9 parts water spay them directly and spray your plants with a mister you see them change colour and die. I would then follow up with the same treatment and maybe an insecticidal soap a few days later. They get immune to the same thing over and over.
Hope it helps you these things been haunting me for awhile but recently found the alcohol water solution to help the best.
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