Project Carnal Sage Bloom

(12/17 Day 60/66) Aggressive thrips treatment started: foliar spray/top soil soak of 10ml/gal Neem oil, 5ml/gal of Safer Brand 5118 Insect Killing Soap, (forgot to pH!!!!!!!!!!!!) before lights out. Started to notice some odd def/excess signs and wanted to get to the bottom of it so I flushed. My second carbon filter came in and is now being used as an intake. Performed cable management in the room as well. Will discontinue use of Carboload/bud candy. Adding sugar to a solution with microbes lowers the pH of solutions by almost 1 whole point over 24hrs (at rec ammount) due to increasing microbial life processes with an abundance of food. Microbes produce acidic compounds as a natural part of their life cycle, which is accounted for in most typical solutions, but adding in the carboload without a system tuned to having that drop effects plants severely (plus theres really no benefit even at that....) Mag def spotted today. Will get a CalMg Supplement asap. (12/18 Day 61/67) Second night of aggressive Thrips treatments of: foliar spray/top soil soak of 10ml/gal Neem oil, 5ml/gal of Safer Brand 5118 Insect Killing Soap, (forgot to pH!!!!!!!!!!!!) before lights out. (12/19 Day 62/68) Updated feeding chart with my new nute schedule (FloraKleen obviously for the flush ONLY). The Bud Factor X is nontraditional to add at this point since im not in flower yet, but they were showing a Mag def and my Cal-Mag Xtra wont get in until the 26th. Desperate times. I also bathed (heavy foliar spray) all of the girls in pH'd to 6.55 water. I washed them because I didnt want the pest control interfering with their respiration/transpiration process which can be a major concern. . **A further anecdote on the use of sugars as an additive in growing.** https://cropwatch.unl.edu/research-sugar-application-crops TL;DR: "In conclusion, research has shown no statistical difference among sugar sources when applied to corn or soybeans with no statistical yield increases. Numerous research studies have documented the increase of beneficial insects in fields and plots treated with a sugar-water solution, suggesting application of this solution as a biocontrol method for reducing pest populations. While there is yet much research to be done, sugar does play an important role in inducing plant defense responses and recent studies have shown reduced disease levels in rice after application of sugar prior to pathogen infection." ****Sugar might be a great soil amendment if growing with living soil. Might be a nice experiment to run sometime?**** (12/20 Day 63/69) Foliar spray of 2ml/gal CarboLoad, 2ml/gal Rhino Skin, 5ml/gal Rose Gold Biosurfactant, pH'd to 5.80 applied with 30 min of darkness following application right at lights on.