Romulan Clone 2019

What an experience. Hopefully some of y’all learned a thing or two about mites and how to save some bud. Other than general overall quality, I don’t really produce massive giant nugs anyway, you’d never know the problems I had. Here was the series of treatments: - entering flower, I had no supplies. All I had was 90+% ethyl alcohol, moonshine, so I sprayed Romulan before stretch. This at minimum discourages, or kills some pests. Not effective or thorough, and high chance of leaf damage - the mites exploded overnight, instant cobwebs on other plants, despite me already ordering ladybugs. The ladies were dropped into a festing hot zone where they feasted for a week or two. I highly encourage maintaining ladybugs as the best cannabis pest prevention. A few pointers: when you order them, they are tired! They are awaking from a cold induced hibernation, and have starved. They need some honey in very shallow dish, but also water! I did not provide enough shallow water, and many crawled out of the lights in search of hydration. Make sure to cover your output holes, and preferably any fan intakes with mesh or cheesecloth or something. The benefit here are some of these ladybugs hang around long after harvest. - I live in the Maritimes in Atlantic Canada, I put the plants outside for a week before harvest. The intense heat, night cold swing, massive rains, abundance of predators, wiped most of the mites out before I ever harvested. If you live in a hotter climate, or one where spider mites are common outside, well this won’t work. My plant probably was confused with light cycles, but it was a sacrifice. Too much time would have caused problems (maybe). - lastly, the most important step, budwash. I added a really intense first step, usually I just do the last two bowls, and its very quick. I would perform this for every harvest. But for major pests, I wanted to do a thorough cleaning. Note this probably did scrub some flavour and trichomes (more residue in the tub after, and it clearly smelt like it the flavour of the weed), but otherwise I would have trashed the bud. The steps are below: Step One: 1 cup of hydrogen peroxide, three tabespoons of baking soda, three tablespoons of lemon juice, 20 Liters of water. Step Two: baking soda, lemon juice, water. Step Three: water. In this case I only snipped the crowns and anything that looked dense and edible, and tossed it in the big tub. I really dunked my arm and sloshed everything around, fan leaves and all. Then I wet trimmed as usual. If there possibly anything left, I wasn’t put off or psyched out anything it was clear after a week outside they were clean, the hydrogen peroxide certainly killed everything. After trimming I dunked and swished it in the second mix. Then did the same and rinsed it in the water. Then hang to dry. Voila. Even after the intense wash there are plenty of trichomes, and no mites or anything gross.