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@GrimbolTheDruid
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*If anyone read through my GDP diary, this is going to be mostly the same stuff.
So, sad day friends. I got spider mites and had to throw all my plants out. This is what I think happened:
About 2-3 weeks ago I noticed some freckling on the lower leaves. I looked at it and thought it might be a cal/mag issue so I added cal/mag that week and went about my business. I saw it about a week later and it wasn't getting any better so I added more cal/mag. This continued for about 2-3 weeks until I finally took off a leaf and examined it under my microscope. I saw little bugs crawling everywhere and my stomach just dropped. My fiance did some quick research while I was panic ripping leaves off (see pictures) and she correctly diagnosed it as spider mites.
I debated with myself and my close friend and ultimately I decided to throw all the plants in my tent away. I know that there are a lot of people who will say that there are things I could have done to make it to harvest but what it came down to is the people I take care of and personal pride. I consider myself a caregiver and I give away product for free that I am not going to use to my family and close friends. I thought to myself "Would you smoke this?" and when my answer was "ehhh, I don't know", I thought about how it would feel giving it away and immediately made the decision to destroy them. I take an immense amount of pride in my product and this hobby and if I am not going to stand behind it I would rather just start over. I grow from my heart (shout out to the Grow From Your Heart Podcast!) to help people and make sure my family is not getting unsafe product from sketchy people. To spray pesticides in flower that may hurt people and have little bug carcasses in there just goes against that in every way and is just wrong in my opinion if you are giving it away to others. If you are the only one smoking it then it is one thing to take that risk but not with your patients. I want my medicine to help people, not create or exacerbate health issues.
It is also important to note that the mites had moved from my flower tent into my veg space and took over my auto berry as well. Damn things are crafty and fast.
So that is why I made the decision to destroy them all after 3+ months of res changes, pruning, and manifolding on a slow vegging strain. Feel free to chime in with your opinion but I do not regret my decision. I threw out my new clones, mother plant, and auto berry I had on my veg side as well. Shout out to all the other growers out there that do the right thing by their patients. Caregivers > Cash croppers.
For anyone curious, I removed everything from my tent and scrubbed it all with a 20% bleach/water solution. All equipment has been wiped down and stored in the garage away from any organic materials. I will give them until tomorrow (2 days) to air out and dry and then I will wipe it down again with bleach and wait another 2 days. Hopefully that will make sure everything is dead and will not come back next grow. That next grow should start in about a week.
It sucks but sometimes it happens and you gotta be ready for it. Lesson learned. Never bring outdoor plants into your indoor garden even if it is after just a day or two. A bunch of people on here and Reddit warned me and I did not listen. Now I have learned the hard way and it feels like when your parents "told you so" haha.
Thanks to everyone who stopped by along the way. Stay tuned for a new grow coming soon. It is going to be some cool new limited edition Mephisto Illuminautos. I am pretty excited.
Good luck out there and always grow from your heart folks.
-Grim
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@Coopmc
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Beginning 11th week flower going to give her another 5-7 days
Any day now!
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@PatriciaGant
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another one, the next week in the flowering stage of this little beauty. all nutrients are in ger section if not other mentioned all ny manufactures instructions.
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@Dankmark420
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The girls just keeps on Living life and growing more and more for each day😍
We Saw alot of good reviews on the autopot system so we thought we would try it out🙌🏼
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@MrGoonai
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07/06/2025 - Day 98
Short Facts:
- 86 cm tall
- VPD @ 1.0
- Approx. 900 PPFD
- Fungus gnats still there
- Thrips seen
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Sorry for not updating the diary over the past few weeks. I had a medical emergency in the family, which caused quite a bit of chaos.
There’s not much to report — her flowers are getting bigger and bigger. The smell is really special and intense!
It looks like senescence is starting. She has lost some color in her leaves and is now turning more yellow. Just to be safe, I added a small amount of Epsom salt.
And of course, there are still problems:
The fungus gnats are still around, although there are far fewer than before. I’d say their numbers are down by about 80% compared to the peak, so at least some progress has been made. I’m still fighting them and have ordered more predatory mites.
Unfortunately, I also noticed some leaves that didn’t look good, so I took a closer look. The result: I found thrips on both plants. It doesn’t look like a full-blown infestation yet, so I hope I can get it under control. The predatory mites should help, and I’ve also ordered some green lacewing larvae to support the fight and hopefully wipe them out.
This whole situation is really frustrating. I recently had to deal with thrips on one of my biggest Alocasias, and I’ve been battling a persistent aphid infestation on my largest Dieffenbachia for weeks now.
I’ve never had this many issues with pests before.
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@Natrona
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Fractal week
Week 20 8/11-17
For my outside ladies, Opium, Auto Opium, Fractal, and Lemon Cake not much changed. They continue lovin life outside. These ladies are maturing as many fans are yellowing and falling off.
Temps are comfortable following Storm Debby, in the 80s with low humidity. Buds are fattening up, trichomes are minimal at this time but some fragrance is starting to be noticed.
These ladies had a long vegetation phase. They germinated April 1 so I could get them hardened off before I went on vacay. They had basically 4 months of veg and the colas are already large, trichomes forming and with 2 more months to go, my expectations for these are heavy yields and sticky dense buds.
Fractal had her spa day and had heavy defoliation of her voluminous fan leaves. It took me from 9:30 to 3:30 to trim her. Oh, and there are so many feeder and sugar leaves remaining, She will be a b!tch to trim at harvest. . weeks ago I indicated that I used peony cages ass a scrog, however, a scrog would have kept the colas beneath the grid.
Thank you @DivineSeeds
Thanks for the visits, likes and comments, I appreciate all the plant love💚.
Have fun & love what you grow 💚
Sending you good vibes of love, light, and healing 💫
💫Natrona 💫
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@Organic473
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She got defoliated this week…I’m in love with her branching structure. My first time growing with extra hours of light to extend veg is working.
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@GREENPHOENIX6262
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Week 1 Flower 09/04
Everything is running smoothly
Introduced NPK Phosphorus - Potassium
Scrog net dropped - Flowering evenly.
Veg nutes stopped.
*Mimosa (1&2) end of week recap -09/09
Both plants are in early flower and proceeding accordingly.
Nute feeds remain the same.
Plants have grown in height approximately 5inches.
Moderate defoliation on the bottom half of both the plants
Will LST to trellis next coming week.
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@dauntless
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Week 5 started July 24, 2022
Growth is still strong into week five, I see no pre flowering, I think that is because she started really slowly due to me getting used to this new light, etc.
July 27, 2022
Smells like lime sherbet up in here. LST, light defoliation to get some light on the lower colas. Really watered in today for the first time soaking the media, she is stretching and I see maybe some hairs for pre-flower - hope not too too soon though, I'd like more height than nine inches before she fully stretched
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A week with lots of activity from my side, from the Gorilla's side, not so much. She stays behind and I can't find any other reason than genetics/seed quality. She is in exactly the same conditions as the other girls. I'm letting her do her thing. She will give some weed, well see how much. Maybe she is a late-bloomer. She does look lush and healthy so we do not understand but are learning. I put in the scrog net since her roommates need it and lowered the lights and started giving more flowering feed.
The light is still awesome, the amount it puts out. This SP- 3000 rocks and, wallet permitting, we will go for a second one. @MarsHydroLED might be so happy with the amount of coverage we give them, they'll send us another one 😏
If you haven't seen it yet and you are in the market for new gear, check out the Black Friday super sale on www.mars-hydro.com!!
We are gonna see what happens coming weeks with this strain. So far I am a bit disappointed and didn't expect this from this strain. We will never know if it was the age of the seeds or something else.
What I do know is, it was the last time I use a third party seedbank, it is apparently too hard to keep fresh stock with too many strains. Until breeders put a production date o the packaging. Isn't it time someone said that?
Cause lets keep it real, we are talking seeds that in any other case would have a cost of production of fractions of cents per seed. We pay what? 3 to 5 to maybe even 20 dollars a seed for an exceptional strain?
Is it then too much too ask to put a friggin expiry date on the package? Or store them cooled?
The breeder that does that and arranges a deal with third-parties that overstock can be sent back, packaging recycled, in exchange for fresh stock. Like any other fresh trade.
For an industry making what, a billion worldwide, it is remarkable how many are still in the stoner with a garage / 80's trailer park, backwater funfair warranty, kinda customer service.
Me: i grow organic weed for 30 years, these seeds were old
Seed dealer: Yes but you failed to do a raindance on the rising moon, no refund.
Me: but its for cannabis?
Weed industry: Yes why we charged you double!
Me: wow no germination after paying 20 bucks for seeds?
Industry: They are all stoners, they won't notice....
Me: but this bong is made from toxic plastics?
Headshop: yeas but it has this crumbling image of a leaf, 20 dollar!
Can they get their shit together? For god's sake, I've seen crack dealers with better PR and customer care.
Someone do sumtin, take us out of the car boot era please?
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@BobtheBUDbuilder
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Green crack is over 34 inches while the La chems around 24. Next time i do a diary i will do each plant differently.
Light height is 12 inches from highest colla which belongs to GC1. And let me say wow. Not only did she bounce back but she has went back to outgrowing all the other plants with stride. If a pro grower had this seed she would have got her own 3x3 cause that is a 1 pound plant.
So.. I flushed TD2, GC2 and TD1. Nothing major just about 3 gallons fush each. Most of the ppm readings where already low. Its a good idea to flush out the soil. Already the lime green color is gone from gc2. Td2 is starting to frost golden brown. So far all the plants are on the road to good health.
My ppm is around 600 but going to bump up to 900. We will see. We did the final defoliate. Mainly cleaned up the bottom of the plants and a few of them got pruned. Also cleaned out the tent and wiped down and moved fans around.
-GC1 has grown almost 20 inches this week. Insane. I am about out of room in my tent. My light is near max and the colas are 10 inches away. Just going to have to deal with the fox tail later on those sadly. Any advice message me. Td2 has grown a few inches only in 2 weeks but the buds are fattening up. The La Chems finally started stretching. I am guessing 3 or 4 weeks on td1 and 2 weeks after gc and la chems. We will see.
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2/17:
I spent a little time rearranging today. I bought some 32" x 14" plastic ventilated storage shelves and cut the legs down on two of them so I have some different-height platforms for the shorties in the garden. I should also be able to easily flush 6 plants in 5 gallon pots, or 9 plants in 3 gallon pots at a time now, that's a win!👈
2/18:
I debated whether to feed or not, and settled on watering them with about 1/2 gallon each. including bembe, cal-mag, signal, humic acid, and a little beastie bloomz.
The new dehumidifier is pulling about a gallon and a half per day from the air, so I should be able to feed them in a couple of days.
I've reached the ceiling again with my lights. Both plants are budding up now.
2/19:
Rainy day outside, so I'm pulling in 99% humidity, plus the pots are still petty saturated, but the new dehumidifier is keeping up. RH is holding at about 45% today.👍
2/20:
Day 31 of flower...the tall one grew another couple of inches overnight! Damnit!😟 After emptying the closet (again) today and supercropping more branches (and some of the same branches again), a semi-solution occurred to me that allowed me to raise the lights another 3-4 inches! Now I'm truly maxxed out...
Not a very stable strain..just look at the difference in the two I grew...
I really needed everybody to finish in the same week so I could get my Spring autos going...😶
I'm still hoping that they will get their groove-on and finish by the EHD(3/11), but it's not looking possible for the taller one at this point...
The shorter one is starting to smell really nice...faint, but funky.
I took photos and videos of all the plants today since I had to empty the closet and it wasn't a feeding day.
2/21:
I fed them today with about 3/4 gallon each including beastie bloomz, tiger bloom, big bloom, signal, bembe, and cal-mag...no grow big this time.
2/22:
The short one continues to pack on the pistils, but the taller one is slow as hell....😟
2/23:
I ordered some Terpinator because I'm not so sure about Signal's efficacy at this point....I'm usually dealing with odors more by now..😕
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3/3 MONDAY 12 am. They are doing great, the supplemental lights are helping. they cost about 60 for the AC Infinity germination kit. I think the 2 lights are enough so it’s cheaper to get another Germination setup with the lights for my 2.8x2.8 tents. 3pm they all took quite a bit of water. feeding into the bottom of the container is very beneficial to the plants. Wish I would’ve known about that sooner I made a video of how I do it.
3/4 4am looking good. 130pm
3/7 4am looking great, new way of watering works better, dont need to water every day now.
1pm give them all water did the heavy watering. They shouldn’t need water tomorrow not until Sunday. They are looking good. I raised the secondary light up a couple of inches. She was causing too much growth lower down in the canopy. The AC Infiniti lights are incredibly powerful at 15 W two of those are more than enough. I’m gonna get two more sets of them for each tent.
4pm Witches Wedding needed work she had twice the nodes I originally thought, so I topped her down to 4 colas, they are very tight internal spacing. She is in with the Trailer Park grow now with a Mix Pack Auto that didn't flower or I made a mistake. If I accidentally got Fas Bud photos instead of Autos it is still like winning the lottery!!!!
3/8 230am I topped her twice and did WAY more cutting back but NO problems, she's looking great. 130pm no water today. 👍👍
3/9 Withces Wedding is in Tent 4 veging. They are doing great. Raised the Aux lighting up a few inches it was causing huge bud formation in the wrong place. Absolutely amazed at how well the little AC Infnity nursery light works, it comes on gentle not all at once. I will have to buy the whole Germination Kit for the light to do this setup in the other 2 grow tents now!!! EVERYTHING HAS TO MATCH!!!!! its not just for cool looks so my Tents look like Star Wars robots if I have to move the plants even a little bit of a difference in lighting can flip them to males and also to be consistent to prevent spills and stupid accidents .
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Día 43
La variedad Tropicana no engordó nada. Los cogollos son flacos. Muy firmes y llenos de resina. Pero son chiquitos. Incluso en la que hice ni corte ni LST. Así que será algún tema del fenotipo. La Polaris al vontrario, tiene cogollos grandes y está demorando un poco más que la Tropicana. De todos modos, se ve que las dos están sacando muchos tricomas. Haber vuelto a usar EMRO hizo una diferencia enorme en el resto de solución que queda en el depósito al finalizar la semana. Con EMRO sale transparente. Sin EMRO sale llena de restos de raíces. Y con sólo 1ml/L. Ahora le puse 2ml/L, ya que la próxima semana es el lavado, así que ya que está que li pie bien a fondo. Incluso pensé en usar EMRO este lavado cómo experimentación. Así que posiblemente haga eso. Seguramente tenga que cortar una antes que la otra. Pero también lo voy a ir viendo.
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Love the strain. There was heat stress, and for such much light 2x2 tent would be better. After curing: Tasty as hell grape "cold" flavour, body tranqulizing high, after few hits from the bong its a good idea to chill and watch a movie. Absolutley love the smoke in the end, from bag appeal to high :)0
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@rhodes68
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1/3/20 Week 9!
Fade has begun on both plants, some amber hairs on Annie but she aint there yet.
Belle is finishing up begin flush Monday.
Its getting good...
1/4 Entirely on the Peak finisher 15ml/gal 6.1PH see how they react, expecting some increase in current production as its rumored to work better if its the sole nuet.
Belle has been moved back into the Veg tent as its sole occupant to finish there giving some badly needed room to the Flower tent. Annie has been raised for a level canopy.
1/6 Swapped tent positions with Belle and Annie, think Annie will benefit more from the increased light for a couple of days. Belle in flush.
1/9 Both are in flush to end the week, no PH just tap water so 7.2-ish 220ppm
Getting some pics of the buds if the camera pulls it off to start week