Evening tokers and growers, hope your all fine and dandy. We've now reached week 8 and the plants are still alive, they have the odd problem, like the wind burn, and the constant migration of Thrips into my grow, and it's this that I wan't to draw attention to. Nearly every indoor grow I've had in the last two years has been attacked by Thrips, I've done my best to delete them permanently. Well this round I decided to roll the dice, not do any skirt lifting or leg shaving, but to let nature take it's course. I arrived at this decision by accident after sitting in the garden looking at the bitten leaves on my veg. Yep, thrips. But the strange thing is, the Thrips only ate their way up to the second set of bottom leaves, and it's a well known fact that Thrips attack damaged or weak looking leaves and plants, so I decided to leave my lovely ladies to the ravages of the Thrips, and what happened? Nothing much, the Thrips ate up to the bottom two sets of leaves, just like they did in the veg garden. So now I'm thinking that I should leave all the bottom leaves on to keep the Thrips at the bottom of the plant, and yellow card as many as I can to control the numbers. My problem is not so much the thrips them selves, as the odd bug exploding in a joint or bong is not the end of the world, maybe the end of another shirt though, or even the damage really, as those leaves are cut off during trimming, it's the bug sprays I have problems with, I really don't like spraying any thing I eat or smoke, based on what the manufacturer says is safe for me. So like I said, I let it ride, and have to say that I'm not disappointed with the results, I've done a vid so you can see the full extent of the damage, and to be fair, the thrips kept them selves to them selves. I've not seen any difference is bud size or growth, both the same, with or with out leaves, so next round the plants are going skirts down and hairy legs. lol Don't know how well the video came out, still not got round to getting another camera. lol So here it is make up your own mind.
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All six plants, top view, you can see the wind burn in both corners where the fan stalls to change direction.
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Buds are still fattening up, some nice dark trykes starting to put in an appearance. Loupe shots next week maybe.
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In the side shot you can see the buds still have room to fatten a little more at the tops, maybe another two weeks to finish, or some of them, they're all Indica doms, so should finish with in a week of each other, can't wait. Will have to wake up the replacements to fill the flower space, all new varieties to me, and one unknown. So some thing to look forward to, and a bit of intrigue. lol
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I'm trying a group of five on the next run, just to see if I'm over subscribed in the flower space. I've had 3 plants in a row in a similar shaped space and filled that, so 5 should be a breeze. In the five will be two Zskittlez, one Lemon Amnesia, one Sticky Fingers, and the unknown plant? If you look back, I had a pack of seeds that you had to grow to see which plant you had grown, then match it to the photo on the packet, well only one survived, so don't know which one until it goes into flower, then I can match it's mug shot. lol
And that's it folks, all up to date with what's happening on my patch, keep toking folks.