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MojaveMama
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- Jun 10, 2009
I live in the Mojave Desert and do an organic indoor-outdoor grow to utilize the desert sunlight. Out during the day, when it's not too hot, and inside at night. I grow directly into rolling garden carts.
One of the Aurora Indica's (AI) was ready for harvest, all sticky, heavy with bud, trichs 60% amber--yes, I wanted couch-lock--I do a med grow for pain relief.
I chopped her at dusk, piled all the branches on my couch table and began to do a heavy trim while watching TV. In minutes, my arms were covered with APHIDS. OHHHH NOOOOO Mr. Bill!!!!
I check daily for bugs before bringing the plants in for the night, but never thought to check this particular plant closely--meaning, open up the buds and see what was inside. All the other plants in flower--but not that far along--were bug free, and they are growing in the same cart as the AI I chopped.
I rushed them to the kitchen sink, rinsed them as well as I could, and put them on a screen to dry out. I don't worry about mold here in the desert with single digit humidity, and knew they would dry out.
In the morning, they were nicely dried but still alive with Aphids. So I took them outside, and used the strongest water spray setting on the hose to wash them off. I have no doubt I washed off a WHOLE LOT of trichs along the way. But Jeez, no way did I want to be vaping up Aphid corpses, even if I lost a lot of potency by spraying them so hard.
No more bugs, but I'm afraid to look through my scope to see how many trichs are now gone, washed down the drain.
I thought I was home free! And I took a few buds off the top a couple weeks ago to try, and found the high very strong--even though there was little taste, and it was CREEPER smoke. I remember sitting on the couch thinking how disappointed I was that the AI wasn't stronger. And the next thing I remember was being French Kissed by 5 Papillon dogs in the morning, eager for their breakfast.
Now, what I don't understand is why the Aphids were all over that ready-to-harvest plant, and not on the rest of them? Do the sticky, mature buds attract them? They were not all over the other flowering plants, but none were close to harvest. Also not on the vegging plants.
I want to spray all the rest of the plants today, but am concerned about using tap water--full of chlorine and very high PH. I am hoping that if I cover the soil with plastic, then spray--that not too much water will get into the soil. But what about the effects of the unintended foliar application of that crappy water?
Anyone here ever get late-harvest Aphids???
One of the Aurora Indica's (AI) was ready for harvest, all sticky, heavy with bud, trichs 60% amber--yes, I wanted couch-lock--I do a med grow for pain relief.
I chopped her at dusk, piled all the branches on my couch table and began to do a heavy trim while watching TV. In minutes, my arms were covered with APHIDS. OHHHH NOOOOO Mr. Bill!!!!
I check daily for bugs before bringing the plants in for the night, but never thought to check this particular plant closely--meaning, open up the buds and see what was inside. All the other plants in flower--but not that far along--were bug free, and they are growing in the same cart as the AI I chopped.
I rushed them to the kitchen sink, rinsed them as well as I could, and put them on a screen to dry out. I don't worry about mold here in the desert with single digit humidity, and knew they would dry out.
In the morning, they were nicely dried but still alive with Aphids. So I took them outside, and used the strongest water spray setting on the hose to wash them off. I have no doubt I washed off a WHOLE LOT of trichs along the way. But Jeez, no way did I want to be vaping up Aphid corpses, even if I lost a lot of potency by spraying them so hard.
No more bugs, but I'm afraid to look through my scope to see how many trichs are now gone, washed down the drain.
I thought I was home free! And I took a few buds off the top a couple weeks ago to try, and found the high very strong--even though there was little taste, and it was CREEPER smoke. I remember sitting on the couch thinking how disappointed I was that the AI wasn't stronger. And the next thing I remember was being French Kissed by 5 Papillon dogs in the morning, eager for their breakfast.
Now, what I don't understand is why the Aphids were all over that ready-to-harvest plant, and not on the rest of them? Do the sticky, mature buds attract them? They were not all over the other flowering plants, but none were close to harvest. Also not on the vegging plants.
I want to spray all the rest of the plants today, but am concerned about using tap water--full of chlorine and very high PH. I am hoping that if I cover the soil with plastic, then spray--that not too much water will get into the soil. But what about the effects of the unintended foliar application of that crappy water?
Anyone here ever get late-harvest Aphids???
