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Ok, let's deal with the cleaning up since she's not ready for harvest. Insides, anything smaller than a nickel, and anything that's heavily shaded needs to be removed. If you look up how Medjool dates are farmed, you'll start to get an idea of what's going on. Basically the principle is this: the plant only has so much energy to spend, question is where is it gonna spend it? We'd like it to spend its energy on the best flowers, so by removing those poor sites we're forcing the plant's choices here.@Seamaiden, thanks. Sorry that last photo probably wasn't the best to use. That particular leaf had been off for over 24 hours before I took the picture. Meant to look at it under the microscope and got side tracked with family stuff.
Unfortunately, all of those pics were uploaded from my phone.
Overall the rest of the plant looks pretty healthy(at least to me, still new to growing).
I found what I think might be the problem/culprit and will post that later when I can use my comp.
Not sure about the Revegging. They had a pretty constant light cycle but again still new do maybe. I tapered down the extra light I have in the green house and have them on a 12/12 time now. They all seem to be doing well in early flowering. Just took some more photos a moment ago.
As far as cleaning up I wasn't sure how much to do since they all have a ton of pre flowering and early flowering sites going on. Not sure what will take away from the final results.
The main things on that pic were the egg sacs, they look like little pearls. All of the other spider mite pics I found had very few if any eggs in them and the eggs are usually the second thing you see after the initial light colored speckling on the tops of the fan leaves.Doc, you mite want to circle the one mite in that photo. I don't see a lot of sign of spider mites, but there are definitely some sort of bug in that plant. I find myself wondering about fungus gnats.
The leaf looks physically scorched and the plant appears to have gone through a heavy revegging period, and that reveg can cause weird twisting and leaf deformation as well. She could use a little cleaning up on the insides, too.
I like to mix the iso 1:1, but others will dilute it much more, something like 1T/gal water. I really don't know how it works against the mites, just that it's very effective immediately, but must be reapplied every 2-3 days for at least two weeks, because it doesn't stick around, once it's evaporated it's gone.good to know. I knew there was something going on but wasn't exactly sure what might be going on.
Would the isopropyl be for drying them out? Do you dilute it at all or just pure alcohol?
Thanks I'll look up the dates thing. I've seen a lot of people really trim their plants down so it focuses on a few areas of producing during flowering. I just wasn't sure since some are in early flowering. Didn't want it to shock the plant.
Yeah I'm wanting to grow from seed on the next go round.
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