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Originally thought I only had root aphids. However clones and teens arent growing well since treatment and cant find any RAs. This seemed to spiral out of control when the brand of coco and place of purchase changed.
I have thrown out 3 rounds of veg plants going on 4 and the 5th round (clones) are looking the same. I have been taking cuts off of the mothers which had RAs. The veg room has been emptied, sprayed and mopped with bleach, several times over the past few months.The mothers were separated from the veg room after 2 months of continuing to see a few crawlers around the black pots and on top of coco after a multitude of treatments. Those mothers have finally been dumped now, but I still have clones from them as it was my only option at the time. I went from a 100% clone rate (120+/round) to maybe 50% by the time they seem ready for potting. The bugs and treatments beat up the mother plants. I have tried both treating clones for RAs and not with the same end result. I started taking more clones to combat the depleting survival rate but even though they have roots, the plant growth is severly lacking. These are dialed in strains and know to the day what kind of progress they should make.
They have roots within 14 days, at least the ones selected for potting, then are put into 4" squares in coco/perlite under the same lights.
The plants are slow to drink from this point. I figured it is because they arent rockstar's to begin with anymore. Staring at the calendar, the 4" squares are stepped up into 1 gallon pots of the same coco/perlite as soon as they dry out the squares. This is pretty much the point that they stop drinking and growing. They act light sensitive, and I start playing the "get them to look good for a day game." Slow growing beanstalks, I top them and they barely move on from there, only getting a little taller. The stems get purple and woody, followed by red veins and off color fading leaves, then the splotches on the older leaves. Some leaves start falling off, with no major growth and thats about 6 weeks since clone. They show classic root rot symptoms despite what they were fed and how often. At that point the plants are tossed in hopes that the new round of clones will be better. Which they are not.
I see leaf twist, angry new growth often light green, and red veins creeping in sometimes. The stems get purple and leaves droop sometimes. Yellow sticky pads also catch a fungus gnat here and there, which may have come from contaminated bags of coco. The suspected coco has all been thrown out and replaced with the former bags from the original hydro store. Which is now what the latest round of clones were just potted in.
The plants in the 1 gallons are in the suspected coco and not making progress.
I have thrown out 3 rounds of veg plants going on 4 and the 5th round (clones) are looking the same. I have been taking cuts off of the mothers which had RAs. The veg room has been emptied, sprayed and mopped with bleach, several times over the past few months.The mothers were separated from the veg room after 2 months of continuing to see a few crawlers around the black pots and on top of coco after a multitude of treatments. Those mothers have finally been dumped now, but I still have clones from them as it was my only option at the time. I went from a 100% clone rate (120+/round) to maybe 50% by the time they seem ready for potting. The bugs and treatments beat up the mother plants. I have tried both treating clones for RAs and not with the same end result. I started taking more clones to combat the depleting survival rate but even though they have roots, the plant growth is severly lacking. These are dialed in strains and know to the day what kind of progress they should make.
They have roots within 14 days, at least the ones selected for potting, then are put into 4" squares in coco/perlite under the same lights.
The plants are slow to drink from this point. I figured it is because they arent rockstar's to begin with anymore. Staring at the calendar, the 4" squares are stepped up into 1 gallon pots of the same coco/perlite as soon as they dry out the squares. This is pretty much the point that they stop drinking and growing. They act light sensitive, and I start playing the "get them to look good for a day game." Slow growing beanstalks, I top them and they barely move on from there, only getting a little taller. The stems get purple and woody, followed by red veins and off color fading leaves, then the splotches on the older leaves. Some leaves start falling off, with no major growth and thats about 6 weeks since clone. They show classic root rot symptoms despite what they were fed and how often. At that point the plants are tossed in hopes that the new round of clones will be better. Which they are not.
I see leaf twist, angry new growth often light green, and red veins creeping in sometimes. The stems get purple and leaves droop sometimes. Yellow sticky pads also catch a fungus gnat here and there, which may have come from contaminated bags of coco. The suspected coco has all been thrown out and replaced with the former bags from the original hydro store. Which is now what the latest round of clones were just potted in.
The plants in the 1 gallons are in the suspected coco and not making progress.
