Honestly you have more experience than I do right there... I delt with en once at a buddies... BTI and yell sticky traps also cleaned em up pretty fast.
We have almost every possible pest here where we live and it can be a constant battle if you don't stay on top of it.
Running GrowSafeTM, Lost coast plant therapy, and past week added in monterrey take down garden spray. Have a bunch of traps. I feel in my case the only thing that kept the colony alive was the fact that I didn't put a sandpaper or perlite layer on the top thus they would lay larvae. I no longer have fully grown adult fliers but tiny tiny fliers. I have sand I will be topping the medium with today and hopefully I can eradicate them entirely. I had left all the ugly leaves on until last night and decided to clip them all off. Visually the plants look much better now. Was hesitant as I still feel they may damage new leaves now.
I also hear that cinnamon works really amazing to repel the pests and so do certain other plants and their terpenes.
You will still get salt air, but it won't be as bad at your distance. Do you ever have to hose the salt off your car? That's one way to tell.
Yeah thankfully no salt residue where I am. Definitely the few blocks nearby the beaches do, but in the winter generally every morning has fog.
We all had to learn somehow. I much prefer organics. The docs had me taking a small pharmacy 3x daily and I was drooling. I changed to Weed and I feel better and I'm not a drooling idiot... but it took time, just like learning to grow takes time. You are doing well, keep it up.
Glad to hear it helps you. I can imagine being on meds for a long time isn't too great. Yeah a leak problem would suck. I'm wanting to crop steer and purchased an automated watering set up, but the leakage issue is still a still a bit sus and I also really wanted to get basic watering dialed.
Growing your own is the best way.
But do you have an EC meter to show the solids content of your feed water? Are you matching the amounts of supplements to fit the age of the plant window? Most feeding charts will have a column for the solids level for each stage of growing. To over simplify, keep solids content under 250ppm for seedlings, increasing slowly to as much as 1200ppm in flower.
Stick to your guns here biggerbud, auto's are too fragile for transplanting. This is industry consensus not an opinion.
I've always been advised to let the PH drift a little as long as it's between 5.9 and 6.5 (outdoors) as some nutes are only taken up by the plant at specific PH values. Silica is one I use to strengthen stems that requires a PH of 6.0 to work. Each is a little different which is why the drift works well if your feeding complex nutes so the PH is good for most. The Silica application is the only one I do at exactly 6.0 PH. Otherwise, let it drift within limits.
