First 3 pics are from 4/6...... sorry for the mess, laundry room was packed so I have clothes thrown everywhere, but I had to take some pix since ive been slacking
overall plant was doing pretty damn well...... except for the spider mites that I should have noticed about 2 weeks ago. I didn't tke any close ups of the damaged leaves or of any of the mites or there eggs. ive never had problems with spider mites before, but yet this is ony my 2nd ever grow.
4/8
I looked up how to get rid of the lil devils, but they don't seem too easy to be free of. So, I did a simple mix of about 40% tap water and 60% rubbing alcohol ( the alcohol bottle had cannabis stems packed in there and had been soaking for about a year and a half, a simple cannabis rub for my arthritis on bad days, it was the only bottle of alcohol I had lying around :( ). I drenched both of the plants entirely from top to bottom, tops and undersides of all the leaves. I let the plants dry out in from of a big fan after they soaked for a few minutes. After they dried out I shook the hell outta the plants to get the lil buggers that died from the spray off and to get the weak and malnourished leaves to fall off too as not to have any dead or decaying leaves in the grow room. I also cleaned entire grow room once I took both plants out
Next day ---4/9---, I went to my local hydro store and asked the owner about an organic insecticide for mites I can use for my medicinal plants in flower. He told me about a product he recommends called
azamax by GH that he sells to our local dispensary. I bought it on good hopes and headed over to the dispensary for a lil 411.
I was told the best way to use it was to start when the plant was small and spray it down once every week for the entire life cycle regardless of an infestation on bugs or not, I would drastically minimize the chance of them even showing up. One of those things u wished u knew about moonths ago :bookworm:.
Anyway, I bought the bottle of
azamax and sprayed it later that night before the lights turned out
4/11
I removed most of the worst leaves (which filled a plastic solo cup when packed down). I know its not good to remove leaves from autoflowers, but I felt it was more of a necessity. Spider mites are no joke. We'll see how she turns out though, huh? im still very optimistic about the N.L. potential :pompus:
