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So the last week or so I have noticed my pistils dying off. Its almost every bud site that I can tell. I have a hard time getting around in my greenhouse, the plants exploded and I am now noticing I could have done a better job laying out my beds.
Background:
-Greenhouse/Cold frame grow in the foothills of CO
-Homemade soil with compost/Perlite/topsoil/peat moss/ EWC and other organic ferts, dolomite lime.
-Compost teas every other watering. EWC + Commercial Compost + cold compost + molasses + humic acid
-top dress as needed with organic dry ferts.
Possible issues from researching other threads:
-Too hot. Its been getting up to 100 in there for the past couple of weeks. But is been 95 outside so not much I can do there.
-Broad mites. Hope not, but plants look healthy and haven't seen them with my cheap ass 60x scope.
-Thrips, I do have those. Could be them?
-Spraying compost teas, spinosad and azamax. Did preventivie sprays in June with Spinosad and azamax. Just compost tea sprays until a week ago when I noticed thrips. Now I have sprayed spinosad once and azamax last night which was 3 days later. I still found thrips today so I will continue spinosad sprays for a while longer. Sprays killing pistils? Doubtful unless the compost teas did it, since I started spraying after I noticed dying pistils.
-Can soil PH and calcium lockout cause dying pistils? I saw a mention of this in a thread but there wasnt much elaboration. My soil PH was low, 5.5 or so, put dolomite lime in the soil in June. I would think it would have started to help by now.
-Leaves rubbing on pistils from the fan
-Polination. Dont see any herms, I had a male plant but killed it July 24. Some ball sacks where there and looking ready to pop.
I will attach some pics below. So for now, I'm not changing anything and going to keep my current program. Unless I get some helpful insight that tells me otherwise. Please don't tell me I'm done for with broad mites, I need to sleep tonight and I really don't think I have them...
Background:
-Greenhouse/Cold frame grow in the foothills of CO
-Homemade soil with compost/Perlite/topsoil/peat moss/ EWC and other organic ferts, dolomite lime.
-Compost teas every other watering. EWC + Commercial Compost + cold compost + molasses + humic acid
-top dress as needed with organic dry ferts.
Possible issues from researching other threads:
-Too hot. Its been getting up to 100 in there for the past couple of weeks. But is been 95 outside so not much I can do there.
-Broad mites. Hope not, but plants look healthy and haven't seen them with my cheap ass 60x scope.
-Thrips, I do have those. Could be them?
-Spraying compost teas, spinosad and azamax. Did preventivie sprays in June with Spinosad and azamax. Just compost tea sprays until a week ago when I noticed thrips. Now I have sprayed spinosad once and azamax last night which was 3 days later. I still found thrips today so I will continue spinosad sprays for a while longer. Sprays killing pistils? Doubtful unless the compost teas did it, since I started spraying after I noticed dying pistils.
-Can soil PH and calcium lockout cause dying pistils? I saw a mention of this in a thread but there wasnt much elaboration. My soil PH was low, 5.5 or so, put dolomite lime in the soil in June. I would think it would have started to help by now.
-Leaves rubbing on pistils from the fan
-Polination. Dont see any herms, I had a male plant but killed it July 24. Some ball sacks where there and looking ready to pop.
I will attach some pics below. So for now, I'm not changing anything and going to keep my current program. Unless I get some helpful insight that tells me otherwise. Please don't tell me I'm done for with broad mites, I need to sleep tonight and I really don't think I have them...
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