I was able to save six of the older plants that were involved, but I wasn’t out of the woods yet.
The evening in November 2020 that my
green cleaner arrived I went to work spraying plants and transplanting to new soil. While I had the plants outside I took a spray bottle I’d filled with (Clorox only) and sprayed down the entire veg, choking and throat burning from the fumes I eventually finish wiping down everything I’d sprayed. I quickly bring in the six plants I’d sprayed with
green cleaner because it’s 30F outside and dark which is interrupting their day cycle. I get them situated in their newly bleached home and the waiting game begins to see if this
green cleaner is going to work.Id wait 3 days and apply another round of
green cleaner as ipm and repeat over the next two weeks also using bees 3 in 1 for ipm. Around the third day I noticed hundreds of little bugs dead on the floor of the veg room. I assumed them to be fungus gnats, this is also around the time I noticed the edges of the leaves on the plants looking as if their scorching/burning. I immediately put 1+1+1 together and got 3. See, the Clorox only that I sprayed in the veg I didn’t rinse it out, I only wiped it out (because I was in a rush to get the plants back in out of the cold and darkness) leaving all residuals behind. I smelled Clorox fumes for at Least a week and a half after I sprayed. The fumes are what killed all those fungus gnats I found dead and the fumes were what was causing the scorching on the leaves. I swear if it’s not one thing it’s another!! One problem at a time though and let’s get this room in order. I removed the plants again and this time I took my hose and sprayed the room down to remove the leftover Clorox. I wiped it down and dried it afterwards, waited a few days and transplanted the ladies into fresh soil. It’s been 2 months and no sign of any mites. It was because of what I went through here in veg, is why I knew what to do with the plants the were finishing in flower that had the mite infestation.
Attached is a pic of the dried brittle leaves during the chlorine toxicity stage and a pic of the plants in recovery.