Met test
The following plant is going to be used as a "control" in this experiment. This plant was treated with Spectracide two days ago. Then yesterday hit with 5%
PyGanic. I wanted to use Excite R. Its cheaper and stronger but didn't make it in the mail in time. and this was available at WTG in D-town for 60 bucks more a bottle. Ouch! Ran the
PyGanic at 5ml/gl. I will be boosting that to 10ml next treatment. Please note that my colleague and I found live fungus gnat larvae AND flier and tank beetle root aphids chillin out sucking on roots after these treatments. Also, i am using a blackberry curve to take picks. Sad, but its all I have. My partner here is bringing a better cam tomorrow. But its time to get this going. This plant is an untrained, untopped Sour D. It is living with a whole bunch of plants that are suffering from the same ailments. These plants will also be transplanted into 7 gallon bags with a soil mix containing granular Met 52. The stick and peel samples are (off the root ball) : top tape is one day after spectracide and every dot on the tape is a root fucking aphid. Bottom tape is one day after
PyGanic and that has one root aphid. The rest is plant matter with some fungus gnat larvae.
This root ball is brown and hurting.
Top tape has over 500 root aphids stuck to it. My veho zoom scope is broken so you're just going to have to take my word for it. Bottom is fairly clean of bugs but still found live ones on many root balls including the control plant. I expected this since I've been seeing this type of activity over the course of this last year with treatments and what not.
Transplant will happen today and I will post as things develop while monitoring the health of the plant. Also The control plant will no longer receive treatments of any sort while its neighbors certainly will. Any input on this test or recommendations are welcomed. One more thing: The
PyGanic retailed at $175 and I ran it at 5ml and that took a half a 1 qt bottle so I really hope the Met 52 handles business. Otherwise I'm going back to Excite R for like $60 less a bottle for liquid P treatments.