Item not going to use any more I got some Diatomaceous Earth and gave it hell in there…lol
Can’t stand them dam things. They seem to pop up every time item about to harvest passes me off to no end.
I’ Lloyd just have to clean them up the best I can at harvest. I’ll wait an extra week if I have to.
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Will
Hi I have got a major problem an I’m close to harvest but I want my plant to go as far as it can I have like 15 1 Oz buds on one plant an in the stem it looks like little black spots an it’s trying to heal but it’s not any ideas what to do an what it is?
I it sounds like spider mites. They leave behind little black dots after they eat if you know what I mean.
I had a real problem just before my harvest with them. I took my spray bottle filled with water and put some dish soap in there and sprayed the hell out of my plants spraying under the leaves also …problem solved. you can gently wash or rinse them off after harvest. The soapy water suffocate s them litter critters.
But check and see if you do. Have them first…
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Will
I like that soapy water method, makes sense, like when I used some neem oil, I gave it the double whammy of standard regular dish soap, but I didn’t realize dish soap alone would or could be enough.
It worked for me and it will for you. And it won’t hurt you when you smoke if you don’t get it all off. Heck I just did / a quick rinse done.
Will
Rinsing?..You mean, just after you harvested the stalks, that you rinsed everything off just before drying and curing?
Yes…u got it. Just rinse gently that’s it then hang them babies up. P… S soak them for say 30 seconds.
Will
Thrips leave black poop too, they have a longer body than spider mites. The DE will kill them also. You need to get something to see what they are, 50x magnifieing glass. They are cheep at Amazon. I bought some , mighty wash. It’s made for spider nights, and you can use it the day before you harvest. They make a Power wash also that will wash off the residue.
Tom
So far, I haven’t seen a reinfestation of spider mites, but I need to stay watchful of course, and haven’t sprayed anything in bout three weeks. I wished ny buds were bigger, I mean, by October 15, it will be two months, but hey, that is a ways away, and maybe then they will be ready for harvest.
I mix up my own soil now David, I try to keep very low in nutrients.
What you are use in is fine. Mostly for seedlings that’s good.
Other wise how is everything?
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Will
If you are talking to me, garrigan, my flowering plants have pretty sizy buds, but I don’t think in the number one would see in pics by the pros, but they are getting bigger, apart from minor mistakes that has likely affected the bud sizes, like not adding in enough nitrogen till the leaves started getting yellow and yellow spotted on some of the plants, or too cold or even maybe too hot sometimes. I just sprayed my vegging plants with neem oil again, just to be safe, cause I found a small black beetle underneath a pot, unsure if it was a plant pest, who knows how they get inside the tent inside the shed, but I don’t see beetles all over my plants. My problem is I have the max number of pots in the 4x8 foot tent, wished I had fewer, and I wished I could just flower them too and get it over with and keep the numbers low in the future. I’m gonna set up hps in the next couple days and flower that tent too, I don’t seem to have much choice, they have gotten too big, and I don’t want to crop them down again.
Sorry about the misdirected post there budbd
It seems I can’t add any pic’s. Very strange.
Any way you can add nutrients the last two weeks that will fatten up and put weight on them ladies of yours. Not sure if you knew or not. If you need some let me know and I’ll send you the link to some awesome shut dude.
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Will
Yes they will get a lot fatter, I can’t believe how they got so much fatty. Seemed like over night lol. 
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The buds I cut off today I used a ice chest with water and Hydrogen peroxide. I used about 3 gallons water and a cup And half of the hp. Just put them in and dunk a few times, then I let them sit in there for about 20 min. Like Will said
you can see a little scum floating on top. Hope that helps.
Tom
Yeah, I’ll study that mix of dunking buds, cause I think it will be a constant struggle till the dead of winter on bugs so I wouldn’t doubt I’ll be spraying real close to harvest something, like I think I might, —maybe have minor spider mite infestation again on the flowering plants, so I sprayed with dish soap and pure virgin neem oil mix, …but mainly it is no surprise that spider mites are in the shed, cause all around my home are infestation of spider mite I started spraying yesterday, I mean, if I sprayed everything around my home, I would not only be working every day(two days to spray, then respray the third day, and on again two or three or more times or constantly), and then I would go broke buying either neem oil or whatever, I mean, I swear I heard years ago that they introduced a certain type of spider mite near the ocean sand dunes to control european beach grass brought in over a century ago that damages critical bird habitat, so where I live, I mean, they have indeed introduced that, even a fungus(probably what has damaged my strawvberries and other plants),.
I figure I will not harvest for another month, and maybe after I spray a second or third time “just in case” over the next week or so, then afterwards I will use just soap and maybe other oils like either garlic or cinnamon or peppermint(peppermint is way expensive though).
By the way, I finally ordered me a couple magnifyers, a 30x and a 60x to 100x, and unsure if I need a 160x to 200x. I got tired of guessing if there are bugs under leaves…update, well, on another order from hong kong, I decided to add in a $4.99 160x to 200x hand magnifyer that will likely never be used, who knows, so now I will have three in various powers.
That’s good trust me you won’t know witch one to use…lol
You shouldn’t really think about getting some of this D.E
And spread it around your grow inside and outside all around and it don’t cost that much, well worth it
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Will
Spraying neem on buds will taste bad from what I read in here. Use what Will just posted ar least it will wash off. It’s 10 bucks at depot and lowes. If it is that bad I would move plants or stop for a month and cover every Thing we DE of good bug killer. But that’s just me. I’m planning on doing the spry all the grow area I got in back yard then put De on soil
Yeah, I know and have read of the dangers of producing a foul taste using neem oil too close to harvest, and I worry bout it, of course. Well, I just did a follow up spraying, the second spray, with pure virgin neem oil mixed with dish soap, and I feel I have about three weeks left in the grow period, and I am trying to figure out if I can go further, for it to wear off.
I believe this will be the last time I use neem oil for the flowering. I’ll use dish soap from now on, …if I have to. I mean, I couldn’t stand the thought of spider mites eating up the buds, the large buds, at all.
A neighbor just finally had spider mites, but they used a commercial “plant safe” vegetable style 70% neem oil concoction without any soapy substance, likely same as I used on my plants before it ran out, and it damaged the leaves like it did on my vegging plants, but this pure virgin neem oil doesn’t seem to damage leaves. Likely the damage to their leaves, and to mine previous with that store bought stuff was too strong a mix, like where I went to the maximum, …big mistake(seems like it was for that product, four tablespoons per gallon, max, …too much, where pure virgin neem oil I went two tablespoons per gallon.
I have plants inside the home, very young starts, so far I don’t see any infestation, but I am gonna use that robert bergmann anti bug stuff I bought from here, I like it, wished I had it in more quantity, seems to be a great products, …I smell garlic, ha, and some other things of course. Now, garlic is a supposed good anti bug thing, but getting garlic oil, that is gonna be tough if I ever do it, …maybe I will, when I run out of robert bergmanns, take some garlic and press them, get the liquid mixed up with the oils, strain the liquid, etc…
Budbd, don’t know if anyone told you but, if you have a grow room outside of the house and you have spider mites out there. And your starting plants inside you still can bring them in on you plants inside cause they’ll be on you.
So take precautions ok
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Will
Well, its the wierdest thing, that I’ve never had a bug infestation in house, not even the house plants. For all I know, the supposed minor recent bug infestation may have been spots on the leaves from the earlier bug infestation, and when some of the leaves got yellow from lack of nitrate or nitrogen, then I saw some suspicious spots on some of the older leaves, dunno for sure. Right now, I have broken the golden rule,…on cleanliness, where I need to vacuum up all the dead leaves, been negligent, and my other tent is so packed with vegging plants, I’d have to remove all of them to completely clean dead leaves and spilled over soil, I mean, the golden rule is “cleanliness” for a proper grow, as everyone knows. At least the dead leaves are just soaked in neem oil and dish soap.
I am sure I will be in the drying and curing process in bout three weeks, unless my bud gets “smoked” by the bugs first, ha.