Since when new microscope arrived, daily.
New tool and learning experience.
Love the bud porn, too.
HOLY SHT
I got troubles in my tent.
Invasion?
WTF are these?
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Oh no!! aphidsā¦ 
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Ew lol. I aint never seen bugs like that before. That sucks but its kinda cool also. Hopefully its a quick fix.
@Low time to release the asian lady beetles!!!
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Aphids are a tough oneā¦ lots of info here and people dealing with them.
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How do you prevent them? Is there particular variables in an environment that would cause them to occur?
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Man I wish I could answer you with a confident answerā¦ I havenāt dealt with themā¦
Maybe some other folks have answers
@kaptain3d @JaneQP @Caligurl @Lacewing @HippieRunner1 @AfgVet @ChittyChittyBangin @OGIncognito @Budbrother @merlin44
Wish I could tag more
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Hope i dont run into them either, i was just curious if there were some basic checkpoints to keeping them away haha. Thank you for inviting everyone though, this should be interesting 
. We might both accidently learn something 
.
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IPM is frequent measures taken to prevent pests and or fungi/mold. Weāve been doing a fungicide spray once a week during veg and come flower i will be doing fungicide and pest prevention. I think the product for bugs Iām going to use is azamax by GH. The fungicideā¦ I canāt remember the name there are tons of products out thereā¦ I havenāt sprayed plants, just pots and grow area. Havenāt had a pest problem in a long time and I want to keep it that way.
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So far all ive done is spray a little 50/50 mix H2o/h2o2. Lol peroxide and water. On the pots and the floor of my tent.
And turned loose a couple dozen lady bugs of course.
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I dealt with some this year. Spray, spray, and did I mention spray? Also spray the top of your soil.
I rotate through different products. Captain Jack dead bug, orgnasheild, pure crop, and some sample I got at a cannacon that can also be used as a soil drench. I also water every week or so with
Mosquito bit juice with a teaspoon of rosemary oil and a couple drops of liquid soap to emulsify.
Good luck!
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@DEEPDIVERDAVE look at 
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@DEEPDIVERDAVE all I can say is try and rinse them off with plain water first. I canāt remember how big your grow is but water will knock them down THEN you can spray. I love PureCrop1 and you can add other things but, for aphids, those should be fairly easy to get rid of with PureCrop1 alone and you can spray right up until harvestā¦ they are much easier than spider mites!
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Nothing more to add from me. 
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Thatās good stuff, Iāve used it because itās local to me too. I have not used it specifically for the problem at hand. Idk if you can spray foliage with it or not.
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Itās just Spinosad, yes you can spray foliage. Oops looked closer, that one is soap and fats. Can be spreader up to 2 wks from harvest.
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Iād assume the fats kill and the soap deters?
@DEEPDIVERDAVE
Keep that neem away from any flowers!
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Soap and fats are surfactants that drown the bugs. It clogs up their breathing
Also donāt by pre mixed like above. Itās all bout concentrates and combining with the soap
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Both of those are Spinosad above. I buy the cheapest concentrate brand
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Like diluted milk and gnats.
Article about neem
Cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome (CHS), a rare cyclical vomiting condition, is said to be triggered by too much cannabis. But many believe this isnāt trueāand instead say the painful bouts of vomiting come from other factors, such as pesticide contamination.
Recently, the idea that neem oil (a very common pesticide) could be responsible for CHS has become a popular theory.
But is this theory plausible? While plenty of rare allergies and sensitivities to cannabis certainly existāand some say that neem oil is the most likely causeāmedical experts and CHS sufferers have concluded the theory simply doesnāt hold water. So what is the cause of CHS?
Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome Defined
Doctors first identified cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome in 2004 when a new set of symptoms starting showing up for some cannabis users.
These patients came to emergency rooms complaining of recurrent episodes of intense nausea, vomiting for hours, and unusual body temperature shifts. Prolonged vomiting dehydrates the body, and in rare cases can lead to death from kidney failure.
Strangely, for all of these patients, the symptoms could be relieved by taking hot baths or showers.
Blood toxicology showed no drugs in these patientsā systems, other than cannabis. Most sufferers used large amounts of cannabis dailyāgrams of extract per day, or several ounces of flower per month. So doctors suspected heavy use might play a role, and recommended stopping use entirely to see if that helped. Most of these patients stopped their use and had their symptoms subside. But those who continued using cannabis, continued to be ill.
Suddenly CHS was a thing. Even if the mechanism wasnāt fully understood, there was a clear profile of symptoms that was unlike anything else.
By 2012, more cases of CHS began to appear in the medical literature. While it is considered extremely rare, the exact numbers are hard to pinpoint. Some experts like Dr. Ethan Russo note there are around 200 identified cases of CHS in the world, ābut it is much more common than that.ā For example, there are online message boards and Facebook groups dedicated to CHS with thousands of members who believe they may have this condition.
A Neem Oil Theory of CHS Emerges
Despite the association between stopping cannabis and CHS symptoms going away, many remain unconvinced CHS can be a reaction to cannabis overuse. Some argue that the condition is actually the result of pesticide poisoningāspecifically from neem oil, a pesticide commonly used by commercial and home gardeners.
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