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Hello Bob! Your LOS and the girls are performing amazingly and the colas look sweet and frosty!
I got my tea at hand and I will spray my Shark this time. Also I plan on disinfecting my whole tent after reconstruction and i thought some soda and water wash should do the trick. Or should I smoke the area with sulfur or something? Norcali was talking about intake filter rated for spores, which I think is great idea to limit the unneeded spores/dust in your grow room. UV also kills spores so that's one more reason to shine it on your girls. Use UV protection though! Great stuff here as always, cheers!
Hey there T, thank you thank you.
I have ZERO experience with Sulfur burning other than reading about it; made me look for another treatment!! Not sure where you live but here where I live, there's nothing I can do about mold spores.
I did some amount of research as this pest is common specially in the wine regions in Cali and PacNW. That's how I came up with the Horsetail Fern tea. It's what the organic grapes growers use. In my research I started looking at leaves from plants in VEG and looking at them under a microscope. The mold is there from the get go...it's just biding time waiting for the environment to improve and most importantly I think the plants immune system keeps them at bey as well. Then late late flower time, plants run out of gas and mold gets the green light! Chopping I think makes things even worse.. no more immune system but frosty wet flowers ... perfect for mold. So run fans on the drying plant material ... I hang dry my flowers from a hook and line in my bedroom with a few fans on them 24/7. Aroma therapy...
During flower best to keep air moving adding a fan or 2 may help. I have 4 fans on 10 plants. Yeah the air filter would help a lot when the spores are airborne. The mold spores/PM spores are around certain times of year here. Early-mid fall and into winter time.. all the outdoor plants are covered with it.. so yeah no way to keep it out of the grow room. I monitor RH and used to keep it under 70% RH but now try to keep it under 60%RH if I can.
My only cure I've found so far that mitigated ALMOST 100% was the Horsetail Fern tea sprayed in in VEG and early flower. Kills the early formation of the mold that's been there on the VEG leaves. I can see how that worked with the microscope. Mold looks very similar to Trichomes without the mushroom shape... looks like tiny strands of trichome stalks but its not standing up ... it's laying down all willy nilly trying to cover the leaves.
So I'm going with the Horsetail Fern tea:
"Ounce of prevention worth a pound of cure." Ben Franklin 2/4/1735
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Ok late winter run is ramping up ... finally some decent looking ladies ready for the runway!
Lets run it down!
Snow High - Devils Tit #2 @ 30 days 12/12ish. Both of the DT plants are starting senescence already... getting some color to them. I cloned DT #1 at flip and the clone turned red while she was developing roots. Once in soil and back to 24/0 lighting, the clone is all green now! She will be the new other Mother in da house! I think I have 4 mothers in VEG! hahaha.. they make good flower ladies and/or compost!
DT # 2:
Snow High - Devils Tit #1 @ 36 days 12/12ish
Clone of DT #1 shortly after transplant - like 25 days ago... she was in cloner for a week to get some legs going. This was taken after she started to turn back to green again... but those colors are about what I'm hoping for... red/purple and green with bright green nugs... hopefully!
Devils Tit #1 - another angle starting to build up the frost ... this was a few days ago. She's getting a little yellow. Hopefully red is next. I did water all the ladies with a little kelp meal mixed with some EWC tea & water ... she's been top dressed at flip so nutrients are there in spades. My first run with this strain so not sure what to expect.
I'm going with .... Perfectly normal!
DT #1 again.. Both DT plants are at 5' tall not counting the container... tops the room out.
The Future #1 clone @ 20 days in 12/12ish... she decided to be a shorty @ 48" tall... but the frostiest of all so far.
The Future #1 clone - low down shot
Another pic of Devils Tit #2... she's looking REAL happy:
This is The Future #1 clone another camera another view - lots of pretty little flowers.
Citrus Berry # 1 & #2 far back shot - just starting flower ... I was not impressed with Citrus Berry in VEG... I had a messed up time trying to sex them and ended up transplanting 2 males into the flower room. The other ladies were happy... but a lot of work to chop and trade in 2 more ladies. My fault for trying to get plants into flower too soon. The replacements are int stretch for the last like 10 days and are getting very tall and looking super.. I'm going to be pleasantly surprised with these ladies.
Citrus Berry - Kimbo Kush X Orange Valley OG. I loved the Kimbo I ran last year .. high yielder and big time fire!
Citrus Berry #1 & #2 in the front... DT#2 back left and Chemdawg #1 clone - @ 20 days back right.
Another back up shot.. soon there will be flowers!
Like I always say....wait.... maybe save that one for later!
have a great day
Hope thats okay to ask? I have been wondering awhile... I know its off topic. Thanks again!
and thanks for the kind words! Yeah and feel free to ask questions and join in...
and silliness follows! 
