About your Mite experiment.... I first off want to say that is some true evil genius type of experiments!!! Its awesome that you will risk your plants to prove a point, but I am rooting for ya.... What I noticed with my recent outbreak of mites in my veg tent...
I had 2 mothers and 1 large vegging plants. The 2 mothers really were at poor health and the 1 pre98 bubba was high brix. I didn't test the pre98 to get the brix level, but it was exhibiting the traits of a high brix plant including bright green neon stems, super plastic looking waxy shiny leaves and the leaves were all reaching up towards the light. Overall the plant looked happy. The infestation went un noticed until they got bad and severe leaf damage was a result on the 2 poor health mothers, but the high brix bubba had no signs of mites or any types of issues. I do believe that your experiment will work and what we have read about natural plant protection will hold true with the high brix.
Keep up the amazing work Doc!!! you have a lot of fans, most coated in trichomes
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