Hubba Hubba! Bubba Hash & The Bright Lights Of Redemption: Amy's Indoor v2.0 With DBHBB

Yup! Don’t want that!

I have had a minor battle lately with the temperature in the tent getting too high too often - up to 85ºF and I’m sure that’s been a contributing factor. I am also not able to maintain any radical separation of environmental zones. The outside is the inside here so my risk of ‘stuff’ getting in is always pretty high - it’s how things are.

I’m glad I saw these when I did... I didn’t inspect the other plants last night, was too tired, so they will get a full inspection tonight when lights come on.
 
Oof! Good catch and good to take them early rather than spend the next week fighting the blighters.
 
Yah - you don’t want to mess with trying to eradicate these inside a grow room. Get those pots outta there!

I have discovered, I’m fairly certain, that neem kills em. The Doc Bud’s Leafwash product has a lot of neem and that seemed to kill ‘em good. I’m treating the infested Coco coir with it and some h2o2, but I may just throw it away.

All the DBHBB pots seem to be free of them at this point so that’s good. I’ll look again tonight, but I spent a good many minutes bent over those pots with a loupe pressed to my glasses, scanning the soil surface, and occasionally digging down a little, and I saw nothing. Fingers crossed that stays the same. I’m tempted to to treat the surface with some Leafwash just in case :hmmmm: . I wondering if this nice crust we get post recharge will be helping to keep things from getting in.

I am 98% certain they were root aphids. I may find that I am wrong about that once I post the photos, that’s happened before. The way the Amnesia Haze was looking certainly fits the profile. I’m slowly looking through the pics I have, and of the harvest... I am too smashed to do much at all tho’, feel like I’ve been hit by a truck, sprained all over, and fatigue is off the charts again. Wasn’t planning a double harvest to start the week :eek: I’m good at these kinds of days tho, both an unfortunate truth and a happy one, for different reasons ;)

Another day of no activity and Harry Potter is in order. :hookah: Big bonus today is that I have DDA in the vape - I pulled some lower larfs off the #4s a few days ago and they’re good :cheesygrinsmiley:

Oh and big silver linings of the forced early harvest ... space ...

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Hope y’all are having good days :love: :ciao:
 
:hmmmm: seems what I thought were root aphid larvae my actually have been springtails... which are not so much of a problem!

I did see an adult mite or aphid of some kind as well, but maybe ... :hmmmm: Just going through some of the photos and checking the interwebs and I think i might have to break up the harvest update and post just the stuff on these soil critters so we can confer on it!
 
Wouldn’t it be great if we could photograph aromas - i cant describe all the layers in eh aroma when I chop up this DDA. Sweet pear bubblegum is what i got just now... plus numerous subtleties! WHen I vape it the first hit is pure dencorub! :laughtwo: Then the sweet stuff kicks in after so it’s like you’ve just finished a strong-mint-pepper-aniseed-grape boiled lolly
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Agemon said:
Enjoy your harvest!
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I sure will Age :high-five: Already am because I sleep in the growroom (got my priorities right, right!?) and the drying space in under the workbench so it smells great in here! And they’ve come down right on teh breeders 70days so it’s no soo early - there are plenty cloudy trichs :cheesygrinsmiley: ...and space now for the remaining ...

Hope your day is going well!
 
Root aphids​
Because they’re small — about the size of a mite — and often colored to blend with roots and soil, Phylloxera is hard to spot. Often, growers will see the white, waxy material that the aphids secrete, a chalkier type of the honeydew secreted by other aphids. Their bodies are more pear-shaped than oval as are mealybugs. They’re about the same size or slightly smaller than stem-and-leaf aphids with shorter legs and antennae. They come in a variety of colors, including pink, but are mostly white and brown.
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Reference: How to Get Rid of Root Aphids | Planet Natural

Mine were grey, and I hope that the past tense is the correct one! I’ll treat those pots again in any case.

I took these pics while I was running water through the pots (before I’d seen any soil activity at all :oops:). You can see the light reflecting on the surface water, which is only happening because of that waxy film mentioned in the quote above. The suspected aphids are not properly in focus - I didn’t try to because I thought the white things were their larvae, so was just concentrating on them ;)

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I saw those grey things pretty clearly throught the loupe. Very spidery in shape and movement, and very like the pics of root aphids I saw in my net searching - I just never saw a grey one, only white or brown. That page i linked mentions they are different colours in different environs tho’ so it’s very possible.

Many signs point to root aphids, including the condition of the plant, which went from this 2 weeks ago, September 1st (front left):

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To this on September 10:

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SO you can see it already starting to look kinda nutrient toxic. It was always prone to burning easlily so I thought that’s all it was, and I backed nutes of a little over the following few days (by about 25-30%).

Yesterday before I took it down it looked like this:
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Both toxic and deficient. I’m very glad I took it when I did because it wasn’t going to get better in a hurry!

So to sum up, that progression on the plant, the waxy surface of the water and those grey things that are very like the shape of root aphids makes me fairly sure that’s what they were. And in any case, while in soil springtails are kind of a good thing, part of the soil web etc. they need something tot eat and they eat decaying organic matter. In coco the only thing that could be would be roots... so if there’s springtails in there I’m gonna say that’s not a good thing either, so either way I’m super glad I spotted it and whipped them outta there.

The buds look great - still very dense and packed with frost even tho they were picked a little early. I was thinking while I was doing it that my pre420mag harvests were pretty lame compared to what I’m getting now :laughtwo: And every harvest seems better quality than the last. :)
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Update: Harvest! :cheer: Auto Amnesia Haze and Auto Blueberry (Day 71 & 70)​

Chopped and hanging! This was the first time I took off all the fans while the plant was still in the pot - that works :thumb:

I have a bowl of quick dried Blueberry in the vape to carry me through this update. At least I think it’s the Blueberry... a fallen small nug, and it smells a bit lemony now that I’ve chopped it up. Pretty sure it is Blueberry :hmmmm: hope so, cause it’s bedtime :laughtwo: OK now, where was I - yes, this is kinda stoney :cheesygrinsmiley:

Auto Amnesia Haze (Dope Seeds) - naked, on the day of harvest

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Looking pretty wild and funky there! This was a small and a very pretty plant to grow. It smelled like vanilla ice cream in mid flower and got some spiciness towards the end. I’m very much looking forward to trying it and would enjoy growing it again, if it turns out a winner. I have the photo version from Dope Seeds in ‘the bank’ as well but with all the other sativas I want to try who knows when it could make it not the roster again.

Grownote wise, it’s a pretty light feeder which produces a lot of frost :D

These are the night before harvest.

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Enough cloudy :thumb:

Very easy to harvest, these little ones! It was a lovely springy day (even if a little cloudy to start) so we got to harvest outside.

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Auto Blueberry (Dope Seeds)

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Finished at just over 1m tall and definitely carries the Blueberry smell. A super vigorous plant and absolutely my biggest auto to date. There’s no way of knowing if the next seed will do this tall and lanky thing, it sure was fun to watch. Grownote wise it seemed pretty regular and stayed at 1/2 strength nutes, apart from a small increase during the stretch phase, which I think was around weeks 4-7, or 5-8. I thought demand was tapering off towards the end but my ‘data’ is flawed because of the soil pesties problem, which throws all those visual signs out of whack.

The main cola was starting to get phat, lots of bonus buds to toke and sleep oil to make!

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The night before...

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Chopped and offered to the sky :meditate:
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After a hazy morning (weather wise that is, I was toking the DDA :ganjamon: ) it turned out semi-clear day, with lovely bursts of sun and lots of breezes for a few hours, perfect.

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I’d had a couple of boxes brought in from the shed (thx buddy ;) ) to make a drying box but there was no way my hands were going to come to that party, so i managed to very lightly wield the cheap tenon saw - very thin and lightweight - and cut some bamboo stakes to the right length to sit across the lower part of the I-beam on the saw horses i made about 5 years ago, that are propping up my workbench ... if that makes sense :D

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Then I used a 10mm computer fan that I have wired to a voltage switching power adapter so I can run it slow. It’s just moving a faint breeze onto the ‘ceiling’, and the tent extraction comes out along the ‘floor’. It stays pretty dark most of the time.

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We were treated to a few very special bird visits :love: while we worked and then again while I rested afterwards. In particular we saw birds that we often hear and rarely see, including this beauty.

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Fan Tailed Cuckoo
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They have a beautiful descending trill kind of sound, pretty and almost mournful — almost, but not quite. Never really thought to describe it before, but that sounds about right :D This Blueberry is pretty good :cheesygrinsmiley:

And speaking of good Blueberry, I shall bid Ye all a goodnight :passitleft:

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Happy harvest Amy, I’m glad you were able to manage it all, and now for some well deserved rest!! I may watch some Harry Potter myself today. We’ve got a rainy, drizzley day and that always put me in a HP mood.
 
Excellent harvest write-up and critter report! And I just realized that you were growing the Amnesia Haze auto I dropped in water Sunday night, so I have another plant to compare mine to (besides Preston's Christmas tree). Is that a 5 gallon air pot?

Great frost on both. And well done on the makeshift drying rack, though I do miss the gravity-defying wastepaper basket nailed to the wall...
 
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