Reave's Soilless: Peat, Bark, Sphagnum, Perlite, White Widow 2018

I love my ProMix HP. Try to stay clear of the ones with the nutes in them as it can also make it tough to sort out what's going on. A clean medium (free of built-in nutrients) makes it easy to know what to add when.
 
The crispy looking girl from the picture was dry this morning. She was fed last Thursday morning. This puts her on a 4 day wet to dry cycle in her 1 gallon pot.

This morning she was fed water with 1ml cal mag per liter at a PH of 5.79.

Edit: Don't usually water too much runoff but I grabbed some from this girl and the ph out was 6.25.
 
Reave said:
and the ph out was 6.25.
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not sure that this number tells you anything useful, but it is good practice in using the pH pen. :cool::peace:

4 days is good... there are some roots in there! Watch her get down to 3 days in the next week.
 
Emilya said:
not sure that this number tells you anything useful, but it is good practice in using the pH pen. :cool::peace:

4 days is good... there are some roots in there! Watch her get down to 3 days in the next week.
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I knew you thought that but others asked so I indulged the outgoing ph.

I don't think the spots have spread further. I sprayed them with a foliar at lights out last night.

Tonight they are getting more bug juice though so no foliar.
 
Thrips update:

Have not been able to find new damage since the spray , however; the larger clone has leaves that are at soil level. Upon inspecting them I saw a little crawly bugger.

Question is do you guys think it's a good idea to remove some of the really low fan leaves that are underneath because it's hard to get there properly with the sprayer and I do t want to miss these crawlers.

Second pic is top view of the clone. First in under.
 

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yes, i would get everything up off of the soil at least. Also, it is important to reapply the spray periodically several times so as to break the lifecycles of the new ones that have hatched out from the soil.
 
Emilya said:
yes, i would get everything up off of the soil at least. Also, it is important to reapply the spray periodically several times so as to break the lifecycles of the new ones that have hatched out from the soil.
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Gotcha. I was planning on spraying tonight. Now I will remove those leaves touching the soil before i spray.

Good to know they come from the medium.
 
Reave said:
Gotcha. I was planning on spraying tonight. Now I will remove those leaves touching the soil before i spray.

Good to know they come from the medium.
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wait till you learn what their larvae feed on... say goodbye roots. Its good that we can see their flying offspring's damage so early on.
 
Emilya said:
wait till you learn what their larvae feed on... say goodbye roots. Its good that we can see their flying offspring's damage so early on.
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What is the worm looking stage I see on the leaf? Thought that was larvae? And the pupadrops to the soil then turns into the flying adults? I'm pretty sure I have seen zero flying ones.
 
the Caterpillar stage? not an insect girl. After I wrote that above I realized I wasnt even sure that thrips flew... A lot of these bugs have several stages though, from flying to crawling to eating and laying eggs. Whatever the bug, whether it be mites, gnats, and the creepy crawlies... you have to break the lifecycle at some point to kill them for good.
 
Emilya said:
the Caterpillar stage? not an insect girl. After I wrote that above I realized I wasnt even sure that thrips flew... A lot of these bugs have several stages though, from flying to crawling to eating and laying eggs. Whatever the bug, whether it be mites, gnats, and the creepy crawlies... you have to break the lifecycle at some point to kill them for good.
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Yeh they fly. That's the adults though.

Larvae hatch from plant then feed till pupa then drop to soil then fly. Rinse repeat.
 

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One of them that I had once ate the roots in the larvae stage... I will have to ask Dad what that was, maybe the fungus gnats? Whatever the critter was, it was a crisis... but that was years ago and I can't remember.
 
Reave said:
remove those leaves touching the soil
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You should take off leaves touching the soil regardless of whether you spray.
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wait till you learn what their larvae feed on... say goodbye roots
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I thought only fungus gnats fed on the roots, and that aphids, thrips, and mites conduct their entire life-cycles above ground.
 
InTheShed said:
You should take off leaves touching the soil regardless of whether you spray.

I thought only fungus gnats fed on the roots, and that aphids, thrips, and mites conduct their entire life-cycles above ground.
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I think that must be it... had a bad case of them once. Almost took out my entire PFAK crop.
 
I think you did!
 
This is why we keep spraying. You have to hit them as they hatch until they've all hatched and died! Then we keep spraying just in case we missed one :).
 
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