Journal notes;
Fungus gnats have been getting at me, I've been hitting them hard , they're in the "teen" stage where they are crawling around on the top soil of the pots, once they develop wings they fly into the air and mate and then they come back to the soil and plant their eggs, the eggs hatch and the larvae feed on the delicate and tender root hairs of the upper root layers, you can tell that the roots (feeder roots) on the top layers get munched and become brown. If they get to the point where they can grow wings and breed, than they will exponentially procreate and, eventually, growth may be hindered of the plant. To solve this, I interrupt the breeding (teen) stage, by using an organic concoction of SNS 203, SNS 209, and Azamax. If I had any more SNS-217 I would add that in too. Anyway, it makes one hell of a concoction that kills them but won't effect the plants in anyway.
I also want to make a note that I've been dealing with spider mites lately and never have I been so aggravated by the damn things. They are so small and hard to treat and the only way you really know that they are there is when you see these white specs on the top of the fan leaves, luckily, they suck the nutrients and juice from the leaves, and it is only if you let them grow out of control that they go inside the buds. Luckily as well, cannabis is a defensive plant who protects her offspring with powerful intoxicants, so mites are really only a problem for the buds if they go completely unnoticed.
Ideally, I would spray the underside of the effected leaves with a combination of Azamax and SNS-217, however since I don't have any 217, been just using Azamax, it's clamped down onto them pretty good, but still a few battle wounds here and there on the leaves. Spider mites are annoying, but there is nothing worse than budworms. Luckily I have not been dealing with those because of the Azamax and continually inspections. When I first started growing worms were a big problem, however, with due diligence, the problem has mostly been dealt with (however there are highs and lows in summer and it's expectable to find a few worms, God forbid).
Anyhow, making sure fungus gnats are under control for the seedlings is incredibly important. If, for some reason, I don't see vigorous growth throughout the month of June, my fall yield will be crap. At this point, I really have nothing for fall, other than the seedlings that just sprouted. If all goes as planned I will have decent sized plants by September, but who really knows what will happen.
The current flowering plants are doing well though, and I've been doing a proper trim job on the recently harvested Swiss Cheese beast, the only way to get it trimmed up properly is to do it in cycles. Now that is been a week since harvest, I'll just trim up the nugs a little bit day by day, and then they'll be good to go for a lil' cure.
News on the Aurora Confidential, the flowers, which are newly forming, look to be turning purple, rather than the leaves like on the Jack Dogs. Would be sweet to have some purple flowers.
Over and Out
