Hey guys!
I know I'm supposed to cut a piece off each time for a look... Since I was looking each day, I was worried all of my tiny samples were adding up to visible damage. I only did this a few days, plus the half working light and erratic focus was irritating has hell. When I got it in focus the light would die and I'd have to lose focus when I smacked the battery case to fix the light. I could focus on trichs more easily than mite eggs and moving mites... the monsters would move out of sight faster than I could move the scope on the leaf. LOL I hate poorly made junk. This gadget never had a chance with me! I'm hoping the new one will have more sensitive controls, be easier to hold, and be usable on the plant so I can look from leaf to leaf without cutting things off.
The 30x scope is not strong enough to tell mites from dust unless I could get them to move a bit. I spent most of the summer taking photos of the plants them blowing them up in photoshop to look for bugs. I'm as blind as a bat!
i'm sure i'll have a huge scope collection before find one I like.
Camero, Are you also saying you don't use the LED light at all? If the paper reflects enough light back... the color would certainly look better without the LED on.
No I use the LED on it.
In one of my posts, someone mentioned they use a USB camera. I'll have to check that out. It would be awesome to not touch your plants at all... just point n shoot, then hook to the computer. I need to look at how close it gets and if I'd still need to snip pieces apart to look at them. I do love collecting weird gadgets. :-D
yeap, I have seen them, A good one is around a 100. but I think most people do it the same way by cutting a sissor leaf off and looking at it. They are nice cause you are looking at a monitor. I do have to admit, the best scope I have seen someone use to check there trichs was one of the old High School Microscopes. I believe it was 50x to 400x. He would even put the scissor leaf between the glass plates. He would look at the edge of the leaf to see where the trichs were at. It had a very clear view.
How often do you fellas look at each plant?
Trichs don't just turn over night. I keep a timetable on my plants in flowering. After 6 weeks (in hydro, soil around the 10th week), I will look at the trichs. Hydro,every 3 or 4 days I check them (soil once a week).
Note- all my grows are inside.
I'm not sure yet how quickly they actually visibly change. Either way, my looking is not doing the gals any good! LOL! It seemed the leaves were far behind the buds, but I'm sure of that. The trichs seemed shorter and more one color... like all cloudy short trichs with barely any stems! Is this normal, or are the leaves and buds usually closer in ripeness?
Yes in the maturity of the plant, It will start taking the protein from the leaves. There will be some little clear trichs, a lot of cloudy trichs and probably some visibility of amber ones.
I'm thinking I should chop the plant who is turning the most yellow and the leaves dying...??? I don't see how she can be getting more mature if she is dying off. Any ideas? I wish I could tell if any of these plants are maturing again now that I brought them inside. What a bizarre ending to my first grow!
Yes, I have had plants like this also. i would flush it for a week, Let the plant get the rest of the protein from the leaves. then a couple of days of darkness and chop.
Thanks for your help fellas. LMK if every day is too often for checking each plant. I feel like a bull in a china shop smashing all of the trichs with my viewing.
I'm off to take new photos! TY for all the advice.
PS
Yeah!!! Fedex just delivered my new tent!! I'm crossing my fingers it is not another lemon like the last one or the one Irish boy had. Since the landlord can't make me unzip the tent (it's not her property?!), it might be a better option than hiding all the plants...but it is obviously a suspicious item.
