Re: UncleC's Ganja Grove - Organic Soil - LED - SOG - La Chocolat/Vanilla Kush/LSD/GS
Hey there 420 friends. There's been a bit of excitement in the Ganja Grove this week. Unfortunately it's not the good kind of excitement but rather nervous excitement of the worse kind.
Anyone remember these 2 teenagers?
These were the young clones that were put outside in the shade to die when culling the herd before I had to go out of town a couple of months ago.
Well when I returned home a month later instead of being dried up and dead they were well into flower.
I had put them in quarantine for about a week watching out for hitch hikers or pest and after showing no signs of pest they were moved into the Grove under the LED's with the current batch of girls that had just been moved in themselves.
After about 3 or 4 days I noticed a couple of suspect leaves and ended up finding some spider mites and white flies on these 2 clones. As soon as I noticed this out they went and were put in the burn pile out back. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, those two clones are no longer with us.
Yes, by moving plants that had been outdoors into my flower tent I had broken one of the golden rules of indoor growing even though I knew the dangers of doing this.
Yes, I have been correctly accused of disobeying rules and being hard headed at times.
And yes, it was becoming clear to me that this was not going to be the last of those little buggers. They were gonna' be back. The only question was when and how many of them I would have to fight off later. I was gonna have to pay the price for this mistake!
The current girls were just beginning week 2 of flower. I inspected them really good and was not able to find any signs of mites or white flies.
Since they were only about 2 weeks into flower I decided to give them a neem / insecticidal soap douche even though I would normally not apply neem once pistils begin to show. I applied neem twice, 3 days apart then did nothing else after this. The plan was to let em' ride.
Since that time I've been on the lookout for signs of these little invaders but never did see any signs of either mites or white flies again until Monday.
Yes, they are back and the Ganja Grove has become a battlefield ever since.
It's Game On and UncleCannabis is determined to win this war!!
On Monday afternoon I removed the girls from the Grove and trimmed off leaves that were damaged or infested and cleaned my tent with a bleach solution. After moving the girls back into the Grove and just before lights out I followed up with a 1/2 strength neem / insecticidal soap application making sure to get a good drench to the underside of the leaves. While applying the neem solution the LED's were turned off and a CFL was turned on.
I then followed up with another 1/2 dose of neem / insecticidal soap application again this evening before lights out and intend to repeat again on Friday then last planned application will be on Monday.
I've had some mild leaf burn and spotting from the LED's as a result of the first application so I will plan to give them a wash down with straight tap water tomorrow at normal lights on time then let them dry off for a couple of hours under the CFL and wind from my circulating fan before turning the LED's back on.
Hopefully this will minimize leaf and bud burn.
After the final neem application on Monday I will not spray these girls again. I'll be watching them like a hawk afterwards but if I'm unable to win this war these girls will be introduced to the burn pile. I won't allow those pesky little critters to get the best of me or infect my babies that are just next door in my veg tent.
To be continued....
