Development advice for 1 month old plant

[John Kramer]

every 2 weeks untill there no more mites

actually every 3 days for 1 time ( 3 treatment )

 

[Berat Temel]

actually every 3 days for 1 time ( 3 treatment )

There seems to be a big difference between spraying neem oil on the plant every 2 weeks and applying it 3 times every 3 days. Is this difference related to the time it takes for pests to die and the plant's response to oil? Can you enlighten me, John?

 

[John Kramer]

every 3 day bs of their eggs (eggs will hatch 48-72h)
idk about neem oil, i'm talking about pesticides

3 times every 3 days

1 time every 3 days

 

[Berat Temel]

I'm thinking of transplanting the plant to a larger pot. In the new pot, there will be a mixture of peat soil with mixed organic fertilizer, cocopeat peat with magnesium and calcium additives, worm castings and perlite. I will also add extra water-soluble 20.20.20 NPK fertilizer, which is concentrated in Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potassium. I saw that the roots were hanging from the drainage holes in the current pot. I made the decision to transplant accordingly and the development of the plant is instantly as seen in the images. Do you think I should wait a little longer or start the transplant process?

 

[Berat Temel]

I haven't taken any action against mites yet, I'm waiting for the neem oil shipment

 

[John Kramer]

to slow em down u can sprey with water like nonstop (u can use water+soap that's even better)
i see phosphorus overdose, so stop using it!!!
before flowering use only 10-30 milligrams or 1-3% on a plant

 

[John Kramer]

also u can put a transparent bag on it to keep a high rate of humidity
put inside a little cup with 2.8g of citric acid + 3.2g of sodium bicarbonate and 3g of water. alltogether it's gonna make 1 liter of co2 to boost the growth (add water last and inside the bag then quickly zip it)

 

[Berat Temel]

Thank you for the technical information, John. Doesn't putting the plant in a bag prevent it from breathing? Should I stop the ventilation fan in this case? And do you find the nutrients I determined for the soil amendment correct? I do not directly feed foods with phosphorus added, but of course there is phosphorus among the foods I give in combination. I may not be able to go through a very detailed plant growing process, so I try to proceed with superficial but effective methods. To this end, I try to act with the advice I receive, especially from experienced breeders like you.

 

[John Kramer]

Doesn't putting the plant in a bag prevent it from breathing?

light+co2=photosynthesis day breathing
dark+oxygen=night breathing
if u give ur plant hours of dark just put off the bag for few minutes and put it on again

And do you find the nutrients I determined for the soil amendment correct?

if u feed ur plant this way it can be really tricky, so u have to look on leaves, they're gonna show u all the symptoms, also in early veg they need only 1\3 of those norms

 

[John Kramer]

veg NPK = 4 to 1 to 3 +-1
exmp u have fertilizer N4% P2% K6% so u give a plant 1 / 0.5-1 /1
that's bs i'm feeding with a spoon now, i've had lethal overdose with phosphorus, i'm gonna show u pics later

 

[CrashMagnet]

The neem oil will provide some control, but I don't know of anyone who has completely eradicated spider mites once they were on a plant, and definitely not with any soap or pesticide. You will very likely have them all the way through harvest. They will also spread to any other plants you have growing, including house plants if you travel between them regularly.

I dealt with them (two spot spider mites) for an entire season until I finally went several weeks with nothing growing and sterilized the rooms and tents I was growing in. Up until that point I tried increasingly radical methods including blasting the plants under the leaves with the garden hose.

The hose worked pretty well on the larger plants, but for smaller plants the thing that worked best was to submerse them upside down in a bucket of water (I added about 10% alcohol) for 30 minutes. The plants were pretty unhappy for several days after, but were mite free for a while. I couldn't even find eggs under the leaves. But of course, the mites were on other plants and in the rooms and tents where I was growing, so they were back almost before the plants recovered from their bath.

If I was sure I had spider mites, and my plants were not close to harvest I personally would toss them and take care of my grow spaces before growing anymore. Fighting them again would be too much work for me. Not saying you should toss yours. With a single young plant you might be able to get rid of them.

 

[John Kramer]

every 3 day bs of their eggs (eggs will hatch 48-72h)

9-10 days and it'll be over
i'm using

aversectin C 2%​

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avermectin