First Journal

[HemperFi]

Good morning. Since the lights went on in the tent I have been looking for a live bug -- haven't found one yet. I searched last night until my back hurt from bending over the little scope. I intend to order something, Forbid, Floramite, Avid today. Even if the Rosemary did work I want some serious backup. The clones look remarkably refreshed today. They are all perky and standing tall, and I haven't seen a bug on them either -- I'm going to keep looking. I went through one set of batteries in the little scope already, but I have more.

Salutations to all veterans (thank you) and enjoy this 11-11-11 -- they don't come around too often

Peace

PS Where is a good place to look on the plants for new bugs?

 

[HemperFi]

The clones are likely the source?? Where did you get them?

Roddy, yes, I believe the clones I recieved from my cousin in the mail are the source. They are nearly full grown now though, so I have had them for a while it seems. I found bugs on the clones I took from the clones my Cuz sent last night, and I have treated both the vedge room and the tent -- I'm still looking for live mites -- haven't found one yet. Wish me luck. Rosebud says she got rid of mites w/ Rosemary oil -- heck, perhaps it will work -- seems to easy though....

Peace

 

[Rosebud]

Hey Hemper. it worked for me, it was rosemary and lemongrass oil, BUT, i was able to spray them upside down and got every minute inch of the plant and the dirt, even though they don't live in the dirt. I cleaned my grow room and repeated it in 5 days. This is after having them a previous time and used 4 different organic things. One application of anything is "too easy". Those suckers are evil. I hope you got um but when does the bottle say to re spray?

 

[HemperFi]

Rosy, The guy who sold me the stuff (the author of the little book I keep quoting) said to repeat after three days. I will keep looking for new bugs, but from the looks of things, down in that strange little world, The stuff seems to have kicked their little ugly butts. I'm going to go get another phone right now. When I get back I will do an extensive search, and in three days I'll hit them all again. I pretty much drenched them in the stuff -- I don't think I missed any part of them, but I can only hope. I do believe I have slowed them down enough to let the plants bud out better -- I hope....

 

[HemperFi]

"Spider mites are eggs for 48 hours, they mature in another 48; females lay 12 eggs which will be all female unless fertalized by a male." In one week, one female Spider mite can produce 20,736 offspring. No wondewr they are so hard to get rid of. I still can't find any alive. I have been concentraiting my search on the WP which was the worst of the lot. I was told they went after the WP because it was weak after my over nuting. Makes sense to me. I fed the smallest Poison Mighty Mite and gave her some Cha Ching -- I also fed the AK47 with the same batch of nutes. (I'm writing this down so I can come back in here and remember what I have done)

peace

 

[HemperFi]

I found another live mite. She wasn't moving real well, in fact, she was sitting there laying an egg. I watched it plop out of her, and then the scope slipped and I lost it. Could they be laying eggs as they die? insidious little bastards. I will spray again on Monday. Even though that treatment really took a lot out of my plants -- they don't look nearly as good as they did -- it must be done. I gave the WP water and cal-mag today.

 

[Lemon Jack]

Man this is a huge bummer hemper your ladies were looking great. Good luck with the battle.

 

[HemperFi]

Thanks Jack, I am at war. I am just hoping I can keep these little critters at bay until my buds are ripe enough to harvest. I treated them w/ SNS 217 -- it's designed just for Spidermites and seems to work pretty good. It is awful depressing though. I have been up and down with this grow -- I believed I was sprinting for the finish line, and then this happens. I'm just wondering what will happen next. I guess I could look at it like a good thing. I am learning a lot -- I suppose I need to know the bad things as well as the good. I have wore out three sets of batteries looking at leaves -- I don't, haven't yet, seen anything moving today, but I watched a sick bug lay an egg yesterday. Yeck. The plants still seem to be growing, which is a good thing, but the whole garden looks a little distressed -- it isn't going to be the harvest I expected, but I will get some smoke out of this grow -- I had no idea so much could/would go wrong. What an education.

Peace

 

[Rosebud]

but, did you find your phone?

You may be spending a little too much up close and personal if you witnessed an egg laying by mite....I completely understand. LOL
Hang in. The good the bad the ugly.

 

[HemperFi]

No, Rosy, I did not find my phone. I went to Sprint, paid the fifty dollar deductable, and they told me it would be in my mail box today -- it wasn't. I suppose I'll get it on Monday -- I'm going to just stay home and wage war against the Borg. I haven't seen any live mites today, but I am going to keep looking -- I just picked up some new batteries for the scope. I sit and look at the plants trying to figure out where they might be -- where I missed when I sprayed -- I didn't spray the buds as well as I did the leaves, and I keep pulling little leaves off of them to have a look. Perhaps I am spending too much time looking through that scope. Perhaps I should just get high and watch TV or something instead. My neighbor is working on his boat today. When I can get him alone I'll ask him if he has anything for mites -- he has a landscape bizz. It is a sad thing to see up close the damage to the trichs on my plants, what with the bugs and all my manipulation -- sad in the old boat today....

Peace

 

[The Hemp Goddess]

Why ask your neighbor? Do you believe that we have given you bad advise? Incomplete advise? What? You have gotten the best advise out there on how and what to treat mites that have infested an indoor marijuana crop. I cannot imagine your neighbor, just because he is a landscaper, knowing more about dealing with mites indoors on mj than those of us who have grown for decades. It is also a little dangerous to share the info that you are growing?

 

[HemperFi]

NO, Goddess, I was thinking I could get it for free. I will get Avid, Floramite or Forbid as soon as I can. I do not believe the man knows as much as you about anything dealing w/ weed. And I am supplying the man his medicine, so I doubt he will turn me in. I can't put that stuff on the buds anyway, so there is no hurry. I haven't seen anything living on the plants in two days. I know that doesn't mean they have been eradicated, but it is a good sign. I am hopeing I can keep them at bay for a few weeks w/ the SNS 217, and I will be sure there are no more bugs when I put the clones into 12/12. Don't be offended my Goddess -- I am just looking at all the angles.

Peace

 

[HemperFi]

You will probably wonder how I could be supplying the man his meds -- for now, I am just buying his weed for him. His doctors (three of them) have all recomended he get a medical Marijuana card, and he intends to, but there are no dispenceries open here anyway, and I will still have to supply the man. He will be covered if he has the card no matter where he gets his medicine. He tells me the weed gives him 100 percent relief from the pain for at least 4 hours. He smokes it before he goes to bed at night, and he is real happy he can get it now from me. He doesn't smoke cigs and doesn't like smoking anything, but it helps so much he does it anyway. Is there any real easy/mild way to smoke pot? I recomended a bong, but is there another way he might injest the weed as effective as smoking? I know about edibles, but IME they don't wrork as well as smoking. Any recomendations?

Peace

 

[Locked]

Is there any real easy/mild way to smoke pot? I recomended a bong, but is there another way he might injest the weed as effective as smoking? I know about edibles, but IME they don't wrork as well as smoking. Any recomendations?

Peace

Vaporizer but they are not cheap....at least the good ones are not. I got a semi cheap one and it works fine but I really want Da Buddha.

 

[HemperFi]

This guy can afford a vaporizer -- ebay?

 

[Locked]

This guy can afford a vaporizer -- ebay?

Amazon...179 I believe.

 

[Rosebud]

Vapir.com, vapornation.com I love my Vapir, but it sounds like a hair dryer. Use it every day. Only thing i use really.

 

[HemperFi]

thank you guys

 

[Sl4ck3rThcGrower]

just looked into this post today and wow had to flip thru pages to get the scope of your grow. The great joy in your grow and the hardships that followed. As long as you learned and had a goodtime its all worth it right. Still new to this site and i read alot of 1st time grows, mainly cause im still on my 1st and well into my 2nd even before havest of the 1st. Im curious as to how your mite plants pull thru and if it was just that easy to eridicate. I bleached and threw away 10 fine blueberry trainwreck clones, all recieved free and i knew of the mites they had b4 recieving. After siting them in the garage, well away from exposing other strains, for a night of research and talkng to other i decieded they wernt worth the effort to save or the chance of getting anything near my growrooms.

 

[HemperFi]

Thanks for stopping in Sl4ckr, I believe I got the mites in the mail. My cousin sent me a couple of clones, and I believe they were infected. I'm not sure, but my grow room is way out in a lake no where near foliage of any kind -- don't see how I could have got them out here. Anyway, I will keep you informed. I doubt they have been eradicated -- I can't find any live mites today though, and I have been looking...

Peace

PS water and cal-mag for the AK today, and GH plus cal-mag plus Cha Ching for the WP and #2PMM.