Colorado Lady! BIG HUGS, gal!!! Smoking some amazing Wizard tonight and thinking of you. LOL on the fungus gnats--they were the bane of me for a while, but I no longer get them since I started adding DE to my soil. The stuff WORKS! OTOH, it needs to be mixed, not just sprinkled on the top of the soil or when you water it, it turns into toothpaste. Last grow it was thrips, then a rogue hermie stealth bomber pollinated all my girls in the grow room. Never saw it--all the nanners were hidden deep inside the buds. So am smoking SEEDED weed, but still pretty decent. GOOD TO SEE YOU! Any new pictures from the world's most gorgeous greenhouse? (cleanest, too!)
Painter--we don't get bud rot. Not too hot for it, too dry for it. We have the delightful climate that turns our skin into old shoe leather. I run humidifiers in both the veg and flower rooms 24/7 to get the humidity up to 40%.
THRIPS--are like spider mites, but they don't spin the webs, and the pattern on the leaves--the dots--are spaced a bit differently. But they are every bit as destructive, and way harder to get rid of than fungus gnats.
Spider mites are the worst, IMHO. I woke up one morning, turned on the grow lights in the flower room, and it looked like every cola was wearing a condom. Thick, dense webbing.
OTOH, aphids are easy to kill, but spell disaster if you get an infestation just before harvest. That's what happened to me 2 grows ago. It was the day before harvest, and I had them outside to sun a bit, and in a couple hours, all those sticky trichs were filled with aphids drowning in them. No way could I get them all off, nor all out. I ended up smoking the carapaces.
Painterdude, have you ever grown any 'shrooms on purpose? Sounds like you have the right climate for it!
TCB, how are the clones doing now? Don't panic--as long as the new growth looks healthy, you will be fine. YOu know you have the magic touch, after all!