once upon a time...

[Munchy]

Pot-of-Gold-(a)



Pot-of-Gold-(b)



Pot-of-Gold-(b) x Ogre

[Munchy]

Blue Diesel (w/SensiStar):



Blue Diesel (w/SensiStar) x Ogre:



Sweet Lavender Widow x Ogre:



Ogre:

[Munchy]

[roller24]

My Fiona (Cinderella99 x Ogre)

[smokebreaks]

damn nice munchy..

[Mamabudz]

BRAVO

[benjammin]

looks to me in some of those photos that you have thrips.

[Munchy]

thanks guys, yeh i've been battling with some mites actually..
at least they didn't get to the buds.
i had dipped all the leafs in a cup of safers a couple weeks prior..
and whenever i do that, or spray them down,
the mite damage seems to show up more clearly all of a sudden.
so the problem looks worse, when the mites are all dead.
i keep alternating the safer's 3in1 with volks oil spray every week or two,
spraying all up under the leafs and everywhere,
until they're like a few weeks into flowering,
but the damn borg just keep coming back.
and that was part of my reason for harvesting all on day 46..
besides being about ready enough, especially with the next crop beatin the door down.
but i looked at a live one under a lighted magnifier,
and it was real big compared to ones i've seen before,
and it looked like it did a little break-dance, right there in front of me!

[Munchy]

if it was cold enough to slow down the mites that much, wouldn't that also inhibit plant growth?

what temperature range would you recommend?

[Munchy]

Yeah, cool temps will slow down vegetative growth, even more so in hydro....but those same temps will give you better bud formation...the temps that will slow you down are when lights are off, the temps that cause mites are from lights on temps...If your goal is to grow the best smoke you can keep the room under 72, if you completely get rid off your mites and then never let the room get over 72 you'll never see mites again.

here's my current temps, when both rooms have been on for at least 4 hours
the first gauge sits right in front of me and the pc monitor, so it shows the temp in the outer room

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the bloomin closet is right behind me, and this one has it's outdoor probe in there at the canopy level, in between the lights.

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the clone rooting chambers are in here too, and i think they need to be about this warm for good rooting.

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and here's something i found somewhere about how temps affect mites...
apparently it just takes longer, but at 70F, they can still hatch and reach adulthood within a couple of weeks.

now i know all mites are not created equal, but i think you're just lucky you haven't met the supermites i've been battling with. i think they may have came in on the ogre. but when i first learned that they'll develop a resistance to an insecticide, i thought it was just specific to a certain kind, which i haven't been using for years. but i learned that they'll develop a resistance to just about about anything if you don't switch up on them. and that's obviously a mistake i made too. so i got some Forbid to knock em down, and Azatrol to keep em away, and that should take real good care of it.