Looking for advice

[SparcOne1]

Hi, I just entered week 5 of flower and for the last week or so I’ve had a spider mite issue. I know this is 100% on me for not being militant enough spraying during the veg stage. I treated them with an organic garlic insecticide and it seemed to work for now I’m sure they will return though. I’m not sure if I’m also dealing with something eating my roots too because my flowers have gone from all white pistils looking nice and stacking daily to completely stagnated growth and almost all pistils turning orange in one week. It hasn’t grown in days and is dropping fan leaves fast so I’m leaning towards a flush and an early harvest. Can someone give me some advice on whether it’s possible for the buds to kick back in and some new growth or should I just count my losses and chop it half way in to week 5? Please help

 

[St. Phatty]

I wouldn't use Safer's Soap at this point. Unless it's a 15 week Haze and the buds are tiny.

LADYBUGS work great - if you can find them at a garden supply store.

 

[SparcOne1]

It’s outdoors so lady bugs will just fly off unfortunately

 

[SparcOne1]

And no it’s an 8 week Kush plant

 

[art.spliff]

You can spray with an organic food grade soap or miticide and rinse it off with a garden hose. The severity and timing may play a part in how effective this is. Have you checked soil or water pH? Aphids are manageable spraying them off with water, spider mites outdoors I'm unsure. I don't know if tree aphids compete with spider mites but aphids are feeding the ladybugs.

 

[AgentPothead]

Even if you can't add anything to it, just spraying the bottom of the leaves with a stream of water can knock most of the mites off. It doesn't do anything to kill them, but it can remove them easy enough. So even if you can't get something to kill them, try to remove them.

 

[SparcOne1]

I appreciate the info but my question is once a plant has stopped producing white pistils and new growth is it best to harvest it asap or it there are chance now the mites are dead it could bounce back? The plant got stressed so hard it’s stunted the growth and now looks ready.. resin and Trichome production looks to have stopped too! It’s a harvest question not a treatment question.

 

[AgentPothead]

I go by trichome color, if you think it's ready, harvest. Dip it to remove any bugs left over.