clark420 said:Thats great you have all those nice pics DryMouth!!! But my concern is these mites, ever since the Labor Day special Sr-71, when they had 5$ cuttings all my plants have died because of these mites. These mites have good immunity towards prolly alot stuff you will see. I was reading on a Norwegian website that was sponsored by Norwegian congress. The website was talking about spraying them with hotwater, also they said steaming the room to 46 Celsius, good luck doing that..
terran2 said:Cool daddyo.... thought your problem might just be the "simple obvious" we sometime overlook . In the case of getting my friend to dump all the hydro gear (he was french frying everything , lol) & get back to 3gal containers/catch trays ( KISS approach) , he banged out 1.3lbs/lite the first round with the HK's going low nutes everytime/watering . (He was so ecstatic he gave me a full 16ozs back for gifting him that cut!! ;o))
But latest round i helped outfit him with PK's and he neglected to keep a close eye on the ones directly under the lights . Just the other day when i visited his grow to pollenate some of them (backcross the PK/NL/BB x PK) noticed how dry & yellow those plants in center pots were ...that always makes me wince to see the pots "too dry" . And there was the problem solved but hopefully he hadn't run them too dry for too long ....
(and lost much of the delicate root structure for this round )
Mites:
Yep , a friend went over to SF to the Rosenthal Holiday bash and talking to Ed about my strawberry mite problem Ed promptly handed him a bottle of his latest handy~dandy "natural" "organic" no-fail Ed Rosenthal Insect Spray , lol...Cinnamon oil , Eucalytus oil , Cayene, etc etc . There's a snake oil salesman on every corner now , those little mites are a big business <g
* But i opted for ordering the "Forbid" but ill give 'ol Ed's snake oil a try too !
;o)
NorCalNiceGuy said:The more and more i've been reading about these damn mites the more often i check my plants for infections, i was going about doin my leaf 2 leaf inspection and found thripes on my pk mom which i purchased from them at a discounted price! I advise Blue Sky to do an inspection be for all cutts and mothers leave the nursery, shit and maybe even hook us up with a spray of that 300$ bayer formula! Then you can send them out to patients! even the thripes were hard to spot with a 10X magni how am i suppose to find these damn mites! somethings wrong with IC i can upload any pics, ill post the thripe pics later
niceguy