Insecticidal soap + water mixture or just water early on. Maybe next year I’ll go full neem oil or similar.
I was trying to go light on topical sprays this time around to see how my environment would hold naturally.
the problem seems localized to just a few nugs.
also, I found a slug on one of...
HELP!
I think I have to chop early.
These white flies are brutal. Fuckers are starting to take down buds. The buds are turning brown, when I pull a bud back it falls off from the stem immediately with little pressure.
Much to my surprise there are little white sacks buried in between the bud...
It must be my lucky day! Much to my surprise a new predator has found the Don. We welcome this praying mantis with open arms to the family, we shall call him Herb.
this is really great news. Hoping Herb sticks around and just goes to town on all of the whiteflies I have been seeing. The...
20 days into flower and the complication begin to mount…
(1) lower temperatures and rain for the last 2+days. Feel like it has thrown the ph off on the soil. Need to test. If not the rain, the paint chips flaking off my awning surely aren’t helping.
(2) these white flys keep trying to take her...
Looking pretty good day to day. Starting to see some sugar production.
however, like clock work…enter what appear to be white flies and an annoying beetle or earwig type bug.
I blasted the leaves the last two days with regular water with a misting bottle. If I don’t see some improvement; I.e...
The flowers have arrived!
The plant is officially off of veg and moved to bloom 1, bloom 2, and sweetener from FOOP.com.
feeling good about the progress so far, but fully expect to run into some bugs along the way now that the sweet fruit will start emerging. We shall see.
Did some light tucking and topping on Wednesday. Immediately started seeing some bushier growth and new tops reaching up to be the alpha.
Average day length right now is about 12hours and 15 mins. 10 days from 12:12.
I probably won’t trim anything else from this point forward except...