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RE: Our PINK - BLUE City Diesel Cannabis Plant - Photos, Strain Info, and My Experience with the Strain
This is the time they start pulling nutrients back into the buds from the leaves. That's normal the water leaves will fall off and your buds will grow. It's normal fall behavior. And the smoke is definitely a trigger for them to try to finish early.
Thanks, yeah, I gave em some worm castings and a crazy brew of aloe comfrey, bone meal etc.. seemed to love it last night...this is from a couple days ago, I think they are gonna go till end October at this rate. I kinda messed up this season by feeding with a high phosphorous guano early on instead of high nitrogen, put some langebelite to bring it back into balance seem to bounce back but now my ph meter just broke...always some fun challenge outdoors! I had been spraying every three days with dr. bronner's and a bit of clove oil, saw spider mites several weeks ago trying to move in, seemed to crush those, they don't like water so I mist plants every 4 days or so, they love it, if there is a breeze and such...
Well... A blower with some Diatomatious earth is a great way to knock down the population. Wind and rain... So a shower the is high-performance without blowing the leaves off... All the Diatomatious earth is chelated micronutrients and great for the plant. Or just the blower... I used to be blowing off the plants with compressed air too. The Diatomatious earth on the top of the soil will shred them. Also have tanglefoot barrier? It's like bubblegum. And LA Brea tapirs to spider mites. Blow them off then let them run across the DE which is like broken glass to them. Only to run into a tar trap.
The tanglefoot has to be watched as the spider mites can use the waves of bodies to make a bridge... Pretty savage
.also there is alcohol spray. Rubbing alcohol, start at 25% alcohol and 75% water. I've went up to 50/50. Kills eggs and mites. Don't use on buds as will damage the trichromes.
Wind and water and then the insane challenges always lead me to never having to use chemicals to get a harvest. And indoors I had more issues.
Keep growing!
Super great advice @ganjafarmer ! Yeah, time to bring out the fans too, when they start budding I usually set two fans up per plants for bugs/and pm since I'm in the Willamette we really have to watch out for the molds. I also use slight dose of hydrogen peroxide and baking soda during Fall time. Last year I used my vendor craft tents, looked a market in my backyard for months! LOL Golden Pineapple grew till the dark ages of last week of November holy moly that was cray cray longest plant ever! OH so worth it, that girl tastes sooo sweet! Will the DE harm my beneficials in soil? Or just use as foliar spray?
DE will be great for everything but insects. And really don't want many of those in the soil.
Oh and I forgot after the shower I used fans.
And why the baking soda? H2o2 is great stuff as well.
And strains like bcd and mango are perfect as the mold and mildew resistant strains are what we need in the valley. And yes you need to come to the Portland meetup!
baking soda kills Powdery Mildew brings ph up and makes fruit taste sweet!! Can burn leaves though, a little goes a long way... For example if you drink coffee totally acidic no matter what way you prepare it add a half of a pinch I mean barely see it sprinkle in your coffee and it will alkaline it, you won't get the jitters... @ganjafarmer
That's what I was thinking. There is an enzyme that you can spray on leaves that stops powdery mildew.
Love it! You got discord? Would love to have you on.