Healthy Enough To Flower?

JohnCee

JohnCee

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Currently standing at 20inches. I just sprayed last night with Bonide Pyrethrin Garden Insect Spray Concentrate for the first time to help get rid of pests.. noticeably gnats, mosquitoes, and possibly thrip as well. I haven't noticed any bugs today, but there is noticeable damage done to the plant from these things.. is one application enough before flowering, or should I apply this a few more times before switching to flower? I'm at like 70 days from seed now.

I have noticed that my plant is getting heavy and I'm afraid the self created mesh basket is going to drop into the hole cut out by hand into the lid.. I didn't count on the plant weighing this much, as you can tell, it's leaning pretty hard off to one side. I'm able to grab my plant by the stalk and gently lift the basket out of the lid slightly, but the roots are way to wide to pull it out of the lid. The clerk at the hydro store suggested that I get some bamboo rods and it up. I just feel that my plant has gotten really bushy and I don't really know what I should be doing at this point. Getting light down into the plant is proving to be difficult. Also, there has been quite a bit of damage to some of the leaves due to bugs, nutes, lighting,etc (picture under leaves shows quite a bit of damage).. what should I be doing to these leaves? Should I trim things up?
 

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Don Geno

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JohnCee said:
Currently standing at 20inches. I just sprayed last night with Bonide Pyrethrin Garden Insect Spray Concentrate for the first time to help get rid of pests.. noticeably gnats, mosquitoes, and possibly thrip as well. I haven't noticed any bugs today, but there is noticeable damage done to the plant from these things.. is one application enough before flowering, or should I apply this a few more times before switching to flower? I'm at like 70 days from seed now.

I have noticed that my plant is getting heavy and I'm afraid the self created mesh basket is going to drop into the hole cut out by hand into the lid.. I didn't count on the plant weighing this much, as you can tell, it's leaning pretty hard off to one side. I'm able to grab my plant by the stalk and gently lift the basket out of the lid slightly, but the roots are way to wide to pull it out of the lid. The clerk at the hydro store suggested that I get some bamboo rods and it up. I just feel that my plant has gotten really bushy and I don't really know what I should be doing at this point. Getting light down into the plant is proving to be difficult. Also, there has been quite a bit of damage to some of the leaves due to bugs, nutes, lighting,etc (picture under leaves shows quite a bit of damage).. what should I be doing to these leaves? Should I trim things up?
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Defoliate and manage an even canopy by defoliating less bugs and or future problems let it recover and go from there just my 2cents
 
240sxing

240sxing

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One thing I noticed is your meter sitting on soil and reading 84 f , get that at canopy level and try to get those temps down and go for it , also how the he'll you got mosquitos in you grow area?
 
JohnCee

JohnCee

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Don Geno said:
Defoliate and manage an even canopy by defoliating less bugs and or future problems let it recover and go from there just my 2cents
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I'll look into it, thanks.

240sxing said:
One thing I noticed is your meter sitting on soil and reading 84 f , get that at canopy level and try to get those temps down and go for it , also how the he'll you got mosquitos in you grow area?
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The meter was actually just brought inside from the deck and there is no soil.. my meter is on the lid of the 5 gallon bucket and it is reading 73 at the moment. In my self made tent with 3m poly-plastic there is an opening which is exposed and there is a tiny crawl area with tons of dirty and other unwanted stuff including a number of bugs. Unfortunately, there really is no way to block it off at this point due to where it's actually placed and how the rest of my setup is arranged around it. I'm working on a better solution, however that will not be completed for several weeks.
 
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