2014 Backyard Grow

I'm spent from filling holes and transplanting. I still gotta start my new pile of soil cookin this weekend for the next batch. Gonna be a loooong season. I just cant wait to cut some plants down and get them the fuck out of my patio greenhouse lol. So many plants so little time.


These fuckers deciding to autoflower on me. They will make some cute presents for my sister and wife.


Hopefully I can get some explosive growth this month. I accidentally snapped a branch almost clean off of one of my seahash plants. I justcross tied that cola to the other one. It seems to be fine for now.

I have spider mites in my greenhouse with cucumbers

Bullshit.

FresnoFarmer said:

I have spider mites in my greenhouse with cucumbers

Bullshit.

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:'(

Is this stuff any good?
http://www.growerstrust.com/products/spider-mite-killer?gclid=CJO26tf8u78CFQaBfgodwUUAkw

Not sure. I have always used neem as a peventative but got lazy this year and BAM! They caught me slippin. I have neem oil and some Captain Jacks Dead Bug Brew spinosad. I will hit them with the captain jacks first and then treat with neem oil every 3 days. Should be 7-8 treatments.

Good luck, Fresno.

Good luck bro, i'm sorry to hear about the mites. Hopefully they stick to the cucumbers!

Extacie said:

Good luck bro, i'm sorry to hear about the mites. Hopefully they stick to the cucumbers!

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They started in on some my peppers and weed plants. I hit them with captain jacks dead bug brew last night. And I will be misting them through out the day to keep humidity up since the mites conditions gonna hit them with neem oil tonight.

Ugh!! It's too early!!! Good luck man! Sounds like you have an uphill battle ahead.

angryblackman said:

Ugh!! It's too early!!! Good luck man! Sounds like you have an uphill battle ahead.

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Thanks bro. I am glad I caught them early though. I threw away a couple of the host plants so that should help diminish the population. If they try to stick around in flower I will probably just get some ladybugs in there.

Honestly if they are in the greenhouse I would add them anyways after the bomb is dropped just as an extra precaution going into flower.

For sure. I am going to ad some mo nce I am done spraying. I found some on a few flowering plants too right now upon inspection. It's on now. And they are the two-spotted spider mites. Bullshit. They are only half way through flower so hopefully I can eradicate them before harvest. Aint tryna smoke no damn spider mites.

Eek.. I'd be leery about using anything harsh on the flowering plants. Hopefully you can get them with minimal damage to the crop.

Ice water blast em. I don't know if it does much, but I like it...

I hear ice clold water slows them down. I'll try it. I just hit everything growing in the vicinity with some neem oil and protekt. I tried to only spray the leaves

FresnoFarmer said:

They started in on some my peppers and weed plants. I hit them with captain jacks dead bug brew last night. And I will be misting them through out the day to keep humidity up since the mites conditions gonna hit them with neem oil tonight.

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Damnn. Def. get some lady bugs & predatory mites in there. Best of luck, hope you kill all those fuckers!

Last year I had a plant that was so infested with spider mites it stopped growing and started twisting!!! It was out their forever no growth I used ladybugs they cleaned it out in a week and moved on it straightened out and gave me a qp... it stayed super small tho because I ran out of veg time!

Mighty wash worked well for my indoor mite problem while flowering fresno

mr sunshine said:

Last year I had a plant that was so infested with spider mites it stopped growing and started twisting!!! It was out their forever no growth I used ladybugs they cleaned it out in a week and moved on it straightened out and gave me a qp... it stayed super small tho because I ran out of veg time!

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So should lady bugs only be put on the plant when u can visibly see the mites ?

I would suspect that if you cant see them u don't have them.... As far as spider mites go!! But if you happen to have root aphids the lady bugs can definitely eat and you might not be able to see them....As a precaution I use lady bugs and praying mantis Every year..