How do my plants look?

Dcstanger

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They will be 7 weeks on the 2nd of July. Do they look big enough? Woll the flowers bulk up any more? The strains are purple widow (gdp x ww) gorilla glue 4, and platinum girl scout cookies. All strains say 9.5 weeks. 600 watt eye horti, feeding mission organic nutes, not going to flush till 5 days before harvest. Thanks!
 

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MeJuana

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I want to preempt my applause by saying they are in yellowish light which makes it hard to gauge color and I need a slight angle down so I can see the leaves very well in a photo to be sure also. But to me your plants look to be in great shape not saying better photos are needed, just explain if you see something I don't. The first part of flowering is mostly about foliage as well as building the basic bud structure in the form of calyxs. The last part of flowering is when the calyxs swell with resins likely you will be able to see the outside getting absolutely coated with trichomes as well. In my experience flushing is not as important as making sure to keep them properly nourished during the final phase of their lives.
 

Dcstanger

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Thanks, I tried to cover the light as much as possible. The buds are already pretty swollen, have a lot of trichomes, some of them actually looks silver. I have a few spider mites running around, and about 2,000 ladybugs in the grow room. Five of the six plants are a really deep dark green, well one of them is showing signs of yellowing all over the plants, not sure if just death approaching or pH imbalance, if the latter why only affecting one of six plans?
 

MeJuana

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I know deep dark green means too much Nitrogen and sometimes even the same strain can have different pheono types when growing from seed some being sensitive to N while others not. It is said when you try a new strain you really need to pop 10 seeds to get a good feel for that strain, which is why I'm fond of clones.. Spider mites are no joke they hide in the cracks in your room and go dormant. While they don't fly they do hop a ride on you to your veg room. You need them dead or it becomes a little bit of a task to clean them out. The flowering room you can take steps to keep them knocked down the weed isn't great anymore but if I were desperate I'd smoke it. I don't have experience with that really you can Google safe ways to keep them at bay which I am sure is what you are doing. After you are finished the flower room needs to be empty with temps at 70-75F so they thinks it's time to play, cleaned with bleach, bug bombed along with whatever other hell you can rain down cleanser wise. I personally use a couple varieties of black flag type insect bombs then close her up for the summer. If you don't have any plants in veg that you don't mind losing it's cheapest to just restart killing them all and cleansing everything. Otherwise you have to fight hard like so

You need to attack them 4 pronged all at once. (Not for flower)
1. Use Tanglefoot around the base of the stem high enough not to touch dirt but fairly low.
2. https://www.amazon.com/Pyrethrum-Total-Release-Fogger-Oz/dp/B001H3IK74
3. Build a temporary veg area you can even black flag bug bomb it a few hours before then move the veg plants out.
(In the interim while the plants are away cleanse, bomb and etc the veg area)
4. https://www.amazon.com/Azatrol-AZ4OZ-4-Oz/dp/B007FNOFHY
5. Rinse between Azatrol by using straight water.
6. Test a plant you don't need in your new veg room. I think b

Note: You can substitute Azatrol for any like spider mite plant washes. This multi-pronged assault is scorched earth attack to ensure they don't survive and build a tolerance for the insecticides. You don't want them hatching eggs and becoming a super colony in your grow areas.
 

Dcstanger

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I am definitely going to be doing some things to the room after this grow is over. I'm growing 6 clones here, no seeds. One clone is darker green while the other one is turning yellow. Been feeding them the same stuff. Gave the yellow plant veg nutes 2 days ago and it's starting to turn green, still not looking the best though. The ladybugs seem to be keeping the mites at bay. While I still see one here and there, the lady bugs are just hanging out, I haven't seen any wbbiing, I've had these mites for about 4 weeks now.
 

MeJuana

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Well after you adjust things it takes awhile to see a difference. It's pretty simple to keep clones quarantined/treated while you clean their area. There's some home made remedies you can chase the mites off the clones. https://www.rollitup.org/t/how-to-kill-spider-mites-100-naturally-no-chemicals.475307/
Then move them to a quarantined area and treat the veg and flower hardcore. Wouldn't be moving them back to my grow areas before they chilled awhile to see if the spider mites came back.
 

Dcstanger

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Well after you adjust things it takes awhile to see a difference. It's pretty simple to keep clones quarantined/treated while you clean their area. There's some home made remedies you can chase the mites off the clones. https://www.rollitup.org/t/how-to-kill-spider-mites-100-naturally-no-chemicals.475307/
Then move them to a quarantined area and treat the veg and flower hardcore. Wouldn't be moving them back to my grow areas before they chilled awhile to see if the spider mites came back.
That's my problem, i only have a small area for growing, drying, everything. I don't have an available quarantine area. I use the sane room for veg and flower
 

MeJuana

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I'd use a multipronged attack anyway and if I had to clean around them with bleach+water to get into the crevices. Spider mites need to be wrecked
 

kiwipaulie

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They will be 7 weeks on the 2nd of July. Do they look big enough? Woll the flowers bulk up any more? The strains are purple widow (gdp x ww) gorilla glue 4, and platinum girl scout cookies. All strains say 9.5 weeks. 600 watt eye horti, feeding mission organic nutes, not going to flush till 5 days before harvest. Thanks!
One tip. Don't flush. Flushing is a load of bullshit :).
 
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