Major F*** Up after spraying for bugs. A little advice please :)

Fease

Fease

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So I sprayed my plants with pepper spray. The got weird wax or whatever leftover residue. I then sprayed with lemon acid water with a little bronners peppermint soap mixed in. I figured it would wash off the habanero juice. I used an old bleach bottle that had some residual in it.... Ya I'm smart. I thought it wouldn't be a big deal. Well two days later and lots of my leaves are canooing and dying off on the ends and some all together dead and crunchy. I sprayed the hell out of them with plain water. Didnt' help much, they are worse actually, and ya I raised the lights, which is part of my question..

Here's my questions. Should I turn my HPS off and use my CFLS to try and reduce stress or is my light at 24+" good enough. If I switch to CFLs will it cause more stress? Should I leave my fans on or off(w/CFLS). I watered heavily but didn't neccesarily flush. It looks like systemic bleach damage if that's even fucking possible. Should I flush? I know the leaves are trying to breathe or transpire(any advice on what they're doing?) and I don't know if more water is helping but if a flush is neccessary... Any other pointers? Like "don't be an idiot", stuff like that. Love you all! Thx anyone and everyone!
 
bird mcbride

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Never spray your plant(s) with anything but plain water or lightly fertilized water. Get a pump up sprayer. If your plant(s) are in pots you can remove them while you debug your grow room with insecticide. Place any potted plants in shower/bath or outside. Using a soft paintbrush and a pump up sprayer clean the bugs off your plant(s) and see them down the drain. When the air in the grow room is clear, return them to the grow room. Spraying your plant(s) with anything that will kill bugs will kill or damage your plant(s) and will not work because the growroom will be infected also.
 
bird mcbride

bird mcbride

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I keep my 1kw hps at 40"-48" from the rock throughout the grow. I keep the temp between 68F-80F. Flushing will not help. Spraying/misting them with straight water won't do them any harm. If they are in bud don't change the lighting, unless you have at least 320 actual watts of cfl.
 
Alienwidow

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so it doesn't sound like they are that big. id buy new clones and start over wile trying to bring those back with the cfls if there is a chance for revival. no use wasting hps dollars on something that isn't going to make it. slow the watering down, do some pruning,give em a rinse or two more and pray if thats your thing. its not mine so id just pony up some of the paper god and get new clones and empty all your bottles when their almost empty in the run off bucket...especially bleach, kills everything. and lemon acid sounds dumb too, just sayin. foliar anything is dangerous if your not careful.
 
bird mcbride

bird mcbride

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You can safely foliar feed with an NPK mixed at 1/6th of the ferts application instuctions. So ie., if it reads one teaspoon per gallon go one teaspoon to six gallons.
 
greenghost420

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id keep rinsing the leaves til theyre back to normal then under cfl for a day to dry n bounce back. hopefully the shit u sprayed on em wont strip the leaves too bad
 
mike4c4

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i think i would pick up new clones to while you work on them. I hate to say it but i've never seen one survive a bleaching. If it does it will herm.
 
Fease

Fease

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Guess I should've mentioned they're about half through flower. Going to buy some more seeds of the same strain and start em up. For now I'll keep rinsing them with plain water occasionally, pruning, and keep all that other stuff in mind. Wouldn't mind them herming actually, if they survive and grow some decent seeds for me.
 
Diabolical666

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Ima go with bugs and OP was trying to do an organic method. If you get bugs into flower you have to either detail the plant or powerspray it a cpl times a week till harvest.
 
rob333

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Fease said:
So I sprayed my plants with pepper spray. The got weird wax or whatever leftover residue. I then sprayed with lemon acid water with a little bronners peppermint soap mixed in. I figured it would wash off the habanero juice. I used an old bleach bottle that had some residual in it.... Ya I'm smart. I thought it wouldn't be a big deal. Well two days later and lots of my leaves are canooing and dying off on the ends and some all together dead and crunchy. I sprayed the hell out of them with plain water. Didnt' help much, they are worse actually, and ya I raised the lights, which is part of my question..

Here's my questions. Should I turn my HPS off and use my CFLS to try and reduce stress or is my light at 24+" good enough. If I switch to CFLs will it cause more stress? Should I leave my fans on or off(w/CFLS). I watered heavily but didn't neccesarily flush. It looks like systemic bleach damage if that's even fucking possible. Should I flush? I know the leaves are trying to breathe or transpire(any advice on what they're doing?) and I don't know if more water is helping but if a flush is neccessary... Any other pointers? Like "don't be an idiot", stuff like that. Love you all! Thx anyone and everyone!
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if u had bleach in the bottle they are pretty much fucked man i did it once as my girl friend used my foilar bottle as her cleaning bottle i dident even no sprayed about 4 days later they got real bad about 8 days i did everything ended up dead well cooked all the leaves off was left with a green stem that tryed to grow again but died lol that was about 6 years ago now all u can really do bro is hope for the best good luck to u
 
rob333

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Fease said:
Guess I should've mentioned they're about half through flower. Going to buy some more seeds of the same strain and start em up. For now I'll keep rinsing them with plain water occasionally, pruning, and keep all that other stuff in mind. Wouldn't mind them herming actually, if they survive and grow some decent seeds for me.
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hermie also punches out hermie seeds u will get the rare one that's pure female but out of 50 seeds i think i got 1
 
rob333

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rob333 said:
hermie also punches out hermie seeds u will get the rare one that's pure female but out of 50 seeds i think i got 1
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cause some twat up the back from me grew some that turnt out to be shit hermies spreamed all over my old bubba kush and completley fucked the strain had to start all over again
 
Fease

Fease

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Lol shit that sucks. Guess hermit seeds are a no go then. Ya it was bugs. I got some new seeds coming. I basically have sugar leaves and a few lower fans left :/. One has a decent amount left. I think the damage is slowing but they got fucking toasted bad. Pruned them up today. Turned the hps off. Kinda Afraid to spray em with more water. Guess I'll see what happens.
 

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Well, I haven't seen you say that you sprayed only during lights OFF...as you can burn your girls spraying while hps lights are on...or about to go on.. just sayin..
 
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Weed Daddy said:
Well, I haven't seen you say that you sprayed only during lights OFF...as you can burn your girls spraying while hps lights are on...or about to go on.. just sayin..
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LOL didnt you read what he sprayed, it wouldn't mater at this point.
 
rob333

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Fease said:
Lol shit that sucks. Guess hermit seeds are a no go then. Ya it was bugs. I got some new seeds coming. I basically have sugar leaves and a few lower fans left :/. One has a decent amount left. I think the damage is slowing but they got fucking toasted bad. Pruned them up today. Turned the hps off. Kinda Afraid to spray em with more water. Guess I'll see what happens.
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ouch bro bringing back memorys right here just gunna go have a prozac still got stress from the last time i did it ;)
 
Fease

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Weed Daddy said:
Well, I haven't seen you say that you sprayed only during lights OFF...as you can burn your girls spraying while hps lights are on...or about to go on.. just sayin..
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I did. It does seem like the hps made the problem worse when they came back on. Idk. Doesn't matter. It's the leftover bleach that really ate the leaves.
 
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