Spidermite and overfeed problem

Kush Knight

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4 months ago I got a pathetic-looking re-vegging cholla from a friends friend. Instead of killing it I decided to grow it on my budget (Walmart materials.) Then it got stuck in clay cause my friend is a dumbass and they thought it would grow. So 2 months got wasted.
Note I cant fix the conditions (spectrum, humidity etc.). Its in a 15 gallon grow bucket currently under a 4 bulb t5 and next to 23 watt cfl and a 40 aquarium light blue. temp is 73-79F. Humidity 25%
Im baked right now.
It started budding 9/7/14 outside. The last Harvest moon was 9/8/14
I moved it inside 9/12 and left for vacation on 9/15 . I came back 9/28.
On 9/29 I inspected the plant. Spider Mites, A few White flies, over watering, and overfeeding I gave the person instructions and mine were correct. She fed an approx 14-35-16 instead of the approx 8-24-18 mix i recommended.
So white flies gone. Overwatering will be fixed in a few days.
My long-winded questions are will a missed feeding or two fix the overfeeding and whats the cheapest guaranteed spider mite solution at walmart? 91% rubbing alcohol and lemon juice? I always thought that would break the trich heads. ALSO Neem oil got on the buds and a lot the pistils look like they died, will it grow out of this or over it soon?
 

BustinScales510

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Throw it away. I know it sucks to lose work after putting time and effort into something but it sounds this thing was a disaster from the start. Clean your space and get some cheap seeds and wait until *you* are able to see it through from start to finish. Stop having all these friends do things to your plant.
 

Ninjabowler

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First go to the grow store and buy this stuff called mighty wash. It kills mites and its not horrible to smoke or very expensive and it works. Spray every three days X 3 applications and you should be good for about 1.5/2 weeks. Remove majorly infested leaves. Theres your mite solution. If you care about your plant youll get something better than lemon juice or whatever the hell you were talking about.
Secondly the nute burn. Flush it, then just add water for a week or two. Done, not complicated.
Third, never do all that stupid kindergarden shit to that plant or any others like it ever again. I hate to say it but your whole post seems like a pile of blameing everyone else for your mistakes and lack of knowledge. Why didnt you mix nutes for the girl before hand? Why is anybody touching your plant? If you have a 15 fucking gallon grow bucket im sure your plant wouldnt need watering for like a year and a half which is probably your over watering problem. How tall is it? Two - three feet? Four maybe, 15 gallons of soil is way too big. And with a pot that size you probably dont run water through it like you should leaching some of the nutrients your pileing in there out...so their accumulating in the root zone and frying the plant.
Just some food for thought. Hope ya got something out of this ;)
 

Kush Knight

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First go to the grow store and buy this stuff called mighty wash. It kills mites and its not horrible to smoke or very expensive and it works. Spray every three days X 3 applications and you should be good for about 1.5/2 weeks. Remove majorly infested leaves. Theres your mite solution. If you care about your plant youll get something better than lemon juice or whatever the hell you were talking about.
Secondly the nute burn. Flush it, then just add water for a week or two. Done, not complicated.
Third, never do all that stupid kindergarden shit to that plant or any others like it ever again. I hate to say it but your whole post seems like a pile of blameing everyone else for your mistakes and lack of knowledge. Why didnt you mix nutes for the girl before hand? Why is anybody touching your plant? If you have a 15 fucking gallon grow bucket im sure your plant wouldnt need watering for like a year and a half which is probably your over watering problem. How tall is it? Two - three feet? Four maybe, 15 gallons of soil is way too big. And with a pot that size you probably dont run water through it like you should leaching some of the nutrients your pileing in there out...so their accumulating in the root zone and frying the plant.
Just some food for thought. Hope ya got something out of this ;)

Dude i gave my mother the recipe when i went on forced vacation from her idiocy and her dumbass didn't/chose not to listen at all. She pre-mixed, the wrong ferts in really wrong ratios which by the way you use a solution that day. otherwise you can get fluctuations in your guaranteed analysis and breakdown starts on the water insoluble ferts, meaning extreme burn. And for a two week vacation i wrote 1 watering day so 1 feeding. she did 3 while i was gone, and used up all my fert i had left.

When she first got the plants as clones to give to me, they were shit. i told her they wouldn't grow and i wanted to toss them and she threw a fit about how im such a drain on all her weed this and that.

So I had to baby them relying on what she could afford after her beer. Took 35 days of me complaining for her to get soil after she randomly put it in pure clay for some reason, saying shut up it will to grow its better than having no soil..... leading to pest and drainage issues when she "righted her wrong" putting a huge chunk of clay in the pot. Then she kept buying retarded miracid and bloom boosters like 30-15-15 and 2-7-4 and 15-30-15.

Not a single word i said got listened to because all her bf's who each grow shitty ass weed said buy all this bullshit. Miracid is better than organic bs.

Then all the damned pine trees have made it so i had to flower under a full spectrum 4 bulb t5, not enough light to properly bud.

But i was managing... keeping one of moms bfs from shitting on my plant cus "the plants love it" and other such nonsense. Anyways Im not allowed to kill these either cus "we're poor."

Oh she just got some .01-.03-.07 finally. in the last weeks of budding when flush is supposed to happen soon.

Oh and my small plant in a 5 gal finally got the holes DRILLED into it after 3 months of asking for mom to borrow the drill from her bf. Why? She finally tried showing how lazy i was being only able to make 10 holes in an hour. she couldnt make one damn hole. So the next day the drill finally shows up. No more stupid shrooms growing in my pot since then.

The mites i got rid of before i even finished posting the op, sadly removing all 3 fingered leaves.
The problems currently are the lockout occurring because too much n and way too much p right now even after a 120 gallon flush trust me i know how to water too, and then the temp is lowering beyond acceptable, and oh, almost no density.

You can call it the blame game coupled with ignorance, but i call it someone thinks im supposed to work miracles for them and they still dont understand how ridiculous they are fighting me on literally everything i say when im just saying what the plant needs/wants. And a grow cost more that $4 a month which is how i got budgeted. If i had $450 i could've had 4-5 lbs right now meaning as many lbs as i want next year. All my blazed and dazed self posted this thread for was to maybe find a $2-5 "guaranteed" mite fix and a little false reassurance that flushing wont take forever, which, they still look like they need the hose for an hour or two more, so im looking at watering for a good 5-6 hours next watering day.

I can guarantee not a single thing you said I was probably doing was i doing. They're good points, but save it for someone who didn't read the forums avidly for 15 months now as if it were life's only purpose...
 
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