Need help! First time growing.

Hi
This everyone, this is my first time asking questions and growing. I had one badge before this one but I totally screw it up. Went into a flowering with spider mites( little bustards ) they attacked my plants pritty hard around 5th week, I sprayed them with Safer Soap, killed them but totally fucked up the plants I think they stopes flowering for few weeks and than bastards came back again right at the end cause my other plants in veggie room were infested as well and I didn't treat them. So I harvest my plants anyway. They smokable but nothing special. :(
So now I've treated my other plants: sprayed them with Safer soap 3 times with intervals of 3 days apart and hanged two No Pest Strips in the room. It looks like they finally gone. I am 3rd week into a flowering now and I think I over fed them. I am using Fox Farm nutrients. I was using half of the recommended dosage before and I decided to go full strength. What a stupid idea! So leafs are got dry and brown at the ends some got yellow so I didn't feed my plants already for two weeks, just water. Alot of leafs dryed up, especially on the bottom, but I have a lot new green growth. I am planing to go back to feeding again. Can I do it or not? Also 4 gays ago all lights went out so they were probably 24 hr without a light and I still don't have electricity thank God I found one line that was still working so I hooked up only 2 of 4 lights,fan and CO2. Do you think they will survive? How much of nutrients should I use half or less of recommended dosage?

and the NOOB's guide to growing in the stickys section, then read a bunch of grow logs....get some knowledge.....all of this will...help you.

Sounds like you will be fine refeeding at half Nutes after the two week flush, it's good you recognized the signs and adjusted...

The lights should not be a problem unless it happens all the time...

Throw up some photos and lets see what you got...!

Thanks a lot guys! I'll post some pix so u can C. It's not so bad now, bit still is fucked up. I have multiple strains and they all reacted differently. Some worse than the others.

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Some of this pix are bottoms of the ladies where most of the damage occurred and some are the tops that I think looks OK. I don't think that bottom branches will ever recover. Its a 3rd week into the flowering.

Please let me know what you think.

Yea, I think I screwed up pretty good:cool:

They got hit petty hard, weakened by the bug/treatment then over Nuteing but you still got a lot of meat on the bones...

I'd start removing the dead foliage and make sure the room is clean/clean as to not attract more diseases and or bugs...

Growing different strains together can be a pain if they have different requirements as you found out. Best to start with one strain at a time till you get to know the strains you work with, then mixing the grow is a lot easier...

I do not use CO2 because I have a vented room, lots of fresh air flow so it would just be a waste. CO2 benefits closed systems the best as CO2 needs to be replenished as the plants use it as there in no outside air coming into the room. To use CO2 correctly takes some knowledge and experience, after all it can kill you..."-(

If there happy at half the Nutes stay there, no matter what any one or book says you need to listen to your plants and do what they like...

MJ has a habit of bouncing back better then expectations if given a chance...

Keep us up dated...:thumbsup:

Mites are back! They were gone for a month. It's a 5th week in to a flowering. I am not spraying my ladies with anything, fuck no! It will ruin everything. I dumped about 2000 lady bugs on them yesterday and I'll water my plants with Azatrol on Sun. I have 2 No pest strips
in the room I think I'll add 2 more and will turn off intake and exhaust fans for 12 hr at night. Do you think it will work? Any better idea how to kill them fast?:(

I've never needed to try it, but I heard Neem Oil works pretty good.

Neem Oil Pest Control without Pesticides | Plant-Care.com

Can I water plants with neem oil? Is it safe to use it when plants are flowering?

Yes Neem is safe,.... it can be lightly watered in to the soil as well and will become systemic,.... however Neem stinks to high hell (not in a good way), and will make the plant smell the same if watered in. I'd recommend NOT using neem late in flower for that reason only...... Neem flavored buds would not be a good thing.


The No Pest strips work initially,... but the mites become immune to them after a couple generations, and no one really knows how much of the toxins are absorbed by the buds if used in flowering.

One of my buddy's uses azatrol,.... and still has mites,.... Not sure what the hell he's doing wrong, it's a mix of Neem and a few other oils IIRC. :confused:



You can finish the run and have some buggy buds,.... or chop and sanitize. :(





For your next round tho DO get some Neem oil, (I like Einstein oil (brand name)) Apply once a week in vege, and for the first 2 weeks of flower to keep the new growth covered,.... this has kept my room bug free even after a little scare where I let some infected clones get past quarantine!!!!

As far as overnuting the girls recovered, but in the 5th week of flowering mites came back. I used "no pest" strips to get rid of them before, it worked out fine. Then I introduce lady bags into the flower room for prevention, but I think they are worthless, they don't do shit. I don't understand why marijuana grow bible says that they are natural cure for mites; Bull Shit! Any way I removed strips from the room a while ago and mites came back. It's he end of week 6 now. I got bugs on 5 girls. I vacuumed the girls and put strips back. I'll keep strips for 2 days, hopefully it will kill the bugs, then I'll flush for a week and harvest them. 3 of them a Pineapple express strain it's really smells like pineapple. I'll post some pix of final product later on.