Hi, I'm growing for the first time and have run into some problems, plus I have some general questions. First, in case it matters, I'm growing 5 Alive and Star Killer from seeds. I admittedly, started late, partly due to it being a cold spring, and being busy dealing with the pandemic, so I expect that I'll end up with smaller plants. All that being said, I've run into a problem or 2. First problem, my plants got hit with Spider Mites. I first used a home solution I found online of mostly bottled spring water, a bit of gentle soap, and a bit of vegetable oil. I now only can see dark specs on the bottoms of 1 of my plants, and I destroyed all the webbing to see if any new webbing is made today to know if the mites are alive or dead. I later went out and bought some "BugBgoneEco by Ortho, which it says is a medicated soap. I don't know how often I can spray for mites without hurting my plants. Second, I don't know how long it takes for the white speckled spots on the leaves to vanish. 2nd, I have a couple yellowing leaves and 1 that looks worse than that, and I wasn't sure if it was from over watering or the mites. I have a general "soil moisture" meter but I don't know what these strains prefer. Right now they are in pots, but I'll have to plant them outdoors soon, but for now, since they are small, I didn't know if a small grow light for 24h light would be beneficial or harmful to them at this stage. I also don't know if I should prune the one leaf that looks a lot worse for ware then the others. Lastly, but probably most critically, I didn't know what sort of nutrients I should be putting in the soil (plane potting soil) at their current growth stage. Some are growing faster than others, and I'm not entirely sure why, but these pots are a size up from the ones I started with. One issue I am having is a few of them seem to be just barely strong enough for their height, and other then supporting them with a stick, I wasn't sure what else I could do. Hopefully it will let me upload a coupe photos. Sorry the one isn't very good, but you'll get the idea. Thanks!
Where are you in Spring? Neem oil for molds and bugs its organic and systemic IMO grow your first grow to the book no fiming or lsting for the books to my profile tho its a working page it changes https://forum.grasscity.com/members/vostok.117494/ good luck