'Bubble Giant' vs "Harald Weiner Giant"

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Devon

Seedling
While most of my cephs are suffering from a broad mite infestation, these two are pushing through fairly well.

"Harald Weiner Giant" (on the right) made its largest pitcher yet. The pitcher walls are slightly collapsed from the mites, but it is still the biggest pitcher I have seen from any of my plants by a long shot.

Edit: I bought a digital caliper to measure the exact height of the HWG pitcher, and it is exactly 9.518cm/95.18mm tall!

The pitcher produced after this one is much more deformed, having developed during the peak of the infestation. The newest pitchers growing out now look to be healthy again, with the pest mite population declining.

'Bubble Giant' seems almost unfazed by the broad mites. Not quite as large as HWG, but still very large.

Highly recommended clones.


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Thanks for looking!
 
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Broad mites are the worse little bastards ever. IMHO, worse then spider.

Willy mite spray will take care of them, it helped when I had broad mites.
 
As usual, great looking plants! HWG is a bit of a diva for me under my conditions and one of my slowest clones but yours looks happy
 
Lloyd Gordon said:
Too bad about the mites :confused:
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Yep. I did not notice them until their population became very high - the worst I have had them be.

WillyCKH said:
Beautiful plants! If you need mite systemic let me know.
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Thank you. I will take you up on that.

Eventually, I would like to get an exterminator license so that I can purchase systemic and translaminar miticides more easily.

I signed up for the "Grower" certification course a while back with the same idea, but I did not realize you have to be a farmer to qualify for that one/it was not the correct course.

Muckydoo said:
Broad mites are the worse little bastards ever. IMHO, worse then spider.

Willy mite spray will take care of them, it helped when I had broad mites.
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Agreed.

I recently learned that they can hide in the meristems of the plants, so predatory mites are usually unable to fully eradicate them.

I am using predatory mites now to keep their population in check, but that is not a great long term solution, because I will not be able to send/trade plants with anyone knowing that they are still present. It is also messy and expensive over time.
 
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