Hey there everyone, I'd like to make my 7th growing week update around this infestations. I've been spraying the soap based insecticide on my plant once a week, and aside from that I've been mixing some diatomaceous earth on my soil (I've put a fair amount so far) and sprinkling around the leaves (on both sides). Because of the diatomaceous earth mixing I've reduced my plants watering (always with NPK) for once a week so I'm able to keep the soil as dry as possible. I've added the diatomaceous earth last friday and just watered it today (after doing the 2nd topping). So far it doesn't seem to need more water than that, the leaves are firm and green and she keeps growing every day. No more webings around which is good, but last weekend a few shiny irregular white/brown spots appeared on the leaves so I figured that I might had some thrips crawling around (I actually found one and removed it), wich they seemed to have disappeared after sprinkling the D.earth.
I'm not really concerned as the plant as a hole seems to be growing healthy with green leaves. BUT... those freaking white crawlers just don't seem to want to go away, and that is the only thing that keeps freaking me out. As soon as I watered today, the top layer of D.earth got washed away and there they were, happy as ever, disappearing into the depths of the pot. I'm honestly inclined to ignore them and just keep combining the soap based insecticide with the D.earth until I get into the flowering phase and see what will happen, because I'm not really sure what else to do about them. They don't climb the plant and she seems to be well developing its roots on the new pot so... a penny for your thoughts.
I must confess that I'm having a lot of fun learning about all of this, I never truly expected that growing would demand this level of care, but it's nice.
Good vibes to everyone
