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Boobs's Bubba/OG Kush - 2000W - Organic
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hey man, it's rainin'
hey man, it's rainin'
I've just been looking out my window mostly today, seeing what's happening. Mostly just a bunch of wet creatures on the run. Turkeys, lizards, birds, and squirrels chasing bugs around... ...with my pup hot on their tails
So since last time, I've got quite a few things done and I'm leanin' out my window sill diggin' ev'rything
I laid out some smart pots a few days ago, looks like I can fit 18 nicely. Maybe some smaller ones here or there for experiments. The ones in the picture are 100-200 gallons, I've got one 300 to pick up at a buddies house soon.
The room in flowering right now is making me sad, the spider mites are getting worse, they've spread to a few neighboring plants now, there are around 6-8 plants at anytime now with little webs on the fan leaves. I've been spending around an hour in there every night rubbing and pinching leaves, removing webs, and misting because I guess they don't like water.
The veg room is a real fun place though, lots of exciting things happening in there. I go in there and let it drain my worries away yeah.
I think it's time that I lay back and dream on this rainy day. I'll attatch some other pictures of stuff I've been fiddling with, toodaloo.
hey man, it's rainin'
I've just been looking out my window mostly today, seeing what's happening. Mostly just a bunch of wet creatures on the run. Turkeys, lizards, birds, and squirrels chasing bugs around... ...with my pup hot on their tails
So since last time, I've got quite a few things done and I'm leanin' out my window sill diggin' ev'rything
I laid out some smart pots a few days ago, looks like I can fit 18 nicely. Maybe some smaller ones here or there for experiments. The ones in the picture are 100-200 gallons, I've got one 300 to pick up at a buddies house soon.
The room in flowering right now is making me sad, the spider mites are getting worse, they've spread to a few neighboring plants now, there are around 6-8 plants at anytime now with little webs on the fan leaves. I've been spending around an hour in there every night rubbing and pinching leaves, removing webs, and misting because I guess they don't like water.
The veg room is a real fun place though, lots of exciting things happening in there. I go in there and let it drain my worries away yeah.
I think it's time that I lay back and dream on this rainy day. I'll attatch some other pictures of stuff I've been fiddling with, toodaloo.
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MrSterling
Boobs, great post! You should join us over in the veggies forum. More gardeners are always welcome!
I will check it out. I forgot to mention in that last post that I got some cool seeds in the mail today. Some Black Pearl Peppers and White Hot Habaneros. I also got some hops. Do you have any experience growing peppers from seeds? it says these have a germination time of 21-45 days! the hops are similar, in that they need to be cold stratified for 30ish.
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MrSterling
Peppers are fairly easy as long as you keep them warm. I've about 100 pepper plants inside right now, 12 varieties of sweet and hot. Make sure the soil is nice and warm before you transplant them/put them directly in the ground.
GoldCountryGuy
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Looking GOOD! You should have a troll doll in every picture. 
Off to slaughter...
I think I'm going to go ahead and end this thread and move over to the forum dedicated to growing cannabis outdoors, as this will be my focus now. I'm considering doing a sea of green style grow with plant #11 of the MLI...but that won't be possible for a month or so...
Update regarding things I currently have/had indoor:
When I start up the thread in the outdoors forum I will post a link for anyone who would like to continue following my adventure.
I think I'm going to go ahead and end this thread and move over to the forum dedicated to growing cannabis outdoors, as this will be my focus now. I'm considering doing a sea of green style grow with plant #11 of the MLI...but that won't be possible for a month or so...
Update regarding things I currently have/had indoor:
- The large sour diesel plant has been transplanted into a ~500gallon mound at my friends house with supplemental lighting and a texas tomato cage (6 ft tall) as current support. So the first plant is in the ground! April 19th...my birthday
- The Maple Leaf Indicas & Bluebonic have been moved out to my curing shed, the mites were too bad to allow to further infest at this point and I had to pull them, tomorrow I'll be cutting all fan leaves off and hanging up to dry. Right now they're outside in the cold temperature for their last night alive... They made it about 7.5 weeks, suggested flower time was 8 weeks, they've all been flushed for around two weeks, I would have liked to have let them go one more week but it just was not possible.
- The Ghost Train Haze seedlings continue to grow but look sickly to me, my buddy and myself thought it might be the water source, but still after switching to a different tested source they do not seem to green up, right now they're a very yellow/green color and it is confusing to us both. I top dressed with Dr. Earth and earth worm castings over a week ago...I am considering applying some mycostop at this point...
- Some of my vegetables have been moved outside, the turkies messed with some of the corn that was put out the first night, but other than that it is looking good. Recently picked up a couple yards of green compost and top dressed all beds with ~2" of this stuff, gonna be a good year.
When I start up the thread in the outdoors forum I will post a link for anyone who would like to continue following my adventure.
GoldCountryGuy
Member
Boobs,
Phytoseiulus persimilis is the best for most indoor environments. The other two predatory mites that are usually available don't do as well unless you have, consistently, more humid conditions.
I've used them about 8 or so times in the past, and have learned the hard way a couple of times. They worked really well and were thorough until plants started getting resinous. Then they didn't seem to be able to move around as well as the prey.
Another time, I also had some whiteflies, and at the same time put out lacewing larvae. They are Rangers, and ate all the mites they could clutch - including Phytoseiulus persimilis. Lacewing larvae are very mobile and eat anything that moves, then it's last man standing.
Another thing I got experienced on was dispensing predator mites. The 2 places I've bought them from send them in a shaker bottle mixed with ground corn cobs. You're supposed to roll the bottle gently to re-mix the cobs and predators, then sprinkle the plants.
I have had to be very careful and quick to cover the whole crop once, then go back over it repetedly. Once I had a total wipeout of spider mites in one stall, but the other 3 stalls were staying way ahead of the predators. I had shaken the first 4th of the bottle on the 1st stall, and the other 3/4 of the bottle apparently didn't have many predators left in it.
Like many things in growing, timing is important with predators. Good luck. -granger
Phytoseiulus persimilis is the best for most indoor environments. The other two predatory mites that are usually available don't do as well unless you have, consistently, more humid conditions.
I've used them about 8 or so times in the past, and have learned the hard way a couple of times. They worked really well and were thorough until plants started getting resinous. Then they didn't seem to be able to move around as well as the prey.
Another time, I also had some whiteflies, and at the same time put out lacewing larvae. They are Rangers, and ate all the mites they could clutch - including Phytoseiulus persimilis. Lacewing larvae are very mobile and eat anything that moves, then it's last man standing.
Another thing I got experienced on was dispensing predator mites. The 2 places I've bought them from send them in a shaker bottle mixed with ground corn cobs. You're supposed to roll the bottle gently to re-mix the cobs and predators, then sprinkle the plants.
I have had to be very careful and quick to cover the whole crop once, then go back over it repetedly. Once I had a total wipeout of spider mites in one stall, but the other 3 stalls were staying way ahead of the predators. I had shaken the first 4th of the bottle on the 1st stall, and the other 3/4 of the bottle apparently didn't have many predators left in it.
Like many things in growing, timing is important with predators. Good luck. -granger
I vacuumed in the room where the plants were flowering today, then applied around 2,000 predators, I'm guessing, onto the carpet. In the veg room we put around the same amount, probably. I'm going to go back into the flower room in a while and sanitize everything, any other ideas to make sure they are eliminated, also what sort of a time frame do you think would be good to do this stuff? I have some Azatrol that I sprayed in the veg room a couple days ago...
I have those strings going across to separate the lines, this way I arranged the plants numerically so that I can keep track of how they smoke to help in picking the winner(s).
alright folks, that's all...
my outdoor thread is now in full swing, hope to see anyone who followed this one there!
link to outdoor thread
my outdoor thread is now in full swing, hope to see anyone who followed this one there!
link to outdoor thread
