Colorado Growers Thread

[SooperSmurph]

We're growing weed, not running a McDonalds, I intend to fight the idea of "standard operating procedure" every step of the way, they may as well have called it "instructions for running your grow after you are fired or jailed".

And just to be clear... "ingredients" technically doesn't mean a list of every step each component has taken along its journey, it just means, "corn, corn-meal biproduct, salt..." etc, your bag of Doritos does not list the nutrients used to grow the corn used to make the dough that becomes the chips, it simply lists all the individual components.

 

[Space Case]

No one would buy Doritos if they knew what the corn was really grown with. The state was just trying to pile on unenforceable regulations with the "ingredients" list, while also trying to make it harder for growers and possibly scare some patients a little when they did read an intimidating "ingredients" list. Somewhere a soccer mom or conservative politician wanted to say "See! Its not just pot you are smoking, LOOK at all those chemicals!" When in reality that same kind of oversight and/or labeling not only doesn't exist, but is fought to be destroyed by the the corps, for our food system.

 

[who dat is]

Are there any stores selling cuts recreationally yet?

 

[MrGoodBudz]

Are there any stores selling cuts recreationally yet?

If I was you I would call some rec shops in your area or look on Craigslist. I think someone asked that question recently on this thread and got a similar answer.

 

[SooperSmurph]

Batman, original with Mchael Keaton and Jack Nickleson, i''m going to be there but my mood won't be the best, hmu for party favor samples and busines card.

Gonna go bother the blue chick today, see what the deal its.

Toight at midnight, the bat, vs the joker,vs the smurph.

 

[Ttystikk]

I don't need to go watch a movie to feel like Batman; after all, I have my own secret lab full of toys in a basement right here!

Batman's dark secret is that Bruce Wayne can't grow the dank! LOL

 

[SooperSmurph]

Batman was meg, energy felt off despite two cosplayers and a batmoboile.

 

[COconnect]

Batman was meg, energy felt off despite two cosplayers and a batmoboile.

What did meg have to do with anything? Is she dating Bruce Wayne?

 

[FoCo(No.Co)]

Hello Colorado people!

I havent been on the site in a year or more, but floating around the real world I have noticed something that you folks are probably already on to;

Root aphids (phylloxera) are now completely ubiquitous in Colorado. I see them everywhere; destroying houseplants at the doctor's office, crawling around friend's sinks looking for a place to lay their demon seed, at the city park, they are everywhere.

I suppose ya'll have probably dealt with those little bastards and figured them out by now, but I recall old timer CO growers talking about how spider mites were their primary concern out here and that they had never even heard of a root aphid. I really think this is a case of an exotic species being brought from CA with the cannabis rush several years ago and I worry that they are affecting the ecosystem out there in the wild, plus every time I see one of those devils crawling around my heart aches a little bit for people in CO just starting growing who are pretty much guaranteed to get this terrible scourge because they are everywhere now.

Peace and positive vibes.

 

[Canniwhatsis]

Yep RA's are everywhere. Fortunately, neem wrecks them worse than it does spider mites!

So they don't NEED to be a plague, just dealt with.

 

[SooperSmurph]

Neem, DE, Mosquito dunks, lots of ways to keep gnats at bay.

 

[Avinash.miles]

i know how dangerous it is to say this but :
I've never had root aphids

 

[Canniwhatsis]

Had em, dealt with em..... non issue.

 

[Seaf0ur]

i know how dangerous it is to say this but :
I've never had root aphids

*said as he knocks on a wooden table

 

[Jhhnn]

Had thrips in veg in one of my first grows. I confess, I cheated, stuck a no-pest strip at the air intake for 10 days. All gone.

The wife's houseplants suffer regularly from the borg, but no sign of them with the girls, for reasons I don't understand.

Somebody should correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like the worst part of root aphids isn't killing them, but rather detecting them. Regular planned use of something that kills 'em & their pals is starting to seem like a very good idea.

 

[Avinash.miles]

isopropyl kills everything..... i've never root fed it, but dilluted in h2o (one oz per gal) kills the shit out of anything crawling on my leaves. had some thrips last season (spinosad for the kill)

a few spiders in veg this round....
iso'd them, neemed them, ogbiowared them...

still knockin on wood over here for no RA's
altho 2 inches of sand on top of soil should kill them, right.....

 

[2 Legal Co]

Interesting piece about Vets, PTSD, and Federal acceptance of the study....... good news, maybe the VA will buy my THC soon.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/17/ptsd-medical-marijuana-study_n_4980702.html

 

[Canniwhatsis]

Had thrips in veg in one of my first grows. I confess, I cheated, stuck a no-pest strip at the air intake for 10 days. All gone.

The wife's houseplants suffer regularly from the borg, but no sign of them with the girls, for reasons I don't understand.

Somebody should correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like the worst part of root aphids isn't killing them, but rather detecting them. Regular planned use of something that kills 'em & their pals is starting to seem like a very good idea.

LOL! Ive had the same thing happen here! Wife's basil in the front window was covered in mites, but not one made it on the girls in the basement! Couple two years ago, white flys wiped out everything in the front window, again nothing on the girls!

I do habitually spray neem tho, at least every couple weeks in vege..... Maybe a month?

The RAs I got came home fully developed in the roots of a clone in a half gallon container, didn't know about them till I saw one walking along the tip of the pot, and by then they'd spread to every other plant.

I confess, it had been several months since I'd sprayed neem, so I wasn't surprised to find some kind of bug, and at first I bought I too the hype that neem wouldn't work on them, tried a few other things and didn't make a dent except in the health of the plants!

One spray of neem and there were corpses everywhere!!!

Since then have gotten back into the habit of spraying more often and haven't seen any Borg or RA!

 

[who dat is]

That's good to hear. I keep meaning to be better with spraying but it never seems to happen. I was wanting to transition over to using neem cake or meal in brewing a tea as a root drench. No matter what, no matter what my grow is like, there always seems to be the stray gnat floating around occasionally. I'd love to make that a non issue while adding something beneficial to the girls. Any of y'all have any experience with using neem like this?

Thanks

 

[Seaf0ur]

I have the same issue with being absent-minded on the neem/lavendar/rosemary IPM... compounded by the fact that I'm a small perpetual closet grow and being perpetual whilst running multiple strains means that the 60x means much more than a calendar ever could... so I dont actually time anything... I do use karanja seed meal as a soil amendment, and have made a karanja seed meal tea, but a neem or karanja tea is basically a rather high N input so be aware of that, and I wouldnt recommend any oil neem or otherwise in a actual living soil....