The growing large plants, outdoors, thread...

[grow nerd]

Certainly you MUSt be joking about gorillas! LOL!

I was joking about gorilla hair farms, but not gorilla hair. Now that I know it's just shredded Redwood, it makes much more sense.

At first I thought "unreal, these hippies think of everything"! I pictured poor African kids having shitty jobs picking up gorilla hair and turning it into the local tribe middlemen for pennies, so that it can be sold across the world for $17/yd. For real...

 

[bamboogardner]

Certainly you MUSt be joking about gorillas! LOL!

The premium Gorilla Hair comes from the private parts of the gorilla and costs much more. You would not believe how the gorillas complain about this hair being plucked off them. Stinks to high heaven too.

 

[hup234]

so that's why female gorilla's are clean shaven in all the "stoner gorilla chicks "...thread

 

[Stank J.P.]

Funny stuff there. Seriously though, not to sound like a broken record but... do any of you deppers spray BT? Just wanting to know if the caterpillars are only a later season prob. or not.

 

[FatherEarth]

No matter the mulch you choose, I like to dig a small trench around the main stalk and fill it with perlite to keep moisture as well as composting mulch off the trunk.
This can help prevent soil born fungal infections that start in this area.

Exactly what Pono is doing with keeping his transplant a bit higher. Only you wont have the washout of soil that exposes roots.
Sunlight exposed roots triggers photosynthesis. This causes them to green and to lose their primary function as roots and essentially become
part of the stalk.

Pono,

What are you reffering to as "sexy legs" ?

My 2,


FE

 

[FatherEarth]

Funny stuff there. Seriously though, not to sound like a broken record but... do any of you deppers spray BT? Just wanting to know if the caterpillars are only a later season prob. or not.

Id spray it regularly if I were you. Use it bi weekly as part of your IPM rotation. BT kills more than just caterpillars/ worms. Spinosad is another good one to toss in the rotation. FYI Pure Protein Dry also contains BT

Respectfully,


FE

 

[Stank J.P.]

Thanks for the input man. I'll get some BT lined up here soon. I have PPD but wouldn't want that shit anywhere near a flowering plant. So... Stank the PPD is, good info on it containing BT I didn't know that.
Peace.

 

[grow nerd]

Funny stuff there. Seriously though, not to sound like a broken record but... do any of you deppers spray BT? Just wanting to know if the caterpillars are only a later season prob. or not.

Make sure you use BTk.

I used Safer's caterpillar killer, it smells like gasoline. Further reading shows it contains petroleum distillates. Is that necessary? What's an ideal BTk product to use?

 

[Shcrews]

Gorilla hair ! funny shit

we are having some issues with afew of our clone starts, especially cherry pies yellowing. the new growth is green and points toward the sun but the lower leaves are yellowing and dying off

i think their little transplant rootballs got too dry maybe? or overwatering. hard to know for us noobs. here is another picture of the same cherry pies, you can see the yellow dead leaves at the bottom

 

[Dr. Purpur]

Gorillas stink.
Had one in my garden last year

 

[Yes4Prop215]

BT is not an end all cure for cats. it doesn't actually prevent them, its just a bacteria that kills once they eat, so it doesn't stop the moths from actually laying eggs. its just one part in a multiple part IPM for cats. last year i was close to putting naphthalene all over the garden, but luckily the cats never really hit hard at the higher elevation garden, but they did major damage at the low elevation garden. I'm still really serious about trying to get a bat colony to take up refuge on my hill so they can feast on moths and insects…who's got bats on deck lol?


I remember a lot of guys talking about neem meal earlier in this thread. I'm noticing a lot of insect activity on the surface of my mounds, from ants to leafhoppers to other random winged insects. I'm thinking about applying a light top dress of neem meal to the surface to try and discourage them, has anyone tried this. i also have semaspore specifically for the grasshoppers, they are very rare but I'm always paranoid about a plague of them suddenly descending on the hillside since that happened someone else's garden a few years back.

 

[Shcrews]

BT is not an end all cure for cats. it doesn't actually prevent them, its just a bacteria that kills once they eat, so it doesn't stop the moths from actually laying eggs. its just one part in a multiple part IPM for cats. last year i was close to putting naphthalene all over the garden, but luckily the cats never really hit hard at the higher elevation garden, but they did major damage at the low elevation garden. I'm still really serious about trying to get a bat colony to take up refuge on my hill so they can feast on moths and insects…who's got bats on deck lol?


I remember a lot of guys talking about neem meal earlier in this thread. I'm noticing a lot of insect activity on the surface of my mounds, from ants to leafhoppers to other random winged insects. I'm thinking about applying a light top dress of neem meal to the surface to try and discourage them, has anyone tried this. i also have semaspore specifically for the grasshoppers, they are very rare but I'm always paranoid about a plague of them suddenly descending on the hillside since that happened someone else's garden a few years back.

We also got some neem meal for topdressing , haven't used it yet.. We do have bats that swoop through and eat the bugs, along with flocks of little birds that perch on the plants and feast. Last year didn't have much caterpillar damage in the garden. Is there such a thing as a batkeeper? If so they might hook you up with your own colony on the cheap if ya throw em some good meds yanamean

 

[jackpot7]

Hey guys for the ones brewing tea are you brewing your tea in the shade or partial sun or full sun? Or does it matter? Thanks blessings

 

[grow nerd]

What types of places sell long bamboo stakes? Like, 10 ft for cheap.

 

[Rolldaddy]

Shrews,

You can make a bathouse on the cheap with some plywood. The house just needs to be located high. About 20 feet or so off the ground.

 

[Bulldog420]

BT is not an end all cure for cats. it doesn't actually prevent them, its just a bacteria that kills once they eat, so it doesn't stop the moths from actually laying eggs. its just one part in a multiple part IPM for cats. last year i was close to putting naphthalene all over the garden, but luckily the cats never really hit hard at the higher elevation garden, but they did major damage at the low elevation garden. I'm still really serious about trying to get a bat colony to take up refuge on my hill so they can feast on moths and insects…who's got bats on deck lol?


I remember a lot of guys talking about neem meal earlier in this thread. I'm noticing a lot of insect activity on the surface of my mounds, from ants to leafhoppers to other random winged insects. I'm thinking about applying a light top dress of neem meal to the surface to try and discourage them, has anyone tried this. i also have semaspore specifically for the grasshoppers, they are very rare but I'm always paranoid about a plague of them suddenly descending on the hillside since that happened someone else's garden a few years back.

For your bug problem have you thought about raising chickens? They eat tons of bugs, let them free range around the plants maybe. Also, put out some finch bird feeders. They also eat up lots of insects. Moths like to come out at dawn and dusk, the birds know this and are all over it. Might help a little at least, I have yet to find the answer to cats. What elevation didn't get hit as hard last year? This year I am at almost 3000ft so I hope I don't get hit as hard.

Hey guys for the ones brewing tea are you brewing your tea in the shade or partial sun or full sun? Or does it matter? Thanks blessings

Depends on what kind of tea. A nutrient tea doesn't matter, but a microbial multiplying tea or ACT needs to be kept around 70 degrees. Over 80 and the water looses the ability to hold oxygen and the microbes become anaerobic. I am having problems finding a good spot to do it this year as well, too hot atm.

 

[ponobegone]

chickens are plant eating destroying little bastards. guineas might be a better choice, though I do love watching chickens, and guineas are usually dicks

 

[anonymousgrow]

I strongly support chickens!!

I make my AACT in the shade at whatever the outside temperature is, 100+F every day lately. I use a 200 liter per minute air pump and my DO2 never reads at below 7ppm. If your AACT is going anaerobic is more likely do to too much food stock or not a big enough air pump rather than temperature.

 

[grow nerd]

Plant destroying like how? Do they jump up on pots and scratch stalks or cause other damage?

 

[bobblehead]

Hey guys for the ones brewing tea are you brewing your tea in the shade or partial sun or full sun? Or does it matter? Thanks blessings

UV rays will sterilize the tea