[stihgnobevoli]

can we get more closeup pics of the site of infestation?

like that pic you showed. can you zoom in 20-50x at the main growth tip. thanks, nice thread

[FatherEarth]

Originally Posted by stihgnobevoli

can we get more closeup pics of the site of infestation?

like that pic you showed. can you zoom in 20-50x at the main growth tip. thanks, nice thread

For sure, and in due time. I have a lot of pics to process just takes me a min to get them uploaded. Busy time of year ...

[Mikell]

Handy link, gives a good layman's explanation and has a fairly comprehensive listing of pesticides by MOA.

[Photosynthesis]

Originally Posted by FatherEarth

Humidity is easy, spray at night and water too. I even throw water on the floor if needed. I also rotate with a heavy use of agsil and protekt. Hit em hard with silicates in foliar and in the watering. This is the secret weapon that is also beefing up plant cell walls and making all pests and mold vanish with the quickness..pfr folks make a product called sil-matrix that is 29% silicate... I use 1/8 -1/4 teaspoon in foliar every 3 days at least and 1/8 per gallon every watering... Good thing about pfr is it keeps producing spores and spreading once it gets going.... If silicate levels are up no worries for mold. Check the latest plant sap webinar video i linked in the AEA thread shows exactly why we see mold in crops... Lack of silicates...

Doing everything you stated still doesn't get 250 lights in colorado to over 35% humidity. It's not easy at all here.

[Avinash.miles]

Originally Posted by Photosynthesis

Doing everything you stated still doesn't get 250 lights in colorado to over 35% humidity. It's not easy at all here.

sorry, but spraying lites out, watering lites out, and dumping water on the floor aint gonna get a 6 lighter up to 60 percent humidity in Colorado either.....
i'm still thinking atomizer sprayer, on a timer, goes on for like one minute every hour....
that or get a big fogger or humidifier, I typically see the ill effects of low RH/ VPD in my rooms since starting up in CO. a bigass fogger/humidifier has been on my wishlist for sometime now....

[milkyjoe]

Originally Posted by FatherEarth

Humidity is easy, spray at night and water too. I even throw water on the floor if needed. I also rotate with a heavy use of agsil and protekt. Hit em hard with silicates in foliar and in the watering. This is the secret weapon that is also beefing up plant cell walls and making all pests and mold vanish with the quickness..pfr folks make a product called sil-matrix that is 29% silicate... I use 1/8 -1/4 teaspoon in foliar every 3 days at least and 1/8 per gallon every watering... Good thing about pfr is it keeps producing spores and spreading once it gets going.... If silicate levels are up no worries for mold. Check the latest plant sap webinar video i linked in the AEA thread shows exactly why we see mold in crops... Lack of silicates...

I get a 404, owner hasn't authorized on the webinar. Do you worry about K with ksil

Edit...isn't that spider a beneficial insect? I am curious what the fungus actually attacks

[chomedome]

Nice work! Would you mind telling me what kind of microscope that is? The one I have is really hard to look for broads with. Thanks

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[Dready_jake]

Im agrowing in my small co bedroom with the largest humidifier I could find for under 40 bucks and top out at 50ish% if my readers are right. It is pretty hard to keep humidity up here lol

And I've been told spiders can be beneficial but they tend to carry some diseases for plants. Don't REALLY know for sure bug a grower I used to work for told me that one

[FatherEarth]

I cant imagine how standing water wouldnt raise the humidity in a room. If exhaust isnt cycling on and room is warm ie: above 70F how its not possible with plant foliage, wet soil or medium to achieve a +50% to the ambient RH? Is the humidity below 30% to start off? Seems like a humidifier, evap cooler, misting system, and or build something using a floating ultrasonic fogger like the ones pictured here https://www.mainlandmart.com/foggers.html Would be valid ways to put moisture into the air for 8 hrs .. scale up accordingly. No matter if you live in the desert the solutions to raising humidity are pretty straight forward and not that expensive. The cost is relative.
I used to farm mushrooms and am well versed in maintaining high RH 80- 100% on a large scale.
It strikes me as odd that a grower with 250 lights finds it challenging to raise the RH in a controlled environment.

Av,
Im not sure if the 6 lighter comment was in reference to big soil little room... and or was an assumption of limited experience on my part? or maybe Im reading in too much...? I certainly dont share every grow or try and show all my cards. Once a year Ill share a grow I feel may be of value to others.







Milky, I downloaded the video to my OSX and then renamed it and uploaded it again. It should be available to everyone for viewing... Ill see if I can get it working if not..
No I dont worry about K levels being too high. Now that my soil is not high in K and from how I understand it the plant wont uptake via foliar if it doesnt need it. Should I be worried about K being absorbed and translocated to the roots and pushing out Ca from the exchange sites? Or just not uptaking Ca from the exchange sites due the plant being saturated with K? What if the plant already is full of Ca and the exchange sites are loaded as well? Does K still antagonize the Ca already present? Either way Id much rather have high levels of K than broadmites and no crop. Ive yet to hit 70% base saturation of Ca and have consistently gotten 2-2.5 lbs a light indoors with K levels in the soil being twice to three times higher than desired values.
Thats not considering what is happening with heavy K silicate use on top of it. You saw the melting leaves in the bigsoil thread... Still did well with yield and quality was good. Not to say Im not striving to make it better but in a situation like broad mite infestation Ill take my chances with too much K any day...

About the spider being beneficial,... well I guess he wasnt listed, lol. Im not really concerned with the spider, more of if my swirskis and other predators will live through the spray. It lists mortality rates for beneficial insects posted earlier. I believe they list swirskis at 25%.. I dont plan on spraying fungi anymore after I introduce them. They will be the clean up crew so to speak... I may try and spray a test colony to see how well they fair..
Did you see the labels I posted in the beginning of the thread?



Im not touting PFR to be the best solution to the situation just sharing my opinion and what Ive found along the way, good and bad. If this was a grow show, I wouldnt be posting in the infirmary...


No Disrespect Intended to anyone. It may read that way but its often hard to understand one's true sentiments over the internet. At least not without the overuse of emoticons. LOL

Respectfully,

FE