Foxysox is back in the game!!! =p

Nice. Very nice.
No pump yet. But it's going to happen I think. I just got back from almost a week with the Yeag to find some pretty unhappy looking plants, including one dead. As much as my neighbor is such a sweetie for looking after my girlies, we all know how tough it can be for a novice to judge when a plant has been watered properly.
On the up side, the not-very-well-rooted 1 week clones that I had to leave did okay! I lost a few but turning off the heat mat, a good mist with wiltpruf, and sticking the whole flat UNDER my drain table seems to have done the trick.

dam, that blows, oh well, luckily there are more to go around eh. So did they just neglect watering? I've personally found it really hard to kill my babies by not watering, but if they are young its a lot easier.

Oh oh oh, and i just took some clones of some p91 that a friend gave me two beans of!!! cant wait to see what i have

ever use rapid rooter that have completley dried and resoaked them?

Naw he watered, but missed a couple pots on the 3" pot table. One died. Not a big loss really.

Yeah I have but I'm not sure if it's a great idea, and I would NEVER use them for cuttings, only seeds, because I don't know what sort of condition they'd be in. Mold and all.

oh well, just did it like 5 mins ago out of necessity and what not, oh well, we'll see whats gonna happen if anything

Yo, what you best idea on how to get these thrips out of my garden. I'm pissed. These fuckers....is there something i can add in to my rez to get them out of my coco. They live there right, so a foliar spray or fog wouldn't take care of those. How are your plants doing in the coco. I have seen unprecedentedgrowth in my plants. For example, my stalks used to be like sharpie marker thickness or slightly thicker when they were finished, and now they are already magic marker thickness. Think that that will flow thru to bud size? One thing i miss tho is being able to give personal attention to each plant cuz they are locked in due to the drip tubing. I have those rings around them.

Whats goin' w/you?

nice set up foxy.top thread to.the postman.

As for my coco endeavours.. lol... this is what I'm finding:
-Vegging is fucking AMAZING. They grow like wildfire.
-Calcium problems are rampant. Apparently there is actually a chemical interaction between the coco and Calcium, and I am going to try pre-conditioning my medium in the future by soaking it in a solution of water, bone meal, and Soil Syrup (organic acid) to try and get all the binding sites on the coco pre-saturated with Calcium.
-I am returning to a compost mix for flowering to avoid nute problems. The one I'm thinking of still inclueds 1/3 coco, but also 1/3 compost and 1/3 perlite. I expect that it will help immensely, and I will be able now to use the organic soil amendments that I have been happy with all along.

Okay, I had a chat re: thrips with my local fertilizer expert...
The consensus is that thrips are evil.
Their life cycles in 4-5 days.
When you fog, you have to repeat the fog in 3-4 days to be assured of a complete kill because there is little penetration of the media.
This is how the little fuckheads operate:
Adult lays eggs in the meristem of the plant
Eggs hatch
LArvae emerge- it is this life stage that is most damaging, as I'm sure you have noticed!!! - and proceed to eat everything in sight
Larvae tend to hang out on the undersides of the leaves, making them harder to kill.
When they are all full and ready to pupate, they drop off the leaves and onto the soil surface, then burrow down a bit, pupate, and emerge as adults to breed and repeat the cycle over again.
Temps in the high 80s make the cycle 4 days... other wise it is a little longer.
We talked about a way to interrupt it. One thing he said is to protect the soil surface so that the larvae never reach the soil, and die without pupating. You have I'm sure seen the hydro grows- particularly waterfarm stylee- where the grower will put a slit styrofoam party plate around the stem to keep humidity confined? Same thing works to keep thrip larvae from ever finding your soil.

Foxy - HEy girl, when i went to the hydro shop near me, i was gonna buy a non-canna coco block. The guy there recommended that i use the Canna Buffer. It's to pre buffer the medium and resoplve the calcium issues. I hear you cannot let it dry out inbetween watering, you you will have Ca issues.

Stinky, ahhh, jus twhat i'm looking to hear from ya. Ima go and do the raid bomb at HD, the blue and yellow ones. and do 3 bombs4 days apart. Hey, its saye to used during week 3-4 correct?

Thanks for you info :)

I just bought that bomb last night but silly girl that I am forgot to set it off this morning, because I was so excited about finally catching the damn mouse that has been terrorizing my kitchen every night. lol. Cute little fucker... dead now.

I checked the label again and it's permethrin.

I'm going to look it up, but I'm bombing tonight and a couple plants are only a few days from harvest, so if you don't hear from me, I'm dead. lol.

That's really interesting about the drying out bit. I don't see how that would make a difference unless the chemistry is dependent upon a reaction IN an aqueous solution. Hm... Very interesting. Either way, I only see this shit in the flower room where temps are higher than fuck. I think I am FINALLY going to have to break down and buy an air-cooled hood. Oh, hell. That means poking holes in the wall to my crawlspace too. Can I tell you how excited I ain't about that?