Darn pests. Perhaps they should be court marshaled.
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Darn pests. Perhaps they should be court marshaled.
They's nothing but low-down, double-dealing, backstabbing, larcenous perverted worms! Hanging's too good for em. Burning's too good for em! They should be torn into little bitsy pieces and buried alive!
WT, sounds like you're deploying just about your entire arsenal for total annihilation, eh? I wish you luck, my friend, but it sounds like you really don't need luck anymore. Pests are a royal pain. I never knew how bad whiteflies are until 1/2 of my gardenias disappeared in a white cloud. I neemed them up good today though, and will continue until they are history, much like your midges.
Congratulations on having a lil' one on the way. There's nothing quite like it. From the way you take good care of your plants, I have no doubt you will be a great dad.
Your plants look really outstanding despite your pest issue. I wish I could get mine to be as dark green and healthy looking. Keep up the outstanding work, my friend!
hey SnS
congrats on the iminent arrival, im real happy for ya.:thumbsup:
i just been so busy this summer (damn work keepin me form my woman, my home and my planned grow. my lady wasnt comfortable lookin after them so i got a friend now startin a new grow with the lamp i made (it looks so sweet, i'll fire up that old thread and get some pics prob within the next 2 weeks).
its runnin about 130 watts of luxeon rebels and 6o watts of the ledengine 660's so got big hopes for it. my mate's gonna take pics once a week so i'll post a log and drop in a link for ya. so excited been waitin to do this for so long.
peace out:hippy:
There is NO SEX IN THE GROW ROOM...lol
The midge wars are going well. I believe we've stopped most, if not all, from mating. Found out they can lay 50-100 eggs:wtf: There are still a few moving around but by this time in the last life cycle(thanks weez) there were adults all over the bedroom. They dont seem to be getting to adulthood, probably from the pest strip im sure. Although the glue strips on a stick seem to be collecting a decent amount of them too. BTW to anyone using red/blue LEDs, dont expect anything to be attracted to yellow(glue strips and such) at least not nearly as much as in white light.
hey jaz, the papers ive read on im pretty sure they arent doing much to the plants as they supposedly eat dead material. Still, they are unwelcome. Sorry to hear about your white flies:( and yeah whiskeys gonna have his hands full but im sure him and the wife will have a great kid...ive seen the way they train their dogs ...lol j/k.
We'll try and get some pics up today as the pistils for budding are shooting out all over the place:yippee:
Sorry if this question doesnt pertain to your grow WT but i think i just purchased the same Hot Shot Pest Strips as you (the one that relases oderless vapor) and wanted to know if they would have any affect on plants in the room. I read the back and it says its not for use in a room where you are in for long periods of time.
DoDo
hey Dodo,
good to see ya:thumbsup:
I think I remember stinkyattic say it was fine until the last 3 days. could you confirm stinks?...lol
Doughboy:smokin:
Hi, I hope you have conquered your invading hordes.Those no pest strips worked great for me when I had trouble with spider mites one year.
I have been following your grows and they are amazing. I have a question I know in the past you have grown using "old school" light and I know the yields have been similar to both methods but am wondering if you have noticed if the plants have had the same nute needs with both light systems what about compared to sunlight? I haven't tried to grow inside yet but your grows do intrigue me. Am I wrong in thinking that inside grows require stricter care?
Well....I made a lazy decision, and now I am not gonna be able to cross the Blue Russian:mad::(:wtf:
I put the pollen in a film canister for only a few days, and it reconstituted itself I guess. Powedery pollen gone, pieces of the flowers are all green and soft again...ARRRGGHHHH So...in sumation, 4 BR seeds, 4 males, and lost pollen, way to fuck up a good thing whiskey.....
oh well, the HKxBI pollen seems fine, so the kush hybrid should still come on track
whiskeytango:stoned:
DoDo, I can't remember if I mentioned it before, but cool AV. The pest strips are great and will kill your critters. The reason it works is because there is a toxic chemical in it that we should try to not expose ourselves to. There have not been enough studies to know exactly what it (dichlovis sp?) does to humans, but it kills living things. So, like bug bombs, don't inhale. If you are considering trying to have kids in the future, maybe consider some natural shit that helps with control rather than eradication, like neem oil. If you follow the directions and don't put the strips in your living room you should be fine though. I would not use them in the last, ohhhhh, I don't know..., maybe 4 weeks of flowering. There's no way I would want to smoke or otherwise ingest that chemical. If you can find the strips I would buy a few extra because they will soon be unavailable due to the danger involved. Yes they work, and they work well.
lunarose, yes indoor plants require more care than outdoor plants, but as a reward you get more from them if you do things right. Outdoor plants could be as easy as throwing some seeds into a clearing in the forest and forgetting about them until fall. The easiest indoor plants would be in soil (just slightly easier than a simple hydro grow), with fluorescent lighting and a small fan. If set up properly they could require attention as little as once per week. If you want to drop some coin you could have it set up so you could check on them once per month.
Plants desire the same things though, no matter what the environment. They want 5800K light for vegging and 2500K light for budding. It doesn't matter if it comes from the sun or a microwave oven. If it comes from the sun, the plants will get a bunch of extra wavelengths, some of which will be used and some of which will be wasted. When we grow indoors, we don't try to mimic nature, but we try to improve upon it or extract from it only the things plants need or want.
Your question is asking if plants getting different kinds of light will want varied amount of nutrients. Hmmm. Not sure on that one, but I think not. Plants in hydro require less nutrients since they are more efficiently processed than plants in soil, but I don't think the presence or absence of certain kinds of light would affect what a plant wants to eat. Now I want to hear from an expert on the subject, and I'll be adding it to my list of experiments.
WT, Sorry your sperm went bad. Damn flowers. We're still on schedule as far as I know.