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09-22-2013, 06:12 PM #29OPSenior Member
Oh great, apparently we're growing now!
Ok, pic: (cfls turned off to show color better)
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I originally was going to have the lights zip-tied to a 2x4 hung over the plant tops, but this way the lights are able to be adjusted somewhat to the height each plant needs. The leftmost front plant is the male, and has most of the leaves stripped so far. And the girls ARE showing water stress today, which is why the closet is being left open with the windows open for air flow. As I get more lights, they will be hung separately from their own cord near the top so I can move each light separately (current lights are on extensions that have 3 sets of 3 plus each, which causes us to only have 2 strings of lights currently. I'd like to have up to 18 lights going, personally, but not sure how feasible that would be. It would be more electricity that we're running now, so we'll see if it's needed. Heck, if we stick with just a few plants from here out, we'll likely not even go HPS. But I'm more likely to want 1 grow per year in which case it'll be easier to do it that way.
Oh, a quote from Planetnatural.com's ad for the dunks: "The active ingredient in Mosquito Dunks® is Bacillus thuringiensis subspecies israelensis. (B.t.i.). B.t.i. is a bacterium that is deadly to mosquito larvae but harmless to other living things." "As the Dunk® slowly dissolves, it releases a bacterium which is toxic to all species of mosquito larvae. Mosquito Bits® are a granule that contains the same active ingredient found in the Dunks®, but unlike the Dunks® the Bits release the larvicide immediately."
About the bacterium: "Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) is a bacterium that lives in soil and is deadly to insects. When ingested, Bt produces a crystalline protein that kills cells and dissolves holes in an insectâ??s gut. It has been used as a pesticide for decades and is approved for organic production, due to the fact that it occurs naturally in the soil and doesnâ??t persist in the environment long after spraying."
The "Bits" are literally just small pieces of the Dunks, and as I broke them up very very very well they will dissolve within a few weeks at most within the soil. We have 5-7 weeks until harvest. Also, many crops have been genetically modified to produce the same toxin that these bacteria do, except at much higher levels than found naturally (those thousands of times higher concentrations than when the bacterium is spray-applicated is leading to it being found in human bloodstreams, but from consuming corn and other crops modified to make the toxin). Fortunately I'm using smaller amounts.
It's another thing I may try to see what happens - get a male plant that I keep taking the bud from, and way-overdose with Dunks to see what it does in the weeks after.Would not use the pollen from it, though - just watching to see any effects.
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