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Yeah thats it its a cmh spectrum in a 600 bulb splis tek is the only ones who makes a bulb like that. Smaller yield but taste and frost is increased by 15%
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Spell check on this phone makes me look like an idiot on every post
Pimp T
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Starfighter stickiest in the room
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I dont have any experience with those, but they look alright... I've come to appreciate the newer styles of MH quite a bit...
coconut water is the poor mans sprouted seed tea... not as good, but young coconut water is full of enzymes and as its basically endosperm, a few growth hormones along with a few other good things... I use it quite often in foliars.... also do the SSTs and sometimes combine them...
Rootbound
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You will need a 315 watt ballast to run the 315w Phillips bulb.
Lazerus00
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So I was reading that high quality Neem Oil sterilizes these fucking fungus gnats, if this is true what do you think the dose per gallon should be as a drench?? 1 teaspoon or tablespoon? Thru using the Microbe Lift BMC, Nematodes, and more of those yellow sticky cards then I ever wanted to pay for, ive seem to got a good grasp on controlling them but still they are not 100% gone!! I am also using the paint strainer bags over the air-pots since it seems to be the most fav planting pot of the gnats. These fuckers are the BANE OF MY EXISTENCE!!! I am so worried about never truly getting rid of them that a lil part of me is thinking about switching back to smart-pots even thou I love these air-pots so much more!! The prob with the smart pots is that I HAVE to get CleanRoots platforms for each one to sit on otherwise they sit in their own poo which DRIVES ME NUTS! So in the end smart-pots end up costing the same or a lil more depending on the size pot then my air-pots...Im hoping so bad that this blurb i read is true and I can sterilize these fuckers with the power of NEEM!
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If the Neem doesn't work and these fuckers grow in population any more then the low number I have FINALLY got them down to I think I am going to HAVE to take @SeaF0ur 's suggestion and get some rove beetles and the other bug that helps or more nematodes bc I REFUSE to lose out on all the hundreds of dollars ive spent on these pots already..
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Some people are claiming that using a steamer is the end all be all solution for these fuckers...i would think 220 degrees of hot wet air can't be ggod for my roots, bennies, or soil but what do I know...Also I know ive heard a lot that a 1:4 solution of hydrogen and peroxide works like a charm but doesn't this ALSO kill of ALL my bennies??
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@Lazerus00 Those guys can be pesky huh? Back when I was first doing this and still figuring things out (9-10 yrs ago); I got into a period where I had those darn gnats all the time. This was well before allowing myself to read online or what not; so I had no clue what they were. One of the few things I had tried was Neem and as well I had done a bug spray formula from Jerry Baker (tea, soap, nicotine, Listerine etc). Also I guess I had done the predatory lady bugs, who loved dying on the hps's haha.
Finally I broke down and had to find out somehow what these little bugs were. So I contacted a local University and got to a dept. that would test / identify bugs. I took a specimen in and got to talk to the head professor there.
So, I asked "What are they?"
He chuckled and replied "They are fungus gnats"......"It means the soil is too wet"......"Just because a soil looks dry on top doesn't mean that it's dry"...."If you let your soil dry out between waterings, they will go away on their own"
I thanked him and left; albeit not feeling overjoyed at the answer I got heh. I started letting my soils get drier before adding water, sometimes right at the edge of drooping (happens right). At any rate, in about 3-4 weeks, they were gone!!!
Never saw any fungus gnats after. This was also when I set one of my golden rules for myself; "that a plant will not be wet longer than 24hrs". I alter my watering quantity and medium water holding to attain this. One exception is at up-potting; I will allow 3 day period there I guess.
-I have seen gnats one time since then and that was when I switched to doing things right and setup a 1hr drip system. Since soil was moist all the time, the gnats came back. I stopped the drip after testing specific elements and the gnats went away.
Unfortunately, I cannot suggest the best "treatment" as none seemed to work for me. Save for letting soil be drier.
Finally I broke down and had to find out somehow what these little bugs were. So I contacted a local University and got to a dept. that would test / identify bugs. I took a specimen in and got to talk to the head professor there.
So, I asked "What are they?"
He chuckled and replied "They are fungus gnats"......"It means the soil is too wet"......"Just because a soil looks dry on top doesn't mean that it's dry"...."If you let your soil dry out between waterings, they will go away on their own"
I thanked him and left; albeit not feeling overjoyed at the answer I got heh. I started letting my soils get drier before adding water, sometimes right at the edge of drooping (happens right). At any rate, in about 3-4 weeks, they were gone!!!
Never saw any fungus gnats after. This was also when I set one of my golden rules for myself; "that a plant will not be wet longer than 24hrs". I alter my watering quantity and medium water holding to attain this. One exception is at up-potting; I will allow 3 day period there I guess.
-I have seen gnats one time since then and that was when I switched to doing things right and setup a 1hr drip system. Since soil was moist all the time, the gnats came back. I stopped the drip after testing specific elements and the gnats went away.
Unfortunately, I cannot suggest the best "treatment" as none seemed to work for me. Save for letting soil be drier.
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Thank you so much for this! I know I have read that the reason they come is wet soil but I refused to believe that I am over watering bc my plants are thriving. Bc I am using airpots and i have very good air circulation the soil does dry out very quickly. I usually water everyday but not a lot. I know and have gone 2 or 3 days in between watering and know that the plant can take it but it didn't look nearly as happy as she does when i do what im doing, ya know? IDK i gues i will really let them dry out as much as possible and just keep them alive but since i am at day 27 of flower i am worried what all the dry stress is going to do to the final product...FUCK THESE FUCKER!!!..lol...thanks for the advice!!!
NaturalTherapy
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@Lazerus00 I'm pretty sure you're not doing something right to still have these gnats. Have you tried gnatrol yet? Seriously I apply twice a week when I see flyers, and they're gone within 2 weeks, 3 tops.
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Yes I have used Gnatrol and the Microbe Lift BMC has the same active larva killing ingredient as gnatrol so i just use that now. I had them gone basically but then i stupidly got lazy and didn't keep up treatment and they came back with a vengence!! I got them back under control and my yellow traps are only catching a few a day but I am convinved that these fuckers have built up an immunity to the products i am using..lol....im not sure if its even possible for the larvi to build up an immunity to the shit..what eves, i think i got them this time, just gotta keep up treatment ...The real reason i am concerned is bc i am beefing up my operation with more plants more pots more soil and i dont want this to become a thing that controls my life!!!
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I remember @ShroomKing using some type of screen between waterings I forgot what kind @Lazerus00
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The first pick is faceoff Og all scrog out second is dpd scrog out the other is dpd not in a scrog there're all 3 weeks into flower.@pimp T does she look similar to your faceoff?
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Yeah, I think shroomking had a layer of DE with landscape weed blocker fabric covering the top of the soil @Pimp T
ShroomKing
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I can have an infestation of fungus gnats without overwatering because I live in a high density fungus gnat area. Lol
They are everywhere around my house and I can't keep them out of my garden.
I use a mechanical barrier method.
I encase the lower holes on my pots in smart pots and I top my soil with a layer of weedblock landscape fabric an gnatgnix mixed 20:1 with diamataceous earth.
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@NaturalTherapy
I think it was you that told me about that thing your buddy makes?? Well on the site i want to order one but i cant seem to find any of the replacement sticky traps for the machine...any idea???...Or would i just use yellow stickies?
I think it was you that told me about that thing your buddy makes?? Well on the site i want to order one but i cant seem to find any of the replacement sticky traps for the machine...any idea???...Or would i just use yellow stickies?
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Thanks, this would work if I wasn't using airpots. Im not sure if my area is known for having lots of them but i have to assume no since we have crazy winters (usually)...Idk my first round i din't have not 1 single bug the whole time....I think if i keep working on them ill get em gone, but thank you for the suggestions!
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Slide the airpot down into an appropriately sized smartpot, same difference. Then topdress.
Best of luck.
Peace
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I won 350 in Amazon gift cards today. I'd like to use them to step my grow up.
Currently running. 400whps with a second collecting dust, so for my needs on light I should be covered.
I'm thinking a tent would make it easier to control temp and rh swings. Could I set up a full tent with ventilation on this budget? Any other recommendations from Amazon? Or questions about my growing that could narrow down what I need?
Currently running. 400whps with a second collecting dust, so for my needs on light I should be covered.
I'm thinking a tent would make it easier to control temp and rh swings. Could I set up a full tent with ventilation on this budget? Any other recommendations from Amazon? Or questions about my growing that could narrow down what I need?
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