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I think I took care of the gnats but I did order a pack of 12 kitty cat shaped yellow sticky cards that come with a stick you put in the soil...lolYellow sticky cards are good for gnats, also good for capturing the few gnats floating around looking for a mate, lets you know the gnats are around as you can see them stuck to the card.
I like this idea I just might try that.Make a mixture of sand, perlite and D.E. to spread on the surface of your containers. Give the suckers no place to live.
That's what I'm wondering what's more important.
100% light 26c
75% light 24c
50% light 21c
What's more important light % or temp.
I could run a extra heater in my basement but that would raise electricity bill so I would rather not.
I was in the same predicament, I’m on my first grow right now (getting ready to harvest any day). I ended up buying a little radiator heater and a humidifier. Once my plants were big enough to turn the power on the light up it definitely helped temps a bit. But, I noticed the temps at the pots were reading about 8-10*F cooler than temps up at the canopy. I found that the lower temp by the pots is probably more important since the lights were obviously warmer, but not necessarily heating the tent, only the leaves within a foot underneath them.There growing so quick I didn't think I would notice differences in 24hr periods..
Leaves are looking a little dry because I have the lights dimmed so high.
Next winter I'm definitely going to run a small heater so I don't need the lights for heat.
Day 14
Gnats are back.
I don't really see any but I just changed the vinegar and there's a bunch in there.
I ordered some sticky cards but Amazon is stupid and lost my shipment.@11Ron11: Yellow Sticky Cards, lay them flat on the medium, sticky side up, leave the paper on the side your placing on your medium as they're double sided. Put your pots on runners to lift them above your collection plates, or you'll just suck up old feed/salt back into your pots.
If temps really are a thing for you, I cannot recommend enough a "seedling mat" or heck even a very LOW set heating pad that is covered and waterproofed. You want the ROOT part of the plant at least about 67F (or at least 20 C). Even though my underground grow space is finished and heated, it still has a cement floor and that seedling mat has made a HUGE difference. After 15 crops, it wasn't a fluke we started getting quicker and healthier seedlings/sprouts when we used the seedling/germination mat. Once the plants are about 4" tall or they look to me like they have "taken hold" then the mat goes away, fans go on etc. Lighting is always kept high up in my grow tents, I use domes and other such knick knacks for keeping moisture in. You can ask 10 different people and all 10 of us will have a wee bit different way to do the same thing that works for us. LOLI put my light to 50% but being in my basement and living in canada my temp dropped to 21c.
I raised the light to 75% and heat went to 24c.
100% temp was 26c
I think 21c is low do you think I should keep my light at 75%.
I'm going to definitely keep topping on my next crop.I'm glad I have been following your grow. You blew the whole "have to wait for 4-6 nodes" right outta the water. When you 1st topped and I saw pic my jaw dropped and I'm like "oOO shit I think those are done for" but that is just cause I didn't know better. Wow holy hella resilient huh? Are you going to just keep topping or do LST or both?
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