Mimed’s Perpetual Thread

[MIMedGrower]

View attachment 1043129Just freshened up my t 5's today , absolutely one of my favorites , keeps seedlings , clones , and small bushes super happy ....
I almost can't believe it myself , but I think this is the first light replacement in over 7 years ....
And the ones I swapped out still looked fine ......

The tubes are spec for 4 year lifespan with a 50% fail rate after 2 and about 20% lumen loss in 4 years. Goes down in a strady curve from about 6 mos.

Just fyi for average t-5 ho tubes.

 

[amekins]

View attachment 1043123You might find it hard to believe but keeping a " real culture " alive is another crazy and expensive forum habit , I gotta feed and worry about this goop almost as much as my plants

Great growers think alike

View attachment 1043123You might find it hard to believe but keeping a " real culture " alive is another crazy and expensive forum habit , I gotta feed and worry about this goop almost as much as my plants

Meet “Seemore” (aka Seymour).

 

[dire wolf]

Meet “Seemore” (aka Seymour).

How often do you feed him ?

 

[Madmax]

Sure but do i have the damn bugs back or am i just going through a learning curve with new nutes and medium?

Maybe get the credit card out and purchase a microscopic security alarm for the bugs lol.

 

[dire wolf]

The tubes are spec for 4 year lifespan with a 50% fail rate after 2 and about 20% lumen loss in 4 years. Goes down in a strady curve from about 6 mos.

Just fyi for average t-5 ho tubes.

Thanks , yea this fixture is in a friends house and I don't get there often , my main clones are grown under optic 8 Cree fixtures

 

[amekins]

How often do you feed him ?

Minimum of once every two weeks. Usually once a week, I take him out (it’s about 50 g), give him a 10/10 feed to wake him up, pull off what I need to start a levain for whatever I’m making/baking, feed him another 20/20, give him an hour and back into the fridge for another week.

If one wants to see just how fast microbes can spread in a fertile medium/substrate, watch a minuscule inoculation of wild yeast do its thing to flour and water.

 

[dire wolf]

Minimum of once every two weeks. Usually once a week, I take him out (it’s about 50 g), give him a 10/10 feed to wake him up, pull off what I need to start a levain for whatever I’m making/baking, feed him another 20/20, give him an hour and back into the fridge for another week.

If one wants to see just how fast microbes can spread in a fertile medium/substrate, watch a minuscule inoculation of wild yeast do its thing to flour and water.

Yea , bout the same ....I usually forget to put back till there's a volcano on the table .....

 

[amekins]

Yea , bout the same ....I usually forget to put back till there's a volcano on the table .....

Always use a container at least three times the size of what you put in it lol. I make a really awesome feta, olive and oregano loaf that used cannabis infused olive oil. Make a Reuben with that (using cannabutter on the bread), and it makes for a delightful afternoon.

 

[Madmax]

Your making me hungry lol..starting to foam around the mouth..

 

[dire wolf]

Always use a container at least three times the size of what you put in it lol. I make a really awesome feta, olive and oregano loaf that used cannabis infused olive oil. Make a Reuben with that (using cannabutter on the bread), and it makes for a delightful afternoon.

Yea my girl serves only one God .........

 

[dire wolf]

 

[amekins]

View attachment 1043144Yea my girl serves only one God .........

Now I want pizza.

 

[MIMedGrower]

Me too. My cat woke me up and im hungry!

 

[Milson]

Sure but do i have the damn bugs back or am i just going through a learning curve with new nutes and medium?

Attach a bug zapper to this thing. Problem solved, what could go wrong?!?!

 

[MIMedGrower]

Well i am having ongoing deficiencies that get worse overnight and tonight while watering with botanigard i saw something flop in the background. Found it almost motionless on the floor a few feet behind the plant i was watering. Likely a winged root aphid.

Not a clear pic but looked like one under the microscope. Longer wings than body. Couldnt see the cornicles. But could have been crushed under my finger.

So i am likely still battling them.


Going to have to nurse the present plants along and try a better plan with the imid next plants.



Here is a good promix article on root aphids.

Critters Down Under: Root Aphids

Learn more about root aphids: understand their habits, the damage they inflict and how to control them.

www.pthorticulture.com

 

[MIMedGrower]

@Beachwalker the pro mix article says root aphids like it dry which is why hot weather helps them like the early summer heat wave spurred my infestation to rise.

They recommend to keep the medium moist to wet to help eliminate them.

 

[Beachwalker]

@Beachwalker the pro mix article says root aphids like it dry which is why hot weather helps them like the early summer heat wave spurred my infestation to rise.

They recommend to keep the medium moist to wet to help eliminate them.

Wow I don't know about that?? Doesn't seem logical to me, but anyway I don't use Pro mix and I don't think I have anything left in a promix blend out there right now either, I think the last plant I harvested where I saw the bug was the last Pro mix blend in the garden

Edit: I just finished that article and I don't see where it says that about keeping the medium moist to wet, unless you mean this statement?

Either way I'll be sticking to my wet dry cycle, but thanks for the article, would you mind if I posted that in the beach house?

Edit: I think the Final Four In Bloom right now maybe the last that have some pro mix in them, but the one that I saw the bug in was absolutely a pro mix blend

 

[Beachwalker]

I just read the thrips live part of their life in the soil now I'm questioning what the hell I saw I am not a hundred percent sure look like an aphid but I suppose there's a possibility it could have been thrip lava

I say this because even though I couldn't get the camera in time to get a picture I watched it for at least five seconds to may be as much as 10 seconds and I had an impression of wings, or that it might be growing wings at some point

Critters Down Under: Thrips

Explore thrips life cycle and the common issues they bring to effectively curb their spread and safeguard greenhouse crops.

www.pthorticulture.com

After reading this about the thrip larvae in the growing medium and looking at larve pictures of both again I'm not positive which I saw if I'm honest

To my eye it looked like this

 

[MIMedGrower]

Wow I don't know about that?? Doesn't seem logical to me, but anyway I don't use Pro mix and I don't think I have anything left in a promix blend out there right now either, I think the last plant I harvested where I saw the bug was the last Pro mix blend in the garden

Edit: I just finished that article and I don't see where it says that about keeping the medium moist to wet, unless you mean this statement?
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Either way I'll be sticking to my wet dry cycle, but thanks for the article, would you mind if I posted that in the beach house?

No post away. But the keeping the medium moist to wet is right under what you circled.

And pro mix said that the root aphids dont tend to come in peat because it is aquatic to semi aquatic.

And remember i harvested or got rid of every plant and the rooms were empty for 6 weeks.


I may set up a 4x8 in the basement and start new plants with the imid doses in the new space. And leave the flower toom unused for at least 6 months so over winter eggs dont last. Only takes one root aphid.

I am worried bud. :-(

 

[MIMedGrower]

I just read the thrips live part of their life in the soil now I'm questioning what the hell I saw I am not a hundred percent sure look like an aphid but I suppose there's a possibility it could have been thrip lava

I say this because even though I couldn't get the camera in time to get a picture I watched it for at least five seconds to may be as much as 10 seconds and I had an impression of wings, or that it might be growing wings at some point

Critters Down Under: Thrips

Explore thrips life cycle and the common issues they bring to effectively curb their spread and safeguard greenhouse crops.

www.pthorticulture.com

View attachment 1043472

After reading this about the thrip larvae in the growing medium and looking at larve pictures of both again I'm not positive which I saw if I'm honest

To my eye it looked like this
View attachment 1043473

Close but the root aphids are more bulbous and shorter in that form. Didnt you say you had thrips at some point?