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That's all well and good but speedo color preferences are what's really important!Ocean forest is full of bugs, I no from experience.
#1 flying gnat eggs were the worst once they hatched I new I had a problem.
#2 filled 12-25 gallon pots all with OF
Week 6 flower I’m watering flooding the grow I look on the floor and IT IS MOOVING! Massive root aphid infestation thousands and thousands I freak and run fo the water hose. Worst and last time I touched off.
That was 6 or 7 years ago switched to happy frog with no problems since.
The cheap stuff I use is the same, I don't feed for the first 4-5 weeks, just water, then 3/3/3 mil per gallon Gh I only go 5/5/5 mil/gal max up until flip every 7-8 days depending on drying. I was buying promix but I see no benefit in paying more for name brand dirt. I like this cheap stuff and I've had no issues I know of caused by it.Organic bro science aside. Ocean forest contains enough nutrients to water only through 5-6 weeks. More with transplants. That was why I used it.
Honestly it is a compressed muddy hell of a soil without a bunch of perlite added.
Any properly buffered soil mix can be ammended to work well for weed. Drainage is the most important factor in my opinion. Weed likes fast draining soil to thrive.
Ocean forest is full of bugs, I no from experience.
#1 flying gnat eggs were the worst once they hatched I new I had a problem.
#2 filled 12-25 gallon pots all with OF
Week 6 flower I’m watering flooding the grow I look on the floor and IT IS MOOVING! Massive root aphid infestation thousands and thousands I freak and run fo the water hose. Worst and last time I touched off.
That was 6 or 7 years ago switched to happy frog with no problems since.
The cheap stuff I use is the same, I don't feed for the first 4-5 weeks, just water, then 3/3/3 mil per gallon Gh I only go 5/5/5 mil/gal max up until flip every 7-8 days depending on drying. I was buying promix but I see no benefit in paying more for name brand dirt. I like this cheap stuff and I've had no issues I know of caused by it.
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No sense?Well that makes no sense. The bad bugs are acquired in storage. They are the fault of the distributer or the store in most cases.
I meant microscopic beneficial bugs. Its not omri bit it is organic live soil.
Happy frog is their budget mix.
But with enough perlite happy fro worked for me too. But i got more plant faster in ocean forest from seed or clone every time. I tested either or and 50/50 mix.
No sense?
Came straight from the factory to my buddy’s grow shop. On a pallet wrapped in plastic and shrink wrapped from the factory.
How those bugs got in those triple wrapped bags in a commercial warehouse is a really tough sale. Typically a storage warehouse where they ship is completely made of concrete walls and floors.
Ahhh maybe your rite could of crawled up in there and infested the hole lot of them in the storage warehouse
I really didn't mean sterile like a Petri dish.
The HF and OF are the only ones I've had success with, even their coco soilless gave me soil gnat problems.
I get the soil gnats every now and then but I can't say it's brand specific, from my experience its just a way of life in these peat mediums. They don't really concern me too much, when I see them I sticky tape, fans over the top of the pots and I scrape the top inch of soil off the top. They seem to go away and I've had none now for a few months.I have never got gnats from a fox farm bag. I got them from some mothers earth groundswell (an equivalent soil) that i got a deal on from a closed grow store warehouse. They were stored cold and wet apparently. My mistake.
I'm just messing around, no worries. As a Giants fan, I dont care the Dodgers lost or how. However, I am a little less excited about baseball this year because of all this cheating drama.I think you're a little confused, you're looking for Houston, it's a little South of here
Well that's obviously what we're hoping for here, it seems like something would have come out by now?!I'm just messing around, no worries. As a Giants fan, I dont care the Dodgers lost or how. However, I am a little less excited about baseball this year because of all this cheating drama.
We'll see what happens in Boston, but it sounds like little if anything
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Scored a free 30 pounder of Wiggle worm castings today, apparently last summer when I bought a bag of it I accidentally clicked the automatic monthly delivery button, and apparently it had just come back in stock from this particular company is how they explained it; anyway they said keep it at no charge so thank you Amazon
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going to try along with the one part perlite, adding one part worm-casting to two parts of this Pro mix GP and see how I like that mix? I could be doing some up-potting with this new blend by Sunday
I'll watch out for that! I used it before in a couple different mixes and if I'm honest my favorite way to use it is as a top dressing every week or ten days in bloomI would only add like 15% max. That stuff turned my mix to mud. Just my experience.
I know I’m late here but knats flew out of a brand new bag of promix, I read the stories, but thought how is that possible, it is seen it myself . I’ve got it opened and treating like my composted soil I’m not bring that inside yet for sureNo sense?
Came straight from the factory to my buddy’s grow shop. On a pallet wrapped in plastic and shrink wrapped from the factory.
How those bugs got in those triple wrapped bags in a commercial warehouse is a really tough sale. Typically a storage warehouse where they ship is completely made of concrete walls and floors.
Ahhh maybe your rite could of crawled up in there and infested the hole lot of them in the storage warehouse
I know I’m late here but knats flew out of a brand new bag of promix, I read the stories, but thought how is that possible, it is seen it myself . I’ve got it opened and treating like my composted soil I’m not bring that inside yet for sure
YepI've got gnats several times from fresh, indoor stored 107L bales of promix. They lay eggs in the giant peat mountains at the production facility where it's packaged. But it's rare, unless you are using 20+ bales at a time, then it's nearly unavoidable. In my larger grows we would get them every cycle, even with really toxic fumigations between runs. A week after planting new cuts, you'd start seeing black specks on sticky cards..
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