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I hate those bastards. We're they hurting your plants. I just find them to be annoying. I keep those neem cake/ kelp teas rolling and now I've stopped being scared and started feeding soap nut tea to the soil. It's like peroxide on steroids. 43 hydrogen and 3 oxygen or something crazy. It has made my plants perk the he'll up and seems to be keeping gnats at bay.More
I used the soap nut and neem oil mix and I've been spraying with spinosad also but these fucks are still outta control. I top dressed with neem and karanja cake months ago but I haven't used kelp. A buddy who grows no til said he puts a tablespoon of kelp meal on the top layer of soil and hasn't seen a fungus gnat in 3 years. So that's pretty much right in line with your kelp/neem karanja tea... what is ur recipe for that?I hate those bastards. We're they hurting your plants. I just find them to be annoying. I keep those neem cake/ kelp teas rolling and now I've stopped being scared and started feeding soap nut tea to the soil. It's like peroxide on steroids. 43 hydrogen and 3 oxygen or something crazy. It has made my plants perk the he'll up and seems to be keeping gnats at bay.
As long as you keep your plants infected with something at all times. Spinosad stays in the system 10 to 14 days. Neem around 14 days. I don't think BTI is taken in systematically but could be wrong. I think it's an litter tissue dweller.
your product still looks very good. Have you tried nematodes to control your fungus gnat issue?More
Yes I did two applications a about a month apart to no avail. Guess I just need to build the population more. Bought three different kinds to do all at once? Or maybe three successive days so that they're life cycles are staggered?your product still looks very good. Have you tried nematodes to control your fungus gnat issue?
http://www.homedepot.com/p/Nema-globe-Fungus-Gnat-Control-Nematodes-322/203148477
breeding them is tricky, you need grubs and some skill, a bit of lab kit, basic, but still, and then time. I apply within 2 weeks. One application when you already have the bugs in one then another 10-14 days later. This helps sequence the todes with the life cycle of the gnats. Always apply in low light, never in the sun, make sure you keep tje media damp for up to 2 weeks, they really ought to work within 48hours, adults above ground can be managed with sticky traps set just above the soil level, or by using something like beauvaria bassiana which is a foiliar applied fungus for bio control of the adults.Yes I did two applications a about a month apart to no avail. Guess I just need to build the population more. Bought three different kinds to do all at once? Or maybe three successive days so that they're life cycles are staggered?
I'd be real interested to get your opinion on maybe having some sort of aquarium with DO to harvest nematodes so I could continually apply (I'm indoors with 5 gal containers)
gypsum does not impact pH, do not add more than 50g per m2 and note that as gypsum degrades, it takes N from the system. I recommend top dressing gypsum with some manures, these can be green eg kelp or comfrey mulch but better as horse poop, worm casts, guano that sort of thing. This will help boost N levels to pick up any shortfall as the gypsum degrades.Also I just got my amendments to topdress for next round and the gypsum came as a bag of calcium sulfate pellets... I dunno just not what I was expecting feel like this shit my burn my soil even tho it says on the bag won't affect pH
I use nano breathe on my clones. nano particles of Calcium, Magnesium and Iron, plus CO2. I find this boosts the cuttings internal resources and improves the resistance to losses in turgor and so helps prevent drying out. It also helps to stimulate faster root set due to the added nutrients we can use which are added via the remaining leaf matter and stem, which typically, clones dont get access too, obviously, since we have removed a root when taking from mum.I also got my clones to get my veg space nice and stocked. Planted them in 50/50 compost-perlite, dusted the roots with endo myco as I transplanted into solo cups. Plan is to transplant into final home in 5 gallon containers in 2 weeks.
16 white fire og
12 gorilla glue
4 humboldt cheese
And 1 sunshine daydream in coco that I put into soil and hope to take cuts from eventually.
Sprayed everything moist with aloe/coconut mix and hope to give it potassium silicate with first real watering.
Hopefully they all love their new homes!!!
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