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Thanks Sonzor for checking out my grow and for your kind and encouraging words!!! I definitely have had my hands full but every bit of the way has been fun and interesting...definitely a learning experience. Right now I am battling a infestation of evil fungus gnats in my front right chemband pot. When they say a adult fungus gnat can lay 300 to 400 eggs at once they weren't lying!!
Today May 27th....
After my soil drench yesterday of neem oil, azamax and azatrol with mosquito dunks I was sure that my front right chemband should at this time be clear of the fungus gnat larvae....I was wrong...there seems to be less and less of them each application but nothing is killing them right on spot!!! uHHHHHgggg!! Since my bottle of Safer End all was nearly empty, I mixed the remaining pesticide with about 10ml of neem oil, a few good sized droppers of Azatrol (prob 5ml) and about 1ml of azamax. I filled up the spray bottle 3/4 full with distilled water and went to work. I first crushed up 1/4 of a mosquito dunk and instead of soaking it in water I crushed it right on top of the soil of the infected pot covering the top of the soil with a light dusting of the mosquito dunk. I then cultivated with a spoon, the top 1 inch of soil to work the mosquito dunk powder into the soil and began "spot treating" the fungus gnats with the spray that I mixed up. Upon spraying them with the pesticide mixture, it didn't seem to be killing them directly, more a slow death for them, but still wasn't making me happy. I also had some Rasta Bob's death mite that I decided to spray directly on them and the Rasta Bob's almost seemed to kill them right away upon contact. So there I am, sitting next to my infected pot, slowly turning the top of the soil and spraying every inch that is unturned with both the Rasta Bobs and the neem/azamax/azatrol mix I made.... It seems that once wetting the soil, either this itself drove the larvae to the top or maybe it was the pesticide, but it seems that many are coming up to the surface and doing a "death dance" or at least I hope... We will weight until tomm to see if there are any left or if my attack is even doing anything to the fungus gnats. I really don't want to use chemical pesticides, and would like to stick to organic or natural ways to kill them but nothing seems to be working....any suggestions?????
As for all of the plants, even the infected one are still growing rather well, putting on about 1" every night. The smell of the ladies is really getting stronger, even though there are no buds yet, I can tell the plants are starting to change over, just because they never stinked so good!! Today the temps in the tent are much cooler than yesterday, only 82F with both lights running mid-day so I am happy with the temps. I have 2 cheap soil probe type ph meters that I used to check each pot today, and all of my soils are sitting right around ph7 +/- .2 The plants are showing very good looking fans, all healthy green and standing nice and sturdy, no wilting or sagging which is great!!! More pistel's are starting to show on the pre-flowers but I know I shouldn't see too much change for another week or 2.
As for my bloom feeding regiment, I still will continue to use the Earthjuice grow, Bio-weed, and Bio-root for another 2-3 weeks during the pre-flower stretch but then will be lowering the N amounts after that to very little. I will be mixing my nutrients now to the Bloom Recirculation table on the Earthjuice (grow, bloom, micro, meta-k, and catalyst), adding molassass, botanicare cal/mag plus, Advance nutrients carbo load, hygrowzyme, humic acid, and my experimental coconut milk, and Naked "green machine" fruit smoothy. Later in the bloom cycle I will be adding in my Humboldt Snow Storm, gravity and purple max but this will not be until near finish. Every other watering will be full strength followed by either a 1/2 strength watering with compost tea (adjusted for bloom nutrients). Is there anything else that I should be using in flower to help my quality, yield and overall success??
Today May 27th....
After my soil drench yesterday of neem oil, azamax and azatrol with mosquito dunks I was sure that my front right chemband should at this time be clear of the fungus gnat larvae....I was wrong...there seems to be less and less of them each application but nothing is killing them right on spot!!! uHHHHHgggg!! Since my bottle of Safer End all was nearly empty, I mixed the remaining pesticide with about 10ml of neem oil, a few good sized droppers of Azatrol (prob 5ml) and about 1ml of azamax. I filled up the spray bottle 3/4 full with distilled water and went to work. I first crushed up 1/4 of a mosquito dunk and instead of soaking it in water I crushed it right on top of the soil of the infected pot covering the top of the soil with a light dusting of the mosquito dunk. I then cultivated with a spoon, the top 1 inch of soil to work the mosquito dunk powder into the soil and began "spot treating" the fungus gnats with the spray that I mixed up. Upon spraying them with the pesticide mixture, it didn't seem to be killing them directly, more a slow death for them, but still wasn't making me happy. I also had some Rasta Bob's death mite that I decided to spray directly on them and the Rasta Bob's almost seemed to kill them right away upon contact. So there I am, sitting next to my infected pot, slowly turning the top of the soil and spraying every inch that is unturned with both the Rasta Bobs and the neem/azamax/azatrol mix I made.... It seems that once wetting the soil, either this itself drove the larvae to the top or maybe it was the pesticide, but it seems that many are coming up to the surface and doing a "death dance" or at least I hope... We will weight until tomm to see if there are any left or if my attack is even doing anything to the fungus gnats. I really don't want to use chemical pesticides, and would like to stick to organic or natural ways to kill them but nothing seems to be working....any suggestions?????
As for all of the plants, even the infected one are still growing rather well, putting on about 1" every night. The smell of the ladies is really getting stronger, even though there are no buds yet, I can tell the plants are starting to change over, just because they never stinked so good!! Today the temps in the tent are much cooler than yesterday, only 82F with both lights running mid-day so I am happy with the temps. I have 2 cheap soil probe type ph meters that I used to check each pot today, and all of my soils are sitting right around ph7 +/- .2 The plants are showing very good looking fans, all healthy green and standing nice and sturdy, no wilting or sagging which is great!!! More pistel's are starting to show on the pre-flowers but I know I shouldn't see too much change for another week or 2.
As for my bloom feeding regiment, I still will continue to use the Earthjuice grow, Bio-weed, and Bio-root for another 2-3 weeks during the pre-flower stretch but then will be lowering the N amounts after that to very little. I will be mixing my nutrients now to the Bloom Recirculation table on the Earthjuice (grow, bloom, micro, meta-k, and catalyst), adding molassass, botanicare cal/mag plus, Advance nutrients carbo load, hygrowzyme, humic acid, and my experimental coconut milk, and Naked "green machine" fruit smoothy. Later in the bloom cycle I will be adding in my Humboldt Snow Storm, gravity and purple max but this will not be until near finish. Every other watering will be full strength followed by either a 1/2 strength watering with compost tea (adjusted for bloom nutrients). Is there anything else that I should be using in flower to help my quality, yield and overall success??
Once I know they are completely gone, I will be layering my top of the pots with per-lite, a good 1/2 to 1" layer should do the trick to keep any future buggers from laying eggs....
