I am in the middle of a deep clean of the grow rooms and an application of the wp22. I am confident that I can get ahead of these bugs.
Bleach on the first pass, Pine-Sol on the second.
Looks to be only one thing that kills one and done unless u catch early. You are using the best one that's not a chemical. So many articles and YouTube videos, even at hydro store and they told me when the beneficial bug guy comes in and says there's nothing there is truely nothing. On a home scale level economically you got to look at it where you're at probably just better to scrap it do a deep cleaning wait two to three weeks so they starve to death although their eggs can be winterized they also do telescopic births meaning they're born pregnant with an exact copy of themselves and then they keep producing you can slow down production by lowering temps. On a commercial level it's not feasible to kill everything and start over so it becomes just a management thing but I'm going nuclear on my genetics so I don't lose a ton of money there on my flower I just keeping it organic so that doesn't mess with anything cuz I'm in week seven but they've done some damage and stunted a lot of the buds so I removed those and hopes to save some of the top bigger buds. Merit 75 wp has same chemical used to kill bed bugs can find it only in generic .5 or 50% 30lb bag, Bayer tree and shrub but Nitrogen will burn plants buddy says. Found generic of merit but if tree and shrub 1 treatment at 1.47% last 12 months I figured 75% was over kill found at Lowes bio advance insect killer 3 months and it's .72% and systemic so did another root drench on flower killing them today if soil is dry in genetics tent they even got into my dwc. So hoping they hadn't got into my rockwool cubes with GSC seedlings showing similar signs but I also put under t5s that had 2 hortilux fs+UV so lost one turned those off and put a layer of heavily washed and sterilizd sandbox sand will stop fungus gnats and hopefully keep anything wanting in out because in plastic pots they will go thru drainage holes
Sweet was yours just fungus gnats or did you have root aphids? How heavy did u go with nematodes? Like it was 30 bucks for one container of "10 million" (would hate to be the person in charge of counting lol, "9,878,798 , 9,878,799 ... hey dude it's break time 9,878,7 fk dam it I'm hungry anyways) but I split that between a few pots. Do you use fabric I think u use plastic no?
By time I found out it was root aphids everything had been over ran I really can't do much but save genetics believe that worked flower must ride out in week 7. Have GSC In solos but for extra protection used sand and seems besides one I lost they are doing fine. Funny my dosi whoa seem to be one of the strains that either was infested last or they don't like we much have 2 and they are like massive trees I know each is holding over a lb I've had to steak them and tie up each branch to keep from bending over from the weight. But if I don't water twice daily they will be on floor next. My wedding pie was affected nice tops but stalks weak and lower buds stunted in one other looks so good be it's reaction to the bugs where extra stretching so too 1/3 looks so amazing only the size of a quarter so will be peanuts dry. Gg#4 buds are baseball sized lighting and heat issue early on seemed to effect them most long stalks that can't hold any weight lucky had trellis net. Only wish I was able to set it properly.
Well that makes me feel better guess it's been a while since I popped a seed. Used to darker older fans.
I don't believe the babies got the bugs believe it was grower error because if they did I believe they would have all gotten them I think even tho was in moist rockwool heat pa may have caused dampening off??? Because I did see little white roots turned hairs but then again enough moisture in cubes should have been no different then air pruning. Have a layer of sand on all the babies seems like they are finally taking root the bigger one for sure I can see thru the clear solo. Ya u can go full on geoflora because it's organic and granulated for slow release. But I haven't introduced them to geoflora yes some rooting compounds anzo mykos wp and I did give them a seedling dose of RX. Did anyone hit the ideal ppms? They say it's for average tap water but it also said calmag isn't needed unless in coco so only way I came close to their target ppm was RO water. But gosh soil requires patients so used to hydro. Waiting for them to suck up and dryout a bit it's like a week in-between waterings. There are small cut out holes on bottom of solo that bugs could still enter so I make sure to push them down into the bigger solid colored solos. So I'm thinking again grower error on the lose of the one Id not heating mat t5 hortilux fs+UV or still the possibility of a bug before I could get sand on it. Leaning more towards the UV as u can see some of the first sets got fried. Need. T5s are new to me. Dunno what I was thinking really wanted for the UV but if I were goin to do that in addition to my LEDs should have just got single or 4ft x 2 bulb not 8 and yes fixtures were cheap but dang wattage they use almost as much as my hlg 550 so currently only have 4 center ones on. I do like the 64-6500k. LED most common is 5000k although I did seed some the other day that I wanna say we're higher then 5500k if not in the 6k range. If u continue to use the t5s goin to get the led replacement bulbs 22 or 24 watts compared to 54x8 my they even make a hybrid. Kinda surprised how tight node spacing is considering lamp distance and being fluorescent.
I am not exactly under t5s; I am under hybrid full spectrum LEDs in a T5 like configuration, putting about 30k LUX on my girls. A T5HO could only dream of being this effective. This is all the info I am giving though, since they are not sponsored lights they are not to be highlighted as part of this grow. When I get to bloom we will be putting them under sponsored lights for the duration. I will keep them under this inferior light until my bloom room frees up, and the distance I am running them is not translatable to any other light... but my journal makes it clear that I have been ramping up the light intensity at the canopy since this grow began.
