Lighting Autocob grow with big sm0 and mephisto.

[Royalroacho]

How are the bugs sm0? I found spider mites. Im thrilled. I used some doom spray. There are little web spiders in the corners of my building, im gonna toss them in my teny, although i dont know if the mites will crawl onto the web. The predatory mites are very expensive, and ive seen examples of them failing a few times. Maybe baby jumping spiders would hunt them. I need that patened cobshop brand nicotine spray...

 

[NastyN8t]

I use a spray made with Fungicide 3 organic for the neem, peppermint oil, rosemary oil, geraniol, lemongrass oil and dr. Bronners unscented baby soap. It's my version of liquid lady bug with the addition of fungicide 3.it cost a fraction of the price of buying liquid lady bug , even in bulk
U can spray as often as daily and it doesn't ruin the flavor of flowers.
I battled spider mites for a year growing photoperiods and tried lots of stuff....

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[BigSm0]

I took care of 2 plants worth of bugs.

My rooms are now bare with 4 in the AutoCob room and one auto gorilla. I hope to chop these before bringing in a new crop. Been doing more root drenches too. There are very few bugs in the dirt that I can see. Nicotine root drench. I haven't a clue how to do so but I'd love to try it. My main jobs keeping me busy busy too. Figures right when I want to quit and build lights full time.

 

[BigSm0]

I use a spray made with Fungicide 3 organic for the neem, peppermint oil, rosemary oil, geraniol, lemongrass oil and dr. Bronners unscented baby soap. It's my version of liquid lady bug with the addition of fungicide 3.it cost a fraction of the price of buying liquid lady bug , even in bulk
U can spray as often as daily and it doesn't ruin the flavor of flowers.
I battled spider mites for a year growing photoperiods and tried lots of stuff....

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Just a spray for mites on the leaves?

 

[NastyN8t]

Yeah, but it works on everything , I use it as mosquito repellent too

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[Padawan1972]

@BigSm0 Old post I know.....Although, I have never had to use and pesticides in my indoor grow, I do use a product called Captain Jacks Deadbug brew. it contains the active ingredient spinosad . Its actually approved by FDA to use on consumer foods. Its a natural growing bacterium that kills insects. Anything with spinosad as its main or only active ingredient is great, better than those harsh chems. out there. I use it all the time on my veggies and exotic plants outside with ZERO effects to growth or health or taste. Neem products or orther harsh chems. not saying neem cakes or oil is bad but harsh chems. can burn or ruin growth if used improperly . I learned the hard way and almost killed $1500.00 worth of plumeria seedlings.

 

[BigSm0]

@BigSm0 Old post I know.....Although, I have never had to use and pesticides in my indoor grow, I do use a product called Captain Jacks Deadbug brew. it contains the active ingredient spinosad . Its actually approved by FDA to use on consumer foods. Its a natural growing bacterium that kills insects. Anything with spinosad as its main or only active ingredient is great, better than those harsh chems. out there. I use it all the time on my veggies and exotic plants outside with ZERO effects to growth or health or taste. Neem products or orther harsh chems. not saying neem cakes or oil is bad but harsh chems. can burn or ruin growth if used improperly . I learned the hard way and almost killed $1500.00 worth of plumeria seedlings.

Thank you for the reply. Yes I use this regularly too. I did have thrips at one point and it wiped them out in no time. The main problem is this is an outdoor room and I live in the woods basically. I think the drains to the outdoors had built up overtime and now is attracting them in. I have since covered the drains with scotch pads which still allow water to exit and plugs them enough to prevent anything from coming in. That and switching to grow bags vs air pots with cans covering the soil really helped

 

[wwwillie]

Hey!
What are your guys thoughts on salt based nutrients VS TLO and Ca based regarding insects? I am having my first infestation of fungus gnats (or some small flying pest) I am keeping a small plant on urea based N and everything else is Ca based. I am using the yellow sticky boards. The boards in the tents have only a few flys, the board by the "sacrificial plant" is loaded... Looks like the nasty little buggers don't like the Ca based.

 

[BigSm0]

Hey!
What are your guys thoughts on salt based nutrients VS TLO and Ca based regarding insects? I am having my first infestation of fungus gnats (or some small flying pest) I am keeping a small plant on urea based N and everything else is Ca based. I am using the yellow sticky boards. The boards in the tents have only a few flys, the board by the "sacrificial plant" is loaded... Looks like the nasty little buggers don't like the Ca based.

Not sure in the nutes but I will tell you the only thing that stopped mine was sand. Hundreds of dollars in chemicals, hundreds in seeds, soil. 45-50 seedlings which all took 7 gallons of soil. Tossed away over the coarse of 50 days. I literally sprayed my whole room in 50/50 29% h2o2. Even prewashed the soil in 50/50 3% h2o2 with gnatnix mixed with mosquito dunks and diatomaceous earth and they survived. Sand stopped them immediately.

 

[wwwillie]

Damn man that sucks. I only have a mild issue. I did find it interesting that they wanted nothing to do with "Bone" fed plants but pretty much decimated the salt fed...