Looking great man recovering nicely - I’m glad you haven’t seen any gnats ! My diamataceous earth arrived today so even tho I am also not seeing any the munitions have been stockpiled
I had no idea that fungus gnats would do this. Are you sure?It's been a recurring theme for two years now lol. Thank you for the vote of confidence
Thanks for following. These fuckers are pure unadulterated evil. I wish I had a c02 chamber to give them all my love at 2500ppms.
If it was always easy it wouldn't be fun. I can't think of much worse than getting a virus but they bored holes into my stems. Lessons learned.
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I had no idea that fungus gnats would do this. Are you sure?
Anyway, too bad about the little so and so's they killed my first living soil attempt.
Oh, and thanks for the hydroponics science website. Rabbit hole is a good description - a heck of a lot of interesting information there.
Good luck with it.
Little B...tards. I thought the adults were just flying gonads. Maybe they laid eggs in there. I do not like fungus gnats.
Little B...tards. I thought the adults were just flying gonads. Maybe they laid eggs in there. I do not like fungus gnats.
I used about $20 worth of BTi on my indoor soil grow, to no bloody avail. The little buggers managed to escape and do serious damage anyway. I caught about a dozen of the larvae chowing down on the roots of one of my youngsters. The buggers managed to convene for a collective meal in only a day or two after I planted the tap rooted seed. There was no hint of them in the hole I dug for the seed. They heard the dinner bell from wherever they were lurking, and high tailed it straight to the table. I might have been able to get something out of the mess eventually, but given how bad the damage was, I walked rather than investing more time.
I'd like to do a water only grow, but it will have to be without gnats. I may sterilize the soil I kept from the trashed grow and innoculate it with bennies after. Or just make some super soil from scratch indoors. The thinking cap is on.
I am also thinking about a grow with Bugbee's peat vermiculite mix and MC 2 part. I would have to do some figuring on the dolomite and gypsum addition because I think his proportions may have been tailored to his tap water, and my melted snow will be far softer, pretty close to RO. And, MC is different than his nutes (maybe Jack's, but an odd 20-10-20 NPK ratio that I can't find).
No shortage of options, and all of them likely to be another learning experience.
Good luck killing the last gnat.
ps. I cracked and ordered a par meter. Not an apogee given the price, but not bad reviews, so we shall see. If it works as advertised, we will find out what those screw ins are up to.
That's the meter. A few of the reviewers checked the performance against high end meters, and readings were close. I don't care about high accuracy, as long as it is reasonably close. There is likely more variation among plants and strains as there is inaccuracy in the meter, as long as the sensor is actually a quantum sensor. The suspicion factor is that the manufacturer also makes a lux meter that looks pretty much identical at the sensor end. At any rate, I will test it against my camera meter among dramatically different light sources. If it seems that the two are measuring different things, I will be happy. If it doesn't, I will be ~$200 poorer for no good reason,
Once I get the meter and go through the tests, I will do a blog on the meter checks and the light output of my screw in arrays. I will tag you then. It will be a while getting through the mail and across the border. Which works well, the growdrobe will be empty and cleaned up by the time it gets here.
That's the meter. A few of the reviewers checked the performance against high end meters, and readings were close. I don't care about high accuracy, as long as it is reasonably close. There is likely more variation among plants and strains as there is inaccuracy in the meter, as long as the sensor is actually a quantum sensor. The suspicion factor is that the manufacturer also makes a lux meter that looks pretty much identical at the sensor end. At any rate, I will test it against my camera meter among dramatically different light sources. If it seems that the two are measuring different things, I will be happy. If it doesn't, I will be ~$200 poorer for no good reason,
Once I get the meter and go through the tests, I will do a blog on the meter checks and the light output of my screw in arrays. I will tag you then. It will be a while getting through the mail and across the border. Which works well, the growdrobe will be empty and cleaned up by the time it gets here.
Some would argue that I am more serious about my DIY habit than I am about my lighting.
U sure u didn’t pull them logs outta your cats litter box!
