Mephisto Genetics First run LOS, featuring Ripley's, Fugue, and Creme Stomper

[MrOldBoy]

Mulch is best applied when you Top Dress ..... And no need to top dress until you get some growth - 14 days or so ..... you can always add a little mulch if you get a bare spot ....

What we are looking for is worms working under the mulch, see any?

On the cover crops, them there will grow kinda big so you may wanna snip a few, going to get crowded soon but don’t pull as you may disturb the girls roots, leave and let worms eat ....

Burnt and yellow tips could mean some sort of issue or what maybe happening is lights are close and when that happens the plant uptakes more food than needed and it will look like a food issue when in fact plant’s uptake is too much due to light .... Just a possibility, I have no clue on the PPFD plants are receiving..... Idea raise light and see how each responds?

 

[slowandeasy]

Thing looking much better in here. Backed off the watering, it's working.

Fugue

Creme Stomper

Ripley's

Glad you are doing better, we Coco growers water hard!

 

[Organic Sinse]

Mulch is best applied when you Top Dress ..... And no need to top dress until you get some growth - 14 days or so ..... you can always add a little mulch if you get a bare spot ....

What we are looking for is worms working under the mulch, see any?

On the cover crops, them there will grow kinda big so you may wanna snip a few, going to get crowded soon but don’t pull as you may disturb the girls roots, leave and let worms eat ....

Burnt and yellow tips could mean some sort of issue or what maybe happening is lights are close and when that happens the plant uptakes more food than needed and it will look like a food issue when in fact plant’s uptake is too much due to light .... Just a possibility, I have no clue on the PPFD plants are receiving..... Idea raise light and see how each responds?

I agree with too much light sometimes causing that. I do it myself once in a while.
cheers
os

 

[Roasty McToasty]

Mulch is best applied when you Top Dress ..... And no need to top dress until you get some growth - 14 days or so ..... you can always add a little mulch if you get a bare spot ....

What we are looking for is worms working under the mulch, see any?

On the cover crops, them there will grow kinda big so you may wanna snip a few, going to get crowded soon but don’t pull as you may disturb the girls roots, leave and let worms eat ....

Burnt and yellow tips could mean some sort of issue or what maybe happening is lights are close and when that happens the plant uptakes more food than needed and it will look like a food issue when in fact plant’s uptake is too much due to light .... Just a possibility, I have no clue on the PPFD plants are receiving..... Idea raise light and see how each responds?

Thanks MOB!!!

Ok, I'll wait a few weeks for a new top dressing.
The cover crop is getting out of control, I hacked some down, and laid down the rest.

Can I just lay all the cover crop down and cover with top dressing? Then start a new cover crop? Or just go without cover crop?

I raised the lights about 4 inches and the plants responded by stretching a tad. I will try and keep the distance that I adjusted to.

I haven't seen the worms, but I'll try and see next time. Hope they are getting enough food. And finding places that don't suck in their pots.

Glad you are doing better, we Coco growers water hard!

Thanks slow, yeah I'm used to coco, the peat really holds on to water, guess that's why drainage is so important. Hopefully they will drink a lot down the road.

I agree with too much light sometimes causing that. I do it myself once in a while.
cheers
os

That was the culprit, powerful these lights are.



Well the plants are doing really well, but.... the gosh damn MF piece of shat fungus gnats have made a come back. They migrated to my coco, so I got some gognats that worked in the coco. Now they have repopulated the LOS pots. So tomorrow I get a fresh new batch of nematodes that I will give every single container in my house. I got enough to do my entire outside garden as well. They will be eradicated, until we reintroduce them later.

Down side to the todes is, they die off once the bad bugs are gone, and they have a short shelf life of a few months refrigerated.

 

[MrOldBoy]

You can plant cover crop anytime and yes just sprinkle seeds into mulch and good some worm castings or compost over seeds - light amount - you can always add more .....

You could just take good heavy garbage bag and cut to fit over soil / pot, slice to go around stem and use the plastic as mulch at least temporarily until nasty bugs are gone ..... they can’t migrate out of the soil as plastic will stop you could break their lifecycle - downside is you want your pots to be kinda dry .....

Maybe @Organic Sinse can help?

 

[Organic Sinse]

You can plant cover crop anytime and yes just sprinkle seeds into mulch and good some worm castings or compost over seeds - light amount - you can always add more .....

You could just take good heavy garbage bag and cut to fit over soil / pot, slice to go around stem and use the plastic as mulch at least temporarily until nasty bugs are gone ..... they can’t migrate out of the soil as plastic will stop you could break their lifecycle - downside is you want your pots to be kinda dry .....

Maybe @Organic Sinse can help?

For the containers with fungus gnats, the upper part needs to dry out a little or you will never rid the gnats. Then cut out a piece of cardboard to cover the soil. It works best to cut a circle, then cut it in half and make a little cut out for the stem. When they can't land and enter the soil, the population dies out.
For outdoor beds, dry mulch on top.
For prevention or once they are gone, routine soil drench of water with aloe has always worked for me. Aloe breaks down exo-skeleton of gnats, but doesn't effect any good guys.
cheers
os

 

[MrOldBoy]

Thanks @Organic Sinse ...... makes perfect Sinse!

 

[Roasty McToasty]

Update, day 28ish for CS and FS, day 21ish for Ripley's

Things are improving, inoculated the soil with nematodes, and put up 5 sticky traps. The plants are doing well, despite.

Fugue left, Creme Stomper right

Ripley's left

 

[FishWizard]

Thing looking much better in here. Backed off the watering, it's working.

Fugue

Creme Stomper

Ripley's

Those pots fives Roasty?

 

[Roasty McToasty]

Those pots fives Roasty?

They are 7's, but probably around 5 gallons of medium to leave room for mulching.