Indoor Mom's AutoPot, MegaCrop, AutoCob, Soil Grow :-)

[MassMom]

10/2/2020
TEMP: 80
HUMIDITY: 82


Ladies were transplanted into their 2g auto pots this morning. Pure Canna Coco and watered in with 3g MegaCrop per gallon. Each lady got about 1/2 gallon. Not a great picture, but it was taken on the run.

 

[Nosias]

10/2/2020
TEMP: 80
HUMIDITY: 82


Ladies were transplanted into their 2g auto pots this morning. Pure Canna Coco and watered in with 3g MegaCrop per gallon. Each lady got about 1/2 gallon. Not a great picture, but it was taken on the run.



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looks like the ladies are in their starting blocks.

 

[islandgrower]

10/2/2020
TEMP: 80
HUMIDITY: 82


Ladies were transplanted into their 2g auto pots this morning. Pure Canna Coco and watered in with 3g MegaCrop per gallon. Each lady got about 1/2 gallon. Not a great picture, but it was taken on the run.



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Looking good so far

 

[Ash2man]

Nice start

 

[MassMom]

10/13/2020
DAY 23
Temp: 80
Humidity: 44

Well, a lot has gone on. I noticed a few gnats, and then all of a sudden in a few days it turned into "Gnat-ageddon"!
Hundreds of them crawling through the coco so that it looked like the coco was moving~ it was disgusting. I tried a few things, but they didnt work. I decided for the health of the little ones that I had to transplant. I removed them from their pots, shook off all the coco (ouch) cupped them gently in my hands, and repotted them into fresh 50/50 strawberryfields/perlite small pots. (i didnt want to use that old coco again) the pots were pre-drenched with mosquito bits and dressed with dio earth. I didnt think they would make it, but they did!! 4 days later they are strong and growing. Please excuse the dio earth on their leaves, i dont want to touch them yet after what they have been through! The leaves may look funny, underneath the dio they are green and healthy :smoking: I will repot them later into bigger ones once it is time to put them on the autopot system, but for now they are fine. I want to keep the ladies small anyways.


Our pretty leaves have dio earth on them, please excuse us until mom gives us a bath

 

[fauxnacho]

10/13/2020
DAY 23
Temp: 80
Humidity: 44

Well, a lot has gone on. I noticed a few gnats, and then all of a sudden in a few days it turned into "Gnat-ageddon"!
Hundreds of them crawling through the coco so that it looked like the coco was moving~ it was disgusting. I tried a few things, but they didnt work. I decided for the health of the little ones that I had to transplant. I removed them from their pots, shook off all the coco (ouch) cupped them gently in my hands, and repotted them into fresh 50/50 strawberryfields/perlite small pots. (i didnt want to use that old coco again) the pots were pre-drenched with mosquito bits and dressed with dio earth. I didnt think they would make it, but they did!! 4 days later they are strong and growing. Please excuse the dio earth on their leaves, i dont want to touch them yet after what they have been through! The leaves may look funny, underneath the dio they are green and healthy :smoking: I will repot them later into bigger ones once it is time to put them on the autopot system, but for now they are fine. I want to keep the ladies small anyways.


Our pretty leaves have dio earth on them, please excuse us until mom gives us a bath
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I've seen so many growers lately having problems with those fungus gnats! There are products you can buy but I'm trying to find a cheap/free method. I keep a layer of quick-draining substrate atop my soil - so for your setup I think that would be a layer of perlite atop your coco. The gnats don't take any interest in dry conditions. That dry layer keeps them largely at bay.
I don't grow hydro but I believe it would be even harder to keep the top of the coco medium dry than it is for soil.
Neem oil is a blessing and all my houseplants get a foliar spray if I spot a mealybug anywhere on my property :smoking:

 

[MassMom]

I've seen so many growers lately having problems with those fungus gnats! There are products you can buy but I'm trying to find a cheap/free method. I keep a layer of quick-draining substrate atop my soil - so for your setup I think that would be a layer of perlite atop your coco. The gnats don't take any interest in dry conditions. That dry layer keeps them largely at bay.
I don't grow hydro but I believe it would be even harder to keep the top of the coco medium dry than it is for soil.
Neem oil is a blessing and all my houseplants get a foliar spray if I spot a mealybug anywhere on my property :smoking:

hi hon! I usually spray down my tent with neem oil regularly anyways to prevent any little creepy crawlies...didnt work this time. I even hung the yellow sticky traps, drenched them with mosquito bit water, and they wouldnt go away. nasty little things. Lets see if this total redo will work. I dont like messing with the ladies and repotting them over and over, but i figured it would be better than their poor roots being eaten by the little gnat larvae, ewwwwww.
I am going to keep my eye out, and I have placed a bowl of vinegar, sugar, and dawn dish soap in the tent so if any do show up they will be attracted to that and get stuck in it. sigh, what a pain!!

 

[MassMom]

10/14/2020

Well, i lost little mazar lady #2, but Mazar lady #1 seems to be hanging in there. She is now potted in a 2 gallon autopot filled with 50/50 strawberry fields and perlite. I watered her in, and will turn on the autopot tomorrow as her roots are quite long. She is under an autocob about 30" above her. I also started 2 new babies from some seeds I just got in the mail from California.... (2) little "Dwarf Low Flyers". They are in a jiffy starter plugs on a heat mat and under a cfl. Temps 75-80 and humidity 70ish inside the greenhouse. I also had an idea to use a couple of straps to hang a rotating fan from the upper back side of my tent pointing down~ it is working beautifully and off the floor for more grow room. I need to keep the tent warm, but dry because of those damn gnats!!

 

[Frank Nitty]

Looks like I'm back too!!!

 

[MassMom]

Welcome hon!!

Looks like I'm back too!!!