sundance6758
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Now, for some of Sea's stuff.....LOL The single plant (top shot) is Ashratu....pretty, huh! The pic with 2 small are the late arrivals, Sea....Like you couldn't figure that one out for yourself.... 

8000 ft Experiment.... Highs around here change day to day, this time of the year...Lows in the upper 30's to low 40's....Highs are in the 60's to mid 70's....It's building buds, but NOT anything like her Sister indoors....Sea suggested I put water containers around the plant for night time thermal heat....if y'all have suggestions, I'm listening!!!!
~Sunny~ during the day, COLD hearted Bitch at night...LMAO! The plant, not me....hehehehehe....whoa, Head rush! LOL
Howdy folks, long time since I've posted here. Due to some personal reasons, I wasn't able to run anything for a little over 6 months.
My question to SG and others here -- How do you go about cleaning / sterilizing your room? It is currently wrapped in mylar 1 foot from the floor wrapped to the ceiling. 10x10 room.
What should I run here? I have room for about 5 20 gallon pots to be safe if I make em big, I have the following:
- Goblin Queen (GG + D. Queen)
- Goblin Girl (Fem S-1)
- Nocturnal (Afgooey x Dark Queen)
- Ravnus (Dionysus (HJ Cut) x Overlord)
- Overlord (Halo x Dark Queen)
- Halo 2x Cube (Halo x Overlord)
Thanks fellas!
Sunny - what about putting it in the garage at night?
Well the 48 hrs has been pretty shitty, thrusday I went to the garden and noticed the cookies was dead looking limp on one whole side of the plant. So I went to work inspected for moles and gophers and bugs. Then I finally got to the interior of tre plant those the 3 outer cages I notice the stock had gnarly holes in it and the stock was split down the middle in 2 spread places, the stock was dis colored and mushy too. I called up my more experienced friends and consulted my copy of Ed Rosenthal's grow bible until I found that cause of this madness. It's called fusarium wilt, it's a fungial pathogen that is soil borne and starts at the roots and spreads thru the plants viens until the plant can no long uptake nutes and water at all this giving it he wlited look. This stuff is really bad check it out http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusarium_wilt
What's the wrost part is the ground that hole is in is infected now and will be for years to come I can no longer grow MJ on that ground :-( there goes about a 1000 gallons and 3 years worth of supersoil. The only thing you can do with your wilting plant is cut it down carefully and remove all trace of it and burn it, and sterilize all tools that may have touched it immediately, so I did, it was sucked, pictures to follow.
So that's was thrusday, then the phone rang at 5am Friday morning, I knew by the sound of my wife's voice something was very wrong, our grandfather passed away in the night. We were very close. He was a good and selfless man that lived for his family. I will try the rest of my life to be like him, if I end up being half the man he was I will view my life as a success.
A total of six organic biofungicide products were tested for the control of Fusarium wilt. Two products, composed of Streptomyces lydicus and extracts from quinoa plants, suppressed disease severity equivalent to the best conventional fungicides by reducing disease severity by approximately 45%.
The following biological active ingredients were ineffective at suppressing the disease: Bacillus subtilis, Gliocladium catenulatum, Coniothyrium minitans, and Streptomyces griseoviridis.
I'd employ a mechanical method instead. Get big sheets of plastic... cover the ground and keep it tight... hay bales on the edges... leave this in the sun for over a month... this process is called "soil solarization"... the mechanical action of trapping heat from the sun causes extreme high temperatures that will literally “cook” the fungus... and everything else living in that soil... What you're doing is concentrating the sun’s energy in the top 12 to 18 inches... The heat can reach highs of 140°F in the top 6 inches, killing weed seeds, insects, nematodes, and many fungal and bacterial pathogens, including those that cause verticillium wilt, fusarium wilt, potato scab, damping off, crown gall disease, and phytophthora root rot.
You'll not likely totally get rid of it because it can live 15 years without a host, and your surrounding plants and soils are infected. An increase in calcium has been showed to control the effects to some degree... no soil PH changes were recorded during this, so the assumption is that the additional calcium was responsible for the decrease in disease severity, and that the fusarium was sapping calcium from the plants in some way.... I'd cover the ground until next season and suffocate the area.
sources
spinach fields - Ontario ministry of agriculture
Soil Solarization, an alternative to soil fumigants - CSU
HTH
Sea