Actively aerated organic ghetto beds on the cheap

[IncredibowlBoss]

I've got pitchers in there too - hard to tell what they'd caught obviously - I've heard you can shine a flashlight through em?

 

[singingcrow]

Yeah, totally. They aren't light-sensitive as far as I know. Go for it. Hopefully they caught little guys which digest much faster. Those big horse flys take a long time, haha!

 

[Izzy Mandelbaum]

How did you finally identify the bugs?
Were they in the soil or just on the plant?
Do you shop at Way to Grow/where do you think they came from?

I have been unable to identify some mites I have. Sometimes on the leaf, sometimes on the pots/saucers. I think they came from the Gunbarrel WTG.

Thanks.

 

[IncredibowlBoss]

How did you finally identify the bugs?
Were they in the soil or just on the plant?
Do you shop at Way to Grow/where do you think they came from?

I have been unable to identify some mites I have. Sometimes on the leaf, sometimes on the pots/saucers. I think they came from the Gunbarrel WTG.

Thanks.

I ID'd the bugs after a friend told me he suspected he had them on a cut he'd given me - I'd impulse-bought a super legit lab microscope the week before, so I took some leaf sample and scoped em out.

They were just on the plant. I do, at times, stop by the GB WTG, but this outbreak can be traced to the warehouse of a prominent MMC.

If you can see em with the naked eye, they're definitely not russet mites.

 

[Izzy Mandelbaum]

Do you mind mentioning how the prominant MMC is going about treating theirs?

 

[IncredibowlBoss]

Do you mind mentioning how the prominant MMC is going about treating theirs?

LOL I dunno, but the ones who have succeeded have used avid, tetrasan, judo, and forbid in veg and mitey wash in bloom

 

[Izzy Mandelbaum]

. . . . . . . . . That's exactly what I thought.

Nothing like 'medicine' treated with chemicals meant exclusively for ornamental crops.

 

[IncredibowlBoss]

. . . . . . . . . That's exactly what I thought.

Nothing like 'medicine' treated with chemicals meant exclusively for ornamental crops.

I was actually shocked to find out that they're all approved for organic tomato production in greenhouses!

 

[IncredibowlBoss]

Long overdue update!

The carnivorous plants are all dead - could be the dry air, could be the miticides, could be a combination or something else entirely!

That said, the girls are THRIVING! I pruned em out 2 weeks ago and have been training the canopy since.








Bout to cut some clones, then into bloom!!

 

[IncredibowlBoss]

The girls are lovin life under their private 1000watt

 

[SeaMaiden]

That's a bummer that the carnivores didn't make it. The rest of them seem to be loving life, though!

 

[benzo]

Cool thread !!

 

[IncredibowlBoss]

 

[IncredibowlBoss]

After 1 week in bloom, the ladies are EXTREMELY happy and developing healthy early buds!

The bed is now by itself under 1000w hps + 600w mh. I'm using an Exhale Homegrown CO2 bag in a 5x5 tent running positive pressure.

First:
something uneven may be happening with the airflow into the root zone - I'll have to run all the same strain in a bed to investigate. At one end I have normal stems, and they get progressively fatter to this whopper:
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Some happy week old buds that look a bit more mature than I'd expected:
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And there are quite a lot of them!

 

[IncredibowlBoss]

Hrmmm - 1st 3 pics got f'd up there...

Fatty stem:


First two young buds:

 

[hope2toke]

Looking nice in there! I like the Bed design you have

 

[IncredibowlBoss]

Checked out for a bit - they're a week or two from harvest depending on how long I decide to let em go.

Lookin like one of my best harvests to date with shockingly little work and not a single drop of store bought nutes!

Last week





Tonight