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CoCo's 85w Grow Tent
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CoCo_LoCo
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I hear the predatory nematodes are great but not available in South Africa. The only name brand international products available here are Atami coco coir and various nutrients. And then not even the whole range.
Ive dealt with white flies. No pesticide worked for me. I eventually beat them by doing this:
Step 1: find a leaf with white fly eggs on it.
Step 2: place leaf in sealed back and monitor,
Step 3: when eggs are quite big and easily visible on the quarantined leaf then lie on your back under the plant and look at the underside of the leaves. Make sure the light source is between the leaves and you, the eggs become very easy to spot like this.
Step 4: Remove all leaves with eggs and destroy
Step5 : repeat until infestation is over.
Every single fucking day I inspected leaves from the bottom up and eventually I harvested. Veg plants where unaffected and that was the end of it. Quite a pain.
Two words: diatomaceous earth. You can use it right up until the day of harvest. It's perfectly safe to mammals. Just put some in a sock, smack it with your hands so that you dust up your grow space good, and those mf'ers are goners. It dessicates anything with an exoskeleton, and it's food grade to us.
I haven’t heard of using it that way yet...
I always just put a layer down on top of the soil/medium...
only problem with my way is that once you water the plants the DE gets kinda like how wet flour gets and I always end up putting another layer down...
but every time I’ve done it this way the knat’s are gone within two weeks tops...!!!...
That way works, too, it's just "wasteful" on the DE. But the stuff is cheap, so who cares, right? It's interesting to me because the "dusting" application tends to be the common application outside of cannabis cultivating scenes. Even in general horticulture it's used that way. At the hydroponic shop I worked at in the 2000s, we even sold a device specifically for DE's pest control application, which basically blew a cloud of dust in the general direction it was being aimed.
Essentially, when you dust surfaces with DE, you are creating a sahara desert for any critters with an exoskeleton, only the grains of sand are more like shards of glass to those critters. Good stuff, and perfectly safe (there are even weirdos who swallow a teaspoon of the stuff per day because they believe it is killing things in thei—oh who am I fooling, I don't know what the fuck they think they are doing when they swallow DE, lol, but the point is it's perfectly safe to us, and all mammals).
AgentPothead
Just this guy, ya know?
People with asthma or other breathing conditions can find it can irritate, so if you have any sort of breathing problem use one of those paper masks they wear to prevent germ spread or for painting.
CoCo_LoCo
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Applying the DE that way makes sense. Thanks for the info.
Ive tried DE as a top dressing but I just get a paste forming on top of the coco because it never gets dry.
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Some pics of the clones. Day 7 after being planted.
They all showed some decent growth. I have topped all of them over the last couple days.
JustSumTomatoes
Indicas make dreams happen
Looking great coco!
JustSumTomatoes
Indicas make dreams happen
Coming along great coco! Your buds should look amazing once they bulk up.
Beautiful, just beautiful.
