Colorado Growers Thread

[Photosynthesis]

I forgot to add that this has been part of Chris Van Dyke's (Clean Green Certification's) agenda for sometime now.

I would look toward people with the Clean Green Certification in Colorado for the one's putting the pressure on the State about the word "organic".

He would be the pide piper in this situation.

 

[Seaf0ur]

I'm all natural.... to hell with "organic"... thats just bottles from the hydro store these days anyway.

 

[Ganoderma]

The shops could just add the word "Organic" to something and then charge more for it. All produce that you buy at the store has to be certified that it's organic before it can be sold as organic.

 

[Photosynthesis]

You can not use the word "organic" as it is a Federally regulated word.

As fucked up as that sounds, it's a fact.

Stoner's know best though.

 

[MrTea]

The minute the federal government gives a shit about the use of the word organicinc in cannabis is the time they acknowledge cannabis as legal. There is a hidden agenda behind this situation. For them to say you can't say organic because of federal regulations is bullshit. This only has something to do with the state level.

 

[pANicModE]

left CO 3 years ago.. missing it big time
whats everybody growing?
searched the last 3-4pages back didn't see any Nuggets, whats Growing on?

 

[Ganoderma]

Watch the state go after fem seeds at some point, because they will come up with some reason. Or you wont be allowed to make the femming solution at home.

Just me thinking out loud.

 

[MrTea]

This happened in Arizona...Lmao. Someone is going to get shot for their mistake.

 

[SooperSmurph]

So I almost died.

Alcohol kills, weed heals. Period.

 

[SooperSmurph]

I'm all natural.... to hell with "organic"... thats just bottles from the hydro store these days anyway.

I'm finally gonna bite the bullet and go all natural, soil, water and various rotten fish and animals, i'm starting to get tired of hydro store bottles, no matter how well they work or how honest the manufacturers are.

 

[MrTea]

I'm finally gonna bite the bullet and go all natural, soil, water and various rotten fish and animals, i'm starting to get tired of hydro store bottles, no matter how well they work or how honest the manufacturers are.

Heres some outdoor organic bud shots to savor the moment

 

[SooperSmurph]

Been buying the odwalla equivalent of nutrients and quite frankly it's all just rotten dead things anyway, why bother paying them to rot it?

 

[Seaf0ur]

I'm finally gonna bite the bullet and go all natural, soil, water and various rotten fish and animals, i'm starting to get tired of hydro store bottles, no matter how well they work or how honest the manufacturers are.

you ought check out logicalgardener.org

 

[Corvette Doc]

I have spent several years trying to stay as natural as possible but I think I am going to give in and start some serious early season pest control for next year. This year has been RIDICULOUS on the amount of pests.
I have been using flouramite in early bud and veg to keep out spider mites for several years...even so they blew-up 3 times this year. I have never had them come back after spraying flouramite before.
I lost another plant to termites this year.
been fighting scale for the last month...it has spread to all the plants now.
just started trimming my first plant of the year...found a bud that partly dried up and nasty looking, started pulling that out only to discover that it was some kind of wasp's nest and he stung me good.
Finding inch-worm like caterpillars now also hiding DEEP in the buds.
I was forced to start spraying GreenCure because a couple of plants showing powdery mildew and a couple other plants some other type of fungus.
I have had both birds and squirrels tearing up buds...apparently for fun in the last few weeks. And there are these tiny little black beetles (about 2x the size of spider mites) all over...but they don't seem to be doing anything to the plants...they just make me itch all over.
And the grasshoppers this year have been chewing through stem covers killing the entire branch from that point...I had NEVER seen one do that before but have lost about 30 good branches and main colas to it this year.

I have had it with this. I am going to be doing some SERIOUS spraying and drenching next year from day one till mid August. I am not going to watch most of my crop end up as extract or trash again. Colorado has too many pest to grow outside without spraying.

I am of the mind now that organic only means covered in bugs!

 

[who dat is]

I have spent several years trying to stay as natural as possible but I think I am going to give in and start some serious early season pest control for next year. This year has been RIDICULOUS on the amount of pests.
I have been using flouramite in early bud and veg to keep out spider mites for several years...even so they blew-up 3 times this year. I have never had them come back after spraying flouramite before.
I lost another plant to termites this year.
been fighting scale for the last month...it has spread to all the plants now.
just started trimming my first plant of the year...found a bud that partly dried up and nasty looking, started pulling that out only to discover that it was some kind of wasp's nest and he stung me good.
Finding inch-worm like caterpillars now also hiding DEEP in the buds.
I was forced to start spraying GreenCure because a couple of plants showing powdery mildew and a couple other plants some other type of fungus.
I have had both birds and squirrels tearing up buds...apparently for fun in the last few weeks. And there are these tiny little black beetles (about 2x the size of spider mites) all over...but they don't seem to be doing anything to the plants...they just make me itch all over.
And the grasshoppers this year have been chewing through stem covers killing the entire branch from that point...I had NEVER seen one do that before but have lost about 30 good branches and main colas to it this year.

I have had it with this. I am going to be doing some SERIOUS spraying and drenching next year from day one till mid August. I am not going to watch most of my crop end up as extract or trash again. Colorado has too many pest to grow outside without spraying.

I am of the mind now that organic only means covered in bugs!

There are organic or biopesticide options for everything you have mentioned. I had grasshoppers and caterpillars this year. Just recently were the caterpillars so I sprayed them with BT to keep them away. I'll probably do it once more before I let them ride it out til the end. I've been out of town and I hope that PM isn't setting in with this rainy and overcast weather. Check out semaspore bait for the grasshoppers. I'll be using it earlier next season since I only found out about it 6 weeks ago this year but still used it.

 

[highcountrygrow]

I have spent several years trying to stay as natural as possible but I think I am going to give in and start some serious early season pest control for next year. This year has been RIDICULOUS on the amount of pests.
I have been using flouramite in early bud and veg to keep out spider mites for several years...even so they blew-up 3 times this year. I have never had them come back after spraying flouramite before.
I lost another plant to termites this year.
been fighting scale for the last month...it has spread to all the plants now.
just started trimming my first plant of the year...found a bud that partly dried up and nasty looking, started pulling that out only to discover that it was some kind of wasp's nest and he stung me good.
Finding inch-worm like caterpillars now also hiding DEEP in the buds.
I was forced to start spraying GreenCure because a couple of plants showing powdery mildew and a couple other plants some other type of fungus.
I have had both birds and squirrels tearing up buds...apparently for fun in the last few weeks. And there are these tiny little black beetles (about 2x the size of spider mites) all over...but they don't seem to be doing anything to the plants...they just make me itch all over.
And the grasshoppers this year have been chewing through stem covers killing the entire branch from that point...I had NEVER seen one do that before but have lost about 30 good branches and main colas to it this year.

I have had it with this. I am going to be doing some SERIOUS spraying and drenching next year from day one till mid August. I am not going to watch most of my crop end up as extract or trash again. Colorado has too many pest to grow outside without spraying.

I am of the mind now that organic only means covered in bugs!

I think you just need to dial in your environment and many and get your plants to vigor up. unhealthy plants have unhealthy/weak immune systems that aren't able to fend off the pests. With our dry arid climate you shouldn't ever have bud rot or really any PM issues (plant spacing/cleaning up the bottoms/keeping the vigor strong by not letting plants get deficient or root locked in any way). Hopefully thats helpful.

 

[Eighths-n-Aces]

Finding inch-worm like caterpillars now also hiding DEEP in the buds.

i had a plant that was infested with those little fucks a few years ago

preemptive strikes with SPINOSAD seems to have solved those problems.

 

[jewcebox]

keep an eye for rippers.

already seen like 15 posts on facebook, which is retarded...

SOMEONE STOLE MY 30 plants.... i mean they only took 3.

 

[SooperSmurph]

keep an eye for rippers.

already seen like 15 posts on facebook, which is retarded...

SOMEONE STOLE MY 30 plants.... i mean they only took 3.

Croptober is also known as Robbedtober.

 

[jewcebox]

Croptober is also known as Robbedtober.

just before murdervember