NEW Colorado Growers Thread

[MileHighGlass]

I have some on the shelf and I'll probably give it a try. I don't ever see bees around my plants so I should be good there. I like that you can spray the surrounding plants and ground cover and not just your cannabis plants. Mine are at 2 weeks flowering in the greenhouse now and I don't want to be spraying much more on them for the duration.

FYI I tried semaspore(i believe comparable to nolo) for 2 years and it didn't do shit. For it to be effective you have to use it reallyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy early in the season as it will only kill the youngest of grasshoppers.

Want to kill grasshoppers with ease within about 5 minutes?

8 oz. of orange oil per gallon of water. Shake the shit out of it and spray the bastards. They will die within 5 minutes.

I spent a summer catching grasshoppers(large adults) and putting them in jars, then spraying them with different shit. The orange oil at 8 oz. per gallon was the winner.

The down side is it will kill every single insect it touches. It will also kill your plants. For me I would use it in a grassy area where power lines ran through my property so I didn't really give a fuck.

And to repeat, yes I spent a summer catching bugs, putting them in a jar, and killing them. FYI I'm vegan.

Fuck a bunch of stereotypes.

 

[who dat is]

Yeah, scorched earth via orange oil isn't an option.

 

[!RA!]

Update on GPW

Update on GPW

How much lighting are those GTH's under ? Does it yield at least .75 gpw ?

So I wound up with 303 grams under one 400W MH. So being the sharp mathematician that I am I'm saying 1.32 GPW. Never actually checked that number before. Is that any good?

 

[who dat is]

So I wound up with 303 grams under one 400W MH. So being the sharp mathematician that I am I'm saying 1.32 GPW. Never actually checked that number before. Is that any good?

0.7575 grams per watt* Solid run though with a 400

 

[!RA!]

See? Told you I was a sharp mathematician. I did WPG instead of GPW. Maybe I shouldn't have been smoking this stuff in school so much.

 

[MJPassion]

LMAO... RA!

I do that shit & I'm like... wha???

 

[Corvette Doc]

Well the damage I am suffering from the hoppers is continuing to mount every day. They ate one of the PCKs to the ground about 2 weeks ago. I started throwing Nolobait hoping. I did see one hopper today that lifted my spirits. The thing could barely move and looked like it had a fungus under its shell miss-coloring it. I saw it later as another was trying to eat him. I just haven't the faintest idea how to keep them from migrating in. We almost need an aerial drop across the entire county to have any real effect.

Oh the PCK is trying to survive...still not sure on it. That is my purple/black buds...And now I am going to have to wait for WEEKS to find out if it male or female.

 

[who dat is]

Well the damage I am suffering from the hoppers is continuing to mount every day. They ate one of the PCKs to the ground about 2 weeks ago. I started throwing Nolobait hoping. I did see one hopper today that lifted my spirits. The thing could barely move and looked like it had a fungus under its shell miss-coloring it. I saw it later as another was trying to eat him. I just haven't the faintest idea how to keep them from migrating in. We almost need an aerial drop across the entire county to have any real effect.

Oh the PCK is trying to survive...still not sure on it. That is my purple/black buds...And now I am going to have to wait for WEEKS to find out if it male or female.

I remember hillbilly genetics (k_labs) talking about having success with homemade hot pepper foliar sprays. I haven't tried it yet but sounds promising.

 

[MileHighGlass]

You gotta attack their home base. Mine was a grassy area along power lines. Don't bother around your plants. It is more of a waste of time than anything.

I would carry a piece of bamboo through my garden, and if I saw one I would wack the shit out of it. very satisfying, but I don't know how much it actually helped.

 

[SooperSmurph]

I remember hillbilly genetics (k_labs) talking about having success with homemade hot pepper foliar sprays. I haven't tried it yet but sounds promising.

Spreading a paste of extremely hot chilis along the edges of the hoop house would probably keep every hopper for a mile away, similar techniques are used to keep elephants away from fruit trees.

 

[2 Legal Co]

I remember hillbilly genetics (k_labs) talking about having success with homemade hot pepper foliar sprays. I haven't tried it yet but sounds promising.

Doc; If you use/make the pepper spray, make sure you take proper precautions to avoid breathing the fumes. They will make you feel like you are gonna suffocate. I.E. Dog spray/self defense sprays... only maybe hotter. :big grin: I've used tobacco 'tea' in the past for various pests, as well.

Chickens maybe?

 

[nastynate420]

The chickens will eat the weed!!

 

[2 Legal Co]

The chickens will eat the weed!!

Are you sure? (I really don't know) but In the land of Ditch weed, even the cows won't walk through the patch, to say nothing of eating it. I dunno.

 

[2 Legal Co]

Guinea fowl maybe? They used to have free run of the garden when I was much younger, at my Grandmother's farm.

 

[nastynate420]

Chickens love weed, at least the ones I know. They'll eat all of my scraps.

 

[MJPassion]

Chickens love seedlings but tend to leave bigger plants alone ime.

Guinea hens would be perfect.

 

[SooperSmurph]

They'll strip off everything they can reach, even on a mature plant, so it's a viable plan if you were planning on removing a lot of undergrowth.

 

[Jhhnn]

The chickens will eat the weed!!

Hungry chickens will eat anything including you if you hold still long enough that they think you're dead. They love grasshoppers so if you can fence off the plants so the chickens can't get to 'em inside a larger fenced area so the chickens can't get away they'll help a lot. Clipping their wing feathers allows for shorter fences.

 

[Corvette Doc]

I am in the city...Chickens and game foul not really possible. If I could I would raise Grey's (Malayan, Germain's or even Rothschild's ) Peacock-pheasants. Or Better yet some Great Argus Pheasants, silver Pheasant, or many others I could name and wish I had feathers from. No, birds just aren't possible beyond the wild ones here in town. But if I could get a few real prairie chickens??? Maybe??? I don't know enough about raising live birds.


I did spend a couple of hours out trimming up lower growth and starting to twist plants into cages. I noticed a LARGE number of dead grass hoppers on the ground. Found lots of sheds also. But the live ones are still in alarming numbers around the yard if not in the G/H. No ants. The Boric Acid, Terro liquid traps, Diatomaceous Earth, and Triple Nematodes seem to have gained the upper hand on the ants...for now. These BIG (about 1" long) black wood ants still wander through from time to time. They don't seem effected by the treatments but don't seem to like the area either...So hopefully they will not become an issue in the G/H. They never cared about my pot plants before so hopefully they wont start noticing them now.


Funny how the world works. Back in may I was crying because I didn't have enough plants after my brothers killed them...I was In the hospital longer than I counted on. I find 3 COMPLETELY different types of plants starting wild in my yard. They are obviously not from my past grows' genetics...One looks like an OLD GOLD from the late 70s...that was the last time I saw a plant like this. Those 3 seem to be hopper proof???
Now today I find one lone solitary rove beetle and he is actually munching away happily. Maybe I will get a few more??? Now where are those mantis'???

 

[nastynate420]

I know several people in the city of Pueblo who have chickens. But like smurph said, they'll eat anything that they can reach.