Round Infinity

[mtntrogger]

Tester tent is looking pretty tight miles. Looking forward to seeing the pre chop pics. keep killing it

 

[jefe noche]

Yes... I agree. The tester tent rocks!! And the ladies look lovely.

 

[Avinash.miles]

tester tent... testing my patience, testing lab for the last stronghold of mites in the garden, veg & bloom rooms are pretty clean, only place they keep showing up is the tester tent.

bloom is stretching hard and starting to show budset (damn the white99 actually outstretches the lime cookies bubba, which nearly outstretches glue) at the end of week 1 with an older catpiss x moontang showing buds first with the catpiss x elmers glue fire cookies just behind her.

all the seeds are harvested, will post a list soon of everything that came down...
planning the next breeding tent (using sour bubble male) and what will fill the "tester tent" next.

 

[3rdEye]

Best of fortune with those mites. Sourbubble? cool. I have some SB crosses that i need to pop soon-ish. Nice to see you posting.

 

[who dat is]

bloom is stretching hard and starting to show budset (damn the white99 actually outstretches the lime cookies bubba, which nearly outstretches glue)

Have you not ever broken down and tried using predator mites?

I wanted to run them but glad I didn't pick up those cuts then. They don't sound too crawlspace compatible.

That Dosi though

 

[Avinash.miles]

never broken down and got predators, wasted my damn money on lady bugs, bought h. miles soil mites for the kiddie pools....
bought a nice sprayer instead... call me stuck in my ways, i guess. still consider my room a little bit on the large side to treat cheap and effectively with the predators (considering the outrageous price of stethorus punctillus and our super arid climate)

Best of fortune with those mites. Sourbubble? cool. I have some SB crosses that i need to pop soon-ish. Nice to see you posting.

thanks for checkin in!

 

[who dat is]

never broken down and got predators, wasted my damn money on lady bugs, bought h. miles soil mites for the kiddie pools....
bought a nice sprayer instead... call me stuck in my ways, i guess. still consider my room a little bit on the large side to treat cheap and effectively with the predators (considering the outrageous price of stethorus punctillus and our super arid climate)

I think lady bugs are only applicable outdoors and there again only for larger pests like aphids. I think they would rather go after those than search for the smaller pests that we are more concerned with. *NOTE - this is purely my opinion and what I noticed personally in my baby greenhouse this season*.

Stethorus Punctillus didn't work out for me at all either. They would probably be better suited for a greenhouse application as well. *Again, my opinion and personal experience* For me, in the crawlspace with the barebulbs, they quickly flew into the bulb I guess as they were quickly littered around the floor. Your money would be better spent on critters like Persimilus, Cucumeris, fallacis, swiirskis - Yet again, my opinions. Seaf0ur would be better here chiming in methinks

Forgot to add about good having hypoaspis miles and rove beetles for the soil. I never see the rove beetles around but if I dig around in the top soil I will find them. I haven't done that in awhile though so hopefully they are still around. I have never seen them fly around my grow at all.

 

[Avinash.miles]

i firmly believe that i can eradicate/ control mites without adding and maintaining predator mites.... im on that path already.
haven't put them entirely out of the question, but they are low on the priority list, and getting lower as i crush these rebel outposts of spider mites in the breeding tent.... and on a couple surviving re-veg plants in veg apparently (nearly wiped out in veg, but still treating)

sprayed eco mite (mix of essential oils, iso, soapy emulsifier) and followed it up with em1 and quantum lite plus a dribble of true blooms and sea green (some freebie samples of stuff i consider "good shit") most recently
spinosad & pyrethrins really knocked them back hard
i'm on a regime of kill (pyretrhin / ecomite / spinosad / high dose of silica / iso / bronners soaps / something stronger) then rinse with beneficials (like a compost / kelp / alfalfa tea or em1 / lacto / quantum / humic / fish aminos)
i've always kind of liked spraying plants, gives me an good excuse to be in there with them - casting my shadow on the garden, most important

 

[who dat is]

i firmly believe that i can eradicate/ control mites without adding and maintaining predator mites.... im on that path already.
haven't put them entirely out of the question, but they are low on the priority list, and getting lower as i crush these rebel outposts of spider mites in the breeding tent.... and on a couple surviving re-veg plants in veg apparently (nearly wiped out in veg, but still treating)

sprayed eco mite (mix of essential oils, iso, soapy emulsifier) and followed it up with em1 and quantum lite plus a dribble of true blooms and sea green (some freebie samples of stuff i consider "good shit") most recently
spinosad & pyrethrins really knocked them back hard
i'm on a regime of kill (pyretrhin / ecomite / spinosad / high dose of silica / iso / bronners soaps / something stronger then rinse with beneficials (like a compost / kelp / alfalfa tea or em1 / lacto / quantum / humic / fish aminos)
i've always kind of liked spraying plants, gives me an good excuse to be in there with them - casting my shadow on the garden, most important

Sounds like you are on the right path. I believe that YOU can do whatever you put your mind to

 

[Ganoderma]

I've tried predator mites before, I don't recall what type of predators they where. They never worked for me, appears that they need more of a higher humidity then what we have here in colorado and I couldn't keep the humidity up.

I been using Sm-90 in my arsenal to fight mites. It's basically canola oil with sulfur added into it. I've been looking at the canola oil in the grocery store and the size of the bottle of oil is maybe 8x the size of small bottle of SM-90 that I get at the hydro shop. I have these sulfur pellets that I use for a sulfur burner, I could always heat some oil and dissolve some of those to make my own oil w/sulfur.

 

[HatchBrew]

Essential oil, azamax, neem, kelp/compost, spinosad, BTi & BTt and pyganic (for knockdown situation) rounds out my IPM.

I put some ladybugs into the garage...mostly b/c lil girl wanted to see them. IDK if they made a difference, but wasn't putting them in to control anything. Some of them are still hanging around a month later. imagine if they laid eggs they'll start popping soon.

 

[Avinash.miles]

I've tried predator mites before, I don't recall what type of predators they where. They never worked for me, appears that they need more of a higher humidity then what we have here in colorado and I couldn't keep the humidity up.

I been using Sm-90 in my arsenal to fight mites. It's basically canola oil with sulfur added into it. I've been looking at the canola oil in the grocery store and the size of the bottle of oil is maybe 8x the size of small bottle of SM-90 that I get at the hydro shop. I have these sulfur pellets that I use for a sulfur burner, I could always heat some oil and dissolve some of those to make my own oil w/sulfur.

i've been considering adding an oily type spray to the regime, like sm 90, stylet oil, canola oil... soybean perhaps.
never burned sulfur myself, but from time to time use the safer brand wettable sulfur (forgot to list that in the previous post)

that low humidity is the biggest issue keeping me from buying predator mites.... my rooms are dry because i use (arid as fuck) intake and exhaust- i don't run sealed rooms.

 

[Ganoderma]

i've been considering adding an oily type spray to the regime, like sm 90, stylet oil, canola oil... soybean perhaps.
never burned sulfur myself, but from time to time use the safer brand wettable sulfur (forgot to list that in the previous post)

that low humidity is the biggest issue keeping me from buying predator mites.... my rooms are dry because i use (arid as fuck) intake and exhaust- i don't run sealed rooms.

perhaps one day hemp seed oil

The oil based spray usually suffocates them little bastards with in a minute or two. I normally just let the plants dry off, but I'm thinking I could rinse them off too. perhaps rinse and repeat.

Have you thought about using something as a desiccant that would dry out any eggs? I've been wondering about different substances that I could put into a mix for spraying on them. I've thought about salt, baking soda or powder, might be some other "Cooking ingredients" that may be useful too.

 

[who dat is]

perhaps one day hemp seed oil

The oil based spray usually suffocates them little bastards with in a minute or two. I normally just let the plants dry off, but I'm thinking I could rinse them off too. perhaps rinse and repeat.

Have you thought about using something as a desiccant that would dry out any eggs? I've been wondering about different substances that I could put into a mix for spraying on them. I've thought about salt, baking soda or powder, might be some other "Cooking ingredients" that may be useful too.

Isn't that what the Iso does?

 

[Avinash.miles]

speaking of killing eggs; when things got bleak in the past i've been known to murder mites with an ovacide called tetrasan... works well, but i file it under "something stronger" and i don't really like using it, but prefer it over the "somethings stronger" than it, like flormite, avid, kontos, and the like.

been using neem oil rather thn azamax or a neem extract product.... for no specific reason, really

 

[Ganoderma]

Isn't that what the Iso does?

I'm thinking of stuff that dissolves into water from a solid that will leave a residue behind. Iso will evaporate.

 

[Avinash.miles]

I'm thinking of stuff that dissolves into water from a solid that will leave a residue behind. Iso will evaporate.

thats what i thought the strong dose of silica does... definitely leaves a bit of residue. (i use agsil but i think a heavy dose of protekt would do the same)

 

[Avinash.miles]

update time.... mites are pretty much eradicated, cutting down the tester tent soon, cleaned out breeding tent and have it refilled with the sourbubble male run - those were the last two places the little fucks were hiding out; veg is pretty clean and bloom is very clean

you will notice in these pics of the bloom room that i have really cleaned up the bottoms and taken alot of fan leaves from the middle and upper canopy as well, it's mid-week 2 and i'm doing more of this clean up than in previous runs... hoping it works out.

^ special ogk haze on left and the remedy x good medicine on left
far right mostly out of frame is trapper creek

^Lime Cookies Bubba all stretchy as usual

^^ Catpiss x Elmers Glue Fire Cookies on left and catpiss x moontang on right

^^ the remedy x good medicine on left, catpiss x elmers glue fire cookies on right

^ magic doobie

 

[jefe noche]

Avanish.... congrats on a clean room. Hard to do I know. Looking good!

 

[packerfan79]

Now that is a doobie, I could use one of those