lol, I hope that is a joke. It would cost more for the tat than the seeds, lol.
When will the Satellite Fuel beans be ready for the bay/boo? I'm germinating some of your Galadriel F2s right now and can't wait to try the sat fuels. I'm guessing Bluebonic is the mom, Galadriel papa. Is the OGK dad for your new variety from Karma?
Thanks for this info. I only ask because I have grown many Sour D mixes and never had a hermi "outdoors." Indoor yes. This year I got some hermi's on my outdoor Gala's, but she was the star of my harvest. Take and give I guess.
I didn't want dramatize anything so I haven't been posting lately, but my aphids came back after a month+ of disappearing again and I have had to throw everything away. I still have all of my moms and breeding projects sitting in a rubbermaid, because it is really hard for me to chuck everything I worked very hard on over the past couple of years, but I have lost 4 crops in a row now, even had to move locations.
I've used every pesticide possible:
Pyrethrum
Pyrethrin
Bifrenthin
Cyperethrin
Azidarachtin
Merit 75
Met 52 (fungus)
Spinosad
List could go on, but I can't remember the others...
Nothing works. I have turned what was a completely organic environment where plants were grown to perfection with ease, to a chemical plant for a grow room. I even switched medium to CoCo which seems to have exacerbated the bug issue after completely moving locations and sanitizing everything, only brought clones of my moms and dads to new location that were all pretreated with azamax and merit.
Long story short, I am going to try one more grow coming up and if it doesn't work I will have to go get a normal job again and save up to restart as all of my fund have been drained with my move to a new state and 4 subsequent failed grows. I really thought I had eliminated them this time or I would have never started this thread, but they just never seem to go away. When I found 3 flying ones shortly after I posted the veg pic I decided to run my plants until Christmas to see if I could recover but they are completely stalled and all have the aphid symptoms. After I trash the rest of my plants tomorrow I will be bombing the house and applying 10 million nematodes of various types that all kill aphids around the house. I will be switching back to organics and will be eliminating every grow product besides lights and ballasts in case there are eggs on them.
We will see if the nematodes work. If they don't I have no answers and it seems no one else does either for these pests. There is thread after thread filled with chemicals that do not work no matter how often you apply and a whole lot of people that echo my experience. They don't die and don't go away.
I hope this thread is allowed to stay open because in a couple of months if my problem is cured by going back to organics and using beneficial insects by the millions, I would love to do this grow organically and complete the thread. There is a HUGE difference between the two different breeders products. Large enough to make me interested enough to come back and finish this thread. When I tore my plants down today they were 20-25 inches vegged and the difference between them was undeniable. They were just too sick to go on, but this is definitely a thread that needs to be done by more than just me.
I hope I can come back and finish this thread in 3 months we will see though I now no longer have any faith in a cure other than completely restarting in a new location from absolute scratch. I can definitely see how these things took out the entire wine industry in France in the 1800's. They are absolutely brutal and unrelenting. Hope none of you ever run into the ones that are chemical resistant ; \ I will for now on always pretreat my mediums with beneficial nematodes cuz once you see them it is too late your roots will just rot out.
how thick do u layer ur DE on top the soil ...?...well i just checked my sticky traps and i found some root aphids...at the start of an infestation so hopefully i can get this under control, but damn after hearing your story about how nothing worked...has me pretty worried.
did you try the evergreen 60-6...its 340 bucks a gallon but apparently people been having success with it in the RA thread...
my grow shop sells small 80 dollar bottles of merit...might take a gamble on that and then layer everything with DE tough...