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The strange things you find living in your plants soil

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Found this little bugger just hangingout in my drainhole. He was none to pleased to be awakened, running in and out over and over, protecting his turf. Sorry bud, you gotsta be movin on to some other dark, wet, warm place....








 
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You an tell how wet the soil is, he had just been soaked by 1/2 gallon of water flowing past him. Prolly had to hold on for dear life. :biglaugh:
 
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i saw in myname stitch's help thread thing about sterilizing soil in the opven at 350...but what do i sterilize it in? what container?
 
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lol, I grow in a basement, so he is a natural inhabitant.

Sterilizing soil in an oven? How big a freakin oven do you people have? :biglaugh:
What would an oven hold, 10-15 gallons at a time? And you would have to heat it for how long to get that much hot all the way through? an hour or more per load? And I'm currently using 75 gallons of soil in my flower room alone. May as well go out and buy new soil for the waste and cost of energy alone, much less the personal time and energy such a project would consume. Seriously, sterilizing soil in an oven has got to be one of the silliest things I have ever heard of in the growing world for anyone with even a medium sized flower room.
 
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You've got a guard millipede!! :biglaugh:
I'd keep him around.... maybe he'll scare off some spider mites.
Or someone trying to pinch off a bud....
 
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phillykid

Member
Yummy, that's exactly what I want, 50 gallons of dirty ass soil in the thing I use to prepare my meals and while I'm at it I think I'll store my ferts in the crisper bin next to my fruit and I'll sterilize my powdered guano by running it through my coffee maker. LOL.

I've seen those millipedes in promix from home depot. I killed it cause I wasn't sure if it was a centipede (poisonous) or just a millipede (not poisonous).

peace
 
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guest3854

'Sup Cap. Y'all heard 'bout MJR right ? Love it fer organics and shit right ? Earthworm castings , peat moss and pumice right ? Loaded wit earthworm castings so much that theres worms survivin.
 
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relic2779

Member
Eww those are so gross. WHats worse is when you have those thousand leggers on the wall in your basement... Horrifying.
 
cpt.kush

cpt.kush

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hey cap , i heard of pitt bulls to gaurd your stash ..but millapeeds!! he look like he'd give my dog a run for his money :joint:
 
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remind me of the argument for growing in soil again ,yuk thats horrible...

glad i'm hydro
 
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Some info for those of you who think millipedes are some kind of threat or problem in the garden

>>Millipedes eat dead and decaying plant matter, such as old leaves, stems, and flowers. They also eat fungi that is on the plant matter, and sometimes they eat partly decayed animals, such as earthworms, snails, and insects. Millipedes are very important, because they help put nutrients back in the soil for plants and other organisms to use.

Millipedes have tiny holes, called spiracles, on the sides of their segments. They breathe through these holes and must stay in places where there is moisture.

North American Millipedes are mostly nocturnal, coming out to feed at night.
 
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uhhhh, holy crap.... that thing would run me out of my own garden!!!!


can anyone say heebee jeebees!!!! :eek:
 
cpt.kush

cpt.kush

Active member
OK... NOW THOSE ARE SOME NASTY LOOKIN BUGS .. YOURS LOOKED MORE TRAINABLE FOR SECURITY PATROLE..LOL.
 
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