Funny. I got gnats from Roots soil! The bags of FF - from the same supplier - have been clean. Then again, that was 1/5 gnats/no gnats with Roots.Thanks Tony next run I'm gonna have to copycat you so don't delete your sig lol! I'm thinking I could probably go with Roots soil though and add less perlite since it already has coco (and if the nasty rumor is true about FF..).
I use sprung bags b/c they were one of the least expensive, but they are great anyway. I've had them 3+ years and made some nice full melt..
FWIW Scott's is not owned by Monsanto. I do not buy Monsanto products (makes shopping hard sometimes, and time consuming) either so I did my due diligence when looking into this. Scott's does have a distribution agreement with Monsanto regarding RoundUp. That's it. And Fox Farm is not owned by Scott's either. Like you discovered - Its a growers conspiracy and not backed in fact.I just heard about it recently but it's been going around for a year or so now that they were bought by Scotts, and as a consumer I like to put my money where my mouth is. I don't like Monsanto and will not use their products.
Shit I think gnat eggs are everywhere.. I'd love to know what soil doesn't harbor them.
I really like how your mix doesn't have 30 different ingredients and seems to work damn well. That way it doesn't cost a fortune to try out for myself. Thanks again!
Hello ...
To all you bean/seed-makers, pollen chucker's, wanna-be breeders, apprentice breeders, Breeders and Master Breeders out there!
....It's been years since I made an appeal for more seeds to help the ICMAG Server Fund....so I am doing this now since the server bill is due in 2-3 weeks and it's gonna be a big one...(they only get bigger)..
So if you have made some good seeds and would like to help this site that we all love and cherish (well maybe not everyone...lol)...Then you can donate your seeds to help ICM keep it's bills paid and running well for us all to use as a valuable resource on this here internet..
Once your seeds arrive and are identified (they should be sorted by yourselves, cleaned of any 'erb residue, pinch tested, packed in 10's and labeled with what variety they are and the breeders name/alias)....then they will be put up on www.seedbay.com by our resident furry red muppet called Clarence, to be sold either as 'Buy-It-Now's'....or perhaps at auction.....and the funds gathered will go towards the server bill when it gets here....
ICMAG.COM is a free site to use, but not a free site to run.....so I would be most grateful if some of you could help out and send in some good seeds to help with the server fund.
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