As the temperature here is always high, I always struggle with pest control
Especially this last cycle that I’m cultivating, I’m facing a thrips infestation
I believe the combination of neem oil + Potassium silicate + Spinosad worked >> It’s the first time I’ve taken a thorough look and I don’t see the damn things moving, I hope everything is dead >> I’ll follow the preventive applications
Spinosad I went for Confortis but I saw that it was for sale at OrganoLab and I’m going to buy it, I just haven’t bought it yet because I’m still deciding what to do with all the probiotics and inoculants I have here >> they all have about 500ml yet >> I dont know if I leave these expired ones aside and buy new ones.
Otherwise, I thought it would be more prudent to set the light time back to vegetative and hold it for a few more weeks until the plant recovers
Starting this diary with a question for anyone who comes by and knows the answer:
I have some liquid and powder probiotics, as the cultivation here is small, I still have a lot of them but I’m upset because according to information from the manufacturers, each of the products has passed its expiration date for almost 3 years.
Do the living beings all die after the expiration date or does it just lose the effectiveness guaranteed by the manufacturer? Will it hurt the plant to keep using it? Or it just won’t work as expected?
Growing with high temperatures and humidity is really a challenge, any blink and this damn things infest. Especially this cycle I was very busy and I cant get the desired attention to the pests control. Luckly, I think I got at the right time to get away with these pests
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Awesome setup with the 65 gallon pot
I wish I had the answers for you on the expired products but I don’t know enough. I’m sure some of our more experienced folks will have some insight into it though!
Thanks for your consideration, the reason of 65 gallons fabric pot its because I like the idea of no-till gardening but I dont assume that way of growing because I mix so many other things and ways of doing things
After one week of the massive attack with potassium silicate+
neem oil+spinosad (from pet’s pills), the plants were really damaged by the pests and by my attack but I’m glad that I didn’t found any live pest walking through the leaves. I defoliated the damaged leaves and then I sprayed out water with OHN+EM5+Fermented insect humus extract hoping that the plants recovers well and quickly. Next week there will be an extra insertion of spinosad+beaveuria+isaria, but this time with a less concentration, just to keep away the pests and then put flowering time again. And that’s that. É nós. Tamo junto
After 10 days of the massive attack, both plants showed good signs of recovery, the leaves started to grow beautifully again, sprouting flower buds everywhere, today I applied the preventive combination of Isaria + Spinosina + Beauveria + Saponina + Potassium Silicate and at the end of the week I’ll put the lights back to flowering time. Even late, the harvest will come. Faith in God and the Goddess, Blessed Be
The plants continue to grow frantically, the branches look like they will bring some very good top buds
I defoliated it because I already had a lot of large, long leaves.
I decided to try putting products in the Blumat’s water tank again. I’m using 1mL/L of Insect Humus FPE from probiotics3marias. I’ve done this before and over time biofilm accumulates throughout the system, but as the plants were recovering I thought it would be good. And the results were really very good. I will leave the blumat system to be cleaned at the end of the cycle, for now I think I will continue making these additions to the water tank.
Continuing with the experiments, I took a lighting board that was left over and lit it from the bottom up. I didn’t set it to maximum so as not to increase the temperature close to the ground too much. I didn’t find any information about this type of lighting supplement, so I decided to give it a try and see what happens.
I’m always learning and I really like to exchange ideas, so feel free to comment on my experiments.
I dropped 6 seeds from Pakistan Chitral Kush and 6 seeds from Golden Tiger
11/12 seeds sprouted, praying to the last one Gonden Tiger still sprouts
I will choose a nice male to make seeds, so it will be 12h of light since the beginning and I will try to make it with the smallest possible pot until I find the males and choose the females to cross.
I think the current cycle will make a great harvest so I can do this seed production without concerns of being potless
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