Sounds like you should have some interesting seeds to search through in a bit! Thanks for the tip on trichoderma harzianum, will have to get some of that and see if it helps any. I have a really old grape vine on my property and on occasion would see this silvery mold on parts of it towards the end of fall and I was wondering what the hell it was, well, it was likely botrytis so it sounds like I may be battling this thing on a number of fronts. Thanks again for the tips and information links!
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Sure thing! This looks like an easy to find and cheap product that’s based on TH from a reputable company: Mikro-Root 2 oz. - Microbial Applications, Inc
Rootshield WP looks like a good product but it seems to only come in very expensive three pound bags, unfortunately.
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@ElGalloBlanco here’s the recipes for DIY Regalia and PureCrop1 from OpenSalts if you wanna get it done cheap and well use both, they’re different modes of action. I plan to make and use both of these this summer outdoors.
“DIY Regalia As A Biostimulant And For Pm
Regalia from Marrone Bioscience is a biostimulant and systemic fungicide for powdery mildew. All species of knotweed are active and it’s very simple to make.
Load up your soxlet to capacity with any ground part of the knotweed plant (Leaves, stems and especially roots) with 95-97% alcohol. Let it run for 4-8 hours. Put in your rotovap to recover solvent. Dilute to 50% with water and add 12.5g/l citric acid as a stabilizer. Use at 3-6ml/gallon with water drench or foliar.
Alternately, soak all knotweed parts in alcohol for a month. Evaporate completely and add 50% water, 12.5g/L citric acid. It’s probably a slightly higher dosage than the first method.”
“ Pure Crop 1
80% glycerin
15% corn/soybean oil
2% insecticidal soap (SLS, Dr. Bronner’s)
2% aromatic oil (vanillin, rosemary, thyme)
0.5% guar/xanthan gum
0.5% citric acid
Heat everything through and stir to incorporate. Add aromatic oils while cooling and incorporate.
Use @ 1-2 oz/gallon. Spray until beading on leaves.”
http://opensalts.wikidot.com/ipm-recipes
This study lists Regalia as the most effective biological (sample #15) that doesn’t contain cinnamon,garlic, or thyme oils. So I guess those really do work, but then we don’t want their smells in flower.
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Uuuuuugh I fucked up last night- been nursing a thrown out lower back the last few days and not moving around much and I forgot to close up my flowering tent before lights out. Worse, I had the LED bar on outside the tents all night. Hoping to not get too much bullshit hermies or revert from this but I’m pissed at myself about it
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Yikes. One day shouldn’t be bad I guessing. Pretend it was an exceptionally bright full moon.
And hope your back feels better. You can’t escape a hurt back. Hurts in every position.
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Thanks @imstinky , now that I calmed down some I’m not as worried, it sucks but it could have been worse, I only left the door flapped open at the top and the bar is slightly to the side so it’s nothing like leaving the HLG in the tent on, but still not great. I’m just gonna have to keep a close eye on everything for the next few weeks, but it helps that I have tall and stripped down plants this time around to see all the nodes. I guess this is my once a year ooopsie that I have to forgive myself for.
The back sucks but I have had this injury before, I hate it but know what to do about it, which is mostly a bunch of stretching (especially Cat-Cow) and heat and good lumbar support for a few days. Back when I was a bread baker it was a lot worse, some days you just wake up and can’t move, all your lower back muscles just refuse to work until you slowly engage them all. This time I think it’s a combination of spinal compression from my heavy backpack and sitting slightly twisted in train seats to stay out of the butt divot.
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Back still pretty fucked but better today after I went to PT for my shoulder and she helped me work on my back a little too. Wildly frustrated with my Dad, who’s truly become an ornery old man who’s not listening to or considering anyone, but thankfully I’m done for the weekend there. Got my C99 bucked down into a Grove bag tonight, which weighed in at seven ounces so probably 5.5-6 after stems and trim get removed when I have the time, very decent yield off a 7G pot for me. Looks like that last grow was probably around a pound of top quality, nice!
I checked the pollinated branches tonight and IG definitely took, I think the other two did as well but not much. Still, the BX with the Icy Grape was the #1 goal and it looks like there will be some quantity of seeds in the future of Icy Grape F2 (Purple Skittles pheno) x AKBB Black Domina BX. I did a little digging and found that the initial cross from Crickets and Cicadas that AKBB worked to this must have been the Black Muddy River from 3-4 years ago:
And some Day 30 flowering tent:
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A few things I’ve been using in the garden that I don’t think I’ve mentioned in my log here:
#1. Stoned Dust: a reclaimed rock flour product from drilling igneous granite in eastern Massachusetts, pretty inexpensive and nice and high in Ca and Mg with respectable K and Fe and some other bits and bobs, I’m relying on this, along with AgSil16H and the gypsum and pumice in my soil mix for general liming and silicates. Fun name, ok price, diverting waste into a local product, it’s a winner for me.
#2. Barley malt powder from Ground Up Grain: organic diastatic barley malt from the newest and best mill in New England, I bake bread and pastries exclusively with their flour now, you can get it mail ordered or drive to their new Holyoke mill for pickup. These folks started as a malthouse to supply local breweries that wanted it, and expanded to milling multiple wheats, Danko rye, barley, spelt, and now heirloom corn. All grains from New England and upstate NY. Their current suppliers are:
Oechsner Farm- Newfield, NY
Buck Farms- Mapleton, ME
Morrill Farm- Pennacook, NH
Seneca Grain and Bean- Penn Yan, NY
Granite Grains- Amherst, NH (heirloom open pollinated Wapsie Valley cornmeal that GUG malts a little then mills fine- crazy good corn cakes/muffins)
Worth the order if you’re a home baker and I’d be happy to talk more about any of their products here if people have questions but I’ll say that their malt is very nice and one of these days I’ll get the hand cranky mill to start using their whole grains but for now the powder I bake with works great to my eye and waters in very cleanly, it’s super finely milled with almost no sludge in the can, I mix it with a little sugar or molasses to give the girls a snack sometimes.
For you homebrewers (or professionals!) here’s their parent company Valley Malt:
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Dude I can relate, we had some health issues pop up this past summer with my dad, ended up in the hospital for a while and just spent a lot of time with him compared to how much I’ve seen him for years leading up to this and man is the change in him apparent. Very stubborn, argumentative, unwilling to listen or do what’s necessary to help himself, etc. etc. a lot of what we saw with his father as he slipped into dementia etc. we’re not there yet with him but it was stark to see how different my old man is becoming from the man that raised me in a lot of ways. Sorry for your troubles dirt, both with your pops and your back. I started trying to make an effort to not fight with him and try to be a bit more of a bridge since him and my sisters just go at it like cats and dogs but it’s challenging to see a parent start to struggle late in thier life. 
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Veg tent got potted up on Day 21 from seed to the new tall two gallon fabric transplanters from 247Garden, this is my new, revised system. Scuff and soak seeds, peat Jiffy puck, tall slanted square plastic seedling pot, 2G tall fabric transplanters, then 15G final pots. I’d consider a 5G transplant if necessary but I don’t think I need more than three pots through the life cycle. The biggest issue will be veg space for the 15G as they root out, in order to keep the 4x4 mostly flowering and not doing much pre-transition other than the week I give them to adjust to the R-Spec light. Still, I can definitely squeeze 4-6 15G pots into the 3x4 if I have to.
Flowering tent looks good at Day 31, I’m monitoring them closely for signs of intersex expression from the light cycle stress the other night but so far so good. I expect Blue Tara to give me the problems if any do because that is just one strange-ass plant, it started that way and it is still freaky with weird mutated leaves and a super-thin lead expression overall for an indica hybrid.
Blue Tara:
@LouDog420 Sour Chem tall:
LDSC short (all my shorties love that hot bright middle in a Quantum Board tent, she’s doing great there just like @SCJedi Blackwater x Apollo did):
Icy Grape F2:
@Tonygreen and @LouDog420 Sowah Grapefruit:
AAAAANNNNNNNDDDD after like a month of promising all my loyal readers seeds, I finally got the wherewithal together to pack up fourteen envelopes to address tonight and drop in the mailbox tomorrow morning. Thank you all for bearing with me, and I hope everyone enjoys this late Christmas/Boxing Day/New Year’s gift from me.
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OxiClean tote? I’ve got a bunch of those.
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Sprouting: Jiffy 7 peat pucks soaked in Mr Fulvic and Sea-K soluble kelp
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Jiffy-36mm-Biodegradable-Peat-Pellet-Refill-36-Count/689616417
Seedling growth: 3.5” deep square hard black plastic
Veg growth: 2 gallons, 12” tall by 7” diameter
Final pot: 15 gallons, 21” tall by 14.5” diameter
And then:
I appropriate these along with milk crates of various sizes (single/double milk, Coca-Cola crates, other soda and wine transport stuff) for a very clean tent setup all very scrubbable and bleachable, food delivery material handling stuff is the best, along with sheet trays and hotel pans. And I can’t forget my favorite stainless dirt paddle from a cafeteria steam kettle.
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Yeah dude I save every container that’s well made and these are awesome
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Same 
Probably have a few too many glass salsa jars though!
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Here’s a Google Drive from the folks at Future4200, another forum I enjoy reading sometimes that’s heavily focused on extraction and other lab stuff, this is their mods scientific paper archive:
https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/1zOrIlrChpPteq7cmeNluCBA6tquwIvj9?pli=1
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Heh I definitely stressed out these flowering plants with the open tent room light on situation. Was watering last night and had to pick some balls off the lowers of the Sowah G, not too surprising off a Sour Diesel BX hybrid. Gonna have to watch the rest, so far it just looks like the unplucked lower nodes that I normally strip but left this time since I have an open structure. Figuring on having to just cull out some stress balls and then hopefully I’m done with it, not like I don’t end up doing that a bit anyways. I haven’t had a ton of male lower nodes pop up but it’s happened a few times and hasn’t been a big issue for me. I think I run the stress in my tent a little high sometimes even without the photoperiod mistake, so I’m willing to accept a little hollering for help from the diesels and the like. Usually I just see late sterile nanners come up in the top buds in late flower from some light stress, I had a decent number of those on the BLR x GSD testers for Copa, but only in the final swell/push from 63-75 days, which didn’t surprise me, people have said that about the BLR.
Going to my dad’s now on the bus, I’ll post a photo or two of the autos that I started there for him. Checked them on Thursday when I was last there about a week after putting them in the dirt and we had two tiny seedlings pushing up, one didn’t seem to make it out the shell. He didn’t really water them while I was gone other than a little cupful but they managed to root down and find some hydration inside the soil, glad I made sure to use a decently sandy and clay mix that could hold water in the middle while the edges got crusty. I think they’ll be pretty healthy after I watered them and they got a few sunny days in the window.
On that note, I sanded and cracked two more each last night of the @JohnnyPotseed Black and Blue Jack and @BasementBeans Sour Orange Diesel Kush x Crème De La Chem seeds to put in more of the old 5G fabric pots tonight when I get home. Gonna get them started in my veg tent and then put one each on my sun porch as it gets warmer and gift the other two (or maybe all four, I got seeds and the ability to start them) to my best friends around here who don’t grow yet. 2023 is the year I get everyone around me growing, by giving them autoflowers and seeds and advice and hell I’ll give someone a $50 tent and some homemade LED floodlight builds if they’re willing to go for it. I love you guys but I need my local growmies too!
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Day 25 in veg, rooting down since transplant, after a day or two of top water I switched to bottom watering and they’re loving it, also backed off the light a little since it looked stressed in there:
Day 35 of flower:
Blue Tara
LDSC tall
LDSC short
Icy Grape
Sowah Grapefruit
And at the big pet store I make the trip to sometimes I saw these on the clearance rack, pretty interesting honestly:
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Dude! Those might be the perfect solution for bubbling 5 gals of water. I have the issue of getting algae in my buckets and have been looking at getting uv lights for them. How much were they on clearance?
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It sucks getting old don’t it lol
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Oh man those were for big ponds the smaller was was up to 500 gallons and it was $150 I think. For that usage or any sort of home reservoir thing I think this is a better fit and it’s on sale for $70
They sell replacement bulbs which makes me like them and think it’s a product meant to last.
EDIT: I like this one too, this is what I would probably get myself for growing usage since it’s an enclosed bulb and I wouldn’t run the risk of looking at it:
https://www.petco.com/shop/en/petcostore/product/coralife-biocube-mini-ultraviolet-sterilizer
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