Moved to the new place tent arrive today will set up stuff as soon as my body let me, even with a lot of pain im happy haha.
I have a small clone that i think told me that is rooted and want more soil, thinking if keep this baby as a mother or just run it alone or with other strains
well i will have to rethink about using it because found stuff moving on it jummm small critters brown ones and now i’m thinking of tossing it, this will delay me a lil bit, hope not much cuz i really have to put that clone in soil and w i have now is part of a bag of super soil if i put that baby in there will burn like a blunt in between 10 people looool in 10 seconds loool
hmm. maybe find some native outdoor dirt/sand & go wild with it? take a cutting to root just in case? the funny thing is i gamble with plants but never with money. (i have more of 1 than the other! ha!)
My advice would be to reuse the soil as is, as long as the plants previously grown in it were sickly and died. A couple other options are you could do a 50/50 reused soil/super soil or replant in the same pot and topdress with the super soil.
Those look like common soil mites. As you build more organic matter on the top layer you’ll see more and more different soil mites. They mostly eat dead plant matter, but some will fed on any microlife smaller than it. Each time it does there’s a release of nutrients that are plant available.
When you’re doing no chemical organics you build the microbial life in your soil to allow your plants to feed when, how, and how much they want. The more booming your soil becomes the more crazy little beasties you’ll see. Here’s a picture to help.
@DavesNotHere Good to know so it don’t suppose to be bad unless the pulation goes out of contol, i dumped nearly 90 gallons of soil that were infested with fungus gnats , you bump the pot and the movement was crazy in the soil , this ones were more difficult for me to see because they are like amber color near brown, w i think will doing when have opportunity haaaaa hahah buy soil or try to get some native one and try to get some mantis or mantis eggs, will need some predator in the tent
Yes I’m my previous i had some weird gray worms in the bottom of my soil, plants were ok nothing happened just found out when finish checking the rootball amd found them , even scorpions
Best way I’ve found to get rid of gnats is homemade worm compost and neem seed meal or oil
Edit: by home made worm compost, I mean from a worm compost bin you have at your house. Not store bought earth worm castings. They don’t have enough micro life to get rid of a strong gnat population
If it’s neem oil use about 1 tsp/gallon of water and a surfactant, to break the water tension and allow it to better coat the leafs, to spray the plants and topsoil after the lights go out. You can do this up to everyday with no I’ll effects, but to break the life cycle of the gnats you must use it minimum once every 72 hours.
If it’s neem meal or cake just sprinkle 1/2-1tsp over the top of the soil, rake, and water in. That I’d do every 7-10 days
@DavesNotHere much mahalo for the advise i will prepare my neem and give some treatments to the soil before use it, i will not toss this one ill put my clone there, and see what happen cheers and happy growing
the funny thing is i gamble with plants but never with money. (i have more of 1 than the other! ha!)
