Yup 1500 ladybugs. I was thinking may be twice as many but decided to start with 1500. i put them in the fridge but by the time i got home they were walking and real thirsty. I wanted to try and split them in two groups but once the lid was off they were all over every thing 
I read you should keep them chilled and release at sun down to keep them around. first thing when you first open them they are thirsty then once they fill up on h20 they either fly away to mate or stick around to eat depending on sun and temp. SO i read online to keep them cold so they dont move as much, then spray the garden so that they have some thing to drink and dont fly off to get their drink so i sprayed the hell out of my plants got the pots heavy and saturated then i applied paper towels around the bases of the pots so once the pot dries they dont have to go far to get their next drink. i am tring to keep them on the plants and eating. i do have one plant with mites, but it sits next to the fan and i am sure once one has them its not long till the next so i am going to war again with them If this doesnt help i will get more and maybe some predatory mites. i tried the 217 last grow and wasnt very fond of the smell & taste. OH BLUE i got them from amazon hirts gardens
got one bean left for my fall set up and plan to do barneys VK havent decided which V though and gonna do a tangerine dream too need to get sum thing faster in to get perpetual. I know i will stick with my table maybe add a second tray too mine were almost 3 month from switch hope these can finish before the summer heat kicks in strong
i guess it all comes down to when the trichs are amber well 60% for me and i am happy Man i got a ton of these ladys bugs left 
I was worried when i read reviews and i guess most of them were out side gardens but every where i turn there are ladys running around like a mile a min. then they stop munch and move on. I did find a couple of leaves with mites but i think as long as i can keep the ladys feed and full of h20 daily or worse case every other i should be good. I got quite a bit of pruning to do on both sets and i think the stretch is almost over they have really exploded and added 2x the height in the tray the others have only gained 6" or so. I lost most of the lower bushy ness and gained in back in the top. I hope i get some time this wk to clean them up and do some major pulling and yanking, trimming and get them pulled back. Also gonna set up my hd vid some i can watch the lighting, since i have them running through t stats, i am unaware of the if it cycling or not ? i am trying to cool @85 and run the lights to 90 MY temp max are in the 87 area but i know the the t stats are calibrated who know is they are the same temp point as my temp gauge ?? So i plan to run the vid over night and watch my babies do their thing and hope fully the lights are staying on. Well i guess i should tell u the hps lighting is on t stats The t8s and spirals r on timers so they will light regardless of the temps. Wish i had the ac up there now but my over night outside temps are still cool so guess i need to work on the ducting and get some more exchange happening
some have trichs too 
Got some trimming done and got one sick gal think it maybe root bound not sure which pic but i will label it. Been flushing with RO for 2 watering last wk i gave the potted 4 two feedings vs 1 the wk before ?? the dam tray is kicking ass and almost un manageable in my little space still haven't got my second 150 up yet want to get some more light in there but temps have been getting into the high 80s so gonna have to do some work and get my ducting rigged. SO little time and the the mrs was in the hospital from sat night to yesterday. AND they still don't know y she has pain and numbness in lower leg and has no reflexes in her ankles. BABY bd is well and growing up so fast she is just about crawing and holding her own bottles they grow up so fast :' )
Now the baby she has been running circles around me since day one and now shes getting bigger Almost crawling but is able to get around be rolling so we pretty much baby proofed the main room we stay in so she can play. More then enough space to make a mess with her toys She eating solids which the MRS makes 
NONE of that baby foods that come pre-made we did a comparison between the carrots and pea and there were drastic color and taste differences probably since we steamed ours and the mass produced is boiled and most of the nutrients sitting in some sewer pipe some where. DO get me wrong i was raised on Gerber and i am fine little over weight ( maybe 2% over BMI average) Any how what ever is best for my little one ON to the other little ones Are you still giving her nutes ? How come your not showing any n def 
That was last harvest and i ve been dry of my own for almost a month, well have some bag weed but I miss my AG and looking at my gallery brings up some emotions Stop by any time Joe
When i was running my old flower box i had some heat issues, well for this new cab i though invest in some heat protection. Well i found these cool thermostats called LUX win 100. Basically its a heat/cool thermostat and it runs in 110 and allows you to plug in the heat/cool sorce right into it. Its rated 16 amps. SO i thought i would be fine plugging it inline with my 600 and my 150s well each its own t-stat. Well a couple days later i ve notice my temps well on track SO a day or so later i flipped the timer and no lighting I called tech support and they said it should work but even the 150 well blowing so i got some replacments and tried again well not luck so i ve been running the 150 with no temp control and too afraid to plug the 600 in with out any thing to protech from over heating. SO i broke down and got the CAP MLC-4xt Light controller. SO now i can still run my t-stat but plug the trigger cable from my controller into it. The trigger uses no load on the tstat circuit. Well needless to say I ve sent 2 of my 3 tstats back for refund. I ve got 1 good one and one dead. I plan to rig up a new relay in the dead one and just use it for a back up cooling fan stat. I wouldn't recommend this to any one but i figure 25 gal and only 4 plants and there only getting flooded 5 times a day and i replace loss with r/o water in between. Oh and keep the temp at 65 so i only wanted to see if there would be some sort of problem. I read another thread on here where the guy only changes his huge resv between veg and flower, so i thought to myself, self why not try and cut down and save on nutes and labor ? SO i thought i give it a try, well no harm as of yet ?? ok i will post some pics tomorrow
as always 
I've got one that will do 4 lights, but I have to plug it into a timer, nice score.
