GT's Ongoing Garden of Weeden - Keep It Simple Stupid!

Yikes! Those must be evil little critters if SNS couldn't hurt them. I know gnats and mites are no match for SNS products.
Cool little grow room you got there GT. How big is your area and can you get a pic of your whole room? would love to see it.
How did you ever manage the flooding problem? Come on details! details! I'ma growin through you guys now heehee!:Namaste:
 
gittergreen said:
Yikes! Those must be evil little critters if SNS couldn't hurt them. I know gnats and mites are no match for SNS products.
Cool little grow room you got there GT. How big is your area and can you get a pic of your whole room? would love to see it.
How did you ever manage the flooding problem? Come on details! details! I'ma growin through you guys now heehee!:Namaste:
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Yes, thrips are verymenacing. I have researched a product called Spinosad, and I know the local orangedepot store have a product that contains spinosad, so i will get some asap.
Whole area is about 8x4 or so, flower area is 4x3, veg is 5x2 or so, and there is storage space. I bought a sump pump with a float valve to eject any water, which is coming handy since it is raining cats and dogs!! I cut out the concrete floor in the lowest corner, then poured a concrete basin, which the pump sits in. The water level never gets above the floor now, it stays 2" below the top of the basin(floor level).

And don't worry bro, you will grow again, I'm sure. Out with the pants, in with the plants!
 
Good luck with those damned thrips, GT. Sorry to hear you have that battle. I've beaten them before with Azamax. It's pricey, but really really good stuff (OMRI organic, too). SNS 203 has been pretty effective on many things, but for thrips Azamax was what it took for me. I drenched them, and foliar sprayed both, to be thorough... Repeat after about 7 days to get any eggs that hatch, etc...

:cheertwo:
 
Went to the local orange depot today and got some Captain Jack's Deadbug Brew. Main ingredient is spinosad, which is very effective for thrips from what I've researched. I also got some Mosquito Dunks to treat the soil. I'm gonna continue to run the treatment on a 5 day regimen until no more damn bugs!!! There are a few fungus gnats flying around, so they must go too.

GDP was male, culled most of the plant, bonsai'd for Sultan Shootoff,(project to find a new breeder male for more projects)
Also the Qleaner, did the same with it as well.
On the brighter side, I popped these beans today:

1 fem Nirvana's Ice
1 fem Super Lemon Haze
3 reg Ken's GDP
3 reg TGA's Qleaner

Gonna keep 'em away from the Budcave until I can kill what bugs are there, and wash it down very good, bleach, fungicide, and HOT water. I will just wait until a light's on time and do the flower room, then move everything back in and do the rest of the Budcave.

Stay tuned! Maybe some pics later???

GT
 
It's cold?

Personally, I really like their Master Kush. And everyone that I've given it to smoke has loved it.
 
HAHA!!

Umm, damn.... Major Catastrophy...

For some reason the sump pump that keeps the Budcave from FLOODING!!! didn't engage at some time last night. Don't know if the float valve got stuck, the breaker flipped, or what happened. Anyways, when I went out to check on it this morning just before lights on, I look in and I see bottle's of SNS floating, nearly out of the damn entrance!! I immediately checked the area for live electrical in the water, and see the whole pump submerged, and then check for a safe way to unplug everything. I got everything unplugged and pulled the ballast up and checked it out, looked dry.. I then plugged the pump back in for the hell of it and it starts pumping the water out, damn, atleast it works now!!

Ok, so I get the water pumped out, which took an HOUR!!! and my pump ain't no lil 90gph , it friggin MOVES some water my friends, and I climb back down to check the scope of things. Luckily my smaller flowering plants were in a plastic tub, so I guess they just floated on the top, a lil boat of buds, thank God they were OK. Well, now Lucy, she was layed over(all 4 1/2' of her) on top of the Lucy clone I have in my PVC hempy. No broken limbs on either, but she didn't like it much...

I begin to look around, and notice that at the level the water got to, my ballast was indeed under water, and FULLY SUBMERGED at that!!! I said, well, screw it, let's see if it works, I mean it's dry enough to fool me into thinking it never touched the water, so maybe it will.

Guess what......

It works!?!?! WTH??!! I couldn't believe it, but it worked. It is an older school magnetic ballast I'm using(My digital is just put up right now, wanted to run the magnetic til it crapped out, and use the digital ballast as a backup) and I'm glad it is, because the digital one I have with all the fancy electrical boards inside would be fried!!

Ok, so I toss out all of the floating bottles, put what's left of my BPN Nutes up on the shelf, some leaked out, guess I didn't put the lids on tight??? Lit me up a doob, then began to treat everything for the thrips. I used Mosquito Dunks(But the sprinkles kind, same as dunks, but easier to work with in soil type medias) in the soil, and sprayed ALL the plants with Captain Jack's(Spinosad). Then I got the hell out of there before I had a nervous breakdown, lol....

I will let ya'll know how everything is going tomorrow, maybe I can get some pics, the incident this morning kinda sidetracked me..

Peace and God bless,
GT
 
Damn dude! That was a lot to handle in a day. I am sitting here waiting for the meds to move to my lower back. I did a lot of lifting and moving doing an H2O2 flush on both my hydro units, but NOTHING like what you had to deal with..sounds like you have it under control soooo NUKE THOSE PESTS! :cheesygrinsmiley:
 
hell of a mess! well done for taking it in stride!
 
Popped 4 more beans to make me feel better:
1. Greenhouse Seeds - Bubba Kush fem
2. World of Seeds - NL x Big Bud fem
3. Barney's Farm - Pineapple Chunk fem
4. G13 Labs - Pineapple Express fem
 
420GodsTrichome said:
HAHA!!

Umm, damn.... Major Catastrophy...

For some reason the sump pump that keeps the Budcave from FLOODING!!! didn't engage at some time last night. Don't know if the float valve got stuck, the breaker flipped, or what happened. Anyways, when I went out to check on it this morning just before lights on, I look in and I see bottle's of SNS floating, nearly out of the damn entrance!! I immediately checked the area for live electrical in the water, and see the whole pump submerged, and then check for a safe way to unplug everything. I got everything unplugged and pulled the ballast up and checked it out, looked dry.. I then plugged the pump back in for the hell of it and it starts pumping the water out, damn, atleast it works now!!

Ok, so I get the water pumped out, which took an HOUR!!! and my pump ain't no lil 90gph , it friggin MOVES some water my friends, and I climb back down to check the scope of things. Luckily my smaller flowering plants were in a plastic tub, so I guess they just floated on the top, a lil boat of buds, thank God they were OK. Well, now Lucy, she was layed over(all 4 1/2' of her) on top of the Lucy clone I have in my PVC hempy. No broken limbs on either, but she didn't like it much...

I begin to look around, and notice that at the level the water got to, my ballast was indeed under water, and FULLY SUBMERGED at that!!! I said, well, screw it, let's see if it works, I mean it's dry enough to fool me into thinking it never touched the water, so maybe it will.

Guess what......

It works!?!?! WTH??!! I couldn't believe it, but it worked. It is an older school magnetic ballast I'm using(My digital is just put up right now, wanted to run the magnetic til it crapped out, and use the digital ballast as a backup) and I'm glad it is, because the digital one I have with all the fancy electrical boards inside would be fried!!

Ok, so I toss out all of the floating bottles, put what's left of my BPN Nutes up on the shelf, some leaked out, guess I didn't put the lids on tight??? Lit me up a doob, then began to treat everything for the thrips. I used Mosquito Dunks(But the sprinkles kind, same as dunks, but easier to work with in soil type medias) in the soil, and sprayed ALL the plants with Captain Jack's(Spinosad). Then I got the hell out of there before I had a nervous breakdown, lol....

I will let ya'll know how everything is going tomorrow, maybe I can get some pics, the incident this morning kinda sidetracked me..

Peace and God bless,
GT
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Sorry to hear this happened. People ask me all the time "Why do you choose to hand feed? Why go through all that labor?"

Horror stories like this one are why I hand feed. I'd never have peace of mind if I had to worry about pumps, res' full of water, lines, sprayers, etc.

I hope everything recovers for you GT.
 
You had a flood from a rain storm right? Sounds like you might need a back up! They make battery operated one's that have a float switch. They run off of a 12 volt battery. You could get a cheap lawn mower battery and place it up high and have your back up bilge pump slightly higher than your main sump pump. Just a thought. Good luck with lucy.:Namaste:
 
Hey GT, I searched your thread, but I don't see a lot of pictures of your grow space. Where exactly is that area? It looks like some sort of crawlspace or something. I found your other pictures of the closet area, but I don't think this is the same grow space is it? Just curious about it. I'm always interested in the grow labs as much, if not more, than the plants themselves. :)
 
420fied said:
Sorry to hear this happened. People ask me all the time "Why do you choose to hand feed? Why go through all that labor?"

Horror stories like this one are why I hand feed. I'd never have peace of mind if I had to worry about pumps, res' full of water, lines, sprayers, etc.

I hope everything recovers for you GT.
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Bro, that's the main reason why I handfeed also... But subterranean grow areas are susceptible to flooding from heavy rain, and I thought I had it whooped with the sump pump, but that SOB FAILED!!! haha, my luck bro, but it's aiight, got it working now... Time to think heavy on a backup just incase that were to fail again. The switch on the power strip it was on was tripped for some reason, so I canged it out, little thing like that can really wreek havoc bro!
Thanks for stopping by, your wisdom and friendship is always more than welcome, it is encouraged!!
Peace and God bless.
GT
 
gittergreen said:
You had a flood from a rain storm right? Sounds like you might need a back up! They make battery operated one's that have a float switch. They run off of a 12 volt battery. You could get a cheap lawn mower battery and place it up high and have your back up bilge pump slightly higher than your main sump pump. Just a thought. Good luck with lucy.:Namaste:
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I thought about implementing something similar before, and decided not....

What do you think I'm regretting now?

HAHA!!
 
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