Re: JimmyCrickets 1st Indoor Grow - Chemdog D & White Rhino x Blackberry
i guess this is one of the downsides with outdoor grows, you just never know what bugs your going to get, would be perfect if their was some kind of very fine net you could use over them, as long as it did not block the light at all and the mesh was small enough to stop critters getting in then it would work well with most books but spider mates and crap like that would still get through due to their size.
isnt their anything you can grow in the ground next to the plants, im sure i read somewhere that certain plants stop some bugs as they dont like the smell or taste or something like that, i know its no help to you at the minute but might be something you could do with future grows, ill try and find the info,
do you know what kind of bugs your dealing with ill see what i can find out, its ok using sprays but outdoors the buds will just keep coming back,
im sure with all the advances in growing that its only a matter of time before we can water our plants with something and it repels bugs or stops them when they try eating or nesting in it, surely their must be something that can be added to water when the plants are watered, fair enough it might need a flush before harvest or just stop using the product before harvest but if something like that could be produced then im sure that person would become rich very quick,
i would of loved to of studied botany or what ever its called, but when your at school the last thing you want to do is study plants people would think your was a bit strange, but if i knew i was going to be growing plants then id off studied hard and may of then been able to come up with some products of my own, i might even see if i can find a college course and see if i can study plants and nutrients,
the main thing i need to figure out is whats stopping plants turning purple,
when i was out having a meal with my kids the other day, i went outside for a smoke and their was this big green bush, well all the leaves on the top of the bush had turned purple but the leaves below where still green, i checked the leaves for signs of bugs and the texture and they looked and felt the same as the green leaves yet they was all purple, it was strange that just the top layer of leaves covering the whole bush had turned purple yet everything else below and down the sides was purple, so again that cant be due to temps as it was while we had that heat wave, so clearly its genetics, but if it was just dont to geneticss then surely i would of had a purple plant by now, that purple widow is a pure purple strain but not 1 bit of purple on any of the buds,
im pretty sure it has something to do with nutrients, we know that N helps with leaf and stem growth so their must be something that keeps the plant green instead of it naturally turning purple, im sure ill find out one day, but ive grown to many purple strains and got no purple at all so something must be going on thats stopping me getting the colours i want,
then i go and look at subcools super soil and he gets plants that are not known for purple colour yet they still produce purple buds,
we all know that all mj strains have the purple gene and most will turn purple with the cooler temps, but the purple strains should turn purple without the cold temps so i need to find out what is causing the lack of purple,
we have just got a new sponsor who has put up prizes for the
contests, he has some great looking nutrient products,
he has 3 bags of powder,
bag 1 is seedling and clones
bag2 is veg stage
bag 3 is flower
no mixing nutrients or anything, just use the bag for each stage of growth and it gives the plants exactly what they need, it soulds like a great product and would stop growers making mistakes by mixing up the wrong nutrients, so might give that a try as it may help with the purple plants im trying to grow, im about out of ---, ive got plenty of micro left and bloom booster, ive hardly used them to as its used in small amounts but im pretty much out of bloom and grow, by the time i get to harvest ill be out of both so will need something else,
the contest have nutrients as prizes so if i was lucky enough to win then the nutrients would come at the perfect time,
thanks a lot for everyone who voted for me, it means a lot so cant thank you all enough
heres the link for the new sponsor, the products won awards with high times and their some grow pics on their showing the results, their is a good sample pack as well, you can just buy the sample back and test it on one or 2 plants before you decide to buy anymore, so im sure their product does what it says it does else they would not be offering samples so id love to give it a try, the cost of the product and postage would be high but so was ---. so very tempted to give the new product and sponsor a try.
you cant go wrong with 3 bags and no mixing,
what up Whiz...