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[MountainHigh]

Been a long time lurker in your thread Joe, wow so sorry to hear about your Sativa.

Glad to see you got over her though. I have had to harvest 4 of my 6 ladies prematurely as I made a horrible mistake in making their soil. And one is still very unhappy and I am just trying to keep it alive long enough for some tricomes to change color. So I feel your pain, I was very dissappointed when I realized what was going on and that even flushing was not gonna save them.

BTW I noticed you are using H2O2 and organic nutes, I started using H2O2 in my feedings, but after more reading in this forum, found out that it kills the microzoo in the soil. Organic nutes aren't readily accessible by the root system until the microzoo eats them and poops them out again, you decrease their efficiency by alot when you run them without a microzoo active in your soil. Or so I have been reading here. Maybe you can get an organic soil grower with more experience to confirm or deny.

 

[Retired Three]

Been a long time lurker in your thread Joe, wow so sorry to hear about your Sativa.

Glad to see you got over her though. I have had to harvest 4 of my 6 ladies prematurely as I made a horrible mistake in making their soil. And one is still very unhappy and I am just trying to keep it alive long enough for some tricomes to change color. So I feel your pain, I was very dissappointed when I realized what was going on and that even flushing was not gonna save them.

BTW I noticed you are using H2O2 and organic nutes, I started using H2O2 in my feedings, but after more reading in this forum, found out that it kills the microzoo in the soil. Organic nutes aren't readily accessible by the root system until the microzoo eats them and poops them out again, you decrease their efficiency by alot when you run them without a microzoo active in your soil. Or so I have been reading here. Maybe you can get an organic soil grower with more experience to confirm or deny.

Thanks so much for stopping by and spending the time with my adventure here.. It was a tough blow especially since I am so seed starved and I have to make each and everyone count. I will not make the same mistake again....

The H2O2 was an attempt to combat the fungus gnat problem that I had... I was getting desperate there for a while trying to remedy the problem. From what I understand the plants like the H2O2 because of the additional Hydrogen atom in the solution. The H2O2 didn't seem to have any positive effect in reducing the fungus gnat problem though.

 

[Sonora]

Thanks so much for stopping by and spending the time with my adventure here.. It was a tough blow especially since I am so seed starved and I have to make each and everyone count. I will not make the same mistake again....

The H2O2 was an attempt to combat the fungus gnat problem that I had... I was getting desperate there for a while trying to remedy the problem. From what I understand the plants like the H2O2 because of the additional Hydrogen atom in the solution. The H2O2 didn't seem to have any positive effect in reducing the fungus gnat problem though.

Joe,

If you're growing in soil, these bugs are the promise of a new day:

Hypoaspis miles

You'll have no gnats after 3 weeks, and if you mix them in with your soil you'll never have to worry about it.

 

[Retired Three]

Joe,
If you're growing in soil, these bugs are the promise of a new day:
Hypoaspis miles
You'll have no gnats after 3 weeks, and if you mix them in with your soil you'll never have to worry about it.

That Fungus Gnat problem really drove me nuts. I really hated those buggers...

 

[C5Rftw]

Ok bad news everyone...
I am really devastated...

Last week I over fertilized my 5 foot 1st. grow Sativa and she dropped dead on me...
I tried to flush her out with water when I realized what I had done but it was too late...
I was so depressed from all of this I have hardly posted here in the last week....
It has been hard going into the grow room and see her there dead with her now brittle leaves.

It has been a long and very enjoyable experience having her since she broke ground on March 31st. She was the first plant that we had success harvesting buds from and was on her second trip around flowering with at least 100+ small buds when she passed away.

I guess we become better growers from our mistakes but I never realized how emotionally attached my wife and I had become of our little plant...

Last night and tonight as I started cutting the numerous small buds off of her I actually had tears to my eyes....

It's been a tough few days but it's time to pick up the new pieces and work on a better replacement grow....

I have one clone of her that I am going to try to transplant into soil and hopefully she will make it...

My other large plant the Indica is doing well and is getting bigger with more beautiful colas of flowers and currently will become the focus of my efforts.

aww man, i hate hearing that.. I feel your pain. I just dropped a light on my young plant and chopped her in half... she wasn't big like yours... sorry for your pain man.. atleast it wasn't your only plant

 

[Retired Three]

aww man, i hate hearing that.. I feel your pain. I just dropped a light on my young plant and chopped her in half... she wasn't big like yours... sorry for your pain man.. atleast it wasn't your only plant

C5R,

Sorry about your loss....
The only consolation is that I can try to smoke some of my big plant to help make me forget...

 

[MI-grower]

Ok bad news everyone...
I am really devastated...

Last week I over fertilized my 5 foot 1st. grow Sativa and she dropped dead on me...
I tried to flush her out with water when I realized what I had done but it was too late...
I was so depressed from all of this I have hardly posted here in the last week....
It's been a tough few days but it's time to pick up the new pieces and work on a better replacement grow....

Damn bro I'm sorry to hear that I had the same problem a couple weeks ago myself. I lost 2 of my ladies due to a mistake of mine as well. I understand the feeling man. All you can do is move on and learn from your mistakes.

Well best of luck with ur next adventure man!!

 

[Retired Three]

Damn bro I'm sorry to hear that I had the same problem a couple weeks ago myself. I lost 2 of my ladies due to a mistake of mine as well. I understand the feeling man. All you can do is move on and learn from your mistakes.

Well best of luck with ur next adventure man!!

Thanks so much brother!!!!
I spent time this evening prepping for the next grow....
This one will be bigger and better!!!!

 

[OldMedUser]

So sorry to hear about your loss Joe and glad to hear that you're moving on to bigger and better things. I learned at a young age not to become too attached to things I would eventually consume. Therefor my plants get names like Kush#1 or Kali#3 or CloneA1. I'm gonna burn those bitches down eventually and I don't want their names coming back to haunt me. LOL

Lots of luck with the rest and I hope her clone gives you lots of babies down the road! +Reps to help reduce the sting of your loss and toward your new beginnings!

C'ya L8r.

 

[Retired Three]

So sorry to hear about your loss Joe and glad to hear that you're moving on to bigger and better things. I learned at a young age not to become too attached to things I would eventually consume. Therefor my plants get names like Kush#1 or Kali#3 or CloneA1. I'm gonna burn those bitches down eventually and I don't want their names coming back to haunt me. LOL

Lots of luck with the rest and I hope her clone gives you lots of babies down the road! +Reps to help reduce the sting of your loss and toward your new beginnings!

C'ya L8r.

Thanks so much brother!!!! I am going to increase the size of my grow and I am going to start a new exciting strain! I will be making announcements in the next week once I get underway. In the meantime I have been trimming the buds off of my plant that died and have begun preparing to start the new grows....

 

[Retired Three]

I have got to buy a scale one of these days...
I have no idea of the weight when I harvest....
It would be just nice to know....

 

[Green Utopia]

+Reps for rebounding after the loss.

As far as a scale - if you don't run out - it might be more fun just knowing you have "enough". The only thing I care about is how full or empty my stash bins are.

 

[Grooster]

+Reps for rebounding after the loss.

The only thing I care about is how full or empty my stash bins are.

Amen. Nuff said.

 

[retired again dude]

I always get Nat's when I grow in soil, it's happened every time I use soil....my question is what damage do they do? I have never seen any damage to the plant or it's growth. Just wanted to know......

 

[OldMedUser]

I always get Nat's when I grow in soil, it's happened every time I use soil....my question is what damage do they do? I have never seen any damage to the plant or it's growth. Just wanted to know......

High Oldgrowerdude.

The adults don't feed they just fly around, mate and lay eggs in the soil or even rockwool. Then their demon children chow down on the root hairs and a real bad infestation can slow a plants growth to a standstill then kill it. If you keep the top of the soil dry it helps to keep them out.

C'ya L8r.

 

[retired again dude]

I let the soil dry until the 4 top inches are dry before watering......I have noticed they are more of them if you tend to overwater.... I have never got them in the hydro plants to this date............

 

[Retired Three]

I always get Nat's when I grow in soil, it's happened every time I use soil....my question is what damage do they do? I have never seen any damage to the plant or it's growth. Just wanted to know......

My plant that had only $1.30 a bag topsoil in it never had a Gnat Problem ever!
It's when you use the potting soil with peat is when the problem occurs. Most recently I have been mixing top soil in with the peat to make a mixture and then I sterilize the soil before use. When you water you have to look real close and make sure you don't see any of the little white larvae doing the jiggy dance as the water feeds into the pot. If I see little larvae doing the jiggy dance that I spray the soil with a solution that contains pyrethin directly on that area to kill the larvae. I am convinced that using containers that cannot drain from the bottom (such as paint buckets) is what kept the soil so moist and aided to the problem. When I switched out from a paint bucket into a regular pot with an overflow on the bottom the problem seemed to start to go away.

 

[Retired Three]

I let the soil dry until the 4 top inches are dry before watering......I have noticed they are more of them if you tend to overwater.... I have never got them in the hydro plants to this date............

It's just another reason why I need to eventually make the switch over to hydroponics. I expect that will likely occur later this year. I just want to get a few successful dirt grows under my belt and to build up a lil bit of weed inventory before I switch to hydroponics.

 

[Retired Three]

Here's a million dollar question??? Can a soil grown plant be converted over to hydroponics???

 

[C5Rftw]

Here's a million dollar question??? Can a soil grown plant be converted over to hydroponics???

yes it can, the younger the plant the better... you want the root ball at the bottom of the net pot exposed to all the bubbles and you want to cut 30-50% of the roots away to stimulate root growth...
I have transferred a 2 month old plant into water and it had massive roots in 10 days