I see a lot of shield bugs in my world. I generally ignore them. From your words, I'm guessing they're friendly.
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I've had up to 3 ladybugs at a time that were captured elsewhere in the house and brought into the veg area. I hadn't seen a ladybug for 6 days, and I'd seen 3 gnat flybys in the last 4 days. The young lady of the house brought me a ladybug home from school yesterday. Today, I saw it on one of the chamomile plants in the veg area.
If bugs get to be a problem, I mix up a solution of 1 part neem oil, 50 parts water, then whisk in enough liquid soap to emulsify the oil and start foaming (about 2 parts, I don't measure.) I call it my 2% solution. This solution loses effectiveness if not applied within a few hours, so I foliar spray a dripping wet batch immediately before lights out. This has been effective at keeping gnats and spider mites out of sight.
I prefer my lady bugs - they do all the work
I feed the lady bugs a small dab of honey on a popsicle stick in the edge of a pot.
My wife is feeding honey to a ladybug in the bathroom. She has had shield bugs (stink bugs) on her popsicle stick, but they don't like the basement and attic as much a they like the living areas of a house.
I've had up to 3 ladybugs at a time that were captured elsewhere in the house and brought into the veg area. I hadn't seen a ladybug for 6 days, and I'd seen 3 gnat flybys in the last 4 days. The young lady of the house brought me a ladybug home from school yesterday. Today, I saw it on one of the chamomile plants in the veg area.
If bugs get to be a problem, I mix up a solution of 1 part neem oil, 50 parts water, then whisk in enough liquid soap to emulsify the oil and start foaming (about 2 parts, I don't measure.) I call it my 2% solution. This solution loses effectiveness if not applied within a few hours, so I foliar spray a dripping wet batch immediately before lights out. This has been effective at keeping gnats and spider mites out of sight.
I prefer my lady bugs - they do all the work
I feed the lady bugs a small dab of honey on a popsicle stick in the edge of a pot.
My wife is feeding honey to a ladybug in the bathroom. She has had shield bugs (stink bugs) on her popsicle stick, but they don't like the basement and attic as much a they like the living areas of a house.
I see a lot of shield bugs in my world. I generally ignore them. From your words, I'm guessing they're friendly.
Brick Walls
Rad, if you can keep the heater directed towards your brick wall or blowing along it, the heat sink properties of the mass will work to stabilize the room temperature of the small room rather than being just a heat drain.
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Re: Heating the brick wall.
The heater doesn't come during lights on. The lights heat the room and I have a fan set to exhaust air when temperature reaches 84 F. At night time the heater is heating the room to 72? degrees.
There has to be some heat sink effect from the Brick wall being surface heated to 81-84 in the daytime.
Once the temperature has fallen to where the heater is running, do you think there is a heat sink advantage to heating the wall as opposed to heating just the air?
Re: Heating the brick wall.
The heater doesn't come during lights on. The lights heat the room and I have a fan set to exhaust air when temperature reaches 84 F. At night time the heater is heating the room to 72? degrees.
There has to be some heat sink effect from the Brick wall being surface heated to 81-84 in the daytime.
Once the temperature has fallen to where the heater is running, do you think there is a heat sink advantage to heating the wall as opposed to heating just the air?
To be effective heat sink would need to be heated during lights on to release heat during lights off (which it does slightly from the warmer air). Heating the wall during lights off would absorb heat rather than releasing heat, and thus waste energy that would otherwise heat the air during lights off.
If the wall is colder than temp during lights off then insulation may be better than heat sink anyway.
Or I could be wrong and it would raise daytime temps which would raise wall temp which may help keep temps up at night. like Canyon said.
Re: Heating the brick wall.
The heater doesn't come during lights on. The lights heat the room and I have a fan set to exhaust air when temperature reaches 84 F. At night time the heater is heating the room to 72? degrees.
There has to be some heat sink effect from the Brick wall being surface heated to 81-84 in the daytime.
Once the temperature has fallen to where the heater is running, do you think there is a heat sink advantage to heating the wall as opposed to heating just the air?
Daytime temps are limitted by a temp sensor driven fan.
What you say makes sense. No sense heating a heat sink after the temperature falls - that sucks up your heat.
The best choices seem to be - Leave it as it is, or insulate the brick wall.
I disconnected the fan exhaust ducting so the exhaust is now heating my basement on the other side of the brick wall instead of the great outdoors. The basemeent air, is now in the mid 60s instead of mid to high 50s. Much more comfortable for basement activity
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My $4 whole house humidifier I placed outside the grow area has been doing a good job measuring the changing humidity (in 5F increments,) but isn't reducing the humidity. No water has been collected in the bucket. I put a $2 small room humidifier into the flower room. It has no humidity level adjustment. From the book, I can't tell if it has a fixed setting of 80% humidity or fails to work over 80% humidity. No wonder it was new in an opened box. I'll check later and see if it did any good
The cement wall sounds just like what my flower room has. Just an FYI as I believe you moved into the Midwest around me. In the summer when my cement wall gets heated, my flower room goes to 75-85 with rh around 75%. Hopefully your room is better stablized than mine. The humidity in the Midwest in the summer is obscene.
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Is that a humidifier or dehumidifier that you're talking about?
I was trying to use one of those vic's humidifiers first. It raised my RH less than 5%. The one I picked up to replace it raised it from 20 to 55% and I only had it on a bit over half.
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Why do you guys like lady bugs so much?? I hate them! I have 29494949 of them in my house. Do they benifit a grow room??
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This is 2nd day after 2nd Cat Drench. The buds and trichome production responded well.