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:passitleft:Fantastic job VS.
Well forking done.
Carry on my good man.:bravo:

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DTF #2 Harvest Day (Flip Day 71)

Another story has come to an end. We chopped our DTF #2 girl on day 71. She looked pretty good for being 70+ days old. Still hard to believe that she was the stress test dummy before letting her get her feet under her in some good soil.

Buds were incredibly dense. No idea what the trichomes look like as I never cut a tester off her. She has a dominant fuel smell to her, but I started catching some feint aromas lingering in the back ground so I think she is going to have an interesting smoke to her.

Overall, very pleased with the yield on this girl. No idea on the weight yet but I will get a wet weight off her when I cut her off the stem in 2-3 days. She's hanging after her bud wash. She was starting to turn a bit of purple at the very end. I think if I would have let her go another week or two she would have purpled up nicely. Cheers.

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She's dying like the rest of the plants in flower. Had to cull 4 plants in flower due to the fungus gnat infestation so far and will likely be culling the Afghani and the GDP as well. Definitely not the way I saw this grow going. Live and learn. At least now I have a lot more free time to work on all my outdoor tasks.
 
Tote that barge! Lift that bale! Show us new pics of the outside garden!

Sorry to hear about the culling though.
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She's dying like the rest of the plants in flower. Had to cull 4 plants in flower due to the fungus gnat infestation so far and will likely be culling the Afghani and the GDP as well. Definitely not the way I saw this grow going. Live and learn. At least now I have a lot more free time to work on all my outdoor tasks.
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I can not react to that with a "LIKE", so I'll reply with a "NOT LIKE" , those dam gnats..................
 
I've heard dried tomato skins are good smoking. I'm just saying!
 
I'm in!

I admire the "no synthetic nutes" motto. I think I'll grow in soil this time as well. I'm highly interested in Doc's High Brix mix.

Sorry to hear about the gnats/fungus issues. Kudos on the training, loving the canopy.

Oh, and when ready, I'd be happy to buy the Dwarf Star off of ya when you upgrade. :)

Whoot!
 
How bad is it?
 
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She's dying like the rest of the plants in flower. Had to cull 4 plants in flower due to the fungus gnat infestation
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Shit - sure its fungus gnats? They easy to get rid of.

Look at the soil close with a loop. There's critters and there's other critters.

Must be an imbalance. Something in the new environment different than the old.

You will get this and topple it down like a shovel handle.

Break the wood
Melt the stone.

Fire in your future,
Burning.

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Shit - sure its fungus gnats? They easy to get rid of.

Look at the soil close with a loop. There's critters and there's other critters.

Must be an imbalance. Something in the new environment different than the old.

You will get this and topple it down like a shovel handle.

Break the wood
Melt the stone.

Fire in your future,
Burning.

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Yes I am. I have seen how infested the roots were in a plant I pulled apart....fungus root larvae everywhere. Like I said before, the big girl didn't get it as badly as the others...mostly because she had a big tower fan blowing over her surface constantly up until I moved her. I think thats when things went down hill with her.
I have pretty much solved any future issues. Ms Stank came up with the idea of using some of our extra landscaping fabric that we don't use anymore. So now....all plants in veg have a sheet of landscaping fabric over the tops of the soil with a slit cut to slide around the stem. Then a rubber band goes around the pot and seals the fabric closed over the top and the same thing is done for the bottom holes on the hard pots. Any fabric pots just get the top covered.

I have been having good success with root growth now that I have done that while treating with neem meal and neem meal teas. I have hit them with H2O2 as well in cycles as well. It ain't easy to get rid of them when you allow a full on infestation. It was bad enough that I could hand a new yellow sticky and inside 24 hours there would be over 50 new gnats on the sticky. Every time I would try and take a peak a the roots, all I would see was dead roots, no whites. Since using the landscaping fabric and treating with the Neem teas and top dressing, I am seeing lots of nice new root growth. All the dying leaves fit the images of gnat damage to a tea. Big issue is that all the flower girls must have just been getting the infestations when I flipped them. So they slowly started eating her roots until they just got to the point they died.

The big catalyst to this whole this in that I have been doing so much work outside over the last 2 months that I really try to avoid going near any of the plants for fear of another mite infestation. So I would only go in after a shower on water days. Shoulda known something was wrong when they weren't drinking right....but again too busy outside to be bothered with it so I just chalked it to plants being finicky. Until I started seeding all the leaves die...(Google fungus gnat leaf damage to cannabis plants and you will see what I saw when I finally pulled my head outta my ass and checked on the girls).

Still lots of gnats on a couple plants.....The Darkstar I have left is really showing a lot as well as a lot of fungus gnat larvae near the top of the soil. Thats probably that worst one from a gnat problem (in veg) but ironically its got some of the best growth since I started treating with the neem cake top dressings and tea drenches along with the landscape fabric. The rest of the veg girls all are recovering but still showing the leaf damage that is synonymous with fungus gnats.

It might be easy to get rid of fungus gnats on one or two plants when you are paying attention.....but it ain't so easy when you aren't paying attention and your whole grow gets a massive infestation.
 
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Yes I am. I have seen how infested the roots were in a plant I pulled apart....fungus root larvae everywhere. Like I said before, the big girl didn't get it as badly as the others...mostly because she had a big tower fan blowing over her surface constantly up until I moved her. I think thats when things went down hill with her.
I have pretty much solved any future issues. Ms Stank came up with the idea of using some of our extra landscaping fabric that we don't use anymore. So now....all plants in veg have a sheet of landscaping fabric over the tops of the soil with a slit cut to slide around the stem. Then a rubber band goes around the pot and seals the fabric closed over the top and the same thing is done for the bottom holes on the hard pots. Any fabric pots just get the top covered.

I have been having good success with root growth now that I have done that while treating with neem meal and neem meal teas. I have hit them with H2O2 as well in cycles as well. It ain't easy to get rid of them when you allow a full on infestation. It was bad enough that I could hand a new yellow sticky and inside 24 hours there would be over 50 new gnats on the sticky. Every time I would try and take a peak a the roots, all I would see was dead roots, no whites. Since using the landscaping fabric and treating with the Neem teas and top dressing, I am seeing lots of nice new root growth. All the dying leaves fit the images of gnat damage to a tea. Big issue is that all the flower girls must have just been getting the infestations when I flipped them. So they slowly started eating her roots until they just got to the point they died.

The big catalyst to this whole this in that I have been doing so much work outside over the last 2 months that I really try to avoid going near any of the plants for fear of another mite infestation. So I would only go in after a shower on water days. Shoulda known something was wrong when they weren't drinking right....but again too busy outside to be bothered with it so I just chalked it to plants being finicky. Until I started seeding all the leaves die...(Google fungus gnat leaf damage to cannabis plants and you will see what I saw when I finally pulled my head outta my ass and checked on the girls).

Still lots of gnats on a couple plants.....The Darkstar I have left is really showing a lot as well as a lot of fungus gnat larvae near the top of the soil. Thats probably that worst one from a gnat problem (in veg) but ironically its got some of the best growth since I started treating with the neem cake top dressings and tea drenches along with the landscape fabric. The rest of the veg girls all are recovering but still showing the leaf damage that is synonymous with fungus gnats.

It might be easy to get rid of fungus gnats on one or two plants when you are paying attention.....but it ain't so easy when you aren't paying attention and your whole grow gets a massive infestation.
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Well you're almost out of this dilema and you learned and shared some valuable information. We won't see this in your house again.
 
Bastards!
 
...search Grub Grenade on the Zon'...I had a big infestation as well...used that product on a tote of soil and 3 plants, and all my tomato seedlings...takes a couple /few weeks...but I'm gnat free...Preston used a mixture of DE and perlite as a cover over the top of the soil...cheerz... :high-five:...h00k...:hookah:...

frustrating lil' f00kerz!
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neikodog said:
Try adding mosquito dunks to your water. Doc swears by it. Did the killer die?
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Its hanging on by a thread. The Bubba is doing a bit better and I think will likely make a recovery. The Killer.....not looking good at all brother. I have come real close to giving her the axe.

I did buy some Mosquito Bits (similar to the dunks) and those are next in the water cycle.
 
Well they’re not easy to get rid of, but first step is usually drying the soil up. After it’s dry add a layer of sand and then start mosquito dunks or hydrogen peroxide diluted in water. It’s much easier to treat the soil post harvest though, you just put it outside and wait until they’re gone.
 
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Well they’re not easy to get rid of, but first step is usually drying the soil up. After it’s dry add a layer of sand and then start mosquito dunks or hydrogen peroxide diluted in water. It’s much easier to treat the soil post harvest though, you just put it outside and wait until they’re gone.
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Yeah and see thats where in flower you get in trouble like I did. So having a bad infestation to the point where the roots are compromised and the plant isn't drinking well.....not a good thing to have when you are trying to dry the soil. The roots would take more of a beating as the larvae snacked on them.....and of course being in flower the plants aren't focusing on root growth so its a painful thing to watch. You fight the slippery slope of watering again with anything to try and kill them fuckers....but you don't want to keep the root zone a wet mess. At a certain point, the plant gives up and full on death ensues.

Its not nearly as difficult to battle them in veg. Your growth gets stunted a bit while she fights through it.....but having roots that will regrow is key. I looked at several roots on veg plants last night and they are getting better on most. The DTF #4 plant has some phenomenal looking roots where she had no white roots 10 days ago. Some of the others are a bit slower to recover. I believe my plan is to have them recover enough to take new cuttings and then possibly ditch the ones that were infested and start over with the healthy cuttings.......or if any of the plants look good enough to flower I will try to flower them out. I am just done dealing with sickly plants....too depressing. Much easier to start over.....and if it wasn't for the fact I have some very good genetics I am trying to save, I would have axed all them and just popped all new beans.

At least I am no longer getting 50+ new gnats on a fresh sticky when I change them. Numbers are getting less and less and a couple of the plants didn't show any fungus gnats or larvae on the soil line so that tells me things are improving....just much too late and much slower than I would like.

But anyways....I am finishing up digging my footers for the garden fence. Got 20 of them and got 4 of them poured last night. Still have to dig down a bit further on my gate posts and one corner post. Digging in New England dirt is NOT fun. I think I pull out more rocks than I do dirt.

Outdoor garden is really coming along nicely. I have cucumbers galore forming along with lots of snap peas and small tomatoes forming. The stems of some of these tomato plants are incredible! There are a couple Cherokee purple plants where the stem is already an inch thick. Never had plants with stems this thick. The beets are taking a beating.....and the japanese beetles are freaking insanely thick right now. They are decimating the leaves on my poor little cherry tree. Starting to see flowers on the bean plants and squash plants and carrots seem to be doing well. Lost quite a few of my cabbage plants so replanted another dozen or so. Lots of work to do.
 
That's insane dude

Amnesia Haze make it, all yer GDP going down?

Even though we have Rattlers, scorpions, and other crap that kills ya hear...we don't have many critters in the tent

I've had gnats, but guess I'm lucky, plus mostly in Hempy and DWC, cept my testers of Coco now


Man I feel for ya my friend
 
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