Tead's Indoor-ish, Winter, Hempy, OGK, SOG

[Radogast]

Malathion I think that's what they sprayed for mosquitoes back in Arkansas. They do have alot of synthetics that work great on mites. Floramite and Avid work fantastic, but are kind of toxic if not used right. Here in Oregon,, if you have a trace of it in your herbs,, the state holds them back.

Spmetime around 1980, they malathion sprayed every square inch of California several times to combat the med fly invasion. Squadrons of helicopters flying over cities and fields.Sounds and images straight out of Apocalypse Now (and every other movie with an apocalypse in it.) They permanently destroyed most of the butterflies in the state, and several nice paint jobs on cars, but it seemed generally ineffective as an insecticide.

 

[Tead]

Ah the med fly invasion... yes... I forgot WHY I knew the name 'Malathion'.... now the neurons connect. As I recall, they'd stop you at the border and ask you if you had fruit.
I'll not rush out and grab any, but I saw it on the shelf the other day and the name was tingling 1/2 of the appropriate neurons.

 

[Tead]

So the wheels rotate. I've had a clump of harvests and now I have a couple of lean weeks ahead.

Blue Dream. This is a clone from the Blue Dream racer girl I had going with MrGreene.

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• Tead
• Jun 15, 2018

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• Tead
• Jun 15, 2018

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• Tead
• Jun 15, 2018

A little Friday morning bud porn to get the weekend rolling.

 

[Tead]

Ya know... they get sexy after you take their clothes off....

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• Tead
• Jun 15, 2018

I've been trying a post harvest purge technique. Flusing is not an option in an OsmoHempy, so I've been soaking the harvest in clear water for a day or two post harvest. The water turns a touch brownish... a bit like CalMag'd water. I rinse and replace water a couple of times a day. Unfortunately, I suspect my palette would never detect any difference.

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• Tead
• Jun 15, 2018

 

[Morglie]

Ya know... they get sexy after you take their clothes off....

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• Tead
• Jun 15, 2018

I've been trying a post harvest purge technique. Flusing is not an option in an OsmoHempy, so I've been soaking the harvest in clear water for a day or two post harvest. The water turns a touch brownish... a bit like CalMag'd water. I rinse and replace water a couple of times a day. Unfortunately, I suspect my palette would never detect any difference.

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• Tead
• Jun 15, 2018

I'm not sure how much good that's doing with flushing, but bud washing is a time honored tradition here. That's what you're doing. A wash of lemon juice and baking soda to clean them. Or if they're crawling with mites, hydrogen peroxide bath and then straight water to kill them all off.

 

[Tead]

I'm not so sure about the flushing either. I do remember the food coloring/cut plant experiments in grade school.... so it makes me think that there is some action going on there. Plus, the bud wash aspect of it seems good. Additionally, I can pluck the wet branches out of the soup and trim them up wet avoiding some stickiness.
All in all... I think I like it.

 

[NorCaliwood]

Drive-by

 

[SweetSue]

I'm not sure how much good that's doing with flushing, but bud washing is a time honored tradition here. That's what you're doing. A wash of lemon juice and baking soda to clean them. Or if they're crawling with mites, hydrogen peroxide bath and then straight water to kill them all off.

I stopped polluting my wash water with lemon juice and baking soda over a year ago. I use diluted hydrogen peroxide.

The value of the flush is that it removes the nutrients we use from the soil, so the plant finishes without any pulled in from the medium. Not necessary with a living soil like the kit. It makes a marked difference in the final product, IMHO.

 

[Tead]

Betwixt the spicy food and constant flow of various smoke, my palette is less than 'sensitive'... but I'm actually detecting a difference in the bowl mostly translating into a smoother smoke.
In an Osmo grow, one has to grab onto whatever flushing tech one can put one's hand on.

 

[DrDoob]

High Tead, I found this picture and thought of you.

 

[Tead]

In NOLA, a very common saying is "Pinch dem tails and suck dem heads!" referring to the act of consuming crawfish....

Bringin a new meaning to "Suck the head"!
I suppose pinching the tail would control a carb.....


Having said that... I think it's a lobster. Could you even begin to imagine the nasty smoke with bits of shell and flesh burning in your bowl with your stash?!?!

 

[Tead]

Buggins sure suck.
I've got them beaten back to eggs... but they're taking forever to all pop. I've done a ton of spider mite reading. Interesting critters.
Another few treatments as the eggs hatch out.

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• Jun 24, 2018

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• Tead
• Jun 24, 2018

 

[Weaselcracker]

I never did find much info about the life cycle of a mite at the time of my great mite wars, with my dial-up internet. I was very curious about how they go dormant and where they hide. And whether they hide in the growing medium. But now that I don’t have mites anymore I don’t feel the need to go looking for that info anymore.

 

[Tead]

I'll pass on the major summary....

They have several stages. 3 before the adult stage. They lay eggs only in the adult stage. You can tell the adults... they have an extra pair of legs (6). Killing the bugs at any stage is quite possible with many things. Killing the eggs seems impossible.
The eggs can range greatly in incubation periods ranging from 5 days to 2 weeks.

In my world, this plays out in a big burst of spraying up front to cut down the masses. I actually did 5 days of sprays... now I know that was overkill. Now I'm following with 2 sprays a week for a total treatment period of 4 weeks.

I've been monitoring the leaves daily and watching the progress.

 

[Tead]

Busy day....

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• Tead
• Jun 24, 2018
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• Tead
• Jun 24, 2018

Check out this KISS exterior mounting job on the UFOs. This allows them to vent outside the room.

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• Tead
• Jun 24, 2018

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• Tead
• Jun 24, 2018

 

[Radogast]

Busy day....


Check out this KISS exterior mounting job on the UFOs. This allows them to vent outside the room.

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• Tead
• Jun 24, 2018

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• Tead
• Jun 24, 2018

Looks like a good solution once you have a rain canopy over it.

 

[Tead]

It's home will be inside the backyard shed, so no rain shielding needed... but it will get wrapped in Reflectix double-bubble insulation.... 2in of dead airspace in the walls.

 

[Morglie]

That is a nice looking grow box. I thought you were making a small outdoor greenhouse when I saw the first pics. Are you looking at any cooling for it, or do you think the light mounting will keep the heat from climbing to much?

 

[Tead]

AC all around baby!
The veg tent gets a feed off the AC output thru ducting. The bloom room stays under 80f and the veg might hit 90f, but all around I've got a great handle on it this year. I downsized my AC and got much better performance... apparently I was heavily short cycling the larger unit.... how's that for crazy?!?!

 

[Morglie]

Very nice. That's something I was fighting with this spring. I finally got it balanced out after about a month of messing with it.

That's weird that a smaller unit would end up cooling better. When I replace mine, I think I'll be going with a bigger one.

When I was first looking at growing, I was going to build several cabinets like that. That way I could run different light cycles in each one.

Then I thought about all the time and effort, and went with a much simpler setup. That cabinet you're making is quite nice for a self professed lazy grower. Damn nice indeed....