The Hexapus's Garden

WC and Tead: How does garden fungicide spray work for cannibus? I have seen it in the stores, but my air is so dry that it is not an issue for me, except in the bathroom and on my north-facing window sills. Would it help you out with your rot?

Fungus and mold tend to proliferate at certain times of the year. Moisture, temperature, and day-lengths (even indoors) seem to affect when they overgrow the crops.
 
AKgramma said:
WC and Tead: How does garden fungicide spray work for cannibus? I have seen it in the stores, but my air is so dry that it is not an issue for me, except in the bathroom and on my north-facing window sills. Would it help you out with your rot?

Fungus and mold tend to proliferate at certain times of the year. Moisture, temperature, and day-lengths (even indoors) seem to affect when they overgrow the crops.
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I avoid fungus or mold without the use of sprays. Matter of fact, one way I avoid fungus and mold is not spraying my buds with any liquid. I kind of have a wind tunnel set up with the addition of my AC drying the air some.
Air movement.... lots and lots of air movement. 24/7
My humidity floats above 90 in the warmer months (like... Apr to Oct) and I never see it except for sometimes when I'm trying to dry it... but I have to have f'd something up if I see it in my drying rack.
 
I've seen PotChimp treat his plants with sulphur smoke. He said this helps a lot to keep mold away. Yes - air flow is number one and can work wonders. After what you said, Tead, I'm wondering why I don't have even more fans. I should throw my newest floor fan, which is already busted and won't oscillate, into my personal mountain of broken non-oscillating oscillating fans, and spring for some little wall mounted movement fans. Maybe they'd last longer.
I find that, with all the floor fans available to buy around here, the little gear inside which makes them oscillate always breaks. After that they aren't as much good to me. I've done all sorts of gerry-rigging, jack-legging, jack-ass-rigging -trying to fix or replace that little plastic gear- but without great results.
 
WC: my itty-bitty desk fans have far outlasted the floor ocillating fan, which blew a motor, or a fuse that is impossible to get to. Some of those little fans really put out the air! I have a couple of 4" desk fans ($9.99) that rotate up and down and are strong enough to make the leaves bend over! I have to adjust them just so, to balance between good coverage and blowing the leaves off my babies!
 
I use 4 of these 10" fans and 2 normal box fans in a 10x6 growing area ....

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Felt I had to describe my version of "a lot"
 
hey weasel , good to hear things are looking up. i had such a hard time when i first started i almost gave up. i was so sick and tired of making the phone calls , waiting, driving, waiting, paying and the usual bs that comes from buying from some dude. it was always the same strain NYSD ...... overpriced and so on........ anyway my first attempts at a grow were absolutely ridiculous ! lights falling on plants killing my first two attempts , underwatered , overwatered , lighting issues , heat, nutes and all that goes with a normal first time. point being , i thought about giving up. but with a little help from a friend , perseverance and not wanting to go back to "see the dude" and especially with help from people like you , ak , spitz, sweet sue ,420 .... i am sure that i left out a lot of :420: peeps but you know who you are , kept the dream alive.. i am so happy at where i am at now ! but still learn something everyday , every strain and every grow........never to see the "dude" again :allgood::Namaste::peacetwo:
 
Personally, I prefer home grown because I know what I'm getting, even if the buds aren't so pretty. I can be certain that there' no toxic chemicals in my weed, and thus my medicine. To me, it's worth the challenge, and I learn something every day on this site.
 
So Tead that fan pictured just puts out a straight blast of air aimed at the plants, or off to one side perhaps? And sorry to ask but what is a 'normal box fan'? You mean an inline vent fan? And Ak, that's what you're talking about too- non-oscillating?

I can see that the small ones are a better bet as they aren't under so much stress.
I usually have a couple tall oscillating floor fans going as well as a desk style oscillating fan on a shelf. The floor fans are always in the way. Last year there was a member who mounted his to the ceiling -which seemed like a great idea so I copied him. It was great for about a week till they both broke under the stress, lol.

Cbgb- that's great. I doubt any of us will be seeing the 'dude' again! Work (almost) isn't work when it's play. It's been at least 7 years since I've bought any herb from the Dude here. As a parting gift though - he gave me a bunch of totally false growing info, such as telling me that soilless grows should operate at a ph of 7, and then as a special bonus gave me a bunch of spider mite infested clones. Took two years to shake the mites, and even longer to figure out the ph thing. Thanks for all that, Mr Dude, and for all that shitty dope...
 
WC: I only have passive ventilation. I leave the top shelf of my units uncovered to vent the heat. So I use small desk fans. They don't oscillate, but the angle can be adjusted like the bigger desk fans. Because they are so small, you can set them in the pot with a plant and angle it to blow across and upward. I even face them to bounce off the back wall to distribute the air across the unit.

It sounds crazy, but it works, and I don't have a big fan in the way. However, your grow areas are a whole lot larger than mine, so larger desk fans are necessary. With careful placement, you might do away with an oscillating fan altogether. They DO take up valuable grow space.
 
Weaselcracker said:
Thanks Lexort. Yeah there's probably no good reason for me to not go ahead and order a giant box of perlite or two and get it shipped across the country, even if the psychotic post office lady gives me funny looks. She does that anyway. I'll check out shipping rates and see how they charge for large packages.
When I first started up with this sunshine mix stuff I did have a bunch and I would mix it in. I just stopped doing it when I ran out. But when I see how well most of the DTW plants did, and how borderline my other ones sometimes are, I feel like something needs tweaking. I think I should try perlite to aerate the mix better. If that doesn't work, I can always fall back on blaming ph and my feeding techniques. But really, I think that my plants should be doing better than they are.
I know I post the occasional picture of some happy plants- but all too often I feel like they're not nearly as good as they could be.

EDIT- Oh yeah- I took the Hexapus down simply because all the plants under it were harvested and I was in too big a hurry to contemplate starting more right now. As soon as I get a free day to regroup though, I'll consider what to do next and whether to set it up again.

As you can maybe tell, I'm fishing around for a new growing medium if I can't whip the sunshine mix into shape. Seems like I've been at this for a few years now and things should be going more smoothly than they are. There are still constant little issues that have me scurrying around double checking ph and feeding mixes. Maybe that's normal. But I saw the dtw plants go fairly effortlessly the first time I tried. And I see organic soil growers running a dozen strains in the same mix with little or no feeding at all, and no ph testing, and producing beautiful plants.
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When it comes to ordering perlite the way i see it is 1 it will come in a box,2 i don't know about your neck of the woods but in mine it's getting to be gardening season so perlite gets used for that, and finally ordering perlite says nothing about what its being used for. To be completely honest anytime i wasn't happy with the way my girls looked i would avoid putting up pictures lol. The main reason i was asking about the hexapus was because, and hear me out first, i think the hexapus would be awesome for a perlite hempy set up because if you can figure out how often it would need watered in your environment and also making sure your pump didn't run too much water that in my mind atleast would make hempys even more lazy which is a little hard to believe lol. I do think the hexapus would be the only way you could do hempys since your not always around due to work or whatever. On the plus side when growing in a perlite hempy you don't have to worry about the ph spiking really where as with peat moss that can happen granted you know that already though lol. Maybe it is just me but i felt like i had more issues with the peat moss then the hempys but who knows maybe it just wasn't for me, i just like knowing that what i put in for water is what will affect ph not the medium itself. It was one less possibility and one less problem. I do think we growers need to change it up a bit to keep us excited and interested ya know. Like can you really say that the same old same old can hold your focus for long periods of time (in a good way) or would you say that exploring the unknown (to you) is a much better way to keep you intrigued? Mind you it doesn't need to be big changes either whether it be trying out a new training technique or revisiting ones you haven't done for a while. Nothing gets accomplished if we remain idle and it is by pulling ourselves up by the boot straps and moving onward. Good vibes your way and I hope your day is splendid.
 
Weaselcracker said:
So Tead that fan pictured just puts out a straight blast of air aimed at the plants, or off to one side perhaps? And sorry to ask but what is a 'normal box fan'? You mean an inline vent fan?
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I do have an additional inline fan going... but it's inlet and outlet are separated from the plant room and only cool the light. This keeps my AC air inside the grow area instead of exhausting it out via the light. I try to retain the AC as much as possible.

Normal Box Fan in use....
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Hmmm... A normal box fan. I'm not even sure if I've seen one of those before... Possibly in a picture on a box on a shelf in a store. I should get one.
I have done the thing you speak of, Ak- where I have non-oscillating fans aimed at various corners and bouncing air around. I use my oscillating fans which have busted and don't oscillate anymore. I do that until I feel enthusiastic enough to buy yet another new one, or even better, find one at the second hand store for nearly nothing.
Speaking of which- I made it to town yesterday and checked out the heating pads. Two brands, and the ladies in the pictures sure looked happy with them. However, both boasted a 'safety auto- shutoff' feature that shuts them off after an hour. That sounded like a deal breaker so I wandered off. Half an hour later I found a heating pad at the second hand store and grabbed it for 25c. No auto- shutoff. I never would have recognized it or given it a second glance if I hadn't just been looking at them in the drugstore.
I'll try it out 'when I get time'.
Seems to be a well used expression on this journal...
In the meantime one of my pets is finding it to be a lovely belly warmer.

Lexort I don't have a rational explanation for thinking it is stupid to be ordering a huge box of fluff such as perlite through the mail. Somehow it just seemed weird. But that's what I have you guys for - to show me how to think normal.
You're right about trying new things. I've said it quite a few times in the last year- I've been trying to perfect the peat moss growing routine. Maybe 'perfect' is too extreme a word. I just wanted to keep going with it till I 'know what I'm doing'. Strange how that magical destination seems always to slither slowly away from me at a slightly faster rate than I can move towards it.
However- after doing the solo cup mini-dtw thing - I see how it's possible to gain new insight, and learn a lot about the current growing style, by growing a completely different style. I'm pretty sure the main insight of the solo cup grow, in coco and perlite, was drainage. I think there may well be some hempy in the not too distant future. After I get the perlite...
I don't really like the idea of growing a style that let's the plants die if the watering system breaks down. But it's a pretty simple watering system. As long as the pump keeps working then there's not too much else that can go wrong other than mistakes on my part. And really- there are always so many things that can go wrong at any given moment of every week- what's one more thing?
 
Ok, I'm subbing at this point :thumb:
 
Half an hour later I found a heating pad at the second hand store and grabbed it for 25c. No auto- shutoff. I never would have recognized it or given it a second glance if I hadn't just been looking at them in the drugstore.
I'll try it out 'when I get time'.
Seems to be a well used expression on this journal...
In the meantime one of my pets is finding it to be a lovely belly warmer.
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Friggin brilliant! Even found one without a shutoff!
Of course, one with a mechanical switch that had a shutoff could be uses with a timer kicking it on an off repeatedly thru the day.... but one without the safety is soooo much bettah!

I think there may well be some hempy in the not too distant future. After I get the perlite...
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Got any other neutral mediums floating in your garden supply area? I think any neutral medium is fine. Folks do it in pea gravel.
 
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