MagicJim
Creme de la Creme Photos: Sept 2016
Good Morning SS. Don't spend the whole day studying. Sunshine is out there. Vitamin D.
The Perpetual Healing Garden - SweetSue's Joyful Return
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No sunshine here Jim, but I am headed out to find more boxes and pick up a few groceries. Before I go, how about an update?
Daily Update: Day 22 & 24
The Dark Devil Auto has taken her beheading in stride. She's 22 days old. Everyone else is at 24 days.
Good. I missed all the tiny new growth coming up behind.
The leaves are already taking on a dark edging.
The photo tent.
Critical Mass
CBD Critical Cure
I get this far in and I'm always thinking "Doc would be proud of these." They're beautiful young ones, for sure.
The auto tent. The victims appear to have bounced back. I'm going to play it by ear. I did a little leaf tucking.
Fantasmo Express
Auto Jack Herer. What a robust specimen! The sturdiest stalk in the class. She's beginning to show great potential already.
Med GOM 1.0. Starting to flower.
All in all a healthy start. I'm real happy with where things stand at this point.
My hair is finally dry (halfway down my back now and that take longer to dry) so I'm on my way out to track down boxes and do some grocery shopping. Maybe lunch out is called for.
Tempting. 
Have a wonderful day everyone. Spread all the joy you can muster. I'm continuing on my quest for minimalist living so I'll be packing in between the studying. Emptying out an entire closet got me excited. LOL! By the end of next month when I schedule the next pickup I should be down to essentials and have a pretty good idea of what I found important enough to hang onto. It's becoming an interesting experiment in letting go.
Time to run.
Daily Update: Day 22 & 24
The Dark Devil Auto has taken her beheading in stride. She's 22 days old. Everyone else is at 24 days.
Good. I missed all the tiny new growth coming up behind.
The leaves are already taking on a dark edging.
The photo tent.
Critical Mass
CBD Critical Cure
I get this far in and I'm always thinking "Doc would be proud of these." They're beautiful young ones, for sure.
The auto tent. The victims appear to have bounced back. I'm going to play it by ear. I did a little leaf tucking.
Fantasmo Express
Auto Jack Herer. What a robust specimen! The sturdiest stalk in the class. She's beginning to show great potential already.
Med GOM 1.0. Starting to flower.
All in all a healthy start. I'm real happy with where things stand at this point.
My hair is finally dry (halfway down my back now and that take longer to dry) so I'm on my way out to track down boxes and do some grocery shopping. Maybe lunch out is called for.
Tempting. Have a wonderful day everyone. Spread all the joy you can muster. I'm continuing on my quest for minimalist living so I'll be packing in between the studying. Emptying out an entire closet got me excited. LOL! By the end of next month when I schedule the next pickup I should be down to essentials and have a pretty good idea of what I found important enough to hang onto. It's becoming an interesting experiment in letting go.
Time to run.
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I totally forgot!!!!
The photo girls got their Brix foliar today.
That's all.
The photo girls got their Brix foliar today.
That's all.
Susan I have a question for you and all. I HAVE BUGS!! Now I need you to talk me off the ledge and tell me that bugs are awesome and a beautiful part of life. 
Here's my problem. I have the SNS products but I don't know what I have in terms of bugs. They kind of look like the ones Mr. Am4zin had. Like... I don't want to say it.... Grasshoppers??
What's the best way to go about taking care of these guys? I'm going to decontaminate my room and spray the plants with the SNS but am I missing anything?
Sorry to burden you, as you know, I don't have a journal of my own at the moment. (Silly me)
MUAH
Here's my problem. I have the SNS products but I don't know what I have in terms of bugs. They kind of look like the ones Mr. Am4zin had. Like... I don't want to say it.... Grasshoppers??
What's the best way to go about taking care of these guys? I'm going to decontaminate my room and spray the plants with the SNS but am I missing anything?
Sorry to burden you, as you know, I don't have a journal of my own at the moment. (Silly me)
MUAH
kelticBlue
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Not totally sure. I do not see well on my phone but the second pic looks almost like a thrip.
This was my thoughts keltic. I've posted on your journal pigeons. 
I have SNS 203 and 217. 203 mentions thrips 217 doesn't. Should I start with 203?
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Good picture Pigeons. I'd definately start with 203. Read the directions carefully. You should get some spinosad. I can see how the clove and rosemary would be a deterrent, but if you don't stick to that every 5-7 days repeat cycle you waste your time and the strong survive to breed again. That applies with any approach. You have the SNS 203. Use it.
I honestly can't tell you what took care of my thrip infestation. I topdressed with neem meal and left town. I came back to no thrips. It's a mystery to me.
Good luck. And yes, insects are just little opportunistic earthlings.
Not all insects are necessarily welcome in our garden though. 
Needed that
Here are a few pics of the Sage n Sour.
I use a bag type vaporizer. With good flowers I get four or five of the long bags by upping the temperature a little with each bag. With the SnS I get two or three at the most. I will cure the best half and store in the freezer for leaner times. The rest does not look like it will yield much from shaking it, so probably lots of joints and vape material.
Coming up I have CBS (California Bag Seed), I named it. It is nearly ready. It is probably about generation four for me. That will be the go to one soon.
Best.
I use a bag type vaporizer. With good flowers I get four or five of the long bags by upping the temperature a little with each bag. With the SnS I get two or three at the most. I will cure the best half and store in the freezer for leaner times. The rest does not look like it will yield much from shaking it, so probably lots of joints and vape material.
Coming up I have CBS (California Bag Seed), I named it. It is nearly ready. It is probably about generation four for me. That will be the go to one soon.
Best.
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Mmmmm...... I'm gonna miss these. Sure smells good in here.
Ok guys, turns out the markings on the leaves of my LOS no-tills isn't light bleaching, but thrips. Thank you Mr Am4zin for the beautiful pictures you shared in Pigeon's journal. Those pictures perfectly illustrate what I see when I get in there with my loupe. Mixing the spinosad right now.
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Daily Update: Day 23 & 25
Well, the day picked up a bit of excitement there didn't it? Thank goodness I have the spinosad on hand.
Let's take a look at how everyone's doing today? These were all prior to discovering I had extra visitors, but that doesn't make that much difference.
Starting off with the auto tent.....;
Fantasmo Express
Med GOM 1.0
Auto Jack Herer
On to the photo tent......
CBD Critical Cure, now standing about 4.5". Looking fabulous.
Critical Mass, standing around 4". I'll top them somewhere around 12-14". Beautiful specimens so far.
Dark Devil Auto (Day 23)
Curious how she leans to the one light.
All the LOS plants, including the Dark Devil Auto, got a thorough soaking with spinosad. It appears that the neem meal did a good job of reducing numbers but didn't eridicate after all. Lesson learned.
I turned the light back up in the auto tent. In five days I'll do another application of spinosad.
Back to my studies and packing. I do hope your Sunday's turning out to be joyful journey of your own making. Thrip surprise notwithstanding I'm doing quite well myself, thanks, lost in study that never seems to quit. Almost there with methylation. It's such a complex process. I know it's not necessary for one to understand it to adapt the protocol, but I'm not just anyone, and my brain wants desperately to understand this for some reason, so I'm running with it for a couple more days.
I have to keep reminding myself that it's a marathon, not a sprint.
Enough babbling. Lets get on with our days, shall we?
Well, the day picked up a bit of excitement there didn't it?
Thank goodness I have the spinosad on hand.Let's take a look at how everyone's doing today? These were all prior to discovering I had extra visitors, but that doesn't make that much difference.
Starting off with the auto tent.....;
Fantasmo Express
Med GOM 1.0
Auto Jack Herer
On to the photo tent......
CBD Critical Cure, now standing about 4.5". Looking fabulous.
Critical Mass, standing around 4". I'll top them somewhere around 12-14". Beautiful specimens so far.
Dark Devil Auto (Day 23)
Curious how she leans to the one light.
All the LOS plants, including the Dark Devil Auto, got a thorough soaking with spinosad. It appears that the neem meal did a good job of reducing numbers but didn't eridicate after all. Lesson learned.
I turned the light back up in the auto tent. In five days I'll do another application of spinosad.
Back to my studies and packing. I do hope your Sunday's turning out to be joyful journey of your own making. Thrip surprise notwithstanding I'm doing quite well myself, thanks, lost in study that never seems to quit. Almost there with methylation. It's such a complex process. I know it's not necessary for one to understand it to adapt the protocol, but I'm not just anyone, and my brain wants desperately to understand this for some reason, so I'm running with it for a couple more days.
I have to keep reminding myself that it's a marathon, not a sprint.
Enough babbling.
Lets get on with our days, shall we?
As requested Sue
This was my experience with thrips.
The silvery spots is the damage they cause, it's where they eat the surface layer of the Leaf.
This is the damage through a scope. The black spots are poo.
And these are the little buggers
I used a mix of neem and rosemary oils with a couple of drops of dish soap in warm water. Gave them a liberal soaking every day for a week.
This was my experience with thrips.
The silvery spots is the damage they cause, it's where they eat the surface layer of the Leaf.
This is the damage through a scope. The black spots are poo.
And these are the little buggers
I used a mix of neem and rosemary oils with a couple of drops of dish soap in warm water. Gave them a liberal soaking every day for a week.
Sue you will need to treat every plant in the space with Los pots in. These little suckers can jump and will get into everything. Good luck with your battle.
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Sue you will need to treat every plant in the space with Los pots in. These little suckers can jump and will get into everything. Good luck with your battle.
Thank you for posting that. Thankfully, all the LOS pots are isolated. The DDA is all alone and the autos are in their own tent. There are only the three pots in there. Even though the DDA wasn't showing signs of infestation I decided it was a smart move to treat her too. That pot sat next to the infected one for two months. I have to assume some jumped ship.
How fortuitous that this happened when they were still tiny. Whew!
I don't want to imagine what treating full-grown plants would have been like.
kelticBlue
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Crazy question. Anybody ever use a pitcher plant or Venus fly trap or some sort of Carnivorous Plants For pest control? I'm lost in space again, I know.
Man I don't think that's crazy at all. Perhaps on the verge of brilliance? I a huge fan of lady bugs I could only imagine that a Venus flytrap or something similar would be effective if not bloody awesome.
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We used to have a carnivorous plant collection. We had a couple different collections, actually. They are awesome Pigeons. These thrips are so tiny that they probably wouldn't trigger the fly traps.
These thrips are so tiny that they probably wouldn't trigger the fly traps.
Glad you had the spinosad on hand. I still need to order some just to have it around. The plants themselves look like they are not bothered by the thrips too much...yet. But you are on the case and all I have read says the spinosad works wonderfully on thrips. I made brownies the other night (virgin ones lol), and I dragged a toothpick through the batter to make the cool lines. Wasn't as good as yours look though!