High GD community,
Week 10,
Gorilla glue doing fine. As the smallest of the bunch, i dont know if its the genetics, the seed or me to blame?!?!
Water consumption is much less compared to the others. Some leafs are still under attack of spidermites, but nothing compared like the Thai or Express.
Lights are at 13/11 for the moment and we will see who starts bloom allready and who doesnt. Thats from last friday, so only 3th day in bloom phase.
About the spidermites, i actually ordered the orio bugs 2 days before i received my new microscope (ร60 - ร120) , and so i learned very much about pests, as its my real first encounter, but the trips are the smallest problem and are beaten for sure, but spidermites are the real cause of trouble in paradise. With the new microscope, it was piece of cake to determine who i was up to. So orio bugs do eat spidermites, but its less their thing, instead ive ordered phyto mytes, arriving between tomorrow and thursday.
Ive allready deranged the spidermites with changing their conditions and the orios do get a defensive line up. So even thursday is no problem so far. No real nests are formed. But i noticed a good quantity of eggs laying around. Orios dont eat them, thats why. So Im preparing for a second wave.
Thats it for this week boys and girls,
Thanks for reading and passing by,
Grow safe buds and feel free to check out my other ladies doing fine,
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@weedoloco,
High,
Its phacelia thats blooming, the grass type you see here and there is japanese rye and the busy bushy soilcovering plant is vetch. Have 2 little flowers from those 2. And some red clover.๐
I cant say of its beneficial, but i like the way it looks. There were some yellow mosturd plants and lupinus. But these where very vigoreous and overgrew the ladies.
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Bellissima!
Sembra anche molto appetitosa!
Immagino il profumo...
Dimmi amico mio, รจ una autofiorente?
Anche io ho questa varietร , credevo di essere in ritardo sulla maturazione, invece vedo che anche tu sei molto avanti rispetto ai tempi dichiarati...
@Organic_LarF,
I started with a led amsterdam grow light,
unfortunately it burned out and jo had to temporarily adapt with a led I had in the house.
a week in all to switch to marshydro ...
seems to be doing a good job now, but time has taken a lot longer!
Looking good! Hopefully those new predators take care of your problem!
If you donโt mind me asking what is the โhomemade anaerobicโ in the nutrient section?
@FreshCoastOrganics,
And as a last, deFharo is a grower here. He got a lot of diy fertilizer and bacteria on his diaries.
He is a true botanics kind of guy that likes it as natural as can be. A real inspiration to me.
Give it a visit, and give a like, bcs this 1 earns each one of them. ๐จโ๐พ๐จโ๐พ๐จโ๐พ๐๐
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@FreshCoastOrganics,
Indeed, kind of bokashi.
But I got that allready going for a year, the bokashi buckets with small tap to drain those juices.
But as i hadnt good microbes to add, i dont use it that often.
Now since 2 weeks i have this 2 liter microferm(its fermented 2, but with aerobe bacteria instead of anaerobe, its a treathment with the juice after the fermentation) so i can use both now, the closed on water and the bokashi.
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@Organic_LarF, Thanks for the explanation! The name gets cut off on the nutrient section so I wasnโt sure exactly what this was.
This makes total sense, what youโre describing is almost bokashi composting minus a couple steps but I know that a lot of people who do bokashi have a spigot on their bucket to get those nice juices at the bottom and usually mix those into a tea or nutrient solution.
A family member got a vitamix foodcycler for Christmas. Iโve been using my fan leaves and old roots in that composting machine and it basically turns it into a dry amendment. I feed that to my worms in my castings bag and they absolutely love it. I also use it in my compost teas. Anytime I use it mycelium attaches itself to it and starts to decompose back into the soil. I try to reuse as much as possible similar to you but Iโm always trying to learn new ways so thank you for explaining your process!!
@ZioSem,
You can try to spot them with the naked eye. They are most to find at the underside of the leafs, and whitish dots appear on the upperside of the leafs. Most of the time it starts where all fingers connect.
One's it gets out of controle, realweblike things will start to build.
And the most devastating is when buds are completly webbed.
The thing that harms the plant is, they suck out the chlorophile(white dots) so the plant cant make fotosynthese at a wanted level.
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@ZioSem,
Its not that simple, they are like 0.1mm of size. With a microscope รฏts possible to identify.
If you want pics, just Google spidermite and you will see.
Its handy to know and recognize these pest bugs, so when you der them under microscope, you can act immediatly.
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