Day 106. Trim jaiiiiiilllllllll !!!! First done, think it could reach my record 240. Insane quality. 4 rows of solid buds hanging .... Next one .... Both finally finished and honestly, that's my plants to be proud of !!! Day 114. All is done, no doubts its my best grow. Happy Growing !!!

This seed has been a moaning all through the grow drinks shit tons super sensitive to light nitrogen ect but still looks like its gonna pull an oz from 5l pot not bad but definitely not been fun to grow will do another seed with a different grow style but yeh hope everyone has a good Christmas 💪🍻🍾🥂🍪🍨

Very good smell so far, exact fragrance that the other 2 phenos plants Ak420, hoping the best for a good sativa happy energetic high with that sweetness in flavor and aroma, let's see how she perfoms! 👨‍🌾💚🧡

Day 77. Maybe a bit early, but no space and one Smoothie went for a date with bud rot ;))) didn't want to loose that nice top. Very frosty, nice gassy smell surrounded by fruits. Day 82. Second girl is down. Both small as you see, but with few branches will produce seed packaging cover type plant. Maybe second got some purple fade ... First was very nice by structure. Day 85. First went to jar. How lovely it sparkles and smells !!! Solid strain, even being so small by structure. Day 89. Second is in jars too ! Happy Growing !!!

Lemon Mandarin x2 Lemonpaya x2 Papaya Sherbet x2 Gorilla Melon x2 Orange Sherbet x1

Couple belters coming right out the traps large bulky stocks fingers crossed this growth keeps

Salieron 3 hermafroditas pero las detectamos a tiempo y las

This week is basically more LST my plant that split has repaired herself within four days and looking amazing and has the most growth out of the three Widows

Hello everyone, So ended up finding this girl with my no name seeds. I expected this one to be a regular seed never suspected it to be a auto. Shows you, you never know what your smoking, lol. Even tho she's small she's doing and smelling good. Lets see how she ends up... See you guys next week... 🤘🤘👍👍👊👊👊

"Chugging" along this week. Weather is hot, girls are loving the all time drip system. Forgot that my nutes and hot sun dont mix well and created a bad case of algae. Will monitor more often and maybe increase the drip flow

Went through a heatwave 6/9 - 6/11 Plants got a little stressed and twisted, everyone pulled through. 6/10/2019 - Installed 240W more LED. Run new panels at half for now. 6/11/2019 - Started using CalMag. 6/12/2019 - Site 1 plant shows signs of improved vitality, growing a very deformed set of true leafs. Plants looking better overall. 6/15/2019 - Switched out soda bottle accumulator with SodaStream bottles. Safely handles higher pressure, cap ensures better closure. Site 5 looks sad. Drooping, one yellowed leaf. Doesn't make sense, same nutrients as all other sites. Maybe underwatering, therefore nutrient deficient. Adjust nozzle angles for better coverage. Check back tomorrow 6/16/2019 - Site 1 starts putting roots into the chamber. Count 8. Strong showing! Site 5 perks up. Diagnosis looks to be correct. Plumbed in drainage pumps. Programming done, just need more flexible tubing. 6/17/2019 - Holy hell. Drove all over the city today looking for silicone tubing for drainage. 3 pet stores, 2 aquarium stores, 2 hardware stores and still no luck. Got some vinyl as a temporary fix and ordered silicone on Amazon. Drainage pumps run for about 15 seconds every ~1 hour. Also picked up a 6" X 24" Phresh Carbon Filter and some 3.5" net trellis that will come in handy in the next two weeks. Planning on upping nutrients by 10% tomorrow to ~700 PPM. Site 1 has dropped so many roots and is growing hairs, expecting explosive growth in the next days. 6/18/2019 - Pulled back on the nutrients to 550 PPM because I noticed some downward curled tips. Do not want to flush in an aeroponic system if I can avoid it. I topped 7 plants and FIM'd 1 that was just barely large enough. Tied down the fan leaves the largest two plants to open up the new growth sites. Plan to allow everything to grown a few nodes and top again, then SCRoG. Hopefully lower new growth foliage bulks in that time and I can sex these plants from trimmings.

Day 21: week 4 starts today so going on this 4th week kind of strong b4 I stave em a bit and shift up.... Stay in that low gear and build them nutrient PGR's up recline a bit. Thinking about raising my ph a bit....low 6 but think it needs to go up to @ least 7 to take advantage of the high octane nutrients going into this. On another note already setting up my next grow. Going with 10qt pots on these only because they will be FF's so gonna make sure I have sufficient room for extreme growth. Think these will be my permanent's that will eventually go outdoors. So feeding probably last veg mix this week and will probably wait til the weekend and let em starve a bit. Oh wow the mail came and the packaging is pretty dope... 420FB!!! Day 22: Can't believe I just saw John "MF'n" Daly hit a tee shot that give's him a nice birdie op in the Open!!!! Dude looks pretty Shaggy like some type of hippy grower!!!! Fuck'n love it. So went against my thoughts and fed "Feed me Seymore" style. Gave em their weekly feeding yesterday around 6ish and watched. Sprayed with sensi cal. Speaking of which, finally getting a bit more organized and labeled foliage sprays and got em ready. 3 different bottles, sensi cal, Heavenly goddess, and Grease. Keeping an eye for any type of yellow pigments and spraying both over and under. Kind of worried about lockage so got some ph up/down. Wanna get my ph up just a hare so improve absorption of nutrients and get larger plants. This is my very 1st grow and my future is looking pretty dense with the addition of the FF's but needing this grow to make the next grow even better. Keeping my humidity up during this veg stage and staying away from any cutting for now. I think that the uv for a week has done something to my growth or maybe stunted a bit but proud of my stem work as these girls got Christian Louboutin Heels for stalks. That breeze blowing thought their leaves like "working women on a windy day" with their hair blowing in the wind!! Head turners!! So with the weekend coming not much but observing and maybe some light misting but getting ready to jump to that next level in the coming weeks but honestly trying to keep em from flowing until they get a bit larger. Maybe I can get a week 6 of veg but honestly with the Bud Blood this will be somewhat easy. Bud Blood or Bud Igniter......Been thinking about this one. I hear BB is the go to but can be very strong and possibly burn your plants. Igniter does the same thing so really on the fence but don't think I'll be disappointed. Think I'm gonna do a split maybe 4 using BB and 3 using BI just to see how they work. Things will definitely be picking up in a few so will post as the journey continues. RIP Tony Bennett......Dude you will be missed and I totally expect to see your face on a Stamp in the next 10 years!!! Noonish...decided that my air exchange if off so leaving my tent door open a bit to get fresh air flowing into the tent better. My CO2 bag is xlarge so think maybe too much. Gonna roll with this half open tent for a few and see. Day 23: So watered my plants outer zone with the vpt mix just to get maximum exposure to roots. Benn spraying the foliage with Grease and Green Goddess and just paying attention. Also am experimenting with the foliage spray and light reduction for a couple of hours just to get the plant to take the spray nutrients. Think the flowering is staring to come on but trying to slow it down by maybe a week just to try and get that 5th week of veg in b4. My plants are looking really robust and are taking the nutrients with no bad effects it seems. My PH up/down is coming today but still contemplating that whole ph up =bigger plants scenario. Also threw the training wheel milk carts back on my girls and am running a fan beneath my plants so that the pots can get fresh air through the root system. Have not experienced run through yet from watering so think I'm doing a pretty good job of keeping my watering in check. 6ish: went down on the lights earlier 2day just and came back to 1400is and plants are looking great. Sprayed with Grease and am gonna go with one more veg feeding b4 I pull out the BB with the IB and prep for flower, so thinking one more veg feed b4 we move into this next stage. Got some plant trainers coming Monday so figure if I go with a feeding in the morning and then lights all day Monday will start training to get these branches their own space to grow. So with the night nothing but maybe foliage spray and an early lights out but hopefully I can get these plants a bit more dry b4 feeding so might try to stretch the week out and give the soil a bit of time to dry out b4 this final veg feeding. Day 24: Had some light issues and my babies didn't get much sleep so gonna get back to my 18-6 with only breeze in sleep. Attempted to train a few of my branches with some 90° plant trainers but said nah, save em for my ff that I'm gonna veg/flower/veg/fl..... Looking back @ the last 28 days I realize just how much work, time, research and dedication to do this. Talk about stress relief!!! Keep's me uplifted and positive. On another note, getting the AC Infinity bars to keep my tent from doing a Hal 2112 S.O. on my grow!!

Al inicio de la semana fueron sacadas fuera del armario al quedarnos sin luz por el apagón , posiblemente hizo que las plantas crecieran o se estirasen un poco más de lo que venían haciendo. Esta semana ya se notó claramente el inicio de flora y las plantas coparon bien todo el espacio, casi que no cabe ya ni un alfiler. En pocos dias, 11-12 dias realizaré una poda de bajos de todas las secundarias, hojas yemas y ramas y así queden listas para terminar de florecer. D9 foliar 14 dias pequeña poda de algunas ramitas bajeras , las primeras . Muy poquito para no estresarlas mucho y en una semana , con 21 dias a 12/12h. terminaré de vaciar lo que quede.

Always room for improvement.

24-07-21 Week 5 Flowering Day 34 🙌🏻 I apologize if I'm not active lately I've been busy and haven't had time to upload any updates. 😬💚 Today we are in the fifth week of flowering! As you can see two plants are missing..😅 That have been removed from the tent due to (hermaphroditism) I don't know what caused this. But I only managed to save the Meringue which is growing outside, she is fine now and in shape! I removed her because I found a seed on her, at the time of the beginning of the general flowering of the plants. While the K-Mintz I had to kill her because she kept growing only seeds without seeing any female sex signs. I didn't have choice. Leaving the latter, the survivors are the Lemon Tree and the Mimosa. I'm really happy with them! They are strong despite having had some problems due to wrong PH value (7.1) now it seems for a week to have corrected the right value bringing it to 6.5 at the drainage of the plants. I will be uploading new updates soon! Thank you all for being here 💚 see you soon!

120w : - 2xQBmini lm301b 3000k + Far Red - Spyder Lm301h 3500k + Emerson Box 50x50x100 Double Scrog Vertical Tropical Fuel 32g Afghan Peach x Blue Monkey 26g Hindu Kush 25g Gelato Cake 33g Fast Critical Poison 27g (Blueberry x Black Domina) X (Kosher Kush x Mk-Ultra) 13g (Blueberry x Black Domina) X (Kosher Kush x Mk-Ultra) 4g Blueberry 3,5g Herz OG 4,5g 120w = 168g

9/4/2023!!!!--LETS FUGGIN GOOOOO!!! THIS IS THE BEGINNING!!!! DOUBLE GRAPE BY MEPHISTO GENETICS!!!! 2 SEEDS PLANTED ONE OUTDOOR WHICH WAS THE FIRST ONE I TRIED TO GERMINATE, DIDNT DO WELL HONESTLY, THE 2ND SEED WAS AMAZING THOUGH AS YOU WILL SEE IN THE PICTURE UPDATES ABOVE, OTHER THEN THAT WATERING AS NECESSARY, IF ANYONE HAS ANY SUGGESTIONS FOR A REALLY GOOD ORGANIC START TO FINISH NUTRIENT LINE PLEASE LMK!!! THANKS! _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ___ ___ ___ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 9/7/2023!!!!--- THE FUGGIN UPDATE!!!! SOO AS YOU CAN SEE FROM ABOVE THINGS ARE JUST FINE FOR NOW JUST MISTING AND DRIPPING WATER IN AS NECESSARY, OTHER THEN THAT JUST WAITING TO SEE HER POP HER HEAD OUT FROM BELOW AND THEN THE RACE IS REALLY ON!!! WILL KEEP YALL POSTED THANKS!!!! _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____ ____ ___ _ _ _ 9/8/2023!!!---THE GIRL HAS SPROUTED!!!!!! SO SHE HAS SPROUTED!!!! WATERING AS NECESSARY LETS GOOO!!!!!!!! ____________________________________________________________________________________ ______ __________________________ _______ _______ ____ ___ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 9/11/2023!!!!---- THE PROGRESS UPDATE FROM THE WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SOOO SHE IS MAKING GREAT PROGRESS AS YOU CAN SEE FROM PHOTOS, PROGRESSING NICELY KEEPING EVERYTHING IN LINE. NO TO MUCH DIFFERENT TO REPORT SO FAR OTHER THAN THAT LETS KEEP IT GOING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ ________________ __________ _______ _____ _____ ____ ___ _ 9/12/2023!!!!---- THE UPDATE BEFORE FIRST WEEK VEG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SOOO SHE IS MAKING GREAT PROGRESS AS YOU CAN SEE FROM PHOTOS, PROGRESSING NICELY KEEPING EVERYTHING IN LINE. NO TO MUCH DIFFERENT TO REPORT SO FAR OTHER THAN THAT LETS KEEP IT GOING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ALSO NOTE!! I HAVE SWITCHED THE WATER SOURCE TO DISTILLED WATER TRYING TO KEEP PH DOWN AND INSIDE GROW TEMP DOWN ALSO!!! HELP!!!!

8/10 Hurried morning. Today was water day and the hose fucked up. Dad got it working while I filled half the jugs needed with water and the requisite amount of plant doctor. I gave the preventative dose (which is 1/2 tsp per gallon but I upped it closer to 1 tsp per gallon) on the plants that have received the three full treatments, the 10th planet in the middle and the chemdog. The rest received their last full dose. I had watered the NATURAL mk ultra and other tenth planet yesterday so I'm waiting until tomorrow when the need water to give them their treatment. Other than the 10th planet I'm worried things are going pretty good. Tjat's probably tine too. I certainly wouldnt have even noticed it a few years ago. I only bought like half the amount of soil as last year and really tried keeping costs down. These aren't the biggest plants I've grown but I'm grateful for what I have. I'm working hard to get the most out of them I can. I'm planning to give it a few days and then feed later in the week. EDIT: I THINK I got my grow question deleted. Finally. It's strange that I didn't get ONE outdoor growers response. Doesn't matter. I figured out the best course of action. I'm lucky. Or maybe I just work hard. I defoliate twice a day. I have some pruning to do on the interior of a COUPLE plants. I've cleaned them up pretty good this year. No signs of ANY wpm which is great but suprisinging considering the rh and the rolling fog most mornings. 8/11 I gave the tenth planet in the back and the mk ultra I didn't get yesterday. The mk ultra got the preventative dose (upped from 1/2tsp to 1tsp) and the 10th planet tge full dose. I'll have to check but I think this is the last cure dose for everyone. Found a pillar INSIDE a bud on the special kush that's far ahead. Then you can see on the video a HUGE cut worm or something on the branch I pull down. Luckily I saw it. Wasn't there when I got back but it took a few bites. Looked on the camera and saw a bird swoop in and grab him. Thank the lord! It's going to be 100° today and tomorrow with heat advisory in effect. I'm going to have to treat these plants for pests/pillars some how. I might just use BT and my super alkaline water. The septoria is under control and I'm just afraid spraying anything would make things worse. I'm certainly jot going to let them eat my early flowering plant. I can't apply ANYTHING in this heat. I'll research and maybe if it gets low enough tonight I might be able to do something. I'm going to go back over and check that plant going branch by branch. That one 10th planet tgat WAS the biggest plant is severely stunted amd has some "strange" looking leaves. I wasthinking about getting it off property or just chopping and burning but I figure it's been in there long enough that the others could be infected. I think it spreads through pests if that's the case then it might be better to get rid of it. I'm not sure what I'm going to do yet. I'm going to stop and try to get some mulch today. EDIT: I found a place I can get a bale of straw and I think I'll use that to mulch. It's almost a 100°. After killing the pillar this morning and missing that cutworm I came back over to REALLY look at the special kush in later flower. I looked through every branch and every bud. I found four pillars on that plant. No REAL damage yet and extremely small. I had to pull buds apart to find them. It's like they were hiding from the heat. That was miserable hand picking them in 100° degree weather. Luckily the bird feeders are close but the bigger birds chase the smaller ones. The smaller birds have found a new food source and perch on my cage waiting. I'm leaning towards treating the flowering plant with BT-k. Seeing that tge citric acid WON'T kill fungus I'll just use OUR super alkaline water and hope for the best. Nothing will get treated during this weather. 8/12 IT reached 105° yesterday and I had a family medical emergency. Came over this morning to several plants drooped right over despite me checking MD day and them being fine. Phone dodnt charge so I couldn't get pictures. Watered everything but the ones that got it yesterday cause they looked good and still had weight. I had to leave before the ones that were down could pick back up. The kush plants seem to tolerate this heat much better. Beside the ones in the 10s tge others are taking this hear fine. I'll update when I get back. EDIT: Went back over around 10. Another hot day. Suppised to be HOTTER than yesterday. I don't know how that's possible. both our thermometers went to 104 lately. Oh and I dont think that's beet curly top virus I think it's just great stress! I've grown this strain before and it's not the most resilient but it's other qualities make up for that. That's a loud off. I checked most buds on the plant in late flower and found a grass hopper IN the cola! No damage that I could see and I flicked him in the head which killed it. I came back to the chemdog that I didn't water drooping. I watered that and the 10th planet I didn't get this morning. The only one that hasn't got water today was the natural mk ultra and when I was there it was still heavy and looked really good so I left it. I'll have to come back around four and check things out. I'll be watering that tonight for sure. It will be hot tomorrow too then it will be better weather. I need to feed but I'm uncertain whether I should in this heat. All the kush strains I'm running are have Hindu kush as a parent and seem to be able to take the heat no problem. We don't get heat like this usually. It's different when it's 100° and 99% rh than dry heat. Edit #2 WENT BACK OVER AROUND 3:30PM EXPECTING TO WATERING THE ONE PLANT I HADNT. THE MK ULTRA THAT I LEFT NATURAL. IT LOOKED GREAT WHEN I GOT THERE AND WAS STILL HEAVY. IT LOOKED BETTER THAN NORMAL. ONE SIDE HAD A FEW LEAVES THAT WERE STARTING TO DROOP BUT ITS RIGHT WHERE THE SUN IS HITTING IT ON TH BOTTOM. ITS JUST A LITTLE HEAT STRESS. THE 10TH PLANET ARE MORE PRONE TO HEAT STRESS. I NEED TO FEED. I DEFOLIATED QUITE A FEW LEAVES TODAY. IM RUNNING OUT OF LARGE FAN LEAVES ON MY PLANT IN MID FLOWER. EVERYTHING SEEMED TO START MAKING LITTLE ROCK HARD BUDS ALMOST OVERNIGHT AND THEY ARE STARTING TO SWELL. PLANTS NEED NITROGEN I THINK. I USED LESS SOIL AND WATERED MORE. I JUST DONT WANT TO FEED DURING THIS HOT WEATHER. TOMORROWS THE LAST OF THIS HEAT WAVE AND THEN ILL BE ABLE TO GIVE THE GIRLS A GOOD FEEDING. THE SILVER LINING TO THE PATHOGEN THING IS THAT IVE BEEN MUCH MORE COGNIZANT OF LEAFING THE PLANTS AND REMOVING DEAD AND DAMAGED LEAVES. I'VE DONE A MUCH BETTER JOB WITH THAT THIS YEAR. AFTER THE HOT SPELL ILL GET IN WITH SHEARS AND PRUNE OFF LARF. IVE GOT SOME BUT I HAVE MORE I NEED TO GET. 8/13 IT was supposed to be HOTTER yesterday than the day before bit it was the same 104°. Today is supposably the end of this ridiculous heatwave. I watered everything that needed it despite having watered deeply yesterday. I put 8 1/2 gallons into the garden where it needed it most. Chemdog and the big 10th planet I got yesterday. Soil is still wet and the bags are heavy. I can't believe how well these kush plants hold up to the heat. Hopefully better Temps tomorrow so I can feed. In other news I haven't been seeing septoria leaves. Less and less everytime I go over! Keeping my fingers 🤞. 8/14 Last of the hot days. Watered the chem dog and the big MK ULTRA. It's supposed to rain today. The rest of the plants are heavy amd doing good. I'll update when I can write more. UPDATE: MY SPIDEY SENSE STARTED TINGLING AND I SAW THE TEMP WAS OVER 90° SO I WENT AND CHECKED THE GIRLS. THAT MONSTER 10TH PLANET WAS STARTING TO DROOP. THEY BOTH ARE A LITTLE HEAT STRESSED BUT WE ARE SUPPISED TO GET THUNDER STORMS AND MUCH MILDER WEATHER. I DID SOME SEFOLIATION AND PRUNING WHILE I WAD THERE. MY FEAR OF SEPTPRIA HAS LED TO ME BEINGVMUCH MORE DILIGENT IN PRUNING AND DEFOLIATION. I PLAN TO FEED TOMORROW AND DO SOME MORE PRUNING OF SMALL SHIT THAT WILL JUST GET EATEN OR INFECTED. PLANTS NEED TO BE FED. ILL NEED TO WATER TOMORROW IM SURE SO I ASSUME ILL BE FEEDING. I WANTED TO SPRAY BT TONIGHT BUT ITS TO HOT. I HOBESTLY BELIEVE THE BIRDS AND MY MANUAL INSPECTIONS HAVE BEEN DOING PRETTY GOOD. WISH I HAD A BLACK LIGHT FLASHLIGHT. THATS A GOOD IDEA! MAYBE I COULD EVEN GET ONE OF THOSE ONES THATCWORK ON FUNGUS AS WELL. I SAW A FEW LEAVES THAT LOOKED LIKE MITES HAD FED ON THEM. I FOUND ONE SO THERES GOT TO BE MORE. THE THING IS THOUGH....WHERE "I" GROW ITS REALLY HARD FOR A MITE INFESTATION TO TAKE HOLD. THE WINDS TO STRONG, THE TEMPS AND WEATHER TO UNPREDICTABLE AND THE FALL PREY TO NATURAL PREDATORS. AT LEAST THATS BEEN MY EXPERIENCE IN THE PAST. IM NOT SURE IF BT KILLS MITES. ILL CHECK. IF NOT ILL KEEP AN EYE OUT. HONESTLY, ITS OUTDOORS BUGS ARE GOING TO GET ON MY PLANTS. I DEAL WITH IT APPROPRIATELY. THIS WAS A SMALL BOTTOM BRANCH THAT GOT PRUNED ANYWAY. NOT A SPIDERMITE BUT STILL. FOUND A REAL SPIDER WHILE LOOKING FOR PILLERS AND HAD TO EVICT HIM. HIS WEBS LOOKED EGGECTOVE BUT I DONT WANT SPIDER WEBS ON MY PLANTS. HE/SHE DESCENDED VERY QUICKLY ON A WEB TRYING TO ESCAPE. NO DICE THOUGH. I APPRECIATE AND THANKED HIM FOR HIS HARD WORK HELPING KEEP MY PLANTS PEST FREE. EDIT #2 I doubt many people read what I write but I've been rereading some of it and there are so many typos I appear dyslexic or to have a severe learning disability haha. Words are missing, letters are missing and sometimes sentences just don't make sense. Oh well. I'm not changing it. If you are able to decipher my notes congratulations! 8/15 We got NO rain despite other townsfolk near us having thunderstorms. Watered everything in the garden but the chem dog and 10th planet I watered yesterday. Everybody got a gallon but the big mk ultra got closer to 1.5. I fed them this morning with a quart. I could probably up the dose but this seems to work. I have some other defoliation to do. I see some small white specks. Mites. Just a few bottom leaves. I picked then off. I'll watch it and I'll be spraying SOMETHING soon. I was planning BT-k but if I have other pests I mat need to use something else probably Dr. Zymes. I'm more worried about pillars than a few bottom leaves that have a couple on them. EDIT: WENT BACK OVER AT FIVE. EVERYTHING WAS LOOKING AWESOME DESPITE THE 82° TEMPS. OH AND NO MITES. ITS JUST ONE OF THE TENS ANYWAY BUT I FOUND A LEAF AND SCOPED IT. ILL DEAL WITH THEM. IVE HAD THEM BEFOŔE AND IT WADNT A PROBLEM. NOT SEEING ANY SEPTORIA. I HAVE TO GIVE IT PLANT DOCTOR FOR SAVING MY ASS. IM STILL GOING TO DO PREVENTATIVE TREATMENTS WEEKLY AS RECOMMENDED. PLANTS SEEM TO LOVE IT ANYWAY. I DONT KNOW IF ITS THE KOOL BLOOM BUT THE BUDS SEEMED TO BE SIGNIFICANTLY BIGGER SINCE EVEN THIS MORNING! ILL PROBABLY ORDER SOME LADY BUGS THIS YEAR. I DONT LIKE SPRAYING WHEN I DONT HAVE TO AND THE ONLY TIME I USED D.E. I ENDED UP WITH FUSARIUM THAT YEAR SO IM REALLY HESITANT ABOUT IT. WHILE I WAS THERE I HAND HUNTED PILLARS FOR QUITE A WHILE. I FOUND ONE. I FOUND DAMAGE ON A BRANCH BUT IT LOOKS LIKE SOMETHING ELSE (LIKELY A FINCH) GRABBED IT. THE BIRDS ARE ON MY SIDE BIG TIME THIS YEAR.