I've got some tiny white things that live in my living soil

Medskunk

Medskunk

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Dude i just transplanted in the 7gal with 3 inch mulch thats been cooking for 2 months. While digging the half quart hole, my hands were covered with red hypoapsis miles!
I seen another 2 species of something..

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Splinter7

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green_machine_two9er said:
I’m not sure I follow. I grow indoors like this?
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i was sort of just messing around. i found some lady bugs in the house the other day. my lady wouldn't let me keep them...well, because bugs. i prefer to keep the gnats and all that stuff outside when i can, but suit yourself. maybe one day i will mess up and have it...hopefully not too soon. it's an odd idea to cultivate not just plants, but the bugs that go with them inside the same place we sleep, eat, etc. for now, i kill them all if i can.
 
Hollatchaboy

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Splinter7 said:
i was sort of just messing around. i found some lady bugs in the house the other day. my lady wouldn't let me keep them...well, because bugs. i prefer to keep the gnats and all that stuff outside when i can, but suit yourself. maybe one day i will mess up and have it...hopefully not too soon. it's an odd idea to cultivate not just plants, but the bugs that go with them inside the same place we sleep, eat, etc. for now, i kill them all if i can.
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For the most part, they don't leave the tent. A few strays may get out here and there, but they need a moist environment to survive, so if they make it to your floor, they don't last very long.

I'm not growing organically anymore, so no more bugs, but they weren't much of a nuisance when I did. I would think people would be more freaked out by the different fungi, bacteria, and decomposing organic matter. Lol
 
green_machine_two9er

green_machine_two9er

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Splinter7 said:
i was sort of just messing around. i found some lady bugs in the house the other day. my lady wouldn't let me keep them...well, because bugs. i prefer to keep the gnats and all that stuff outside when i can, but suit yourself. maybe one day i will mess up and have it...hopefully not too soon. it's an odd idea to cultivate not just plants, but the bugs that go with them inside the same place we sleep, eat, etc. for now, i kill them all if i can.
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even gnats become a non issue over time as the soil food web develops. In my soils that have been recycled 3plus years right now there is zero gnats. Nor do we treat for gnats at all like when first using fresh made soils.

It takes time and grit to push through the first year to start really seeing the added benefits. Which mainly are greatly reduced inputs cost and somehow an increase in pest/pathogen resistance.

and lady bugs. Yuck. They are the flag of a problem. Not some super beneficial bug. I’m not sure what I would rather have. Aphids or digested aphid bodies aka ladybug shit in my garden. No thank you and to the boards of people releasing lady bugs indoors, you be better off fighting the pest. Lady bugs also don’t irradixate a population They keep some around for midnight snack.
 
green_machine_two9er

green_machine_two9er

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Hollatchaboy said:
Ewww.... your house is infected with bugs too? Lol
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Barn, but yeah my house is 120 year old and full of bugs. We find stink bugs or something almost every other day coming out pipes. Last year I had a damn wasp nest in my basement. That was fucked. Lol. And we burn wood for heat so this time of year there’s all kinds of shit coming in from the wood pile.
 
2cent

2cent

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Splinter7 said:
i was sort of just messing around. i found some lady bugs in the house the other day. my lady wouldn't let me keep them...well, because bugs. i prefer to keep the gnats and all that stuff outside when i can, but suit yourself. maybe one day i will mess up and have it...hopefully not too soon. it's an odd idea to cultivate not just plants, but the bugs that go with them inside the same place we sleep, eat, etc. for now, i kill them all if i can.
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It’s called a soil food web just like the food cycle if you eliminate one others die too
The bugs are inportant fungi and I even breed bacterias to innoculate the lot lol
 
2cent

2cent

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Hollatchaboy said:
For the most part, they don't leave the tent. A few strays may get out here and there, but they need a moist environment to survive, so if they make it to your floor, they don't last very long.

I'm not growing organically anymore, so no more bugs, but they weren't much of a nuisance when I did. I would think people would be more freaked out by the different fungi, bacteria, and decomposing organic matter. Lol
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Guess he has damp carpets ewww
 
PadawanWarrior

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green_machine_two9er said:
even gnats become a non issue over time as the soil food web develops. In my soils that have been recycled 3plus years right now there is zero gnats. Nor do we treat for gnats at all like when first using fresh made soils.

It takes time and grit to push through the first year to start really seeing the added benefits. Which mainly are greatly reduced inputs cost and somehow an increase in pest/pathogen resistance.

and lady bugs. Yuck. They are the flag of a problem. Not some super beneficial bug. I’m not sure what I would rather have. Aphids or digested aphid bodies aka ladybug shit in my garden. No thank you and to the boards of people releasing lady bugs indoors, you be better off fighting the pest. Lady bugs also don’t irradixate a population They keep some around for midnight snack.
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It is entertaining when your wife is freaking out because they're flying all over the house though.
 
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