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Yes, you can bring them in/take them out. 26F this morning here, first hard freeze of the season. My plants are indoors until sun warms things up outside this morning.

Wow, we are at over 9000' and though we had a little frost on the roofs a few days ago, none formed on plants or theground. Air temps have not been below mid 30's. Beautiful snow on the peaks though. Things are changin'

Check the tricomes further down the flowers, not just at the tops. My last harvest did the same at the top early, but it took 2-3 more weeks for buds to fill out and ambering to happen overall.

It's a meth lab.

If I came home and found your avatar in my living room I would not be worried, I'd be terrified!

Getting concerned about frost here at over 9000 feet elevation. Definitely not as far along as bongmont CSUfan. They look verah nice.

Latest results, I grew three plants in the same conditions from three clones of the same plant. I did a pure mainline on one, and topped/trained the other two but allowed the couple nodes under the top to grow out as well. I kind of lost momentum with trimming and maintaining once they were...

A brief discussion at the hydro shop a while ago: Sales person: "What nutes do you use?" Me: "I don't" Sales person: "Huh? Me: "I grow in organic soil with amendments" Sales person: "what kind of soil do you use?" Me "I started with roots organic, but switched to EKO from Home depot, plus...

I've followed up and been ;looking up most of the suggestions. Neem and nematodes seem like good bets. Already supplement the worms with kelp, rock dust, and some other compost. The bin and the worms are mostly pretty darn healthy overall. That's not an issue.

I had major mite infestation on a previous bin which failed and perished. I do not think they were "predatory" however. I learned that time to not overfeed. This bin has no such mite problem.

I don't deny that at all. Problem is, I still don't know in what way the current conditions are conducive to gnat infestation. So not knowing what MUST be addressed, does not solve any problem. There are as many opinions as people who post in response to these things, there are many people with...

Right on SpicySativa!!! A healthy level of skepticsm and doing your own homework goes a long way. I think there is a lot of "information" on this forum that leads to unnecessary work, expense and worry, but also awesome info to help you save money, simplify and grow worry free. Expect a lot of...

The info I have found is that spinosad only targets certain groups of insects through their nervous system. (Unfortunately this includes hymenoptera, so not good for declining bee populations, but my use is not in their environment). I have found specific references that it does not harm worms...

And another source says same: http://red-worms-composting-bin.weebly.com/ BTW, just doing the google search to find these.

Bently warns of trouble above 86F: http://www.redwormcomposting.com/worm-composting/importance-of-monitoring-temperature/

Those old roots will be well gone by the time I use the soil again. I don't need to start again until next spring. And, refer to ROLS info. All that is different here is not starting from a home concocted base soil.

Err, I intended this thread to be more about re-amending soil, and the worm issue to be part of the vermi thread. No worries though these things take on lives of their own. All good input appreciated!

Can you point me to references for this? I've read pretty in depth about spinosad and have not found any evidence/discussion to back up this statement other than conjecture.

Not really, the other thread is about re-amending a soil mix. This is about the worms, Really appreciate your replies in both cases.

Yeah. I already have it, so figured it is the easiest due to availability!