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Will you post pictures of your last grow? It may be you don't really have any problems to fix or issues to address at all (unless you're recycling your soil). And all the great general information and advice coming from @green_machine_two9er would be good to heed!

Did you install the mesh over the top of the container, leaving open space between the mesh and the bin? Or did you press the mesh down to the surface of the bin's contents? I ask because I get gnats in my sealed soil containers, but there is air space between the lid and the soil so I'm kinda...

I think the plants are doing the "SIP hydro-grow" everyone talks about. The stems are splitting themselves they're growing so fast! I'm raising the light every two or three days now. Getting up to a gallon of water every three days. Uptake is slowly increasing, but the SIPs make it ridiculously...

I like it! Simple, straightforward--but I don't see much in the way of minerals. I use actual dirt in my soil mixes, so I'm short on product ideas. EWC is awesome! Depending on the EWC you use, it may contain some minerals. But if the last recipe worked and you're starting with new...

I explored those techniques a bit, and I really liked what I saw! I ended up making a FPJ one day, then tried topdressing with fresh alfalfa (inspired by KNF and JADAM). Then a lightbulb went on and I started making tea out of my vermicompost! I plan to upgrade my SIP size and introduce...

This is what I struggled with. I am cheap, and have everything I need on my property (almost) to grow an effective garden. I figured there had to be a way to dial in the particular and heavy needs of cannabis with what I have available! It's possible, I think. But each person's access will be...

Yes, my loose goal is to mulch with leaves and let the pill bugs do the fertilizing. My gut tells me I'll still need to topdress, since I'm not going all out with mulch (seems like I'd want to add more than just leaves, and have more than 17G of soil). I did scratch a cup of 4-4-4 into the soil...

It's been two weeks since last post! Plant on the right needs to be flipped, but left plant is still small. Looks like it's just hitting sexual maturity. So I went for it. 12/12 as of five minutes ago. Left the left plant, per the trend. No topping, no training--at least not yet. Because of...

I have been struggling with my pill bugs as well! They like sprouts (like you have been saying), they ate all of my clover, and they have been eating on the base of my bigger cannabis plant's stem. That plant is also still growing, at least for now. Two days ago, I put a 1mm-thick layer of DE...

Last time I had a runaway gnat issue, I used Mosquito Bits (BTi), following the instructions on the bag about leaching the bacteria off the pellets with water first. Then I top-dressed with some homemade EWC to fortify the hypoapsis miles population. Over the course of about five days, the gnat...

Most folks figure it out pretty quick. But a few have been saved by the vigilant.

Coming along fairly well. Don't know what's going on with the left plant. Looks like iron deficiency, maybe locked out by other micros? I don't know. Seems more likely it's the runt of the litter. Still trending toward being replaced by the new sprout in the middle! Waiting to transplant more...

I appreciate you following up! Does that mean you've turned your light back up?

You will find most SIP users here to be very enthusiastic about them. Glad to see other enthusiasts gather! There is a main SIP thread in the Indoor section as well. I bet we would all love to know how this goes for you. Keep us posted!

Agreed. A holistic, considered approach is best for long-term, responsible care. To anyone, if you must use pyrethrin, do so strategically and sparingly--and avoid the derivatives.

I typically use a combination of citric acid and predator mites to control spider mites. If the balance on my plants gets off (I start to see that mottled spider mite look on too many leaf spears), I hit the whole grow with a citric acid spray. That will, as @xtsho taught me and I have...

I don't know if my particular soil is sodic or not, but it could be. Based on obsevation and anecdote, it seems likely...

In the scope of this discussion, it strikes me as a bit odd that farmers around here add such high-content calcium amendments to a soil laden with it. I want to look more into what's going on there. But the main reason I tried pelletized gypsum, and I was astonished with the results: it...

I learned a great deal about my soil from growing cannabis, which informed my gardening, which has reflected back to the indoor growing. It's been a great year for a curious mind! But I have come to treat the soil differently between inside and out. Not much, and the principle is the same. I...

No, sorry. Don't think EWC helps with pill bugs much. I was broadening the scope of the discussion a bit. Sounds like you got options here for what to do about the ol' rollie pollies! Do some reading on what each product or action might do as far as side effects. For example, DE or neem might...