Nice info McPurps! Where do you get your ladybugs at? Also do they only just stay in your room where the plants are at or do you find them wandering thru the house?Ok it seems to me that the most common bug prob is spidermites and everyone hates them. the bug i ever get is spider mites but i have a for sure way to destroy them adn make it so they never return unless u get lazy. this is how i do it its all natural and cheap no chems. u dont have to do this but i think its one of the best all organic spider mite killer and repelant.
first to never get mites in the first place i spray my vegging plants with neem oil. this will act as a repelant cuz bugs dont liek the taste so the wont eat the leafs. seconf i always try to have more than 20 ladybugs in with the plants at a time to prevent them also the neem u sprayed should stay on the leafs for a month or so because it is an oil so if u dont wah it off it will stay theri.
if i have mites this is what i do. first i find the most infested leafs if they are bad i cut off and throw in a cup of alcohol. if it isnt to bad i try to smash all i can by rubbing my thumb and forfinger with the leaf between and i pull the leaf through my fingers smashing most of the crawler and soe eggs and u can tell their smashed becasue you can see them smear. after i do this to all the infested leafs i soak them in a bath of neem oili also spray the pots and top of soil to be safe. after the spray has dried on i add about 50 ladybugs to go in and finish them up for me after 2 day i spray one more time with neem and add another 50 soldiers and bam in 4 days thier gone and under control. after that just keep a good supply of ladybugs in the room as a preventer and to eat any that mite feel lucky, also the lady bugs fight off a few other pests, actually the other day i saw a few ladybugs ganging up on a bigger ant.
i always keep ladybugs around my grow. i by them from a flower store for 10 for 1800. out of this 1800 i used 1700 cuz 200 died waiting for deployment in the fridge. u do have to add more lady bugs probably every 3-4 days though cuz some die off do to the light. but my bag lasted 3 months aint bad for 10 dollors. and u keep the ladys alive by leaving them i the fridge
Those buds are looking tasty mcpurps! About your question Yup different strains do develope bud differently. More indica dominant strains seem to put a big cluster of calyx all at once and the more sativa dominant strains i had put out more and more stems from the bud and they developed single calyx on the stem. Then those calyx keep spitting out more calyx's and it keeps going like that. It takes alot longer for them dang sativa's to develope but I love them. Also I have 2 bubbalicious plants each a different pheno. One of them looks like its indica dominant and will finish 8 weeks. The other one is developing with more sativa traits...Its forming up to be a battleshipok i took soe more pics today while giving my big girl her last does of nutes before the flush. trichs are all cloudy with a few clear and no amber. i want to let her go longer than this but she is takin lot s of room my other plants need. more pics are in my journal i will post a few here and another vidoe i did in better light.
also do certain strains have differnet bud beveolpment, like one strain will have alot of pistils and other will have only few pistils. my shishkaberry looks differnt to me.
i still might let the plant go longer but my plan is to flush in a few days and then once the soil drys out to harvest, but i guess well see i am very indisisive. well heres the pics and a video more in journal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFPXuNm7E2o
i get them from a local gardening store called chets. and yes they seem to like the plants so they stay in my room and my door is cracked while the light is on and i have only found 1 or 2 in the house out of 1700Nice info McPurps! Where do you get your ladybugs at? Also do they only just stay in your room where the plants are at or do you find them wandering thru the house?
Those buds are looking tasty mcpurps! About your question Yup different strains do develope bud differently. More indica dominant strains seem to put a big cluster of calyx all at once and the more sativa dominant strains i had put out more and more stems from the bud and they developed single calyx on the stem. Then those calyx keep spitting out more calyx's and it keeps going like that. It takes alot longer for them dang sativa's to develope but I love them. Also I have 2 bubbalicious plants each a different pheno. One of them looks like its indica dominant and will finish 8 weeks. The other one is developing with more sativa traits...Its forming up to be a battleship
Nice routine, loved the bit about the lady bugs ganging up on an ant...heheOk it seems to me that the most common bug prob is spidermites and everyone hates them. the bug i ever get is spider mites but i have a for sure way to destroy them adn make it so they never return unless u get lazy. this is how i do it its all natural and cheap no chems. u dont have to do this but i think its one of the best all organic spider mite killer and repelant.
first to never get mites in the first place i spray my vegging plants with neem oil. this will act as a repelant cuz bugs dont liek the taste so the wont eat the leafs. seconf i always try to have more than 20 ladybugs in with the plants at a time to prevent them also the neem u sprayed should stay on the leafs for a month or so because it is an oil so if u dont wah it off it will stay theri.
if i have mites this is what i do. first i find the most infested leafs if they are bad i cut off and throw in a cup of alcohol. if it isnt to bad i try to smash all i can by rubbing my thumb and forfinger with the leaf between and i pull the leaf through my fingers smashing most of the crawler and soe eggs and u can tell their smashed becasue you can see them smear. after i do this to all the infested leafs i soak them in a bath of neem oili also spray the pots and top of soil to be safe. after the spray has dried on i add about 50 ladybugs to go in and finish them up for me after 2 day i spray one more time with neem and add another 50 soldiers and bam in 4 days thier gone and under control. after that just keep a good supply of ladybugs in the room as a preventer and to eat any that mite feel lucky, also the lady bugs fight off a few other pests, actually the other day i saw a few ladybugs ganging up on a bigger ant.
i always keep ladybugs around my grow. i by them from a flower store for 10 for 1800. out of this 1800 i used 1700 cuz 200 died waiting for deployment in the fridge. u do have to add more lady bugs probably every 3-4 days though cuz some die off do to the light. but my bag lasted 3 months aint bad for 10 dollors. and u keep the ladys alive by leaving them i the fridge
Looking good DoeEyed. Will stop by your journal when I have a min.A few pics from my recent journal update - my clones, veg room (both sides), my flowering Lemon Skunk Clones, and my oldest Lemon Skunk ladies (5 weeks). Got more pics in the journal, if you guys wanna see 'em.
You hanging around weeman? If so welcome to the Club. You Scottish? In Scotland when you don't know someone, or even when you know them, you are called either Big Man, or Wee Man...or you can just call people Jimmy if you don't know them, haha.i've grown some purple kush had to harvest about a week early but it was still great
lol i find it a nice way of greeting "hey big man hows it going" (i'm 6ft 3 lol)Nice routine, loved the bit about the lady bugs ganging up on an ant...hehe
Looking good DoeEyed. Will stop by your journal when I have a min.
You hanging around weeman? If so welcome to the Club. You Scottish? In Scotland when you don't know someone, or even when you know them, you are called either Big Man, or Wee Man...or you can just call people Jimmy if you don't know them, haha.
Have a good day 600'ers...
Peace out,
DST
haha, this giro Ill be helping pay for a new hair cut for lgp. Funny how its bout the same price as a 600w ballast lol.not sure if giros come round that often
just hold back on the scrumping of the weed (I know it's hard), punt a wee bit, and hey presto, 600 watts comin at ya!!
WEYHEY!!!! Bru, an investment you won't regret, I am up to 16oz at the moment in my harvest, and still got NY47, Thelma and 3 other little Headbands to come down!!!Aint peer presure a bitch lmao. Just bought the bullet and orderd a new 600w ballast non digital cuz its cheaper lol and a bulb for under a hundred pounds haha beans on toast for the rest of the fortnight lol.
Hey guys,
I got this 2x2 box with the following strains in it. I was thinking about what would be the best light setup for this.
A 250w HPS will be too hot, I was thinking about 150w HPS. but then I also thought of this vertical style grow, this seems to be becoming an era of vertical setups. I reckon they are very efficient too. I wonder how well this would work.
Here are the girls I planning on running.
All suggestions are welcome. Tell me what would you do if you had a 2x2 setup.