How good are you at keeping up with your IPM?

Actinolite

Actinolite

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The title pretty much says it. Are you good with your IPM? Religious, kinda lazy, or completely non existent until a crisis?

I've had a pretty long bout of pest issues, from PM to mites to various harmless water creatures I mostly ignored until they annoyed me enough to deal with, all of which seem to have subsided for now.
Finding myself slowly getting lazier and lazier with my once religious IPM regiment.
So thought I'd ask, what do you all do? How well do you keep up with it?
 
Gemtree

Gemtree

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I don’t do anything really and don’t get bullshit unless it’s from a friends cut that sneaks in. Finally whooping these thrips asses I’ve been lazy about all last year that’s about it
 
crimsonecho

crimsonecho

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knock on wood i never had to deal with pests in the last 5-6 years i have been growing cannabis indoors.

to be fair though i have ocd so i dont wear shoes at home, clothes go to hamper as soon as i step into the house, going to shower is the first thing i do when i’m home and i dont pull in fresh air from outside. i even wash every piece of equipment that goes into the grow room.

oh i am just a very fun person to live with :)

so religious? kinda lazy? etc. no man ocd haha. again knock on wood.
 
Actinolite

Actinolite

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crimsonecho said:
knock on wood i never had to deal with pests in the last 5-6 years i have been growing cannabis indoors.

to be fair though i have ocd so i dont wear shoes at home, clothes go to hamper as soon as i step into the house, going to shower is the first thing i do when i’m home and i dont pull in fresh air from outside. i even wash every piece of equipment that goes into the grow room.

oh i am just a very fun person to live with :)

so religious? kinda lazy? etc. no man ocd haha. again knock on wood.
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I've gotten fully on board that "nothing goes in without being washed" life and man, people think im crazy, but it just is how it has to be
 
calvin.m16

calvin.m16

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#1 thing is keeping shit clean and I have been lacking big time on that. Speaking of which, I'm going downstairs right now to clean my entire room top to bottom. I had to treat some clones with spinosad due to a fungus gnat outbreak. Not the worst of issues, could be worse, like Powdery Mildew. :lol:
 
J. Rocket

J. Rocket

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keep it clean, keep it fresh, keep it closed.
no issues for years indoor in rockwool.

mosquito bits on the shelf, ready if the little bastards try again:bigjoint:
 
tstick

tstick

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I keep my space surgically clean! I rarely have any pest problems. When I do, it likely comes in with the bagged stuff I use. At the first sign of anything, I am on it, I prefer to start my indoor grows at the end of summer, when the weather cools down and the bugs outside are going dormant. It lessens the chances for anything to accidentally vector into the space. When the flowers are ripening, it's winter....no bugs around except for maybe a few basement spiders...I encourage them.

No pets

No kids

No outside shoes

All the lights and fans get cleaned at the end of each run so they are ready to go

The tents get wiped down regularly
 
calvin.m16

calvin.m16

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tstick said:
I keep my space surgically clean! I rarely have any pest problems. When I do, it likely comes in with the bagged stuff I use. At the first sign of anything, I am on it, I prefer to start my indoor grows at the end of summer, when the weather cools down and the bugs outside are going dormant. It lessens the chances for anything to accidentally vector into the space. When the flowers are ripening, it's winter....no bugs around except for maybe a few basement spiders...I encourage them.

No pets

No kids

No outside shoes

All the lights and fans get cleaned at the end of each run so they are ready to go

The tents get wiped down regularly
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I also encourage the spiders until they start getting in my way. Nothing beats nature-made sticky traps! The spideys that start building on my walls get relocated or vacuumed. I feel bad when I vacuum them though because they are my little soldiers if they know it or not.
 
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