PadawanWarrior
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I'm guessing you got Black Gold and that's decent organic soil. You can add extra perlite or pumice to lighten it up next time.
Very new to growing! Would appreciate advice.
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No that was actually one from a friend that had fungus gnats so switched out the soil completely. Washed the pot. Put new fox farms ocean forest and some extra perlite. Carefully planted the plant back in. And covered the top with perlite. In just a paranoid person anyways so I thought in my mind that would help haha
Slow release fertiliser has been added to the mix before purchased. A calculated strength nutrient release each month personal I would stay clear of anything with a premixed medium from Walmart. But you have to use what you got and your doing well and they are very tolerant in the beginning.
No it definitely was not. Sadly it was the cheapest bags I could find. They were left outside too. Now I know all things to avoid lol
Gnats suck they can ruin a grow very quickly if not treated. I found covert the tops with a paper plate or plastic helps. It all depends on if indoors or out
It was this bs!!!
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PadawanWarrior
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You don't have to worry about gnats if you have predators. Hypoaspis miles will take care of all of them. Most of my hypoaspis came from Wiggle Worm EWC. I haven't seen a gnat in a year and a half now, using the same soil.
I started in a similar way not knowing a thing about growing in a cheap soil type medium which was fine except for the heavy weight of the wet soil. Which is why I switched to coco without perlite and ended up with issues gnats over watering these 2 alone can give you plant deficients which can look like much worse than what is actually the problem
PadawanWarrior
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That stuff looks good to me. OMRI.
I'm not against using chemicals, but they're not for me. I'm trying to keep my soil happy and alive so I only use organics.
I just didn’t know what they were at all or what they did. Or if they came in the Walmart bag. Or my friends selling that had the gnats. I just saw them and freaked out hard. I was up for hours scouring sites. That’s his I ended up joining this site lol
PadawanWarrior
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EWC are the SHIT, literally, lol.
I originally bought a bunch of FFOF almost 2 years ago, and have since converted it into no-till.
Here's a clone only Green Crack that I just threw in my flower closet. This was taken on the 25th.
And here's a clone only Chem 91 that's about 4 weeks since flip.
It’s amazing what those little bastards will do. I’m hoping that moving them outside with kill any bugs if there are any lol
Those look amazing!!! I aspire for that lol. Is that what you feed your plant?
I found using a flush of Neem oil drench worked well just need to follow it up with another method to prevent more eggs been laid
PadawanWarrior
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I'm trying to be able to just top dress and give them plain water.
I use a bunch of different dry amendments depending on what I think they're gonna want, and I'll mix whatever with a little vermicompost and pumice. I'm no expert on what they want though. I'm still learning.