BB grow! DOG Kush (canna cup entry 2012)Deep Blue & Psycho Killer :D

DST said:

Ok, let me rephrase, nothing will wipe out aphids unless you use controls i.e throw a million ladybirds at them (in a grow room) spray them with Pyrethrum, which is the basic ingrediant for loads of bug sprays in garden centres. or at least organic ones. So yeh, nothing wipes out aphids completely in nature....or they would go extinct. I have never seen bottles of pyrethrum flying around naturally

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I understand what you meant now. lol

Don Gin and Ton said:

Don't like how it says "controls" not kills. Haha

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It's systemic in action to the bugs but breaks down very quickly (12-24hrs) .

So yeah it kills whatever is on the plant when it is sprayed but it can't stop re-population between applications.

I need to spray my Strawberry's once every 2 weeks or so and my Aphid problem is bad.




The thing with Aphids is they come from other plants, I have a tree in my garden that is infested with Aphids and those are what migrate to my Strawberry's and Basil each year.

Aphids usually only attack a specific group of plants which that specific Aphid species prefers to feed on (fuck knows where Ganja comes in. lol)

You're supposed to treat your affected plants and remove or treat the source of the Aphids too.
Otherwise they'll just keep coming back each season.

I can't remove the tree and it is too big to treat effectively or cheaply so I have to make do with treating the Strawberry's throughout the season and make do.

I just let all of the different predators have a great feast. They love my organic aphids.

Funnily enough I have never had aphid problems on my mj plants in the greenhouse but they love a bit of tomato action. I've seen plenty of aants on my mj but they are never herding aphids on them. And Mo. I have heard you mentioning treating ants in your garden so you are actually also dealing a blow to the aphids when you do that....just saying

Nematodes released by the bazillion lol. Done my house plants as well....

You can get problematic nematodes. I know a football ground had issues with them. It was one of the Manchester clubs I think. I know one species really fucks up spuds.

well mosquito dunks is a myth. hot shot no pest strips it might have to be..... annoyingly the dunks have been less effective than my normal defenses so there's fucking loads of them about now.

I have not one fly in my main cab at the moment. I do have the odd one in the side cab....lets see what happens and if the nematodes make a difference. Not started with the mite predators yet, going to wait until the plants are a bit bigger. Bit cold for mites to be coming in from somewhere outside at the moment,

i found an escapee in the bathroom this morning. I've lost enough house plants to them already, they don't eat rosemary/spider plants or the succulents thankfully......

What damage are they doing?
I'll send you some gnat off.

I've a bottle coming chief cheers! Just annoying me is the damage lol

Nine days veg. It's noticeably slower growth this way.

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Nine days veg. It's noticeably slower growth this way. View attachment 3604623 View attachment 3604622

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Cheese or Livers? find it hard to tell between the 2 in veg other than the Exo`s crazy branching lol

It's cheese. It's my third straight run of it but first in coco. I want to see if I can get more flavour in to it this way. I wanted to do Batmix soil but the shop doesn't stock it anymore. Growing in pots is almost like hard work. Filling the fuckers and then watering eight separate pots is a ball ache compared to just putting blocks on an NFT tray and filling a tank once or twice a week. I'm doing it this way so I can have bit of variety but I've binned three seedlings that were very pale and not really growing. I should hopefully be getting a GG#4 cutting and I'll give that a bash. I haven't heard a bad word about it. The only thing I'm concerned about is the stretch as I don't have a lot of headroom. I can get a chemical that restricts that though but you need to use it the week before flower

pinch and bend man. but aye its no where near as set and forget.

Never know your Donald man might have a nice selection off the fairy. I'm looking for legs any day. Been 10 days in cloner, few of them have got quite pale but I've not looked under.

pulled a few out today and nixy yet

I just remembered another way to get gnats. An inch of washing up liquid in a glass attracts them and once they're in they can't get out

Cheers man, maybe i should get on the nematode's and shiz. or wasps. lol.

I've cut their feed/water intake again and gone back to manually squashing them which is getting pretty tedious lol

Add a bit of port or red wine into the Cup as well. At least they get a nice death lol...also attracts them like mad as well. Not sure if this solves much in the l9ng run though.

Here's the Deep Blue a few days on..

DST said:

Add a bit of port or red wine into the Cup as well. At least they get a nice death lol...also attracts them like mad as well. Not sure if this solves much in the l9ng run though.

Here's the Deep Blue a few days on..
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that looks almost identical to livers