Uncle Ben's Gardening Tweeks and Pointers

mostly lack of control over the nutrients and if natural as I hate the word organic then harder to correct issues...it is my view...not saying it is superior...but for ME it is
 
Uncle Ben said:
No ill effect.

I mix my own soil out of many sources. No ill effect. Same with store bought bagged potting soils used years ago. No problem.

KH, what kind of contamination issues are you talking about? Contaminate the environment, lose control? Give me some facts, not some junk science or feelings bro.
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I already stated that with soil the chlorine chloramide thing is a non concern

I do not subscribe to feel good exception being smoking the herb
 
hopeyougotadutch said:
Cool, thank you.

I was trying to understand it as well. I had an issue with bugs once, gnats to be exact. I used a small amount of peroxide mixed in with my water and that worked surprisingly well. Not sure if it was the best option, worked nonetheless. While I've brought it up, did that kill off any beneficial goodies? Bad option?
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Theoretically it sterilized the mix, all depends on the amount. Surprised it had any effect on the gnats. I would have thought they'd love the released O2.
 
Uncle Ben said:
Theoretically it sterilized the mix, all depends on the amount. Surprised it had any effect on the gnats. I would have thought they'd love the released O2.
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It wasn't too much (tbsp to a gal.), but I figured it would have done that. I was surprised as well, and I could still be wrong, it was a pretty bad case of them. After applying it though, they seemed to disappear. Like I said, it was a BAD case of em', I saw someone post it worked well for them, so I said what the hell.

I'll see if I can find something more about it, other than a random post.
 
So I quick read through a few articles, and really, they all say the same thing about the effect of peroxide on fungus gnats. The adults live for about a week and don't generally cause any harm to the plant, but the larvae can cause some problem for the roots. I'll just post a link to one of the articles, but like I said, they all really say the same thing. Couldn't find any scientific studies but....

"Allow the soil to dry out for a few days, so that the top 2 inches (5 centimeters) are really dry. The larvae of fungus gnats cannot survive in dry soil. However, they will remain dormant and begin their development once the soil is moist again. Water your plant with a mixture of one part hydrogen peroxide and four parts water. The solution will kill the larvae, but is harmless to your plant. Reapply the hydrogen peroxide solution once a week until you see that the fungus gnats are gone." Found at: http://home.howstuffworks.com/how-to-kill-fungus-gnats.htm

It mentions using the yellow sticky traps to catch the adults (of course), and it recommends using other things for the soil drench before the choice of peroxide.
 
hopeyougotadutch said:
So I quick read through a few articles, and really, they all say the same thing about the effect of peroxide on fungus gnats. The adults live for about a week and don't generally cause any harm to the plant, but the larvae can cause some problem for the roots. I'll just post a link to one of the articles, but like I said, they all really say the same thing. Couldn't find any scientific studies but....

"Allow the soil to dry out for a few days, so that the top 2 inches (5 centimeters) are really dry. The larvae of fungus gnats cannot survive in dry soil. However, they will remain dormant and begin their development once the soil is moist again. Water your plant with a mixture of one part hydrogen peroxide and four parts water. The solution will kill the larvae, but is harmless to your plant. Reapply the hydrogen peroxide solution once a week until you see that the fungus gnats are gone." Found at: http://home.howstuffworks.com/how-to-kill-fungus-gnats.htm

It mentions using the yellow sticky traps to catch the adults (of course), and it recommends using other things for the soil drench before the choice of peroxide.
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Wonder who the author is and if he really has any credentials. Citrus aka orange works, so does a drench of malathion. Not sure about the BT.
 
Hey UB, would you use orange rind for this? Like make a paste of the peel and then dilute in water? Figure one orange would be sufficient?
 
Uncle Ben said:
Wonder who the author is and if he really has any credentials. Citrus aka orange works, so does a drench of malathion. Not sure about the BT.
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I got rid of fg with Ivory soap in my water...never had them again so add a drop per gallon always..also helps keep dryspots away
 
I got tired of fighting gnats in soilless and just decided to drench my mothers with imid (merit, malathion) every 3 months.
When I transplant veg plants (1qt pots) into flower (5 gal) pots I break up half of a mosquito dunk and mix it in. Since I started this I have not had problems with gnats. Gnats can be a bitch in coco and peat. People say it is due to over watering, but I don't know. They seem to come around regardless of how I water.
If they do show up I sprinkle DE on the coco surface. I'm not sure if it really makes a difference or not.
 
I thought I'd share this link here, the study has some interesting info pertaining to "Integrated use of chemical, organic and biofertilizers" I hope this link hasn't been posted in the previous 143 pages, if it was please forgive my lack of observation:dunce:.

http://www.agnet.org/htmlarea_file/library/20110808103954/tb174.pdf

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I've been an avid organic garden over the last few years, I recently switched up my garden to incorporate granular organic based fertilizers, some integrated with salts, some purely organic. The fertilizers that have salts integrated to them have performed the best, which set off the light in the ole dome of mine.

Being naive in the beginning I bought into the marketing schemes of canna specific fertilizers, well after burning the fuck out of out of my plants I switched to all organic amended soils and found out quickly that the plants would start to starve mid to late flower. Don't get me wrong I pulled off some nice grows using only organic amendments, looking back now I’m sure the plans didn't grow to their full potential, I was happy with the final product, but I bet the final product would have been that much better by maintaining proper plant health.

A few months back I discovered Fox Fax Marine Cruise (10-7-7) and it works pretty good, during the vegetative stage the plants thrive and the roots are monstrous compared to the plants that were veg’d with organically amended soil.

I've noticed that once the plants quit stretching they almost immediately run out of (N), I would try to green them back up with high (N) guano teas and what not but the plants never seemed to recover from the (N) deficiency, after reading the first few pages of this thread I quickly realized I should have been using salts to correct the deficiency all along.
 
Hey Ub and company.... still in flowering stages at the moment and trying to be patient and keeping em greenn, its a mini jungle in there with all the foliage.. anyways my a.d.d is kicking in and I am trying to find things to do.. sooo I was curious if you reuse soil.. and if so where do i begin?
 
190F for twenty minutes. Also remove root mass as completely as possible prior to baking. The baking is to sterilize it.
 
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