Aussie Growers Thread

Rewerb

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Teddy-time....

Just in case you missed the lyrics:

Well help me help me sing this song
I want to stay living for much too long
Now I want to ride this big brass gong
Where am I babe ?
You don't know !

I gotta take pills to kill ma pain
To kill ma pleasure I blow ma brain
I get so high I fall down again
what's happenin' man ?
You don't know !

I gotta drink booze to help me swing
Bella donna to help me sing
I gotta smoke grass to help me see
Who are you babe ?
You don't know !

Well mirror mirror on the wall
Who's the biggest fool of all
Hallucinating freedom calls
What's freedom babe ?
You don't know !
 

fyjosh

Active Member
So my 3 weeks of outside growing is coming back to fuck me, gnats are taking control after going back into the tent.

I'm about 5 weeks into flower (estimate around 12-13 weeks flowering time overall).

I don't like unnecessary or toxic chemicals, was going to try sand topping, hydrogen peroxide, maybe gnatrol or something like that if my local hydro store carries it.

Need to get on top of it asap as I'm trying a run of plants in tiny 2 and 4 litre pots, there aren't many roots there to get eaten -_-'

Anything i should stay away from while this far into flowering?
(Pyrethrum spray?)
 
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TheGreenPriest

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So my 3 weeks of outside growing is coming back to fuck me, gnats are taking control after going back into the tent.

I'm about 5 weeks into flower (estimate around 12-13 weeks flowering time overall).

I don't like unnecessary or toxic chemicals, was going to try sand topping, hydrogen peroxide, maybe gnatrol or something like that if my local hydro store carries it.

Need to get on top of it asap as I'm trying a run of plants in tiny 2 and 4 litre pots, there aren't many roots there to get eaten -_-'

Anything i should stay away from while this far into flowering?
(Pyrethrum spray?)
If I were trying to get control of an infestation and didn't want to use pesticides (and I don't like to because I use beneficial bacteria) I'd do the following:

1) Go to Bunnings and buy Eco-Oil (not Eco-Neem) and spray your medium, and only your medium, well.
2) Buy Gnatrol and apply it 3 times the first week. Availablle on ebay.
3) Yellow sticky traps horizontal and placed directly on your medium if possible. I cut little small squares and place them on my medium in small pots also. Can't have too many. Cheap on ebay.
4) Apply mild root tonic (I use GH Rapid Start) or even just Seasol to help roots repair.

Good luck, mate.
 

fyjosh

Active Member
1) Go to Bunnings and buy Eco-Oil (not Eco-Neem) and spray your medium, and only your medium, well.
2) Buy Gnatrol and apply it 3 times the first week. Availablle on ebay.
3) Yellow sticky traps horizontal and placed directly on your medium if possible. I cut little small squares and place them on my medium in small pots also. Can't have too many. Cheap on ebay.
4) Apply mild root tonic (I use GH Rapid Start) or even just Seasol to help roots repair.
Sweet thanks mate that's where I'll start cheers
 

Lucky Luke

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I mush prefer using Eradicator for gnats, but on the topic of killing things you can make up White oil easily and cheaply.

Horticultural oils are among the safest and most effective ways of controlling a range of sap sucking and chewing pests in the garden. These days there are two options - traditional white oil, which is based on a vegetable oil, and modern horticultural oils, which are thinner and based on petroleum oil.

The lighter coloured, modern oils spread faster than the old fashioned vegetable oil. This is important because it means that the modern, less viscous, oil doesn't clog leaf pores when the temperature is over 30 degrees. So in hot weather the newer oil won't damage your plants.

The other difference is that the modern horticultural oils are based on petroleum and are expensive to buy. White oil is cheap and better still, you can make it yourself.

White oil recipe
  • Use two cups of vegetable oil (I'm an organic gardener, so I use sunflower oil because there's no chance that it could be genetically modified) and half a cup of washing up liquid.
  • Put those into a jar. Put the lid on and give it a good shake and you've got concentrated white oil.
  • Label it and store this in a cool, dry place and it should last about three months. Remember to also label it with the dilution rate - two dessert spoons per litre of water.
Gardeners have been using oils for about 200 years so it's been thoroughly road tested. Use these oils on broad leaved trees and shrubs. Don't use them on hairy or soft leaved plants like lettuce, because it will burn the leaves. The best spraying action is to cover both sides of the leaves and the bark and it's best to spray in the cool of the morning.

Horticultural oils will control aphids, scale, mealy bug and citrus leaf miner as well as caterpillars (works on Mites to). It works by blocking their breathing pores and this suffocates the pest. There is no way that pests will ever become resistant to white oil - so it's good forever.
 
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