I should check that out!Good one.
I get torn bags @75% off at big orange depot.
I have been buying from Lowe's, and have been able to get a discount when checking out at the contractor's end of the store. They have changed their rules about price matching {how I got my discount}, so I don't know what I'm going to do now. I'm out of cow and chicken manure compost, and have holes yet to dig, so I have to figure something out soon. I may have to double up on mushroom compost. It's 15 bucks per scoop {almost a cubic yard}.
Thanks Larry. That is a very unique looking light you built. There was some forest humus in the first bag of soil I bought and I kept seeing mushroom popping up throughout my grow. I decided to weed out the males to make sure my first grow was the best it could be with little margin for error. At some point I will try pollen chucking but I want to try and achieve success with cloning first. So far I am 0 for 2.
I will have to try that with one plant. The only thing that usually gives me couch lock is eating 2-5 grams of hash or other cannabis extracts.
Well that has been my benchmark. I checked closely with 25x-65x magnifier and found 2 plants with generous sized bulbs on the end of the trichs. I have checked them thoroughly every day since you posted this, now I am at Day 70. Tonight the first one comes down and hung to dry in my newly prepared drying cabinet, not in the basement, but upstairs. In a day or two the 2nd one gets chopped and I will check the other 2 (which have smaller bulbs) at Day 75.
Yes, I have had good luck many times in the past with it for a vegetable/fruit garden. I want to work some in to my next potting, thanks for the reminder.
Bad move on the MG potting mix. I've seen so many destroyed plants using that stuff. If it doesn't have their contaminated time-released nutes in it and is just plain potting soil maybe it's OK. I won't buy anything from Scott's.
No doubt. I pass by ace's distribution center and pallets as far as you can see of soils, promix etc. outside for months with those little holes in the bags.As much as I hate MG you can't really blame the gnats on them. I've got gnats in many different bags of soil and soilless media. Those bags are sitting around in warehouses, on loading docks and then the parking lots of stores sometimes for a couple of years before we buy them. A lot have little air holes in the bags on purpose and many just get tiny tears in the bags from handling. Damn gnats are everywhere and find those little holes with nice warm, damp soil just sitting there so what's a poor gnat to do.
Any bag I open I check for gnats before using it. I dig in and scoop out a bit of the soil then put about a tsp in a shot glass and fill to the brim with water and stir gently. Then I put a piece of white paper towel over it to pick up whatever is floating on top and examine the flotsam with my 30x scope. Gnat larva are these tiny, translucent grub looking things with two tinier little black dots at one end that are their eyes. Could be other things in there too but gnats are most likely as part of their life cycle is living in the soil. The adults do no damage to the plant but the larvae eat the fine root hairs and if it's bad can kill the plants. First sign of gnat infestation is little flies buzzing around the room and plant growth slows and even stops tho the plants look fine. Keep sticky traps around the grow room for an early warning system of any flying bugs and to reduce the population of adults before they can lay eggs.
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The bottom half was mostly larf, total weight 1.9g for a whopping total of 6.2g. The second plant (the one I broke trying LST) was only a partial as well and total weight was 4.2g. The rest are still drying. I was hoping for more but I knew the first grow would be slim. The 2nd plant was GSC and my wife gave it a better rating than "yeah it is OK". She likes it, hoorah!
Top your plants next time, they'll give you more yield.The bottom half was mostly larf, total weight 1.9g for a whopping total of 6.2g. The second plant (the one I broke trying LST) was only a partial as well and total weight was 4.2g. The rest are still drying. I was hoping for more but I knew the first grow would be slim. The 2nd plant was GSC and my wife gave it a better rating than "yeah it is OK". She likes it, hoorah!
