Any comments would be great!

9BestBudz0

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Hey guys so these are my plants so far I have trained them and snip them and this is what they look like now getting ready to switch to flower I did super crop them.
Let me know what you think
 

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GreenGuy_1995

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Hey Best Budz - those look pretty good so far! Good training job too -

I couldn't help but notice you have yellow stickies, and some of them are pretty saturated with, what I'm going to assume, are fungus gnats.

If that's the case, they can get out of hand pretty fast and those larvae that eat the roots could cause major damage in high numbers. The gnats will lay their eggs in the top of the soil, and within any exposed drainage holes at the bottom.

I'd recommend using a BTi product called Mosquito Bits - it works great and will not harm the plants in any way. I use about 3/4's - 1 cup per 5 gallons of water. I put the Mosquito Bits in a common household wire strainer and then I pour 3 gallons of water through it to extract the active ingredient, and finally fill the last 2 gallons with non strained water - pouring water through a strainer is slow, and I'm kinda lazy, so I figure 3 gallons should be enough to get most of the active ingredient. I do this because I don't like the 'bits' in my soil, or my runoff trays.

I'll pour a red solo cup of this ^ solution in the plants runoff trays to allow solid absorption from the bottom up and kill those bottom dwelling larvae - then I will water regularly from the top. This takes care of it for me, every time. If I see a problem with gnats, I'll use this method along with yellow stickies for control / elimination.

Good luck man!
 

TraeNOK

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Hey guys so these are my plants so far I have trained them and snip them and this is what they look like now getting ready to switch to flower I did super crop them.
Let me know what you think
looks good from what i can tell. im assuming thats some sort of dust for fungus gnats on the leaves? Diatomaceous earth or copper powder? i hate fungus gnats, when i first got into growing they drove me insane. Ive started using dr zymes as a soil drench and knockdown. nothing like it. i use a light mix of green sand in my soil, and mosquito bits in and on top of soil. despite the name, they work better for fungus gnats. Ive also planted some other plants in my pots, natural pest repelling plants (chrysanthemum and others). looking at some of the leaf tips it kinda looks like some over watering possibly, which would explain the fungust gnats.. try dialing back a bit on the water. you can also mix the diatomaceous earth in your watering mix.
 

TraeNOK

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see a lil bit of tip discoloration.. what are you feeding and how much? also, smart move on the soil meter!!! i cannot preach these enough to inexperienced growers and for my self actually... help a ton..
 

9BestBudz0

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Hey Best Budz - those look pretty good so far! Good training job too -

I couldn't help but notice you have yellow stickies, and some of them are pretty saturated with, what I'm going to assume, are fungus gnats.

If that's the case, they can get out of hand pretty fast and those larvae that eat the roots could cause major damage in high numbers. The gnats will lay their eggs in the top of the soil, and within any exposed drainage holes at the bottom.

I'd recommend using a BTi product called Mosquito Bits - it works great and will not harm the plants in any way. I use about 3/4's - 1 cup per 5 gallons of water. I put the Mosquito Bits in a common household wire strainer and then I pour 3 gallons of water through it to extract the active ingredient, and finally fill the last 2 gallons with non strained water - pouring water through a strainer is slow, and I'm kinda lazy, so I figure 3 gallons should be enough to get most of the active ingredient. I do this because I don't like the 'bits' in my soil, or my runoff trays.

I'll pour a red solo cup of this ^ solution in the plants runoff trays to allow solid absorption from the bottom up and kill those bottom dwelling larvae - then I will water regularly from the top. This takes care of it for me, every time. If I see a problem with gnats, I'll use this method along with yellow stickies for control / elimination.

Good luck man!
Yea man have been running into those Gnat problem. Well not any more. Those are actually old. And haven’t removed them. But I will try that bc. I Definitely don’t want anything eating my roots
 

9BestBudz0

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see a lil bit of tip discoloration.. what are you feeding and how much? also, smart move on the soil meter!!! i cannot preach these enough to inexperienced growers and for my self actually... help a ton..
Yea it really does help a lot. And it’s cheap. But I haven’t used any nutes in maybe 2 weeks now. Just water. And 2 days ago I switched them to the red lights for flower. But I haven’t switched to 12 hours yet. I think I need more buds to fill my net holes. For the sea of green ;). Or does it matter. ?
 

9BestBudz0

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see a lil bit of tip discoloration.. what are you feeding and how much? also, smart move on the soil meter!!! i cannot preach these enough to inexperienced growers and for my self actually... help a ton..
Hey man thanks for responding,

I haven’t used anything but water. The soil mix I used in transplant are coco. Organic compost and dr. Earth flower fertilizer
Today I did use the fox farms nutrition for flower and sprayed the soil since it’s been weeks since I watered it.... I have been just misting.
 

9BestBudz0

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looks good from what i can tell. im assuming thats some sort of dust for fungus gnats on the leaves? Diatomaceous earth or copper powder? i hate fungus gnats, when i first got into growing they drove me insane. Ive started using dr zymes as a soil drench and knockdown. nothing like it. i use a light mix of green sand in my soil, and mosquito bits in and on top of soil. despite the name, they work better for fungus gnats. Ive also planted some other plants in my pots, natural pest repelling plants (chrysanthemum and others). looking at some of the leaf tips it kinda looks like some over watering possibly, which would explain the fungust gnats.. try dialing back a bit on the water. you can also mix the diatomaceous earth in your watering mix.
Hey man
The powder is from some dolomite that I used used and it got every where.
I’m switching to flower to tonight fingers crossed. Currently running 18/6. Lights off at 12am midnight and on at 6am. So I’m going to extend to the 12pm- _- wish me luck lol
 

9BestBudz0

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see a lil bit of tip discoloration.. what are you feeding and how much? also, smart move on the soil meter!!! i cannot preach these enough to inexperienced growers and for my self actually... help a ton..
It’s really is awesome
 
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