SM Bruce Banger

[MrNice]

All looking good bro nice and healthy

shame bout thrips think 2scoops has menstioned some stuff to use in another thread

Im sure youll nuke the fookers

[Herbalist]

Ima sub up for this one. Good stuff, good info, nice pictures. Good stuff bro.

[Guest]

Nice and tidy I see.

Healthy enough plants too from here.

Let's see some buds

[420mFuk]

Nice and tidy I see.
Healthy enough plants too from here.
Let's see some buds

Yeah there healthy enough considering. Afraid your going to be waiting awhile before any nuglets appear eta 4 weeks till button sized nugs, 10 weeks away before there hanging but ride along for the journey.

Ima sub up for this one. Good stuff, good info, nice pictures. Good stuff bro.

Thank you sir ! Glad you noticed the effort (it does take some faffing about), welcome aboard the banger train, cheers dude.

All looking good bro nice and healthy
shame bout thrips think 2scoops has menstioned some stuff to use in another thread
Im sure youll nuke the fookers

Nuked? not in UK, difficult to get products you have due to EU regulations & honestly don't want to use anything nasty or toxic, pyrethrin is my limit (veg only) but I am thankful for your suggestion I know your trying to help. Anyways long of the short is I’ve been battling them for awhile, everytime I think I’ve beaten them I get lazy & the fookers reappear few weeks later, feels like blaming my tools but I’m suspicious they come in on the coco but haven't proven it (yet). Lesson = I must stick with a regular IPM and not slack.

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Identified 2 pests, Thrips & Fungus Gnats.
IPM 7 Modes of action:

• 1.Azos bennies.
  There's something in this that gets the lara and eggs down below, can't remember which bacteria. Mixed 1 level teaspoon to 1 ltr of feed.

• 2.Neem cake powder.
  Mixed 1 & a half tablespoons of neem cake to 1 ltr coco and applied as top layer.

• 3.Diatomaceous earth.
  Dusted the plant stem and pot surface.

• 4.Pyrethrin spray soap mixture.
  10ml to 1 litre dilution ratio, twice the recommended amount (its too weak otherwise), I will be spraying every 2-3 days until there gone (10-12 days) & will continue to spray weekly after this.

• 5.Neem Oil.
  I'll use this after I've knocked back the population with pyrethrin, then start using this as weekly IPM.

• 6.Sticky yellow traps.
  When sprays are complete I shall deploy traps to monitor.

• 7.Predator Bugs.
  First day in flower I will release predator bugs, Ill order these right when there needed.

5 products in my cupboard atm.

Azos root drench.

Neem cake & Diatomaceous earth top layer.

Pyrethrin spray soap mixture.

These girls need potting up to 10+ litres asap and flipped 2 weeks later, I will reapply the diatomaceous earth and neem cake top layer again after the transplant. Bug population has been knocked back over the last few weeks but I am still finding the odd youngling. Generally speaking the girls are doing ok, green and happy(ish). I will order sticky traps & give them a neem oil spray soon too.

I will post again after i transplant next few days. Cheers y'all

[MrNice]

Hey bro can you sterilize the coco some how may be boiling hot water in the amount you want to use before growing to kill any thimk in the coco leave coco to dry out then use ?

[2-Scoops]

6.Sticky yellow traps.
When sprays are complete I shall deploy traps to monitor.

Maybe get some sticky blue traps as well to compliment the yellow ones. Blue is a more an attractive colour to thrips than yellow apparently, it all helps i suppose

[420mFuk]

Maybe get some sticky blue traps as well to compliment the yellow ones. Blue is a more an attractive colour to thrips than yellow apparently, it all helps i suppose

100% correct, studies do show blue is more appealing than yellow to thrips. Yellow traps still work though & the blue ones are way more expensive from my supplier, I will double check those prices next order and yes I may well try the blue sheets for the first time cheers 2-Scoops.

Hey bro can you sterilize the coco some how may be boiling hot water in the amount you want to use before growing to kill any thimk in the coco leave coco to dry out then use ?

Not something I've considered tbh, I go though couple bags coco a month so honestly sounds like too much work for me ...... besides I've yet to prove there riding in on the coco bags, I also have 3 animals, running passive cooling, not a sealed space, etc etc aka plenty of possible vectors which leads me back to weekly IPM. Fair play thou 'boiling me coco' thats a new one I aint heard before.

[Keeno]

Very nice informative update there @420mFuk. Thrips ae a nightmare once established. I see you have thrown everything you can at them organically, I'm hopeful that lot will have killed the little shits for you.

Looking forward to the next update

[420mFuk]

Very nice informative update there @420mFuk. Thrips ae a nightmare once established. I see you have thrown everything you can at them organically, I'm hopeful that lot will have killed the little shits for you. Looking forward to the next update

Thank you Sir! I will beat them eventually...... well... regular IPM = no more bugs, as we know "get lazy" especially in the spring or end of summer and bugs galore. My own lazy fault as I should of reacted much sooner before they established themselves. Perpetual flower sucks in this situation as I cant deep clean properly or spray the space. I will release predator mites in the flower room when these bruce bangers get moved, these summer temps & RH should help those predators thrive and establish a colony in the Froom.

======== UPDATE ========

Transplanted into 11l fabric pots, dropped the 1 gal fabrics straight into the 11l with a 1-2 cm layer of clay pebbles on the bottom to aid drainage, watering is a mix of top feed and eb & flow, fear of "wet feet" or "soggy roots" makes me line the bottom of the pots so I don't need to raise the pot for adequate drainage.



Individual photos of the four bruce banger plants, I still see minor damage to foliage here & there but no new damage to new growth, all looks clean for several nodes down.Cannot yet say i have beaten the thrips but the progress definitely looks good.




Mixed neem cake again, ratio: one and a half tablespoons with 1l of coco. Added as top layer to a depth of 1-2cms.
Pyrethrin soap mix 10 ml diluted in 1l & sprayed heavily. You can see in "pyrethrin spray" photo below compared with the last update the girls are out growing the shower space fast. I have another week before there's a quadrant free in flower, so I'm just waiting on the roots to fill the 11l pot a little and volla into flower we go.

layer clay pebbles.

Mixing neem cake.

Pyrethrin spray.

Post again just before the flip for a lollipop. Same feed/EC/PH. Peace out GR420.

[420mFuk]

Moved into the Froom 6 days ago on the 12th June, had to move them earlier than expected so I have continued to hand water for the first week for that wet dry & root stretch cycle, there now (almost) drinking daily so I have switched on the pump for a 4 min daily flood, I will increase to twice daily if/when they need it.

EC 1.6 / PH 6.0 / Water temps 23-25C

Sorry next time I'll dim the lights before taking photos DOH. Photodates 17th so there 5 days into flower & already filled the 1x1m quadrant, normally heavy lollipop & leaf strip would be done 14-17 days into flower, probably have to clean these up before, post again some shots before/after cleanup & setting the net. Happy growing peps.