Naughty.Psychonaut

yeah I would say so too what mediun you going into?

@ORGANinc. hahahahahah yeah man I am not even sure what that is. need to find out still, but he's managing the bugs in the greenhouse for now I guess. damn boooii on your face!? I guess if you're drunk enough hahababah I only saw one once in person. buddy of mine helping with the movie scenes here in cpt had to keep one for a while. they seem dosile when they're just chilling, to be honest I feel like I have a soft spot for spiders. would like to have a few as pets, but then again, I got way too many hobbies already!

good on ya mate I got home late last night, it was dark, went into the greenhouse to water a few things and saw this mother of fuck.... all the photos are screenshots from a video. just chilling on a leaf and I took my phone out, it knew I was checking it out so it made a run for it! anyone know who's dog this is? it's in my yard

lol @burrrito brother don't really kill it just yet!!! looks like it might be a predator helping you with bug control, but I'm really not sure. does it look like your plants being eaten?

yeah the 50% RH with insufficient circulation is for sure a contributing factor in creating a breeding zone. the plants need to be "dancing in the wind" so you know the air that gets trapped between the branches and leaves gets blown away. if you're not worried about flower you might aswell dust the whole plant with DE. also I forgot to mention that Pyrol and other contact insecticides will shrivel up your pistils and hinder your breeding a lot!!! Bioneem might also do this. so stay away from these when already in flower! I think you'll be best off spraying some homemade bug deterant like tap water with chopped up chillies and garlic ans few drops of soap, let it sit in the sun 12 to 24hrs and spray every couple days. plus dust the plants with DE. only a pleasure bro, that's why we all here

oooh I see the high hat peeping out behind the tent there! awesome man, I wish I could still be making some noise, but my set has been packed away for over 2 years now and when it was still out I didn't touch it for almost another 2 years. never letting any of it go though hahah got a Ludwig set with few Gibraltar upgrades and add ons. shit to have anything stolen, but your drums dude that's like having your baby taken from you. I am not even interacting with mine and would absolutely loose my shit if I had to loose it! your autos look amazing man, I haven't even had the courage to take on a auto run. said I was gona, but never did. still getting to know the ropes on the nutrient schedules and shit of photoperiods. I feel you have more room for error and all that so taking on autos you have to know what you doing. and it surely looks like you do.

@silverdelange aha I see, garage setup, do you have tech telling you the RH and temps close to your plants? Also very important here, good air circulation, like a fan blowing the stagnant air between the leaves and branches of the plants and sufficient fresh air for the plants? hows the breeding regime working? I assume there is a CS or STS thing going on if you're crossing fems, which means you will not be able to smoke the buds of the plant that you're treating to make pollen anyway, you might aswell dust that whole plant with DE. only if you not gona smoke the buds. the plants you wana smoke I will say make a 50% Neem mix and keep spraying the plants weekly to keep the bugs away, till say about 3 weeks before harvesting then you will NEED to wash the plant with water 24hrs after you spray it with neem. just to change the taste of the leaves and make it unfavourable for the buggers, don't let the neem sit on the buds. You will also NEED to wash the buds once dried. a 3 phase dunk bath with baking soda, citric soda and clean water to get rid of bugs and the neem that'll still be on the buds. don't wana smoke that. hope this helps bud, fuck can't loose a breeding project to a couple of bugs!

@MrE is that a gibraltar chair that belongs to a drumset I see there?? amazing plants man, really hitting it out the park here!!!

another thing to concider is the grow space itself. is it a tent? was it owned by someone else? do you have good FAE and circulation? hows conditions?

@silverdelange what's up man, yeah you got a typical fungus gnat there. eggs that was in the top 5cm of soil hatched. go check your pots for larvae in the top soil. First off, is the plant healthy? A fully healthy plant should be "unfavourable" to insects, molds and diseases. as for the spots on the leaves, I think you might be dealing with another kinda insect. mites or thrips. 2 ways to mend your soft bodied insect infestation that will benefit the plant also. Get 2 or 3 heaped table spoons of Diatomaceous Earth, sprinkle it on the top soil after watering as to not get it soaked, but have a dry layer of it on the top soil, can be mixed in lightly. The plant will benefit from the calcium, silica and other forms of nutrients the DE will add to the soil. This will kill the larvae and other insects that move around on the soil surface. Other way is to get some BioNeem and Pyrol, spray the Pyrol to help kill off the infestation, use the BioNeem on a weekly schedule to keep it under control. the plant benefits from the Neem oil ⁶helping it build a strong imune system so it can fight back against pests and diseases by itself. NB - this can NOT be done during flower. hope you still vegging?

fuck yeah excited to see what happens here got a couple totemic seeds up my sleeve, might run one or two outdoor this coming season goodluck man, hope it's smooth sailing!

Welcome welcome, my condolences brother. you are with a great bunch of new family members here I am also very interested in the ultrasound extraction!!!

welcome to the mad house amazing setup, amazing plants and amazing weed!

it was time I had enough of the blurple, I keep getting busy for like 5 min before remembering to switch it off, then I look out the tent and everythings dark and it's an instant headache. anyway, think the girls recovered well from the stress put the scrog net up, might do another layer depending on how they grow out in the next few weeks put the flower light in, still on 18/6 maybe 3 weeks I'll flip to 12/12 wire management here helps me sleep like a baby at night

@Adansonia digitata bro, I cringe every time this shit comes to mind. I apologize aswell

what am I making up??

again, this is exactly what I said....... then you tried saying my information is incorrect. if you weren't butthurt about my setup being built the way you would've built it, or whatever is making you feel the way you do, you wouldn't let that cloud your ability to understand what you're reading. listen here, as much as the dark is not a requirement light is also not a requirement. as proven by my setup. so where exactly you wana go with this? you want me to rebuild my setup cz you read something somewhere??? give it up man

yes, I said this, literally in my first reply to what you said, here it is and I restated it, trying to make it clear for you the sole idea that you wana tell me data captured from an actual experiment I actually did is wrong, is taking it personal, brother............ I am not aiming to take over the market and fill up my pockets here. I am aiming to sustain my hobby of growing mushrooms on a bigger scale. If I can get a local contract to ensure my rent and other essential resources are all covered, I'll be happy and keep on growing. good luck to you in general man

got home late last night with the urge to get busy, here's what I did. repot into 30L, FF green bag, mycoroot in the soil, DE top of the soil. watered with tap water. did some hst took photos this morning blurp on. will give another week with this light for them them to settle and make some new growth then bringing in my the new light

what's good @Pandy Indeed, I do. During colonisation the mycelium will expel much less Carbon dioxide than needed to form good reproductive organs, however there will still be a build up inside the bag. Fungi breathe in Oxygen and breathe out Carbon dioxide, so fresh air is needed, just much less than when time comes to fruit. What I do, after packing bags, wipe down with alcohol, get a sterile medical needle, poke holes roughly 2.5 to 3cm apart from eachother all over the bag.

the fact that you would refute something that's already been prooved goes beyond me, you don't have to believe anything, but take note of this, learning requires the ability to not assume one already knows everything. and that based off ego and emotions, with an attitude like that you will run into a few problems in life

well besides the plenty of photos I originally posted acting as literal proof, I will try to go dig up the photos I took when we did the actual test. these tests where done exactly because of the things you're saying right now. half of the mycology community sais what you're saying. but what happens when you put it to the test? another point, we wanted to see what works for us. in our situation. conditions and all, mushroom life can be very sensetive and small environmental changes can have big impacts. so to find out what works for us we wheren't too concerned about what others say or think. we're not out to teach anyone how to do anything. we've got the info, enough of it to play around and see what gets US the best results. as we are only focussing on the oysters for the time being and obvious that this is the mushroom we're speaking of here since there's only oysters in my photos, we ran Elf, Grey and Pink oysters. The difference was most noticable with the Elf, but definitly a difference across the board. we took 10 bags of each, 5kg substrate per bag. 90g of spawn per bag. 5 Bags Elf uncovered - 24 days till 100% colonised 5 Bags Elf covered - 14 days till 100% colonisation 5 Bags Grey uncovered - 19 days till 100% colonised 5 Bags Grey covered - 15 days till 100% colonised 5 Bags Pink uncovered - 17 days till 100% colonised 5 Bags Pink covered - 15 days till 100% colonised. some of the uncovered pink oyster actually started fruiting out the top of the bag. I assume there was a hole. I have seen mushrooms even growing fruiting bodies in complete darkness, this doesn't mean mushrooms SHOULD be grown in the dark. it just means it can. we should always look to biomimicary. nature is flexible and can bear and endure strange forms of manipulation, this doesn't mean we HAVE to push those limits.

@Adansonia digitata you're saying dark room isn't needed for colonising. I know this, and if you understood what I said correctly, you would know that this is what I meant. point is, the information I gave based on my dark room isn't incorrect, as a matter of fact it is spot on. and I know it is and I don't even need to have any back and forth about it. you asked me what it's for and I told you. for someone to say information based on experiments is wrong is funny

bro, you can just show me proof of your results and my mind will be fully changed. based my setup off findings I made through the years of doing this. I definitly didn't come from nothing and set up a whole mushroom production facility, some research has been done here. and I am not talking bout reading a book on how to do this and that. research as in getting my hands dirty and doing real life experiments.