Aussie Growers Thread

[klx]

H2O2 best thing I have found to get rid of gnats. Mix up a strong solution and spray the top of media til it soaks the top cm or so. Do twice over a week.

Day 29 and day 41. Look mum no nute burn!!

 

[Lucky Luke]

Fungus gnat larvae eat the fine hairs of roots. Adults eat decaying matter ie. fungus. And people need to stop believing they do no harm because if the numbers are high enough they can do significant damage that I’ve experienced first hand.

They only do harm in huge numbers- not something the vast majority of home growers will experience. Only drama for us is they get stuck in the resin.
You can take a knife and cut the rootball and the plant will love u for it. hence why people use fabrick pots. No way fungaus gnats can eat roots faster than the plant can grow them unless the infestation is HUGE.

 

[reza92]

If your hand watering and add drip clean would that help in any keep gnats away ?

Probably not. Don’t know what drip cleans going to do at all with hand watering.

 

[reza92]

Yeap just letting yous know my shit tap, tested its ph 7.9

Get a good ro filter stat, it’ll be pricey but you’ll love drinking the water out of it and so will ya plants.

 

[reza92]

Fungus gnat larvae eat the fine hairs of roots. Adults eat decaying matter ie. fungus. And people need to stop believing they do no harm because if the numbers are high enough they can do significant damage that I’ve experienced first hand.

Again I’ve never had gnatt related issues and definitely had some bad infestations. They might highlight an issue but I doubt they cause any on their own. Hell outdoors gnatts would be considered beneficial to the soil, indoors they’re an annoyance at most. If gnatts are “causing issues” I’d say there’s other things wrong with the grow as well that I would spend more energy on fixing than the gnatts

 

[Lucky Luke]

Never tested rain water but i assume its better quality then my shity tap

my house runs on rain water. Mines 6.3 out of a concrete tank

 

[klx]

my house runs on rain water. Mines 6.3 out of a concrete tank

That's handy ay

Edit> The lime from the concrete? You got any poly tanks?

 

[Lucky Luke]

That's handy ay

Edit> The lime from the concrete? You got any poly tanks?

yep.
Yep the lime. Nope just a big arse concrete one. Poly will be less PH.

 

[Lucky Luke]

IS one Drop here??

i think most of us have been dropped but dont know of a "one drop".

 

[Bullygrowz]

Works as ph up if i add to much ph down. 1 positive

Yeah my tap water is my ph up also hahaha dont think its as bad as 7.9 tho

 

[klx]

Tap water should be 7.0. If it's not then the council need sacking (unless you live in some hell hole like Bourke or something)

 

[reza92]

Tap water should be 7.0. If it's not then the council need sacking (unless you live in some hell hole like Bourke or something)

Mines like 5.9-6.7 or something depending upon on what water source we are currently pulling from.

 

[bursto]

rain tanks are the go just even a small 900 buck 4500L poly tank does a grow no problems,
but a 9000l is the way to go thats heaps of water
i just run a 12v sprayer pump through standard twin carbon filter set up comes out clean as

 

[Bullygrowz]

Flick the switch come back over next two weeks for canopy management then auto pilot. Veg is what makes the yield flower is just where you show off your work.

 

[PURPLEB3RRYKUSH]

Mines like 5.9-6.7 or something depending upon on what water source we are currently pulling from.

Mines 7.8, smells pretty bad my tap, sometimes brown, they always messing with water, i wont drink it

 

[jzs147]

H2O2 best thing I have found to get rid of gnats. Mix up a strong solution and spray the top of media til it soaks the top cm or so. Do twice over a week.

Day 29 and day 41. Look mum no nute burn!!

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Or eradicator.

 

[jzs147]

Flick the switch come back over next two weeks for canopy management then auto pilot. Veg is what makes the yield flower is just where you show off your work.View attachment 4640663

Epic.

 

[beernutz]

Epic.

 

[beernutz]

Killer song to kick off a Saturday

 

[Venus55]