DST's Vertical Step Grow - Headband and Cali Orange

TrynaGroSumShyt said:

Hey D, i read about your friend in scotland. just wanted to let you kno my thoughts are with you and yours.

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Cheers bru, that's very much appreciated!!

some killer genetics in there bru am sure youll do great justice to the fairy with your new cab set up too.

keep your faith in the ganja god and your labels reet!!!

Well the plants have still got thrips!!! Been scrapping with them for the last week. The DE has been sprinkled religiously but the wars continues. I need to do a lot more research on this. The plants look okay (will update tomorrow btw) and it seems like I have had these ever since I can remember now. I can get through a grow with them, but I am just wondering how better the quality would be without them. I was looking at one through the microscope with its head stuck into the leaf...grrr! little shite. Oh yeh, and they make my skin crawl as well.

your thrips = my gnats.. iv'e had them so long that i forget they are a issue.

you want me to send you the stuff i use to kill every pest from spider mites to thrips? I got half a bottle i can bung ya mate?

mr west said:

you want me to send you the stuff i use to kill every pest from spider mites to thrips? I got half a bottle i can bung ya mate?

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What did you use Westy? Did it have any effect on the plants?

I also use spinosad (organic spray made from a bacterium) on the leaves when I have had adults...the DE for the soil borne life stage and the spray if they make it up to the top. I have had good luck and have no worries about thrips now cuz I can get rid of them...spider mites on the other hand...none yet with the new Jack the ripper. jilly bean, church and bubba k...knock on wood!

Between the indoor, outdoor and green house...a war on three fronts!!!

How about the silver fish??

DST said:

Well the plants have still got thrips!!! Been scrapping with them for the last week. The DE has been sprinkled religiously but the wars continues. I need to do a lot more research on this. The plants look okay (will update tomorrow btw) and it seems like I have had these ever since I can remember now. I can get through a grow with them, but I am just wondering how better the quality would be without them. I was looking at one through the microscope with its head stuck into the leaf...grrr! little shite. Oh yeh, and they make my skin crawl as well.

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Hey D my cure has always been ladybugs and thank fuck, I have zero bugs

My ladybugs will starve to death on top of a pile of thrips and spider mites...

Plus whatever prey they eat...they will not eat the last one...they are ranchers!

i just read in somebody elses journal about a guy's ladybugs bein lazy as hell, haha,

I had a few ladybugs in there and I guess they only have a certain appetite, I reckon I woul dneed a few hundred. Spray is the way forward, the stuff I had has obviously not been working so will try another route. Thanks peeps.

DST

Good morning all, hope you enjoy my Saturday update. No big stories just pics with explanations.

Hayduke: Sorry to miss your Q, the DE is working great with the Silverfish...slowly reducing in numbers in general. I had some great fun with my salt shaker DE jar and a silverfish that was trapped in the bad (that was meant to be Bath...but hey, Bad in Dutch is Bath)...yes I am weird, punishing insects!

Enjoy (in no order sorry, just as they were uploaded):

Oscar side shot top cola - I've just been looking at some of the outdoor gardens in California...sheesh, the difference is just not true...shitty North European summer, so much for global warming.


Cali Orang Headband cross cloned from the outdoor girl.


One of my DOG kush

DOG Pound


Half of my greenhouse, Leeks at the front, with a Spanish pepper, that got done by aphides, but is still producing a few small peppers. Cherry toms been producing great. Then you know who at the back


The 3 BX2 cheese clones under the net


Top cola of the Cali Orange Headband...up to around 7 foot now.

Side cola of the Cali Orange Headband cross


And a shot of her from below


OG Kush (I hope - i got some seeds mixed in that bag before - I am praying!!) Looks very like the OG. Need this to be the OG since I lost my clones from the last lot...won't go into that again....


Shot of the floor: Bx2 screen at the back, some DOGs and an Oscar clone at the front right side


A small lemon tree


The Puppy for the 600 grow


Left to Right: Cali OrangexHB, then 2 DPQ's

DPQ top

DPQ side

DPQ's together



Strawberries still flowering: Might get 2 or 3 more, hahaha




Happy Headbands


This is a seed I got from my Blackjack, not sure if it will be straight Blackjack or will have something of the Headband in it (which seems to have been sticking its strange genetics into a lot of thing, hoho.)


I quite liked this shot, looks almost darkish (it's not, believe me!)


Cola from Oscar


Lettuce and parsley: BTW, everything I grow in my greenhouse is generally grown in recycled coco from my MJ girls.


Oscr clone mark II


Looks like i am getting a bit of bud rot on my Happy Headbands outside...just on this bud though...think I'll just snip it off and start praying...I am not even religious but I am doing lots of praying at the moment.


Another cola (without any rot)


Hold on, someone stole all my plants......oh no, that bit's still empty!!! hopefully not for long.


BX2 Cheese screen


Thelma seed MarkI


And that is for the update. Comments, questions, remarks are welcome.

Peace out,

DST

http://www.hydroponics-hydroponics.com/pd-plant-vitality.cfm
this is the stuff I use and its mavalouse

mr west said:

http://www.hydroponics-hydroponics.com/pd-plant-vitality.cfm
this is the stuff I use and its mavalouse

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Sounds and looks the biz Mr West. Will see if anyone stocks it over here and if not I'll be taking you up on the offer.

DST said:

Sounds and looks the biz Mr West. Will see if anyone stocks it over here and if not I'll be taking you up on the offer.

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no problems D mate. I forgot to mention fucking wow on the cali o heedban. Fucking rot got some of my last harvest so i know how ya feel Loving the dpq, looks so alive inside, u gonna clone this one? I do have a small selection of dpp x dpq two diff phenos lol, gonna wait i think till i plant them tho i do want to get some popped to see the crack.

Your updates are always awesome D mate. My strawberrys stopped flowering almost 2 months ago they are still alive though. Whats the deal with the law in the Netherlands? I say that coz you've got so many plants on the go. Your house has got a better selection than a coffee shop lol

mr west said:

no problems D mate. I forgot to mention fucking wow on the cali o heedban. Fucking rot got some of my last harvest so i know how ya feel Loving the dpq, looks so alive inside, u gonna clone this one? I do have a small selection of dpp x dpq two diff phenos lol, gonna wait i think till i plant them tho i do want to get some popped to see the crack.

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Will def takes cuts of the 2 DPQ's in the next couple of days...not letting that go again. (Hoping for a male and female)

oscaroscar said:

Your updates are always awesome D mate. My strawberrys stopped flowering almost 2 months ago they are still alive though. Whats the deal with the law in the Netherlands? I say that coz you've got so many plants on the go. Your house has got a better selection than a coffee shop lol

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Thanks Oscar. The strawberries are a mystery. I have only had a handfull of strawbs from them, but really really nice. Who knows what'll happen.

My outdoor is legal that's about all I can say...sssh for the rest.

I enjoyed the trip thru your lovely, healthy garden. Your hard work is easily visable thru your wonderful pictures. Thanks for the tour.


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What a great update D...Everything ship shape lad!!!!