Closet grow. First time. Advice appreciated!

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Definitely not pre flowers at this stage.

 

bit to young yet ,,but you can can see new side shoots beginning to grow ...mac,

 

Treated the SOIL with Neem Oil??? For gnats/soil, Neem Cake is what you want to use.

Should never use any oils in your soil, they’re for foliar spraying only. Also you need to emulsify Neem oil before you can spray it safely too. Otherwise you’ll have leaf damage where globs of oil landed and burned the plant when the lights come back on.



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Never used neem in my life!! Dr Zymes if u have bugs in soil

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I don’t think so but you’re good! You’ll get some good traffic here as well!

 

It's the membrane from inside the shell. Just mist it with water to soften it and remove it gently with a toothpick or something.

 

IME Neem Oil is only effective when it’s 100% pure cold pressed. Check out www.neemresource.com can get Pure Neem Oil and Neem Cake.

Having a regularly scheduled time to spray your plants is very important in the IPM program. It varies grower to grower and conditions. I spray Monday & Thursday in Veg, regardless if I see any or not, pests never take a break and that means you can't either.

Foiler sprays
For IPM (every 3 days.)
Per 1 gal of water add:
1 tablespoon Neem Oil
2 teaspoons Silica
OR
1 teaspoon Yucca Extract with 1/4th tsp Silica.

Extras:
1/4 cup Aloe Vera juice

Stir Neem Oil and Silica or Yucca in a shot-glass with a bamboo kabob stick (the flat end) until the oil changes color and opacity. Turns a creamy color. If you have a blender, you can get a much better emulsification.
Mix that in 1 gallon 80F water with the Yucca Extract for its surfactant compounds (saponins) and stir thoroughly.
Use all of it, do not store.


For washing dust off plants or general spray. For a better plant tonic spray increase the Aloe Vera to .5-1 tsp.
Per 1 gal of water add;
1/2 tsp Silica powder
1/4 tsp Aloe Vera freeze dried flakes or 1/4 cup of fresh blended Aloe Vera Spears.
1 tsp Ful-Power (Humic acid.)

You need to spray at 'lights out''. This is because both the fungicide and insecticide compounds degrade quickly in strong light. By letting the material remain on the leaves in the dark you will greatly enhance the efficiency.

If you're trying to eradicate Spider mites you must apply every 2-3 days until you have completed 4 applications. 4 is the number required to break the adult-egg-larva cycle. But that doesn't mean you should stop spraying, if you miss just one leaf they will keep spreading. I find it best to keep spraying until you are into flower.

Neem Oil does work, but the way it works is different from other insecticides. Neem is not an instant, knock down, kill everything pesticide.
Neem oil has many complex active ingredients. Rather than being simple poisons, those ingredients are similar to the hormones that insects produce. Insects take up the neem oil ingredients just like natural hormones.
Neem enters the system and blocks the real hormones from working properly. Insects "forget" to eat, to mate, or they stop laying eggs. Some forget that they can fly. If eggs are produced they don't hatch, or the larvae don't molt.
Obviously insects that are too confused to eat or breed will not survive. The population eventually plummets, and they disappear. The cycle is broken.
How precisely it works is difficult for scientists to find out. There are too many different active substances in neem oil, and every insect species reacts differently to neem insecticide.
Neem oil does not hurt beneficial insects. Only chewing and sucking insects are affected. Neem stops insects from eating the plants.
Part of this action is due to to the hormone like action of neem oil that I explained above. Insects "forget" to eat after they've been in contact with even traces of neem oil.
But it is also the presence, the mere hint of a smell of neem oil, that seems to be enough to keep leaf eating insects away. Neem oil can be very powerful as an anti-feedant and insect repellent.
This anti-feedant property is one of the most often advertised and lauded properties of neem oil insecticide. However, the hormonal effects I described above are even stronger.
Neem oil as an insect deterrent works well against grasshoppers and leafhoppers, but all other insect pests are controlled mostly through the hormone action. The hormonal effect is where the real power of neem oil lies. It's the key to neem oil being an effective insecticide and good for the environment at the same time. It's also important to understand this effect to use neem oil insecticide correctly.
The subtlety of the hormonal effects, and the fact that they may take days or weeks to manifest, makes people overlook them. Ill informed gardeners seek instant gratification, i.e. lots of dead insects immediately, rather than a balanced environment in the long run.

 

Unfortunately, once you get spider mites, they’ll always be there, hiding in the soil, or other tiny places. Spraying only handles the pests that are on the plant itself when spraying. You’ll need to buy predators for flower when you can’t spray.


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You seen this stuff yet?

 

I haven’t seen that before.
I can’t find a picture of the back of the bottle. But they mention Thyme Essential Oil. Their other product Mam P is 97% water, 2% Alfalfa, 1% microbes. If a product is mostly water, it’s a waste of your time and hard earned money.

Alfalfa meal provides many nutritional benefits for both plants and soil organisms, one important benefit is it increases plants tolerance to cold. With a typical NPK analysis 3-1-2 alfalfa is very high in N, vitamins and trace minerals, it also includes sugars, starches, proteins, fiber, 16 amino acids and the plant growth hormone tricontanol. VAM ENDO-Mix has all the microbiology without the fillers.

Sorry off topic, lol, but back to Essential Oils, you can buy EO’s online (Food Grade). They’re a lot of studies on this, I personally use Peppermint EO (SUPER TOXIC to mites.) Spike Lavender EO, Etc. It would prolly be waaaaay cheaper to buy some EO’s and use them at 1-2 tsp per gal, emulsified like Neem Oil. With a surfactant like Yucca, Aloe, Soap nuts, etc.

Essential Oils as Green Pesticide:

Essential oil constituents are primarily lipophilic compounds that act as toxins, feeding deterrents and oviposition deterrents to a wide variety of insect-pests. In fact, pesticides derived from plant essential oils do have several important benefits. Due to their volatile nature, there is a much lower level of risk to the environment than with current synthetic pesticides. Predator, parasitoid and pollinator insect populations will be less impacted because of the minimal residual activity, making essential-oil-based pesticides compatible with integrated pest management programs. There are several examples of essential oils like that of rose (Rosa damascene), patchouli (Pogostemon patchouli), sandalwood (Santalum album), lavender (Lavendula officinalis), geranium (Pelargonium graveolens), etc. that are well known in perfumery and fragrance industry. Other essential oils such as lemon grass (Cimbopogon winteriana), Eulcalyptus globulus, rosemary (Rosemarinus officinalis), vetiver (Vetiveria zizanoides), clove (Eugenia caryophyllus) and thyme (Thymus vulgaris) are known for their pest control properties. While peppermint (Mentha piperita) repels ants, flies, lice and moths; pennyroyal (Mentha pulegium) wards off fleas, ants, lice, mosquitoes, ticks and moths. Spearmint (Mentha spicata) and basil (Ocimum basilicum) are also effective in warding off flies. Similarly, essential oil bearing plants like Artemesia vulgaris, Melaleuca leucadendron, Pelargonium ros- eum, Lavandula angustifolia, Mentha piperita, and Juniperus virginiana are also effective against various insects and fungal pathogens (Kordali et al., 2005).


Citronella (Cymbopogon nardus) essential oil has been used for over fifty years both as an insect repellent and an animal repellent. Combining few drops each of citronella, lemon (Citrus limon), rose (Rosa damascena), lavender and basil essential oils with one liter of distilled water is effective to ward off indoor insect pests. The larvicidal activity of citronella oil has been mainly attributed to its major monoterpenic constituent citronellal (Zaridah et al., 2003).

 

Well shit that’s good info!!

 

Take a razor an slit the duck bill. Spray with water get it wet. Take ur fingers and gently hold stem when u operate

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