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Re: Pics of my garden [Re: musiclover420]
    #22582674 - 11/27/15 02:38 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

Like I said the guy I get my seeds from is a wonderful grower with amazing plants so I try to mimic what he does and I make the same soil mix as he does. While I'm not opposed to trying new things, I think if I could find that fox farm stuff I would be able to find worm castings. All the hydroshops close by closed down except one that's in a headshop and is catered towards gunjah and is super expensive. I shall go on a hunt tomorrow and depending on what I find first I will either get some organic worm castings and mix up my own soil or I will just get something nice like that fox farm stuff. Thanks for the suggestions! I would not have such nice little babies if I didn't have a place like shroomery where there are so many friendly people willing to help.


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Re: Pics of my garden [Re: jellyfish]
    #22582750 - 11/27/15 02:55 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

All your cacti definitely look healthy so I am sure you have been taking good care of em, just wanted to make sure you knew lophs take much less water than trichs.

I have some trichs in similiar soil heavy mixes that are doing great, I think they even prefer it over more dessert like mixes with less nutrients.

Lophs like to stay pretty dry for long periods though, I have noticed younger ones prefer more regular moisture than established plants.

Have you checked ebay for worm castings? I was going to buy some awhile back and looked around online and saw some pretty good deals I believe.

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I would not have such nice little babies if I didn't have a place like shroomery where there are so many friendly people willing to help.




I second you on that, I love the community here. So much good info and helpful people!


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Re: Pics of my garden [Re: musiclover420]
    #22582834 - 11/27/15 03:13 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

Found a store in my area with fox farm products and worm castings so I'll be heading there tomorrow.


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Re: Pics of my garden [Re: jellyfish]
    #22582920 - 11/27/15 03:33 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

:greenthumb:

Local stuff is always nice, I don't have a car so I have to stick with stuff super close by or find it online usually :lol:


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Re: Pics of my garden [Re: jellyfish]
    #22584728 - 11/28/15 01:33 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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Some new pics!

A couple of my peyotes have some white powdery stuff going on. Not sure what it is but it's making me sad.






That looks suspiciously like red spider mite damage. Acti quickly or it will take over your collection.


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Re: Pics of my garden [Re: LSoares]
    #22585691 - 11/28/15 10:16 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

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Some new pics!

A couple of my peyotes have some white powdery stuff going on. Not sure what it is but it's making me sad.






That looks suspiciously like red spider mite damage. Acti quickly or it will take over your collection.




To compare here is a pic when posted recently showing past spidermite damage:

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This little old guy less than 1 3/4" wide, growing out old rsm scars owning a "fuck you spidermites" attitude
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Does look very similar.

Separate those lophs from all the other seedlings and spray everything.


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Re: Pics of my garden [Re: cactamateur]
    #22589595 - 11/29/15 09:45 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

How far would I separate them by I dunno how I'd quarantine them beside putting them outside and watching them die of frost. Also what to spray with? I hear soap based insecticide fucks cacti up by removing the layer of wax they have that prevents them from losing water through evaporation. I have some pyrethrin shit. How small are spider mites. Will I be able to see them with a magnifying glass? I had a really big loph once that was like 4 inches in diameter and mites ate it to death. I don't remember if I could visibly see them though.


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Re: Pics of my garden [Re: jellyfish]
    #22589670 - 11/29/15 10:19 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

Maybe look into neem oil, not positive but that could help.

One easy way to "isolate" it could be making a makeshift humidity chamber. I have some from plastic jugs I cut the tops off of and covered with cling wrap :lol:

Or if you have any old aquariums or similiar glass objects they can make great chambers as well.

Could work decently, I use them for grafts mainly but I imagine they could isolate plants fairly well.


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Re: Pics of my garden [Re: musiclover420]
    #22589945 - 11/29/15 11:36 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

Don't bother trying to separate them, the mites are already everywhere. They are dust speck sized and red, possibly orangey or yellowish. You could see them with a magnifying glass, but probably not good enough to see the mitey features (8 legs, sucker proboscis, etc.).

Neem oil or rosemary oil are good choices, but just spraying the plants heavily (at the time of watering, for example) will greatly reduce the mite population until you find a way to kill them. Mites thrive in hot and dry conditions.


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Re: Pics of my garden [Re: LSoares]
    #22591809 - 11/29/15 06:42 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

I just got done with a round of amber-colored mite infestation, that ONLY attacked my plumerias (thank god), But got them under control. I ended up using Tobacco-tea to do it. Granted, it was not on cacti. .but It worked. the tobacco I used, was some of my own homegorwn Nicotinia Rustica. It took a few weeks. but they are gone. . and have not traveled to other plants. I have only ever had a Red spider mite problem once and it was an attack on cannabis plant. It was so bad, I lost the girlscout cookies strain I had :frown:

Maybe some year I will get a good cannabis grow. I dream of some day growing some Shiva Shanti strain. I was fortunate enough to try that strain, and have been trying to get it.

Anyway, I am getting away from my point, which is that for some plants Nicotinia can be a good tool in your pesticide tool box. This next season I am going to be growing the red flowered and white flowered Pyrethrum Chrysanthemums for pest control as well. I wish you luck with the mites. Kill them.. Kill them ALL. . Show them No mercy, because they will not show your plants any.


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Re: Pics of my garden [Re: kizatzhaddarak]
    #22594214 - 11/30/15 11:18 AM (8 years, 2 months ago)

Could that be what's fucking up my peres too? Also isn't it weird that only a couple of the plants have scarring?


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Re: Pics of my garden [Re: jellyfish]
    #22594969 - 11/30/15 02:31 PM (8 years, 2 months ago)

I've never had Peres attacked by RSM, but I see no reason for it not to happen. And having some plants completely overrun by the little f*****s while the ones next to them are left untouched is just the way it is...


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Re: Pics of my garden [Re: LSoares]
    #22596735 - 11/30/15 09:55 PM (8 years, 1 month ago)

Mites are malicious.. and cut-throat. They will travel. They will get in soil. That's why I use nicotine to get rid of them. I see no reason why they wouldn't attack a Peres. I agree with L' , there totally on that one. They will go after everything. They can lay dormant inside a house for months. Or, when cold weather happens they come inside looking for leafy or green foods and a nice place that's warm for the winter. They come inside on pots that have been outside for overwintering. Many people just create their own mite issues by bringing their plants inside, themselves not knowing it. It can't be helped at times. Dealing with them is tricky. We all have different ways in that respect. I like anti-bug herb tea sprays and pot-waterings. Hot Chili pepper, Mace, Garlic  was one recipe , Skoal - or snuff tobacco or cigar is another. And then there is Pyrethrum.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrethrum


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Re: Pics of my garden [Re: kizatzhaddarak]
    #22597028 - 11/30/15 11:02 PM (8 years, 1 month ago)

How do you use your nicotine?  I've been thinking of soaking a shitty cigar in water for a while then spraying that shit on some of my plants.  Or do you use it as a systemic?  I've gone heavy with neem and pyrethrins both topically and systemically and gotten the mites down to only attacking a few of my weaker plants, but it's a battle of attrition that's just costing me too much time and energy.  I'd like to kill the bastards off at least until next year when the plants go outside again and catch crabs all over again. 
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Seems like mites are only are a problem in my heated growroom in fall and spring.  All my dormant plants are fine.  Guess they don't like the cold.  :shrug:


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Re: Pics of my garden [Re: P.Zappatecorum]
    #22597656 - 12/01/15 02:49 AM (8 years, 1 month ago)

Yes, mites have definite "seasons". It is, I believe, unlikely that we can get rid of them altogether because they can and will survive in places we cannot get to. Spraying chemicals, even safe and harmless oils and nicotine infusions, is time-consuming and mildly guilt-inducing. I am currently looking into predatory mites to resort to right now (we have mild winters) and when spring comes. Like P.Zap, I find early spring and late summer / early autumn to be the critical times, and by getting my timing right I believe I can cut their numbers down enough so they don't have these surges. I will keep you posted on this, but on the meantime you can try looking into biological control. Here in Europe Syngenta has some solutions, I don't know if they operate in the US.


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Re: Pics of my garden [Re: LSoares]
    #22598170 - 12/01/15 08:47 AM (8 years, 1 month ago)

I do topical sprays of a basic tea. of cigar, and or snuff/dipping tobbaco. Yeah// break the cigar in half and simmer it in water. strain it. etc.  I also go the Systemic route for tea for (watering the infected pots, drowning the mites in nicotine water, to get the ones in soil and roots).

As you say it is a war of attrition. You can even Bug bomb your house, and they STILL will F-ing come back.. My husband and I had to do that a while ago then the neighborhood squirrels brought fleas to my dog. We bug bombed the whole house. and then moved plants back in, etc.. and sure enough mites came back. (maybe from attic, who knows). you can try to get rid of them.. but yeah.

It can be costly to deal with them but if you have the space, try growing your own tobacco and or chrysanthemums.

I do want to urge caution when using tobacco-tea. especially if you use commercial tobaccos. Commercial tobaccos can sometimes be infected with the tobacco mosaic virus. This virus can pass to other plants in the Solanaceae family. I'd be very careful using it on Brugmansia, tomato, potato, naranjillo, pepino-melon.. etc.


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Re: Pics of my garden [Re: kizatzhaddarak]
    #22618833 - 12/05/15 09:04 PM (8 years, 1 month ago)

Still haven't dealt with the issue. Going to spend time with them tomorrow. Still only got pyrethrin. Thing that's weird is the peyote that's gone the whitest also has white on the soil, which is why I originally thought it was mould. Going to move or throw out the scarred ones and then keep a close eye on the garden. They're so small and kept indoors I can't really spray them down. I also see no web material. Does anyone know if pyrethrin is safe on peyote? I have heard soap based insecticides are bad but I dunno about this stuff.


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Re: Pics of my garden [Re: jellyfish]
    #22652325 - 12/13/15 10:55 PM (8 years, 1 month ago)

So I have some new salvia plants:



My peyote seedlings aren't looking any worse. No additional scarring. I am going to try some grafts tomorrow. Any last minute advice you guys can provide? Both the pereskiopsis and the peyotes are due for a watering. Should I water them now? Or should I do the grafts with them a bit thirsty? I'm going to use parafilm to try to hold the grafts down. If you've seen the pics of my pere plants and peyote seedlings, you know what I'm dealing with. I have a scalpel handle with a razor blade on the end to make nice clean cuts. Should they be put in a humidity dome after? Every time I take cuttings it doesn't work and I get really sad about cutting up my babies.

Do the san pedro plants I have look too thick to have one of my peyote babies grafted to them?

I am just going to cut the peres top off and cut the top off a peyote and try to sort of overlap the vascular rings and then stretch some parafilm over the graft to apply pressure. Then I will or will not place them in some sort of humidity chamber or put a bag over them and mist it or something depending on what you say.


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Re: Pics of my garden [Re: jellyfish]
    #22652483 - 12/14/15 12:03 AM (8 years, 1 month ago)

I would water then wait a few days before grafting. You'll often get a bit of push out "or hill" on the tip of the peres if cut dry then watered plus the more moisture abundant in the scion the better :super:


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Re: Pics of my garden [Re: jellyfish]
    #22654222 - 12/14/15 02:36 PM (8 years, 1 month ago)

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jellyfish said: Then I will or will not place them in some sort of humidity chamber or put a bag over them and mist it or something depending on what you say.




I tried the parafilm route myself and didn't have much success with it for seedlings. Many people seem to though. I found what works best for me was just putting them into a large plastic 'humidity bin'.


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