Today I bring you a cup full of 1500 ladybugs that will happily eat up some fungus knats that have been trying to squat in my small plants pots.
Fungus knats can really mess up your roots quick if left untreated. In my big soil beds I already have nematodes & predatory mite populations established so I don’t get any knat problems, but my small pots don’t have the same biological defenders working for them & the knats are trying to set up shop. I will be transplanting my plants in pots soon into beds with more protection but I wanted a little extra defense.
Ladybugs are cheap at $9 per 1500 & they are effective against a lot of bugs I don’t want. Plus the house spiders love to eat them & I love seeing them crawling around my plants!
Little game of tag in their new home
Pretty sure this is the bad boy of the bunch. He went straight for the razor blade
& unfortunately some ladybugs were doa but something will eat them up & poop them out to feed my plants so still organic food
A little side view action, these are ayahuasca purples & a couple blueberry cbds in this bed.
Delhi friends in the foreground here
Purple & blueberry cbd scrog canopy looking much healthier after organic amendment top dressing & a few compost teas. Gonna drop about 6 more cups of worm castings on top tomorrow
& I wanted to include this last photo to show the crazy kind of fractal growth u get from monster cropping (cloning during flower)
I topped this plant zero times. Last time I grew her I topped her once & had 2% of the shoots. Monster cropping can be very useful if u want a ton of tops, but you have to really manage the bush!
That’s it for now, enjoy your weekend & smoke some good weed for me!