Well then, a big hello from me too.
I also spent the entire afternoon in the hobby room, really breathing in some CO2.
Yesterday, I still wrote to BioBizz, telling them they should be ashamed of themselves for touting such garbage with full fervor as quality goods.
That, from my experience, I can’t recognize any quality there.
And I’m terribly not sorry to offend some people sometimes.
I read here and there, and fungus gnats, especially from this company, are unfortunately by no means a foreign word, as the forums are full of such topics, but nothing changes.
I don’t get upset about everything, but when it comes to my plants, the fun stops quickly. Months of work and a lot of costs are invested, and I want success, not failures.
I got a quick response this morning. Now they want photos, and they’ll get them from the soil surface, and there’s no overwatering.
Wet looks somehow different.
Now comes the kicker. Due to this occurrence in the thousands and how tiny they are, I don’t think they are even fungus gnats.
Because those never went for vinegar. These do.
Google Lens spit out “Stechmücken,” mosquitoes.
Does anyone know what these could be?
Caught them in vinegar with a drop of dish soap.
Then, under the smaller one, there’s a Drain Master with a tray.
They drowned in the drain 3 days ago. I thought I’d leave it like that because it was such a great lure. They’re drowned!
Fungus gnats are a bit bigger than that.
Since these are probably not fungus gnats, a nematode mix probably won’t help either.
But today I notice that they are becoming fewer, and most are lying dead on the leaves, on the lamp, and on the ground. I’ve been vacuuming them away for three days.
And BioBizz, very easy, please, now only water from below and let the soil dry out first. I can figure that out myself.
But if a plant needs 1 liter of water a day, it’s obvious to even the dumbest that it’s not getting enough and will suffer on its own.
So friends, who knows what kind of scum is in the potting soil???
It could be that because I dissolved Culinex, a mosquito repellent, in the watering water, that’s why they swarmed out of the earth by the thousands, and most were already lying dead directly.
Meanwhile, the plants were too dry, showing deficiencies. The RH was even only 43%. So today I gave each pot one liter of water into the soil and half a liter from below, which was absorbed in no time. It’s good here that the drain openings are covered with coco, but water can flow in and out.
A dead critter was lying on a leaf here, and I blew them all off. Vacuumed everything twice again today.
Quality soil. I feel completely ripped off again.. The problem is only in the small tent. Thank God!
The bag was new and had no holes other than the factory ones, and only 2 pots with this new soil are in the tent, which has, of course, been in use for 6 weeks now.
I can provide them with enough pictorial material and the batch number. If they want it, they’ll get it. The only thing I no longer have is the receipt.
But I don’t want anything from that crap anyway, and nothing for free. It was the first and last time!
But I speak my mind, and rightly so, because quality looks different.
Bubble Gum 2 continues to lag severely; it seems a bit overfed or stressed by the critters. I’ll spray it with ALG-A-Mic right away to relieve stress.
Lady 1 has continued to gain in height and is 54 cm tall today.
Pre-flowers are showing, the scent has gotten stronger. My wife said. My nose isn’t working properly anymore.
But if she says; it smells in here, then it smells!
I will replace the sticky traps soon to better see if the critters are decreasing.
Day 37 today, and by my estimation, it’s flowering day 9, so now the second week of flowering.
Today, Root Juice was omitted, and Top Max and Bio Bloom were added, along with the rest of the treats for the soil microbes.
There’s also a dead flyer in the last picture.
Oh, I’m so glad to be working with Living Soil again soon.
That’s Lady 2. For the rest of the week, it will only get water without nutrients.
Well, sometimes there are good times, because today the last and fourth delivery of seeds and the propagation set arrived.
Three Wedding Cake seeds, one Sour Diesel (I now have 2 of those), and as a freebie, three more Wedding Cake Auto.
I then assembled the little house.
without light
Wonderful, and with the light on. Fits nicely on the shelf.
The propagation pots are absolutely tiny but already pre-filled with soil and root bacteria, which I keep sealed until use so no critters can get in.
Simple and straightforward, and it doesn’t take up much space.
In the propagation temple, I had to check today because the Living Soil here was slowly drying out. The digital Blumat showed 135 Kbar, which indicates dry conditions. Optimal should be 90-110.
The other two sensors were well under 35%. So each pot received 600 ml of water, 200 ml of which was from below. And the ground cover is growing.
A bunch of predatory mites are still running around, and new ones will arrive soon!
Day 13, seedling day 5, the Strawberry is severely lagging.
I’ll probably have to put two crates of beer under it later to keep it at the same height.
The Cookies OG is already taking off nicely.
The Jamaican Pearl is currently in the middle.
The humidity was already lowered to 71-73% yesterday, tomorrow to 70%, and slowly continuing to fall. The light dimmers were turned up to 25% today, and I aim to reach 30% this week.
They should start absorbing more water through their roots now.
Then I wish you all a good evening, and perhaps someone really knows what kind of critters those are with the Autos? They look completely different from fungus gnats and much smaller, as I already suspected.
Best regards from Pflanzenpaule
LST lengthwise 
Hahahaha, that’s a good one. Awesome.
of mine, aren’t you? This small bud is just giving me trouble 
and space
