I’ve had all them and the host of other things… feel lucky your not in the tropics like me it sounds nice but its farmers nightmare… I have every pest in the canabis world in abundance here south Florida is redicules …I have had root aphids , green aphids thrips white fly fungus gnats spidermites …wpm …botritus… FML lol
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Thats what predators are for , ear wigs,rollie pollies, centipedes, millipedes ect take care of the root zone.
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I found earwigs in my living soil beds as well as some very fast moving mites. I did not introduce them so they must have came from the compost.
I might need to add some Rollie pollies, they eat our strawberries outside. @hoppiebunny do you know what pests they eat?
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Larvae of most pests I believe or eggs, basically I think they eat the defenseless
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You are correct! And outdoors they are free and typically abundant.
They eat fruit, like peppers, strawberries… ruin crops earwigs are bad juju… be rid of them by any means possible.
That’s a matter of opinion, easy to keep them fed indoors they won’t bother stuff if they have food, easy to trap and kill if they get out of hand as well
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That’s why living soil requires more effort and know how to get things tuned up inside, the farmer is responsible for almost every detail where outdoors mother nature does most of the work.but like anything you only get back what you put in, you want AAAA it’s grown indoors where it’s sunny and perfect rh and temp ratios every single day, and living soil is probably the shelf with the blingy bling gotta love that bio char!!
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Got a question on strains and tight node spacing and what to do next do you have a sec to lend your expertise?
You know me Frog… Im lazy and I want nature to do all the work 
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I’ll try my best I’m in the middle of some work but I’ll get back as soon as I can, what were you wondering?
Hopping on to watch - better late than never. Hope that’s cool with you @Hoppiefrog? 
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Yes node spacing on certain strains are naturally tight I turned my lights all the way down and raised it to help stretch but would mainlining be best training to correct the problem
You can always prune every second node if you think your running too tight honestly i have never felt that was a unmanageable issue unless its a mold prone strain.not a fan of mainline imo best for a stealth grow say in a cabinet ect
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Will give it a go
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Best of luck dont forget to sterilize before pruning
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