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DF Kratky Experiment Glog

stc3248 said:
Keep the plants submerged completely in water for a couple hours...
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I did this a couple times a week for about a month. I also sprayed them in the kitchen sink every time. That and the constant smashing them when I saw them, seems to have worked for me. I hope your luck turns around. Believe me, I know how maddening it can be to deal with aphids. I don't know if anyone suggested it yet but you can also try diatomaceous earth as well and see if that has any effect on them.
 
Mr. West said:
Oh no! You gotta be kidding. It's like a bad movie.
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LOL yup.
 
Ive tried the DE beore, I think I will do it again and add it to the top of the soil.
Gona spray everything with Neem, just nasty stuff.
 
dragonsfire said:
%uckers are back  :evil:
 
Dont know how, gave them another spray.
 
Should actually dip the whole thing into a Neem solution. I started spraying the soils too when I planted the other stuff.
 
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Do you have your plants where you can close them off from the rest of your house? If so you may be able to try this stuff that they are using in the U.K.. I think I remember Heefy (he is a member on THP)from there using it or something similar in his poly tunnel when he had bad bug problems. I somewhat remember him saying it did not harm the plants. Here is the link: https://www.greengardener.co.uk/garlic-greenhouse-candles.html
 
Man, this has to be frustrating beyond belief.  At least you'll be able to neem them quick this time before their numbers multiply.
 
And +1 on spraying the bulk of them off the plants first in the shower or sink. Also, though you're probably doing it already, spraying up from underneath the leaves and especially a good volume of spray directly down into the new growth areas where the new little leaves are all bunched together.  They seem to love to wedge themselves down in there and, I assume, feed off the tender newly developing leaves.
 
Yup under and over. I have them in the kitchen, the rest of my stuff I started is in the basement. I sprayed the ones in the basement too this morning just in case. I assume my top floor contaminated. Neem works so will stick with that.
Took four days to kill them last time, think will double the dosage to 1tbsp/L next.
Should put a camera to it and watch it all the time lol.
 
 
Good luck man! I'm back in the same boat. I left town for two weeks and came back to all of my plants coated in aphids. I thought I had them beat two months ago but I guess I was wrong.
 
Wish I had taken pictures of them before I delt with them. I washed the Kratky plants in the shower and went though all my seedlings with double stick tape to pick off the bastards before I had even unpacked my bags.
 
The last two years Ive brought my pepper plants into the house from outside Ive had issues with aphids. I tried alcohol, soap, blasting them with the hose outside daily, asking them to leave without any luck. I tried some aphid incecticide and all it managed to do was make my house reek of fish oil. I even was seriously considering letting lose a colony of lady bugs inside my house but realized I was being ridiculous. Both years ended in my tossing my pepper plants. Good luck.
 
I played with the Kratky method with herbs, and I had issues with algae once I introduced nutrients. I knew it would probably happen, and I warped the mason jars in painters tape, fully aware that the tape wouldnt do the best job at blocking out the light, but I didnt feel like painting them black. Im skeptical this method is all that viable for keeping plants like peppers long term, so it didnt really appeal to me for pepper plants. I will say though, as someone who for the longest time was against the hassle of hydroponics, after seeing the results of the Kratky method with basil, its definitely changed the way I view hydroponics, and Im now in the process of building an aeroponic system, but my intention is not to grow fruit with this setup, but to instead use it primarily to keep mother plants to clone my pepper army.
 
I think the Kratky method is probably a pretty good method of propagating clones, but I think an aeroponic bucket would work even better, and be a lot easier to maintain.
 
Thanks for your insight.
Once I use the large puckets (7gall) I will introduce a air stone, it does speed up the growth. So far only one jar had Algae in all Ive done, still dont have sleeves for them. Also sleeves dont allow seeing what the water levels are at.
 
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