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Tonight's conversation is a slimey one haha Let's Discuss Worms! Worms are a crucial component in a health living organic soil. Worms are great for naturally tilling the soil, eating and digesting organic materials to make them into plant available food, producing enzymes from there slime to stimulate growth and even more! Oh and don't forget worm castings are a important part of living organic soil indoor or outdoor. So having worms in your soils constantly creating more worm castings and worm cacoons is really beneficial. Now along with the many other things worms do for your soil health they also can help spread benifical micro organisms and fungi to help with the overall health of your soil life! In addition to having them added to your soils to improve soil tilth. You should also look into vermicompost and using worms to help create some of the most amazing compost for your garden that's very microbially active and nutritionally rich! But that's a whole nother topic. When you are mulching and creating a decomposition layer the worms are your friends they help to speed up the decomposition process because when they eat the organic material enzymes from there slime also help break down the organic matter! Worms are amazing organic processors and can really benefit your garden, so I'd really recommend taking the time to dig into this a little more yourself I can't cover all the uses and benefits of worms but I can at least point you in the right direction. If nothing else at least look more into vermicompost and work to implement that it is extremely beneficial and I need to get some going myself now that I'm back to growing again. Maybe I'll share on this post later how to set up a cheap vermicompost set up! Thanks to all of you who read this thread if there is anything I can do to help improve the information in this thread please let me know thanks!

No problem hope that helps ya out it, they don't typically do a ton of damage but they can definitely get out of hand

No they definitely eat your plants some people think there good cuz they do look like lady bugs usually in the Oregon area but when they get up in population size they can really do some damage to your foliage. As far as those go I'd recommend peppermint broners and neem oil sprays every 72 hours and just watch for them and pick them off the plant and kill them if you see them but the neem can help interrupt there reproduction and help reduce numbers as well as being generally distasteful to bugs

Look for these on the plants

Could potentially be from little cucumber beetles to they look like lady bugs but there green in color usually or yellow but those can cause this kinda damage to

Another look at the flowering cycle setting in on the Hell's Angel OG

Almost looks like catipiler damage to me have you seen any catipilers in the area? Even the real small green ones

The Jurassic pheno as I'm calling it is now 3 feet tall from the base of it's stem! (Huckleberry Kush x Pinetar Kush)

The Hell's angel OG canopy is really developing now filling out the trellis?

We shall see hahaha who knows definitely has the potential, with basically blue Magoo, afgani and Pakistani in it's genetics it's definitely gonna be some killer pain relief meds but I'm hoping to see some nice colas

Yeah I expect by the 19th or 20th all the plants should be showing sex and starting to flower, and I scrogged the Hell's Angel OG more out of necessity because OGs don't usually get big thick stems so branches don't support themselves very well without using something like a trellis, none of the seedlings will be under a trellis there just growing naturally and untopped to see how they express

Here's the first tiny signs of flowering on the Hell's Angel

Here's a video of the training I've done on the Hell's Angel OG to create a nice full canopy!

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I get direct full sun from about 9am-4pm so only about 7 hours of full sun but they have pretty good light starting in the area at around 730am and fades out at around 6pm but they just barely started to flower and mostly the hell's angel OG the seedlings aren't flowering yet