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Catching Up with Shaping Fire

Catching Up with Shaping Fire

Aug 14, 2025

We’ve been catching up with our friend, Shango Los, @shapingfire on Instagram. He gave Natural Enemies a nice shout out a few weeks ago. It seems that our Entomite Stratiolaelaps scimitus is “like adding 1000+ crew members to the cultivation team.” This predator eats eggs, larvae, and pupae of fungus gnats and thrips, scouring every nook and cranny to ensure no pest pressure is building up. He appreciates not having to worry about pests or about spraying during flower, or anytime. “It has greatly improved the fun factor of cultivating by removing one of the biggest hassles.” Glad we could take the fun out of fungus gnats and put it back where it belongs.

Shango posted an interesting photo of a cannabis plant that doesn’t look like a cannabis plant. It looks more like a giant flat leaf parsley. Banksia Tar Kush v2 expresses the Australian B*stard (ABC) leaf structure and according to his post, “the story behind these genetics is quite enjoyable to research.”

There’s a new episode (#123) of the Shaping Fire podcast out now: The First Five Minutes: Cannabis And Your Body with guest Elizabeth Thompson PhD. In this episode Shango chats with neuropharmacologist and physiologist Dr. Elizabeth Thompson about the cascade of body systems that light up in the first minute of using cannabis, how each system tells a story about the experience of getting high, and how you can use this understanding for your own health and wellness.

Dibox for the win! Shango was stoked a few years back when @KoppertUS included Diboxes with his Chrysopa (Chrysoperla carnea, AKA lacewings) order. You simply put the product in there and the predators hatch in the box, then crawl onto the plants and get to work. If you’ve ever tapped these creatures out onto your crop canopy you can relate to this newer no mess, no fuss application method.

Another @shapingfire photo caught our eye. It’s a lush grouping of 15 cannabis plants that forms an impressive rounded mound. If you read the accompanying story you’ll find that it’s also a work in progress, utilizing microbial compost tea to even out the plants’ nutrition.

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