Buds drying while still on plant..

[bankcee]

soo I was planning on harvesting this weekend and I went outside to notice that my buds are all wilting and drying up.. I inspected and found cats on two of my plants. I'm assuming the buds that are drying up are all from them sacking everything out of them.. they seems to enjoy burrowing in the stems and doing nasty thing like that.. not to mention shit everywhere.

so at this point is there anything I can do. the plants smell good, buds look good, but feel dry and the wilting is not so pretty. lol

I had read if you find 1 cat expect there to be several.

so any suggestion? all the buds are dry on the very tips. and a lot of the sugar leaves are browning and dying off.

 

[Alienwidow]

Cut em down and hang em upside down. Cut of all the caterpillar damage.

 

[bankcee]

and for any damage I don't find? do I do a deeper inspection afterwards? idk if all the buds are dry because of the cats. no signs of mold or bud rot yet but there was shit.. so just wherever there is shit cut it out? cause all the buds are drying..

 

[Lord Kanti]

I washed my buds and a couple caterpillars came out. Dried without issue.

 

[bankcee]

I washed my buds and a couple caterpillars came out. Dried without issue.

washed? what do you mean? and how did you dry them? how was the environment?

 

[koda7225]

washed? what do you mean? and how did you dry them? how was the environment?

H2o2 bath.......go to you tube and type in jorge cervantes washing away powerdy mildew....

 

[bankcee]

H2o2 bath.......go to you tube and type in jorge cervantes washing away powerdy mildew....

for caterpillars? and dried up buds?

 

[Jimmy Sparkle]

Cut em down and hang them. Caterpillars only live on living plant tissue. Once they have sucked up all the juice from your plants they will move on or die so you don't have to worry about missing some. The buds that are dry and shriveled are done there isn't really any way to "fix" that. smoke them and cut your losses

 

[bankcee]

Cut em down and hang them. Caterpillars only live on living plant tissue. Once they have sucked up all the juice from your plants they will move on or die so you don't have to worry about missing some. The buds that are dry and shriveled are done there isn't really any way to "fix" that. smoke them and cut your losses

what about the buds with shit on them?

 

[Jimmy Sparkle]

what about the buds with shit on them?

Caterpillar shit should just be able to be plucked off right? I mean that's all I ever did to any buds that were growing outside and got beat up by caterpillars. Unless it's runny, then you may need to cut it out. However, there shouldn't be any "inside" the bud. You know, deep down in there.

 

[bankcee]

Caterpillar shit should just be able to be plucked off right? I mean that's all I ever did to any buds that were growing outside and got beat up by caterpillars. Unless it's runny, then you may need to cut it out. However, there shouldn't be any "inside" the bud. You know, deep down in there.

I did my best too look cut out what I noticed had shit was really spreading the buds open to inspect but yeah.. those fucking cats dried up my whole plant. it's chopped down and hanging right now I'm drying it outdoor though don't wanna spread mold spores to my good buds drying.. if mold occurs of course from the shit.

 

[Jimmy Sparkle]

I did my best too look cut out what I noticed had shit was really spreading the buds open to inspect but yeah.. those fucking cats dried up my whole plant. it's chopped down and hanging right now I'm drying it outdoor though don't wanna spread mold spores to my good buds drying.. if mold occurs of course from the shit.

That's a good safeguard , I don't think you will have that problem but better safe than sorry

 

[Lord Kanti]

washed? what do you mean? and how did you dry them? how was the environment?

Some dude on here posted his wash technique recently.

Filtered water, with a touch of baking soda and vinegar. Rinse. Hang.

Save rinse water for hash filtration.

 

[bankcee]

That's a good safeguard , I don't think you will have that problem but better safe than sorry

yeah will see. so you think the buds could be any good?

 

[Resinhound]

Some dude on here posted his wash technique recently.

Filtered water, with a touch of baking soda and vinegar. Rinse. Hang.

Save rinse water for hash filtration.

im just curious what his reasoning was.

 

[bankcee]

so anyone think the buds can be used?

 

[hotrodharley]

so anyone think the buds can be used?

Hell yes! Think of how much bug shit and everything you have smoked with street weed, homie. Get real. Jimmy Sparkle told you how to go about it.

 

[Lord Kanti]

Some dude on here posted his wash technique recently.

Filtered water, with a touch of baking soda and vinegar. Rinse. Hang.

im just curious what his reasoning was.

A clean smoke. I haven't sampled it yet, but it looked a lot better after wash and dry.