Yeah! It's Bud Worm Season. Pics

jbcCT

jbcCT

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Bingo. The two most common types are the one in your pic, greenish and an orange version. Single egg snipers. In the morning they will be stuck all over your tops. I actually hand remove them. Knife and paper towel.

There is another type of moth that will lay hundreds of eggs, coating the entire tip of a fan leaf.

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jbcCT

jbcCT

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What I've come to realize in regards to people growing outdoors, some are taking down contaminated product without realizing it. Especially if details like this are overlooked. It's a special flower with nooks and crannies. Needs to be cleaned and disinfected like a piece of fruit. Inspected for quality with a fine tooth comb:bigjoint::blsmoke::hump:

Sorry for the gross worm pics peeps. On a lighter note I got a pack of SGG midnight frost this year, I think it's got DJ Short F13 in there. Supposed to turn black in flower. I dropped half the pack, 6 beans and only got one female but dam it smells so good.

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injinji

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I only saw one bud worm this season. But it was a bad rot year anyway. It rained everyday in July, almost everyday in August and a hell of a lot the first two weeks of September. Now that I have almost everything in the barn, we've had a couple weeks of sunshine. I say it every year, but I'm going to stop growing in the summer. I need to veg my plants until mid August, then they would have a chance to miss most of the rain while in flower.
 
jbcCT

jbcCT

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sdboltdude said:
Monterey BT says you can use it up to the last day of harvest completely organic certified
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I spray right until harvest.

Critical time right now. Last leg of the race. Too late in the game to let those little bastards take any. Spraying every two to three days. This is caterpillar season. Found two dying today. No damage. You want to keep them from getting inside the flower.

Beautiful thing about this product is that it has 0 impact on the bud. Washing outdoor is a must. Couple home depot buckets, peroxide your good.

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sdboltdude

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jbcCT said:
I spray right until harvest.

Critical time right now. Last leg of the race. Too late in the game to let those little bastards take any. Spraying every two to three days. This is caterpillar season. Found two dying today. No damage. You want to keep them from getting inside the flower.

Beautiful thing about this product is that it has 0 impact on the bud. Washing outdoor is a must. Couple home depot buckets, peroxide your good.

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Spraying heavy every 3 days
Not a lot of damage but find a little everyday
 
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GTG

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Found my first caterpillar this morning. Noticed a brown sugar leaf on one bud. Pulled it apart and found the rot. Immediately cut the bud off the branch and dug through it and found a small green caterpillar. It's a purple strain so spotting the rotting sugar leaf wasn't as easy as the green plants but now I know exactly what to look for.

Immediately mixed up some BT and saturated my whole grow and anything around it. Will be hitting heavy with BT until harvest now, every 4 days. Still have about 2 weeks of flower left, maybe more for 2 of my ladies.

Here I have been reading all the caterpillar issues and thinking I skated the issue...nope. I dug through every flower and saw no other caterpillars or signs of rot but will be watching like a hawk.
 

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GTG said:
Found my first caterpillar this morning. Noticed a brown sugar leaf on one bud. Pulled it apart and found the rot. Immediately cut the bud off the branch and dug through it and found a small green caterpillar. It's a purple strain so spotting the rotting sugar leaf wasn't as easy as the green plants but now I know exactly what to look for.

Immediately mixed up some BT and saturated my whole grow and anything around it. Will be hitting heavy with BT until harvest now, every 4 days. Still have about 2 weeks of flower left, maybe more for 2 of my ladies.

Here I have been reading all the caterpillar issues and thinking I skated the issue...nope. I dug through every flower and saw no other caterpillars or signs of rot but will be watching like a hawk.
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I spray Monterey BT every two days
Still find a little bit of Bud rot from the Worm but haven't found worm in days the worms I did find are brown and dead
 
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GTG

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sdboltdude said:
I spray Monterey BT every two days
Still find a little bit of Bud rot from the Worm but haven't found worm in days the worms I did find are brown and dead
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How strong do you mix? The label says 1 tbsp per gallon of water and to apply every 5 to 7 days. I was planning to keep mixing at the 1 tbsp to a gallon but apply every 4 days. I didn't want to hurt my ladies by going too strong or too frequent.
 
sdboltdude

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GTG said:
How strong do you mix? The label says 1 tbsp per gallon of water and to apply every 5 to 7 days. I was planning to keep mixing at the 1 tbsp to a gallon but apply every 4 days. I didn't want to hurt my ladies by going too strong or too frequent.
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I follow the bottle directions haven't had a problem yet still spray every two days
 
jbcCT

jbcCT

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GTG said:
How strong do you mix? The label says 1 tbsp per gallon of water and to apply every 5 to 7 days. I was planning to keep mixing at the 1 tbsp to a gallon but apply every 4 days. I didn't want to hurt my ladies by going too strong or too frequent.
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Just when you think you've sprayed enough......you haven't, spray some more.

The great thing about BT is that it does ZERO damage to your flower.

I'm treating every two/ three days right now as well.
 
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GTG

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jbcCT said:
Just when you think you've sprayed enough......you haven't, spray some more.

The great thing about BT is that it does ZERO damage to your flower.

I'm treating every two/ three days right now as well.
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I've gone to spraying every two days. 1 plant has about a week or two before harvest and the others have a little longer. My next battle will be frost.
 
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