Yeah! It's Bud Worm Season. Pics

Try using some boiled oranges and orange peeles, they can turn into a great little natural pesticide that won’t cause harm to you or the plants, also dude wow the stigmas on your plant are gorgeous
 
It's that time again. Dropping my seeds this weekend. Been a cold spring in the NE. Temps just moved above 70 for the first time this week.

Getcha fresh bottle of BT boys we got caterpillars to kill.
 
Is that an autoflower? Or did you plant it early to get it to flower this time of year? I saw a few last year and pulled them out by had. Those folks will shit all over your buds ~ laying 3 finger deuces droppin them like their hot
 
Sir Napsalot said:
I can't remember ever getting any pollen collectors- mostly a few gnats of little concern

The only thing I've ever used for pests is BT
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My yellow ones filled with hover flies and hundreds of small parasitic wasps, and a few different types of gnats. Not really helpful, counter productive for me.
The white ones got a wider assortment of evil beetles and other leaf munchers, blue ones seemed to lure a couple odd bugs and more hover flies.

Point is,(like you said :)) they are not effective on controlling moths, caterpillars and preventing budrot. Bt-k is stll one of the better treatments, just got to keep up with it when it gets washed off, and use it in conjunction with other IPM measures.

Link below to a fairly new budrot study that came out, take a look, as well as data for biological control agents.
The temp/wetness charts for propagation were informative, temps above 30c put spore formation on hold.

:arrow::arrow: Canadian Journal of Plant Pathology -bud rot pathogens infecting cannabis

Eww, look at the untreated control buds vs treated buds, and the 3 main types of pathogen in second figure
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Fig. 11 (Colour online) Effect of biocontrol treatments on development of Botrytis cinerea on detached buds of cannabis after 7 days. Treatments were applied 48 h prior to inoculation with the pathogen. a, Control buds showing extensive mycelial development. b, Buds treated with Trichoderma asperellum. c, Buds treated with Bacillus amyloliquefaciens. d, Buds treated with Gliocladium catenulatum. e, Sporulation of G. catenulatum on treated buds after 10 days. f, g, Recovery of colonies of G. catenulatum from a streaked sample or dilution plating, respectively, originating from treated buds. h, Disease severity ratings made 7 days after inoculation with B. cinerea (control) or following pre-treatment 48 hr before pathogen inoculation with various biocontrol agents (Prestop, Asperello, Stargus). Data are the means from four experiments, each with four–six buds. Letters above bars denote significant differences using ANOVA followed by Fisher’s LSD test at P < 0.01
 
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Another way to use Bt-k is a whole wheat flour paste, mixed with veg oil and Bt.
You can spread the paste or leave it in a bait ball for the bugs, they prefer the wheat paste over your plants.
 
Sir Napsalot said:
I can't remember ever getting any pollen collectors- mostly a few gnats of little concern

The only thing I've ever used for pests is BT
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Ummmm, I'll mention it again.... the ONLY thing BT is good for are caterpillars and worms. Does zero for bugs and pests. Just saying. Many people aren't aware of this.
 
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