WesternBotany
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This thread makes me very glad I'm an indoor grower. Those things are disgusting!
Chowing down on your buds at this very moment. At least their chowing down on mine. I hit them with some with some BT this evening.
I have a question or two for those who have used BT in the past. Does it effect the quality of the weed. (Taste, Buzz....) And is it really safe for smoking. How long do you have to wait after spraying before you harvest. I've been using BT on my garden for decades without any problems but I always wash the food I grow before I eat it. But I'd have to be crazy to wash my weed before smoking it. Though I could give it a little spray down a few days before harvest. Any suggestions?
Here's some pics of my two plants progress. You can see the damage done to one of the buds and one of our crawly little pests.
If anyone has any idea of the strains I'm growing I'd sure like to know.
why are u using avid? there are plenty of other ways to get rid of leaf hoppers instead of using avid even if u spray once it still will be somewhat contaimented, look for natural predators for the leaf hoppers and get them out there early like when ur tilling ur garden, but please consider not using avid im not trying to sound like a dick or anything jus kinda concerned for your health cause avid is not meant to be consumed even in minute tracesMmmm. Cutworms. Got pilfered last year. My neighbor has had success with using Roundup to kill surrounding vegetation on and in your grow in spring, tilling the garden in early May and using a combination of Garden Take-down, BT and Tea to Foley feed through the year (no less then once a week), then use Avid (we have a bad leaf-hopper issue) ONCE! 4 weeks before harvest, at the last three weeks of flower avoid the colas as much as possible.
Yeah. Had to wear a suit and respirator for that shit...
It actually wasn't my call to use it.
It worked. But because of the lazy asses running the hill that waited til the leafhoppers and worms spread like the plague before doing any thing about it,
we either lose the crop or spray that gnarly stuff. They choose to use it and it worked. It's my hill now. Would I use it again?; only if it was my last resort.
Although I meant to say in the directions "Use once, 4 weeks into veg".
Man. If I didn't know any better I think I know who you're talking about!i hear ya if its lose the crop or spray id spray, sucks when its not ur fault but other lazy growers faults, had the same problem with last years outdoor one of the patients cultivating their meds did real good and was really enthusiastic for the whole veg cycle but as soon as they started budding idk what happend to his enthusiasm, he just let his plants fall over didnt try to stake didnt pick of the dead undercarriage it got bad quick, but since they were his i didnt cut them, well round end of september i convinced him to pick his white widow off the ground and trim it up a bit so undercarrage bud would get sum light, when he pickd it up and i could see the soil underneath it the soil lookd alive cause it was completely covered in worms that were working there way to the other plants most importantly mine, luckly it was closer to end of season so damage was mimnal but could have been worse if we didnt start spraying the spinosad then, i sprayed with the spinsoad they went with safer so i got to see a pretty good side by side trial and the spinosad is the shit if will work for other insects as well check it out if u gota bad bug problem this upcoming summer
wow, I am glad I started reading this thread, funny your mentioning leaf hoppers. I had a bug on my small outdoor crop last year and could not figure out what it was at all. Then I just googled leaf hoppers and it was the exact same bug I saw on my crop.why are u using avid? there are plenty of other ways to get rid of leaf hoppers instead of using avid even if u spray once it still will be somewhat contaimented, look for natural predators for the leaf hoppers and get them out there early like when ur tilling ur garden, but please consider not using avid im not trying to sound like a dick or anything jus kinda concerned for your health cause avid is not meant to be consumed even in minute traces
I think spinosad is more for the critters(caterpillars, etc) that eat the plant matter.wow, I am glad I started reading this thread, funny your mentioning leaf hoppers. I had a bug on my small outdoor crop last year and could not figure out what it was at all. Then I just googled leaf hoppers and it was the exact same bug I saw on my crop.
I wish I had known how to control them last yr. I ended up finding a few worms in my buds. Will the Spinosad that you mentioned work for the leaf hoppers as well do you think?
Thanks.
F2H
I couldn't quite determine how big that bud worm was. A week or two ago I found a little brown caterpillar thing in one of my girls, and I picked it off. Now I'm noticing that I have what locals call "meat bees" picking through my plants, and I'm wondering if they're finding and eating more of these little things I found. It was between 1/4"-18" long.
What's the BT, or the bacteria that are in it?
Are the GrowFAQs back up yet?
wow, I am glad I started reading this thread, funny your mentioning leaf hoppers. I had a bug on my small outdoor crop last year and could not figure out what it was at all. Then I just googled leaf hoppers and it was the exact same bug I saw on my crop.
I wish I had known how to control them last yr. I ended up finding a few worms in my buds. Will the Spinosad that you mentioned work for the leaf hoppers as well do you think?
Thanks.
F2H