HUSTLERBOY20
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So I come out to my garden this morning to Green GOO everywhere !!!...those bastards are bleeding from the inside out haha..DIIIEE !!
Yeah! It's Bud Worm Season. Pics
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ZigZagXain
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hell yeah thats what I like to hear
veggiegardener
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Bt works on ALL caterpillars. In my area the Fiery Skipper is the egg laying culprit. Do a search to see what they look like(or just go back a ways where I posted pix). I used Bt for tomato horn worms and cabbage worms before discovering "bud worms". Spray regularly and thoroughly for best results.
Zig No Zag
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Someone please tell me what BT is?????
HUSTLERBOY20
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Bacteria that poisons caterpillars only. doesn't hurts anything else in your garden. Apply close to sun down with a weed sprayer and watch the caterpillars bleed out literally. its a bacteria that eats them inside out and then they fall off the leaves. they have to eat a leaf treated with the stuff but it works extremely well...anything at lowes home depot or a home garden center that says BT caterpillar killer will kill those pillars with the bacteria...basilis theragensis= BT
HUSTLERBOY20
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Can you mix BT with Dawn dish soap to make an all around killing solution ?
nowhereland
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^ been wondering if any1 does that with neem too? all around killing machine
greennewfie
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does anyone know if liquid seaweed extract works for those? i know the slugs and little green caterpillars hate it havent seen any since i started spraying them with the liquid seaweed extract...
i spray them every 2 to 3 days depending on the weather they seem to love the nutrients and hormones in it as well..
but this is my first grow using it as a spray so its experimental for now wondering if anyone has any experience with it??
i spray them every 2 to 3 days depending on the weather they seem to love the nutrients and hormones in it as well..
but this is my first grow using it as a spray so its experimental for now wondering if anyone has any experience with it??
HUSTLERBOY20
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causes crazy resin production kinda like Humboldts Snow Storm i gather
i mix half a teaspoon of dish soap with about a tablespoon of neem oil in a half gallon mister. havnt had any bug issues since ive started using it. im still gonna go get bt to prevent since im still in veg for a while. ive bener heard of those bud worms but i dont want them
greennewfie
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yeah the pic in my avatar was grown with it in the soil indoors which turned out crazy with lots of resin can see it in my flowering link below...
but it seems to detour bugs as well i never used it as a spray outside first then we started to get attacked by slugs and these little green caterpillars that sucked the life outta the leaves and now they have all disapered i dont know if we get bud worms here but ill be ready in case lol..
i made my own liquid seaweed extract so i got tons of it to use so come on bugs lets see what ya got!!!
So true but bo one is covering with bfine mesh screnning? Do it block out those lazy egg layers, you mat remove in the day if you want more light I soaked my netting in insecticide to make em like it even less.I had to chop the colas off of two of my best plants and harvest early beacuse of these bud worms. What happends is, butterfly moths lay there eggs in the bud and a week or so later you get the worms that eat your bud and there excriment is what rots the bud from inside out.
spongey600
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i use SAFER brand BT on my cannabis every 3-4 days good saoking, i also have used it on my pepper plants. but yesterday i was showing my buddy the pepper plants and i found a yellow jacket chomping the head off a caterpiller! it was AWESOME! here is a pic of the caterpillers head in the YJ mouth
then he flew away and came back for more!
pretty cool stuff, i have 20+ pepper plants and they get the worst of the pillers but i spray them religeously
then he flew away and came back for more!
pretty cool stuff, i have 20+ pepper plants and they get the worst of the pillers but i spray them religeously
HUSTLERBOY20
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wasps and yellows are carnivorus..get a can of chicken or tuna and yellow jackets will fight over it..there crazy but good garden bugs if you're not a chicken
angryblackman
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Unless your net is completely sealed you can still get them. Once you remove the net they can land and lay eggs and boom you have them again. It's best to combat them with beneficial insects or chemical warfare if you can't go a sealed greenhouse.
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