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Spray them down with a hose. If you start putting shit on your plant the predators won’t hang around. The aphids are gaining pesticide resistance. I seen a couple threads on thcfarmer where they sprayed but the aphids population rebounded.

Those are Cannabis Aphids, originally native to Asia, and the little bastards can fly. I had them on my plants last year and again this year. Predators showed up and ate them. Ladybugs and their larvae. Here is a digital microscope photo we took for ID, at first I thought they were soybean...

Thanks Zoic but it would be a chore to get the undersides of all the leaves, and it will affect the predators too. The plants are 7’ to 9’ tall and 6’ diameter now. Last year nature took care of it, if it gets bad I can always hose them down. The Japanese beetles have really slowed down...

I never knew they’d go after apples like that, I’ve seen lots in my travels but unfortunately they are extirpated from this area. Ladybugs and their young are starting to show up for me in numbers. Which is good because these damn aphids clone themselves and double the population every 1.2...

I was over at the other site a bit in the winter, I need to check it out again. We have a similar plan here, hybrids selected for more open sativa growth, long spears, less leaf. If anything it helps with the humidity around here. This is Ace Malawi x PCK from their website, I don’t think...

So their name choice was contrary to the Cannabis Act, but they got a tap on the wrist and were told to behave, which delayed the product release and cost them profits, but it was all covid’s fault. Not to mention (pun intended) all the shares held by federal worker’s pension funds. Sounds...

Those Japanese beetles are quite a pest. I catch the beetles by knocking them into a beer pitcher with an inch of water, they can’t fly away. Then crush them and make tea. It proprogates microbes that eat them. Between the tea and having barn swallows around I can at least minimize the...

I eat most of mine as concentrates so the difference is pretty apparent. Clean, contaminant free weed is gold when you need to eat quantity. That is why I mentioned donating the leftovers for meds, lots of people threw out lots of good material last year. The dispensary oils are made from the...

Golden tiger malawi pheno x pck, 8+ feet, untopped. Poop and sunshine and swo heat. A neighbour has the blue dream growing, but its a sativa leaning expression selected from some blueberry x super silver haze F1 seed. Last year we found the later finishers barely got pollinated by hemp...

I have to add, since I’m on the topic of how the Canadian government seeks “control”, that there is a regulation that all hemp seed for food purposes must be split. The obvious danger is that one might do the same thing as people the world over do, and plant them. They know that the so called...

There is a program for legal hemp growing but you have to register, use pre approved cultivars, and submit to inspection. Because the cultivars have been bred to produce <0.3% thc there is also very little cbd. The medicinal value of older varieties is much higher, and what is currently being...

I keep loaches and new world cichlids they both do a number on snails. Check out “anoxic filter” it is passive, basically a basket of kitty litter. The clay adsorbs ammonia ions and heterotrophic bacteria convert the ammonia to N2 gas in the anoxic environment. The gas escapes to the...

Is the straw bale being run like hydro, the way strawberries are done? In Canada its less hassle to grow drug strains than hemp now. I buy hemp seed to eat but would rather grow my own.

Never tried hydroguard. If it has an organic base like Septobac then you can brew it with aeration for 12 to 18 hours. It should smell like a grainery. If you use enough you will see the muck go away.

Grass vs. Grass lol. What variety of plant is it?

Beetle damage.

To catch the beetles: Take a plastic beer pitcher with an inch of water in it, go around and knock the beetles in. They won’t be able to fly away. Dump the pitcher into an aquarium net, give it a few whacks with a stick to crush them. Make tea (add water, dirt, catnip, stir 2x day, 3 days)...

Caterpillars tend to have more of an attention span, they keep eating at the same spot. If its the beetles they will be most numerous in the hot sunshine, and they leave widespread damage like shown, and fast. They show up, mate, lay eggs in the ground, and then start eating your plants. The...

Raised beds are warmer in the spring but the ground is warmer in the fall.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_beetle Do you see any of these things?