Help with caterpillar attack

PtownsFinest

PtownsFinest

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Yea I have been but it looks like I'm damaging it when I do it lol is there anything I can use this close to the end?
 
iHearAll

iHearAll

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nasty little guys i had to plant under netting to prevent the adults from finding the plants. i did it in a regular garden where i put netting over everything that caterpillars would eat. kale, broccoli, cabbages, tomatoes. they dont like soap sprays or neem or cedar but that doesn't eradicate them. nematodes can eat them when theyre young but that is somewhat tedious and mostly just expensive. if you put a cage of any sort around your crop and cover with insect netting youll be a happy camper. it doesn't reaaaaly reduce yields from partial shading but i mean yea it does somewhat. just the way things go sometimes.
 
jonnyquest

jonnyquest

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Find em and kill em is the best solution to caterpillars I know in any garden situation, every minute you wait is a better fed caterpillar
 
iHearAll

iHearAll

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100'x 8' white netting is around 100$ or less and will cover a large personal garden. just cut into sheets and wrap around the cage skeleton
 
dopechess

dopechess

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You can safely spray BT until the day before harvest. The worms eat the BT and they die.

For future grows as a preventative measure. Start spraying BT during veg all the way up to a week before harvest. Spray every week.
 
PtownsFinest

PtownsFinest

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BT do I need to go to a nursery or is that so thing I can get at a Home Depot? Was thinking about setting them in a tent and bombing or is it to late into flower for that ya think? Thank you guys for the fast responses
 
PtownsFinest

PtownsFinest

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Thank you guys I just found some BT at a local hydro shop gonna grab some after work today I'll let u guys know how it goes
 
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