My first grow since the 80's

I will only spray during flower as a last resort and I only use organics/mechanical/biological to control pests and diseases. Starting with strong genetics and healthy plants and implementing a consistent preventative ipm before fungus, mold and bugs appear so the plants can fend for themselves during flower. Anything that can’t survive flower without help should be grown indoors or discarded. I want more breeders selecting for pest resistance for particular climates. Tons of the labels I use say safe to use within a couple hours or a day or two at most, but I feel like they affected the taste if I spray them an early flower if the plant had any sort of tricomes or resinous glands when they were hit.

LegalGrow-MD said:

I encounter powdery mildew and all kinds of caterpillarsView attachment 5321401 and insects on my Japanese Maples in August here in Maryland. I posted this close up picture elsewhere and was told not to worry about these bumps. Do you agree?

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I am not sure which pumps you’re talking about. Can you take a close-up picture or circle some thing?

If you're referring to the small white glands on the leaf surface, those are the capitate-stalked trichomes. A good sign

Thanks so much.

I have not yet had to spray anything. For my other nursery plants I use Biotene All Season Horticultural Oil for insects and powdery mildew. I was told not to use that and only use Neem Oil if required.

I will only spray during flower as a last resort and I only use organics/mechanical/biological to control pests and diseases. Starting with strong genetics and healthy plants and implementing a consistent preventative ipm before fungus, mold and bugs appear so the plants can fend for themselves during flower. Anything that can’t survive flower without help should be grown indoors or discarded. I want plants selected for disease/pest resistance that can tolerate my climate.

LegalGrow-MD said:

I have not yet had to spray anything. For my other nursery plants I use Biotene All Season Horticultural Oil for insects and powdery mildew. I was told not to use that and only use Neem Oil if required.

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Your plants look healthy and I think you are in for a bountiful harvest! There’s nothing that compares to some well cared for homegrown of your own!

LegalGrow-MD said:

I have not yet had to spray anything. For my other nursery plants I use Biotene All Season Horticultural Oil for insects and powdery mildew. I was told not to use that and only use Neem Oil if required.

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If you have moths at your porch lights you have caterpillars in the buds. Heartbreak is destroying all the bud as it was infested with caterpillars and every drop of their shit form a pocket of mold that spreads and you really don't want to see what an unprotected grow can be reduced to by the little fucks.

The caterpillar has to actually eat some treated leaf then he dies of terminal indigestion. Only effective against moth and butterfly larva and soon rendered harmless by sunlight exposure. It will not bother ladybugs, praying mantis or any other predators you have.


They are the one thing you have to be proactive against as if you wait until you see damage it is far too late, and they are in way too deep in the buds to have the BT penetrate deep enough for them to eat treated leaf.

Running a bug zapper nearby will help by killing the moths that are the source of the trouble to begin with.

Got the BT and will apply tomorrow. Buds are starting to look good.