thompeace
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Yeah! It's Bud Worm Season. Pics
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Oregon Gardener
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I know I posted this somewhere else, but here it goes again. Those fuckers terrorized us in Southern Oregon, I experimented and that I want on my property will kill them. I wound up hiring a guy with a good eye to pick them off by hand! However we use sunflowers for privacy. One day I was in the garden with my Sure Shot and saw this. Sorry about my photography skills. I stopped smashing wasp's nests and became,"one" with the wasp.
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ResinDabz
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Bt spray right as you see the buds forming little spike hair clusters and keep spraying for a couple weeks 2 times a week then once again every once in awhile to be sure. Tweezer method is really disruptive to the buds and your never going to get them all and they keep planting new eggs each day it's a real battle that way
Kcbscrogger
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It all starts with those damn little butterflies that you see flying around your garden, the only way to stop them is to put plants in greenhouse or under netting.
Greenacorn
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Rumor has it....BT and sphenoid spray every week up till 2 weeks before harvest is the way to go. No toxics, just naturally occurring products keeps these bad boys away.
Wash plant before harvest? Sounds dangerous.For budworms, you should spray your plants every 3 weeks with BT, a beneficial bacteria, throughout their veg state, and the first half of flowering. That will keep the worms from growing on your plants. And that way, you don't have to spray your ripening buds.
BT will affect the taste of your bud if used too late in the season. It's just fine to wash your plants before harvest. Even my indoor plants are sometimes taken outside on harvest day and sprayed down well with a fine spray, and then dried for a couple of hours and harvested.
HTH
Oregon Gardener
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We dont spray anything on our buds. We are heavily regulated and tested here. Anyway, my outdoor bud gets ground up for concentrates.. I keep some of the primo tops for myself but the rest..... The leaves I use in my artwork.
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MileHighMasterGrower
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Never understood the use of nasty chemicals on plants. Nor have I understood why the hell anyone would spray or wash their buds! For that matter, I never understood why people encourage others to do the same!
Instead try these two methods:
1. Mix cayenne pepper foliar spray. All natural! Mix 1/8 teaspoon ground cayenne to 1 gallon of purified water. Spray only on leaves and never on buds. Start this before any flowering begins. Most all spiders, worms and bugs hate this.
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2. Use a tomatoe tray. Dig hole for the plant. Put tray over hole, place plant in the cut out center and into the hole. Backfill the hole and roots. Center tray and fill with the cayenne water mixture. Keep filled at all times. Will not harm flowering stage.
Planting lots of wild flowers around your yard helps too! Attracts bees, butterflies, and ladybugs! The good stuff!!
Instead try these two methods:
1. Mix cayenne pepper foliar spray. All natural! Mix 1/8 teaspoon ground cayenne to 1 gallon of purified water. Spray only on leaves and never on buds. Start this before any flowering begins. Most all spiders, worms and bugs hate this.
And/Or
2. Use a tomatoe tray. Dig hole for the plant. Put tray over hole, place plant in the cut out center and into the hole. Backfill the hole and roots. Center tray and fill with the cayenne water mixture. Keep filled at all times. Will not harm flowering stage.
Planting lots of wild flowers around your yard helps too! Attracts bees, butterflies, and ladybugs! The good stuff!!
MileHighMasterGrower
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Guess this site doesn't get any new posts, nor does it get rid of really old posts and replies. Finding myself posting to really old stuff. They need to do a lot of house cleaning around here, looking sloppy with all this old junk!
ResinDabz
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Nasty chemicals bt is a natural bio degradable pesticide and a very real way to deal with caterpillars it saved my outdoor harvest to each there own.. and ps it's not bud worm season or this thread come alive..
MileHighMasterGrower
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Oh...BT! I thought you were talking BS! Why didn't you say so! That's a chemical of a different color! lmao! No it's not worm season, but offered another alternative for viewers. And I am newbie on this site so I wasn't expecting to find so many old postings. But hey, I guess that's the way you all hang around here! And yes each to his own. For every method out there given by others, you'll find a million more!
Bear Country
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Mmmmmm THC infused bud worm!!!! LOL! I like your attitude.
smokealotabuds
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okay so ive just got my seeds and have germed a few was wondering when I should start using lights and adding fertilizer any recommendations??
MileHighMasterGrower
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Don't give nutes to early. Wait till third set Of leaves to appear. Light is ok anytime now. But not to much as you don't want to burn or kill them. Fluorescent lights work best.
smokealotabuds
Member
okay thanks for the advice sir lol wish I wouldhave saw that earlier my seedling flopped over when I gave it ferts lmao
Soilwatcher
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Problem with getting B.t. at a box or grow shop is you don't know how long it has been on the shelf.
We have been using Grandevo for foliar, and H.miles and nematodes for the soil: very effective. All bud worm and other caterpillars are DOA. Rarely see them since we started this program some years ago.
We have been using Grandevo for foliar, and H.miles and nematodes for the soil: very effective. All bud worm and other caterpillars are DOA. Rarely see them since we started this program some years ago.
thumper60
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yes they do the same tjing with
thumper60
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tomato horn worm its laying egg nice pic