I appreciate the feedback. Like I said I dont like spraying anything on them. Maybe I'll just leave it at a one time spray.
I'm less is more guy on everything. Less water, least amount of nutrients. I can always do more of something if I need to and this approach has never failed. I can even get them out of rain fairly quickly.
I call some of my patches Darwin Dope. It's survival of the dankest. lol When it rains, I just carry enough water to deliver food. I don't use a lot of added ferts either. I try to make my soil mix hot enough to get me through to flower with only small amounts of 11-2-1 veg food, then I scratch in some 2-10-10.
I never did any IPM before I ran the bag seed testers. I had always grown local strains, which are sativa leaners. They never had bud rot or worm issues. But the BST's were big and sticky buds, and they were loaded with worms. Now I spray neem once a week in veg.
My main problem is my length of day. I'm in NW Florida, and my longest day is 14 hours 7 minutes. When my buddies send me strains used to longer light hours {in the northern legal states}, they all flower in the summertime, when it rains everyday.