Yeah! It's Bud Worm Season. Pics

Kerowacked

Kerowacked

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jbcCT said:
A couple people in this thread used netting this year and still ended up with worms. The only way to keep these things off your plants is spraying BT throughout the outdoor season. It's a biologic not a pesticide. It's well diluted, a teaspoon per hand sprayer. Has zero impact on the plants, bud or taste. Plus if you wash your outdoor before you hang dry......good to go.
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The reason netting fails is the eggs are dropping from overhangs individually. I see a lot more cats(killed by btk early on) and eggs in plants closer to the house than in the open yard. Netting might even increase the egg count.
 
doug mirabelli

doug mirabelli

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Kerowacked said:
The reason netting fails is the eggs are dropping from overhangs individually. I see a lot more cats(killed by btk early on) and eggs in plants closer to the house than in the open yard. Netting might even increase the egg count.
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Bt throughout flower too?does a greenhouse work?
 
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PDiddyDank

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jbcCT said:
A couple people in this thread used netting this year and still ended up with worms. The only way to keep these things off your plants is spraying BT throughout the outdoor season. It's a biologic not a pesticide. It's well diluted, a teaspoon per hand sprayer. Has zero impact on the plants, bud or taste. Plus if you wash your outdoor before you hang dry......good to go.
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I used a net and lost a few colas due to worms. However, I made the mistake of jamming my net full of more plants than I intended and this caused several fan leafs to touch the perimeter of the netting, allowing moths to lay eggs where the leafs pushed up against the netting. This was an operator error, rather than an inherent flaw in the net being used as a barrier. Lesson learned: provide ample space in the netted off area to avoid plant to net contact.
 
Humboldtcalikidd

Humboldtcalikidd

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Bud worms I believe are from a moth that lands and lays eggs. Horned moth I believe. Net your plants or put them in a green house. Once they lay eggs they hatch and eat you plant until nothing is left.
 
injinji

injinji

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Humboldtcalikidd said:
Bud worms I believe are from a moth that lands and lays eggs. Horned moth I believe. Net your plants or put them in a green house. Once they lay eggs they hatch and eat you plant until nothing is left.
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Some folks have more infrastructure than others. Here is an example of my grow room.

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Sir Napsalot

Sir Napsalot

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Humboldtcalikidd said:
Bud worms I believe are from a moth that lands and lays eggs. Horned moth I believe. Net your plants or put them in a green house. Once they lay eggs they hatch and eat you plant until nothing is left.
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Actually, a number of different moths are the culprits
Also, it isn't so much that they eat your plant, it's that their shit grows a mold (which is not botrytis) that affects a localized area
 
mogie

mogie

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We accidentally found something to eat the bud worms. We constructed a bird feeding area and one day I went out to water the plants and at least 25 little birds came flying out of our Blue Dream. They must have found worms to munch on because when we harvested only found less then 4. So the birds get a place to stay out of the sun and we got 100% natural solution to that problem.
Happy accident!
 
M.O.

M.O.

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Do you ever notice wasps hunting around your beautiful trees? I’d love to get an outdoor plant to harvest but I’ve learned a lot just growing veggies and know I’d have trouble.

Last year in Michigan around me we had an explosion of yellow jackets and hornets, as well as more mini and solitary wasps than I ever knew existed. They definitely hunted in my garden.

I can’t say for sure but I think they farmed every moth/caterpillar in the yard. We always have tons of white caterpillars on the mulberries and there were zero. It was crazy. None. Maybe they didn’t cycle but I see them every year.

Then I read corn naturally attracts a wasp to eat moth eggs. A burrowing moth/caterpillar that works just like one that eats cannabis.

What do you think? Am I connecting stuff or just off in a cloud of vape lmao.
 
M.O.

M.O.

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Not sure if people check here ever but yea wasps do hunt cannabis. Pretty freaking cool interview with an entomologist Suzanne Wainwright-Evans on the Shaping Fire podcast from July 17th 2020 “the difficult reality of banker and trap plants”. Apparently I’m just way behind the times.
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M.O.

M.O.

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I made it sound like Suzanne said wasps hunt our plants but that was just my haste. That was my research.

More important in her interview was talking about the Minute Pirate Bug and plants to attract and keep them around like Allysum

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shwamp

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Is there a certain terpene that caterpillars are more attracted to? I had a caterpillar problem on my last outdoor grow and most plants had minimal damage but there was one variety where all 3 of them seemed to have a good amount of caterpillar damage. It was an archive cross of papaya x moonbow. Anybody else experience anything like this?
 
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aoseman90

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CrazyChester said:
Chowing down on your buds at this very moment. At least their chowing down on mine. I hit them with some with some BT this evening.

I have a question or two for those who have used BT in the past. Does it effect the quality of the weed. (Taste, Buzz....) And is it really safe for smoking. How long do you have to wait after spraying before you harvest. I've been using BT on my garden for decades without any problems but I always wash the food I grow before I eat it. But I'd have to be crazy to wash my weed before smoking it. Though I could give it a little spray down a few days before harvest. Any suggestions?

Here's some pics of my two plants progress. You can see the damage done to one of the buds and one of our crawly little pests.

If anyone has any idea of the strains I'm growing I'd sure like to know.
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I know this is old but wow is that ever a beautiful lady right there. Them hues of red wow but stunning.
 
Newb2indoor

Newb2indoor

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CrazyChester said:
Chowing down on your buds at this very moment. At least their chowing down on mine. I hit them with some with some BT this evening.

I have a question or two for those who have used BT in the past. Does it effect the quality of the weed. (Taste, Buzz....) And is it really safe for smoking. How long do you have to wait after spraying before you harvest. I've been using BT on my garden for decades without any problems but I always wash the food I grow before I eat it. But I'd have to be crazy to wash my weed before smoking it. Though I could give it a little spray down a few days before harvest. Any suggestions?

Here's some pics of my two plants progress. You can see the damage done to one of the buds and one of our crawly little pests.

If anyone has any idea of the strains I'm growing I'd sure like to know.
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Hate those things. On a sidenote wonderful looking buds what strain is the one labeled picture 11. She’s beautiful in pink
 
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Daffy Dank

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Im actually considering building a little screen cage around my plant to help keep moths out. Should be relatively small girl, its a blue cheese auto, so wouldnt have to be elaborate. Frame out with some 1×1 material and affix window screen. Its a good location and well concealed.
 
Massachusetts86

Massachusetts86

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The best product I've found that works is captain jacks dead bug. Being from the north east those bastards don't quit. I've never used anything better. That for the girls and I use diatomaceous earth for the ground.
 
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