Autos outdoors

Frank Nitty

Frank Nitty

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Thinking about starting a few pineapple express autos in pots outdoors... How can I make them more resistant to bugs if at all possible???
 
mannurse801

mannurse801

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Leaf cutters were my doom! Pay attention and pick them off. U cant keep bugs away, part of the fun. I've tried the natural stuff, and meh...
Slugs suck too!!! Salt around the plant pots!
Invest in ladybugs maybe.. for me, mould is much more of an issue!
 
Frank Nitty

Frank Nitty

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mannurse801 said:
Leaf cutters were my doom! Pay attention and pick them off. U cant keep bugs away, part of the fun. I've tried the natural stuff, and meh...
Slugs suck too!!! Salt around the plant pots!
Invest in ladybugs maybe.. for me, mould is much more of an issue!
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One thing that is out here in abundance is ladybugs!!! Im gonna run em in autopots so that should cut down on some of the drama...
 
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ky farmer

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mannurse801 said:
Leaf cutters were my doom! Pay attention and pick them off. U cant keep bugs away, part of the fun. I've tried the natural stuff, and meh...
Slugs suck too!!! Salt around the plant pots!
Invest in ladybugs maybe.. for me, mould is much more of an issue!
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Best way to kill slugs is with beer,pour some beer in a dixie cup and burey it at ground leveal and they will drink the beer and die.the slugs will die in the beer or only make it inches from the beer.hope that trick help you.
 
Rainbow Warrior

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Frank Nitty said:
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I normally put a ring of sawdust round my girls-slugs hate it. Thing with beer/salt is that it kills slugs, sawdust won’t.

Ladybugs are great too.

Personally, I always go for companion planting - peppermint, chives, dill, yarrow, chamomile, sunflowers, marigolds....the list goes on. that way u keep pests away the natural way; live and let live....
I also grow a lot of edibles and companion planting works a treat for pretty much anything growing, give it a shot; it ain’t magic and you start getting more than one type of herb.

Works for me anyway...

just googled and found this for you. Looks like a good list to get u started:

https://www.royalqueenseeds.com/content/136-list-of-companion-plants-for-quality-cannabis-rqs

Stay in touch and let us know how you get on...

Good luck!

RW
:peace:
 
Frank Nitty

Frank Nitty

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Rainbow Warrior said:
I normally put a ring of sawdust round my girls-slugs hate it. Thing with beer/salt is that it kills slugs, sawdust won’t.

Ladybugs are great too.

Personally, I always go for companion planting - peppermint, chives, dill, yarrow, chamomile, sunflowers, marigolds....the list goes on. that way u keep pests away the natural way; live and let live....
I also grow a lot of edibles and companion planting works a treat for pretty much anything growing, give it a shot; it ain’t magic and you start getting more than one type of herb.

Works for me anyway...

just googled and found this for you. Looks like a good list to get u started:

https://www.royalqueenseeds.com/content/136-list-of-companion-plants-for-quality-cannabis-rqs

Stay in touch and let us know how you get on...

Good luck!

RW
:peace:
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I'm going to try this information out and i will let you all know how it comes out... Thanks for the support!!!
 
Humanrob

Humanrob

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Frank Nitty said:
Thinking about starting a few pineapple express autos in pots outdoors... How can I make them more resistant to bugs if at all possible???
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At this point I only grow autos outdoors. Where I live summers have almost zero rain, but the fall is very wet and mold becomes a huge issue. Autos are done before the rain comes. Some autos will get quite big if you put them directly into the ground, that said I've had huge differences between the biggest and smallest autos in an outdoor grow. But even in just 10 gallon pots, depending in the genetics you can get a decent crop.

As far as bugs go, bud worms have been bad enough that after last summer I swore I was done with outdoor growing. The first year I grew I had no worms, the second year some, the third they pretty much ruined the crop. I've tried BT often mixed with other things (Neem, Organicide, etc), but I stop spraying at the first sign of buds and apparently that's too soon to stop the worms. This year I'm going to try spraying BT by itself a couple of weeks into flower, I've heard that can work and that the residue is not harmful to smoke. I hope that's true. I know that spraying almost anything on flowers is really bad, but apparently BT (Bacillus thuringiensis) is a bacteria that kills the worms if they eat it. It only lasts about a week in the air, so it has to be sprayed often and be on the plant and viable when the worms are hatching -- which depending on how many moths over what period of time laid eggs, can require a large window of spraying. I can understand how smoking the bacteria itself might be harmless, I wonder about the medium it's living and transmitted in, I have no idea what's in that solution.

That's the only bug I've had any issues with outside, if they ruin my crop this year then I'll grow 100% indoor moving forward.
 
Frank Nitty

Frank Nitty

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Humanrob said:
At this point I only grow autos outdoors. Where I live summers have almost zero rain, but the fall is very wet and mold becomes a huge issue. Autos are done before the rain comes. Some autos will get quite big if you put them directly into the ground, that said I've had huge differences between the biggest and smallest autos in an outdoor grow. But even in just 10 gallon pots, depending in the genetics you can get a decent crop.

As far as bugs go, bud worms have been bad enough that after last summer I swore I was done with outdoor growing. The first year I grew I had no worms, the second year some, the third they pretty much ruined the crop. I've tried BT often mixed with other things (Neem, Organicide, etc), but I stop spraying at the first sign of buds and apparently that's too soon to stop the worms. This year I'm going to try spraying BT by itself a couple of weeks into flower, I've heard that can work and that the residue is not harmful to smoke. I hope that's true. I know that spraying almost anything on flowers is really bad, but apparently BT (Bacillus thuringiensis) is a bacteria that kills the worms if they eat it. It only lasts about a week in the air, so it has to be sprayed often and be on the plant and viable when the worms are hatching -- which depending on how many moths over what period of time laid eggs, can require a large window of spraying. I can understand how smoking the bacteria itself might be harmless, I wonder about the medium it's living and transmitted in, I have no idea what's in that solution.

That's the only bug I've had any issues with outside, if they ruin my crop this year then I'll grow 100% indoor moving forward.
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Im just doing this til i find a house or apartment to set up in...
 
Humanrob

Humanrob

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Frank Nitty said:
Im just doing this til i find a house or apartment to set up in...
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That makes sense, a few autos in pots should travel well. I just reread what I wrote, sorry for the dramatic tone, I've had some ups and downs with outdoor growing and apparently I'm still bitter... hahaha

Just to clarify, something I wrote is misleading, I said, "At this point I only grow autos outdoors." -- that's not to say that I won't grow them indoors, I only meant that I won't grow photos outdoors because the season here is too short.

Who was the breeder on your PE autos?
 
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Frank Nitty

Frank Nitty

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Humanrob said:
That makes sense, a few autos in pots should travel well. I just reread what I wrote, sorry for the dramatic tone, I've had some ups and downs with outdoor growing and apparently I'm still bitter... hahaha

Just to clarify, something I wrote is misleading, I said, "At this point I only grow autos outdoors." -- that's not to say that I won't grow them indoors, I only meant that I won't grow photos outdoors because the season here is too short.

Who was the breeder on your PE autos?
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Fastbuds...
 
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yellowcreek

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I wonder if mosquito netting around the whole plant would help, or will the baby worms just crawl right through. I have tons of moths and caterpillars, etc around here. They ruined my entire tomato garden last year. I will buy some BT, but it rains often and will wash it off. I can barely keep neem oil on anything before it rains again. I tried greenhouse last year, but it gets SO hot inside during mid-day, cooks everything even with doors open (defeats the purpose of keeping bugs out). I can't find a solution. Sucks because I love to garden.
 
Humanrob

Humanrob

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yellowcreek said:
I wonder if mosquito netting around the whole plant would help, or will the baby worms just crawl right through. I have tons of moths and caterpillars, etc around here. They ruined my entire tomato garden last year. I will buy some BT, but it rains often and will wash it off. I can barely keep neem oil on anything before it rains again. I tried greenhouse last year, but it gets SO hot inside during mid-day, cooks everything even with doors open (defeats the purpose of keeping bugs out). I can't find a solution. Sucks because I love to garden.
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A greenhouse with: bug screens, top screens you can roll down to cut the sunlight in half during the hottest part of the day (here they could just hang on the west side), and a giant wall mounted exhaust fan at one end... it's no small endeavor. Then - at least where I am - come the cool wet fall, it needs to seal it up and run a dehumidifier in it. All that is why I don't have one.

BT is great for the tomatoes since you can wash it off, I'm still not sold on using it on cannabis that is going to be smoked. I might just make edibles out of the whole crop this year.
 
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