sandman007
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I've found single patches of these three times in the last week on lower limbs, always on the leaf tip like this. Been cutting the weird part off.
Anybody know what they are?
Anybody know what they are?
Eggs?
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FresnoFarmer
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Holy shit. I would start spraying with BT or spinosad. Those look like moth eggs. If your plants are too large to get full coverage with a liquid solution or relative humidity is high in your region then maybe purchasing trichogramma eggs would be your best bet. What I personally like to do is to spray the plants with Captain Jacks Deadbug Brew every 3-4 days during the first month or so of flowering making sure to saturate the flowers with the solution(I live in a low rh region). I discontinue that and switch to BT and rely mostly on the predator bug homies(trichogramma, green lacewings, ladybugs) to do all the heavy lifting. The day before I spray any pesticide I usually rinse the plants with plain water to take off residue from the prior treatment. Again, this is just what has worked for me in my region. Trichogramma should be released every three weeks or every other week. Best of luck.
OldMedUser
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Those will hatch to become caterpillars. Just look for the patches and cut them off or get a BTK spray which is a bacteria that kills the babies soon after they hatch and not harmful to you or anything else.
Personally I would opt for removing the patches.
Personally I would opt for removing the patches.
compassionateExotic
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get yourself some spinosad and some diphel pro
sandman007
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Those will hatch to become caterpillars. Just look for the patches and cut them off or get a BTK spray which is a bacteria that kills the babies soon after they hatch and not harmful to you or anything else.
Personally I would opt for removing the patches.
thank you all for your replies!
The RH has been unusually high here in Maine with the constant deluge of rain. I avtually just checked and have some
to apply. I'll also just inspect and remove the leaf site.Must of bought it last year and forgot. They don't call it dope for just any reason.
Is a gestational period of 4 days accurate?
OldMedUser
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I'm not sure about that but I put a leaf with those types of eggs on it in a jar then a few days later there was tiny caterpillars all over the insides of the jar.
Mine looked like this.
FresnoFarmer
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Being that you’re in Maine I would go ahead and start hanging trichogramma egg cards. I would avoid spraying with such high rh. You can order trichogramma on Amazon .
sandman007
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I'm gonna do this with the next batch i find!I'm not sure about that but I put a leaf with those types of eggs on it in a jar then a few days later there was tiny caterpillars all over the insides of the jar.
Mine looked like this.
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sandman007
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I really like these
Sir Napsalot
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They're moth eggs- just cut them off and start a BT regimen
Sir Napsalot
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It's good that you found them before they hatched and wreaked havoc
sandman007
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Yea those look like the same eggs. You got em too. yuck.
I found more today. its always on a low laying leaf tip. Myt lowest leaf is like 2 to 3 feet off the ground. Clipped em and set in sealed mason jar to hatch. I'm gonna spray a leaf with BT stick it in there. and see how long it takes to kill them all, make sure this brand is effective.
Question can Bt AND Copper Fungicide be applied at the same time or better to apply separately?
Midwestgorillagrower
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Are your plants flowering yet? If they are, would try to mechanically remove the eggs instead of spraying. The spray will affect the taste of your buds, especially if they’re coated with resin/trichomes. Once the spray dries it’s going to stick to them, just like your fingers stick together after you touch some resinous nugs.
sandman007
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I really want to try trichogramma eggs but cannot find the cards locally.
sandman007
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I'm in like week 2ish, nowhere near producing trichs. Still a bad idea?
Midwestgorillagrower
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Midwestgorillagrower
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I’m not sure; I tried to do it last year and I ruined my harvest. I tried to spray the leaves without getting it on the flower as much as I could. shit looked like it could’ve been on the cover of high times and it tasted like brick. Unless the plant looks like it’s going to die, I would let them go without spraying and try to use a predator bug for management. I would rather have half the harvest with a grade buds than twice the weight that tastes weird. The caveat to that is that I am somewhat of a pot snob and I have a pretty high tolerance. I smoke about 1/8 a day after work and more if I’m having a bad day or am at home all day.
OldMedUser
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Why the hell would you want to use a copper fungicide? Toxic crap and you can get rid of fungi/mold with a dilute mix of a potassium silicate product that won't leave toxic residue on your plants/buds and actually be good for your plants.
The BT product will only kill the hatched caterpillars and should be applied weekly I believe to be effective. Or after a rain tho it should still be on the undersides of the leaves where the little buggers will first begin feeding. After they eat some it attacks their digestive tract killing them slowly and probably very painfully but wtf, they're bugs and deserve a painful death.
OldMedUser
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Those biological controls aren't going to work outdoors. Your investment will just fly/crawl away in search of food elsewhere.
If you have lots of buds on the plants blasting them with a hard spray of water can wash off enough bugs to keep the populations down enough to minimize crop loss. That's all farmers get spraying toxic crap on their fields too then we get to eat it.
Fish scale
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That's what nightmares are made out of. I would probably trim that leaf and make sure the rest of your plant doesn't have that problem.