This is my first attempt at growing outdoors. Knew it was going to be a hassle due to the pests I deal with on my other crops. I'm hoping the results pay off. Just gotta stay on top of things I guess.Noooooo!
I am dealing with these:
Cheers,
Mo
Ya that looks like that could do some damage!Noooooo!
I am dealing with these:
Cheers,
Mo
Yup, that's the same damage I get. Unfortunately they're probably go to kill that plant off branch by branch; that's what they do to mine when they find one they like. I used to grow Bay 11 from Ken Estes and it was top quality, but the borers found it during my last two rounds and would just decimate it. I quit growing that strain because of them. On the upside, my last round they were killing off 3 Kali Mists plants and this round I have one Kali Mist flowering right now and it's looking great and the borers aren't messing with it, hopefully it stays that way.Heat hoses f--kers got my kali too, but what I salvaged off her is killer smoke.
3rd week of flower for my pure haze and come out this morning and main stalk dead overnite from these mutherfucks!View attachment 3511355
I didn't realize they were that small, dang. I found a big larvae burrowing through my stem one time too. It caused the same damage, but it was big. I haven't found one of the borers yet, but I doubt I was looking hard enough to find something that small.
Yeah brah, when the cats start coming out to play you gotta keep up on the spraying. Someone told me to spray 10 days before a full moon because they apparently hatch and mature right around that time more than most and I've been doing it for about the last 5 months and I haven't had any cat problems since and I used to get budworms every round. I still spray BT, neem and dish soap once a week though, I just make sure I spray 10 days before the full moon for one of the weeks.I sprayed BT and they all fell off dead the next day. A couple of the colas have nothing but leaf skeletons left on them!
Cheers,
Mo
Yup, just stay on top of it. You can follow my advise in the previous post. You could hit your plants up with Spinosad 2-3 times throughout they're life up until bud start setting, that should help quite a bit too.
Yea I have noticed they like sativa plants more. When I was growing indica dom plants I remember posting on the frostiest buds thread saying they were so sticky they acted like flypaper cause I would find these small flys and these little black beetles(I could only tell what they looked like because of a big magnifying glass I would use to pick them all off with tweezers), and didn't have a clue as to the damage they can cause because my plants were so healthy with big buds. They were so frosty it looked as if they were frozen in time the way they landed on the bud and just died standing up normal..I would go to shoo them off and they wouldn't move. So hindsight I have had them the whole time, they have only affected me now since I've been growing strictly sativas or sat dom plants. Weird. Oh yea and I went out and found another branch shriveled up this morning...the only branch I left on the main stalk right below where I just cut the last one.
yo Bra you gotta get serious on those borers or you could end up having to buy canna...lol.Heat hoses f--kers got my kali too, but what I salvaged off her is killer smoke.
3rd week of flower for my pure haze and come out this morning and main stalk dead overnite from these mutherfucks!
No funkies from neem and soap late in flower? Good to know.
i have gone pretty late as the reasearch info says it decomposes in the UV light ....but only to kill borers or pillers or truebugs. as a last resort you can use double strength and even kill mites ...
I don't get anything from it. I also just kind of just do a thorough misting, instead of a drenching, when the buds fill out. And I stop about 2 weeks before the plant is done. Like Joedank pointed out with Spinosad, neem and dish soap also degrade quickly under UV light and I get plenty of rain too to wash it off. I know they both wear off pretty quickly because bugs will be on my plants like white on rice in a glass of milk on a paper plate in a snowstorm if I don't keep up on the spraying at the very least one a week.
Here's a read for you HiloReign from the EPA and there's plenty of other sources that you can look up that say the same stuff. The bottom of page 12 shows the half life of neem on a leaf surface under UV light is 2.47 days and 3-6 day in a forest environment in terrestrial matrices, whatever they mean by that, so no worries I guess even within 6 days of harvest at most.
Thanks for the info. That'll come in handy.
I liked your silly people comment so true. Let me tell you..with long flowering sativas which are landrace (at least frkm my experience, which means shit
) SE Asian Sativas anyway that have grown have same smells you speak BUT they sometimes hammer, and I like that
I believe it about the SE Asian strains. My buddy smoked some Thai in Thailand along the Mekong River and he said him and his buddy were trippin' to the point they intitially thought it was laced, but realized it was just really trippy weed. I've read about some trippy strains from around there. I've got some Mekong Haze seeds from Cambodia; I'll try to pop a few for next summer.I liked your silly people comment so true. Let me tell you..with long flowering sativas which are landrace (at least frkm my experience, which means shit
