Sir Napsalot
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I found 2 caterpillars total this year- they were maybe the biggest caterpillars I've had, but didn't seem to have caused any damage
Yeah! It's Bud Worm Season. Pics
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jbcCT
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Not really. They can handle overnight temps of low 50 degrees. They usually feed at dawn or dusk.
jbcCT
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How many of you wash your outdoor bud? I remember when I first saw a video of somebody doing that I thought they were nuts.
I started taking down my plants this week and was washing a batch up in 5 gall home depot bucket, with water, cup of peroxide. You can see all the dust, small flies and other debris floating on the top when your done. You'll also see dots of an oily substance. The peroxide strips off any unseen mold or mildew. I rinse them with a misting wand attached to my garden hose. High tech ops here boys.
Plus, you want to wash off the BT as well. Does anyone use anything besides peroxide? Wash, don't wash?
I started taking down my plants this week and was washing a batch up in 5 gall home depot bucket, with water, cup of peroxide. You can see all the dust, small flies and other debris floating on the top when your done. You'll also see dots of an oily substance. The peroxide strips off any unseen mold or mildew. I rinse them with a misting wand attached to my garden hose. High tech ops here boys.
Plus, you want to wash off the BT as well. Does anyone use anything besides peroxide? Wash, don't wash?
Dark_Hatchling
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I wash. This year I was recommended to use potassium bicarbonate in the first bucket, peroxide in the second and then plain water for the 3rd. So far good. I'll most likely be sticking with it next year.
injinji
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I wash all of mine. If there is rot on the plant, I use more H2O2, otherwise the cup per five gallon bucket sounds about right.
jbcCT
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I only grow outdoor every summer. Every harvest I'm reminded how important it is to wash the flower. I do a good wet trim before the wash. You have to go through it with a fine tooth comb. Literally checking the inside of every bud. Some damage can be hidden. Tiny flies stuck on the bud, etc. Nothing hits the rack contaminated.
One more plant to go the SGG midnight frost.....
jbcCT
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I like it. Sterilize the fuck out of it. The cleaner the better.
potroastV2
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Someone recommended that you dunk your buds in Potassium Bicarb? I can't imagine why that would help. I've sprayed with that, but it does not get rid of fungus, it only makes the leaf surface unlivable for fungus by raising the pH of the surface. Maybe I'm missing something, I don't see how dunking in it would help anything.
Dunking in Peroxide does kill the fungus, so I agree with that.
jbcCT
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Good question. Not sure on the potassium, I imagine it sterilizes and disinfects in some manner. Need to do my homework on that one.
Due to the weather in my neck of the woods, going late into fall, mold was always a concern. It too is a formidable foe.
I started growing outdoors in 5 gallon home depot buckets. Not a suitable container by any means and I would get hit with PM on certain strains, even lose whole plants.(anything bodhi is as close to bulletproof as you'll get)
A few years back I made the switch to fabric pots and have had no PM issues since I made that change.
If you look in the plant problems forum a lot of people having issues are using plastic pots and buckets (aside from killing their plants with water and nutrients). It's doable but they seem to breed mold and create other foliar issues.
Due to the weather in my neck of the woods, going late into fall, mold was always a concern. It too is a formidable foe.
I started growing outdoors in 5 gallon home depot buckets. Not a suitable container by any means and I would get hit with PM on certain strains, even lose whole plants.(anything bodhi is as close to bulletproof as you'll get)
A few years back I made the switch to fabric pots and have had no PM issues since I made that change.
If you look in the plant problems forum a lot of people having issues are using plastic pots and buckets (aside from killing their plants with water and nutrients). It's doable but they seem to breed mold and create other foliar issues.
outside Dixie
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I use Nemototes for all bug ..Put out when time They make them for any bug...Our problem is Termites and The same stuff ya;ll have .. But is it great for outdoors...
injinji
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I lose a few to termites every year. The kick in the balls is it almost always happens when they are flowering.
this looks like it keeps small worms out too. How did it do?
dakilla187
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Bloody Bastards are back.....Its an army of them all spawned in a matter of days.........
I bag my plants in the evening when it gets rlly bad, its just a whole bunch of extra work cats bring
I bag my plants in the evening when it gets rlly bad, its just a whole bunch of extra work cats bring
jbcCT
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Hope ya got the secret sauce on hand to spray those suckers down.
If you don't mind me asking where in the world are you growing outdoors this time of yr.
Spring is 30 days away, can't wait......
I still am smoking last summers grow. Haven't run out yet.
Kerowacked
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I still am smoking last summers grow. Haven't run out yet.
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Hear that, cure is awesome at 4 months
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Hear that, cure is awesome at 4 months
potpimp
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I had to do that last year. Of course the little shits go for the best colas. I'm still smoking my grow from last year. I'm about to germ 3 Platinum OG from Mendocino Farms.
MidWickedWest
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Damn...Its been bud worm season since 2008...THOSE FUCKERS ARE WINNING!. Buddy of mine just was telling me about some kind of uv light or something that kills moths.
Aapoo
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Bugger. Devil worms