clever idea.
Yeah! It's Bud Worm Season. Pics
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olga1995
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I am in the east bay, could you tell me please how long untill I harvest my plants?View attachment 1157887
I am growing outside first time
thanks
I am growing outside first time
thanks
odbsmydog
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I definitely hate the bud worms we get here. These little bastards are the culprits too, I know it! Caught some in the act today, gonna hit them hard with BT and spinosad tonight!
I'm not sure what kind of moth they are, I believe someone said it on an early page in this thread. these are the ones I always see in my garden. hope these pics help!
I'm not sure what kind of moth they are, I believe someone said it on an early page in this thread. these are the ones I always see in my garden. hope these pics help!
i've had great success with garden spiders and BT spray. only problem with the BT spray is it isn't immediate. it took me around 3-4 spray downs over the span of a week to notice a resistance. however, once a few garden spiders took the territory, they've been non existent. complete with a few worms, moths and butterflies caught in spiderwebs 
I recently harvested a Frisian Dew that evidently was full of worms. They were not obvious during trimming.
When I checked on the 3rd morning of hanging there were flying things all around the now crispy hangings. I assume they were the now matured worms. They had devoured the dry leafy material on several hanging buds. After I brought them down and put them in a bowl for further trimming, several white worms crawled out of the bowl.
What do you guys suggest I do in future encounters to remove the bugs after harvest?
With vegetables, I usually drown them to kill any bugs.
Thanks
When I checked on the 3rd morning of hanging there were flying things all around the now crispy hangings. I assume they were the now matured worms. They had devoured the dry leafy material on several hanging buds. After I brought them down and put them in a bowl for further trimming, several white worms crawled out of the bowl.
What do you guys suggest I do in future encounters to remove the bugs after harvest?
With vegetables, I usually drown them to kill any bugs.
Thanks
surprsingly enough, even after 25 seconds in the microwave, didn't manage to kill them all - gave them another blast of 20 seconds, hope they don't come back!clever idea.
sonofnothing
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what is that setup you got there with the spray wand?
seems1
Member
it sucks to find those suckers mf'ers
plhkarma
Member
Hi all. We're 1st time outdoor growers(next project will be indoor). We have 7 girls of unknown strains. All bagseed.We've spent hours reading the different threads and educating ourselves.
Our problem is not being sure of the best thing for the caterpillars. We haven't seen any ....yet. We couldn't find BT anywhere around here. So yesterday we picked up Sevin Concentrate. We wanted something on hand just in case.
So the questions are: has anyone ever tried it....can you spray directly onto the bud....does it affect the flavor of the bud....would you give it a water bath after harvest....how much time should there be between application and harvest? Sorry for so many questions, but we really want to do this right...well, as right as we can at this point.
Thanks for any advice. We would never have made it this far with the girls without the help of all you kind folks
). We have 7 girls of unknown strains. All bagseed.We've spent hours reading the different threads and educating ourselves. Our problem is not being sure of the best thing for the caterpillars. We haven't seen any ....yet. We couldn't find BT anywhere around here. So yesterday we picked up Sevin Concentrate. We wanted something on hand just in case.
So the questions are: has anyone ever tried it....can you spray directly onto the bud....does it affect the flavor of the bud....would you give it a water bath after harvest....how much time should there be between application and harvest? Sorry for so many questions, but we really want to do this right...well, as right as we can at this point.
Thanks for any advice. We would never have made it this far with the girls without the help of all you kind folks
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ChemoBoy
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BT is available fucking everywhere. Google it. Home Depot and Lowes carry it. Look for a little bottle about 4 inches high with the ingredient BT (Bacillus Thurigen...whatever). EVERY garden shop that I've checked has it listed as worm/caterpillar killer. Using Sevin is a bad idea unless you've decided you want to smoke or eat Sevin dust. Don't put shit on there that you don't know will dissipate quickly and/or that's not gonna affect your taste/health.
Dumb idea...shit's poison to you too.
Eggs taste bad and they will hatch during drying. In my case, little worms dropped down on silk threads and I smashed them. Get all of the eggs you can...they're usually in bunches together.
Microwave? Harsh is a gentle word for the way that shit's gonna taste. Take a microscope and look at trichomes, then microwave that shit and look at it again. In my case, the worms I missed or the eggs that hatched in the drying closet starting crawling or dropping out of the buds FAST. Within a few days they are all gone/smashed. They don't even go to the floor...they just hang waiting for you to smash them.
Definitely seen these little fuckers. You can rig stakes and mosquito netting to keep them off somewhat at least at night, but they're gonna get in there somehow.
Spiders helped me out big time also. I also found that when I put a fake owl by the plants to protect them from birds when young, my hummingbirds stopped coming around and my whitefly population boomed. Took away the owl, hummingbirds came back and whiteflies were all but gone. Birds and spiders are our friends.i've had great success with garden spiders and BT spray. only problem with the BT spray is it isn't immediate. it took me around 3-4 spray downs over the span of a week to notice a resistance. however, once a few garden spiders took the territory, they've been non existent. complete with a few worms, moths and butterflies caught in spiderwebs
Also remember that if you are inspecting your buds every day, you'll usually see the spot where the worm went in the bud. They leave a little brown circle. If you get a syringe with BT solution and stick it in there and squirt the solution, you'll kill the worm without fucking up the bud. The plant will fix itself in a week or two. The worm usually is very nice about it and crawls OUT and dies on a leaf or the ground.
Someone said it takes 3 days to kill them, btw. YES, but they stop eating the first day. The BT gets in their digestive system and starts eating it, so they can't eat. Eventually they die from starvation and internal organ death. I love that part.
Apadravya
Member
okay.. so i found about 30 of these suckers today.. i sprayed my plants down with SAFER caterpillar killer and clipped off all the damaged buds. so bummed. i figured i didn't wanna keep the nugs that had tons of caterpoop on em. i feel better knowing my plants are treated and hopefully will be caterpillar/worm/insect free in 3 days or less.
odbsmydog
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*edit*I figured I would copy my post from my grow journal and put it in this thread since this one will be around for years I'm sure*edit*
My caterpillar killing kit. today they got pounded with spinosad. in 2 or 3 days I'll hit them hard with bt. then rotate on and off every few days until the last week. hopefully I wont have the same bud worm problem I had last year!
*edit*I figured I would copy my post from my grow journal and put it in this thread since this one will be around for years I'm sure*edit*
My caterpillar killing kit. today they got pounded with spinosad. in 2 or 3 days I'll hit them hard with bt. then rotate on and off every few days until the last week. hopefully I wont have the same bud worm problem I had last year!
