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TimPool

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Roughly 1.5-2 weeks ago some of these black pod-like casings started appearing and spreading rapidly on stems. The plants are roughly 6-8 weeks into flowering, under a 400-watt HPS. Only water for feeding, using a generic Vigoro potting mix medium.

I sprayed neem oil & caterpillar control solutions on the plant as well as picked all the pods off but they came back in mass numbers. When I squashed the pods' nothing came out of them, and they didn't appear to be bugs.

Any help would be greatly appreciated with an accompanying solution
 

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Absolutely insects. The light green bumps look like Aphids, and the dark ones might be scale?
Your plants are not doing well at all, and the infestation seems pretty significant.

At 6 to 8 weeks, you should have some pretty substantial bud growth, but from the little I can see, it seems pretty spare. How is the canopy?

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TimPool said:
Roughly 1.5-2 weeks ago some of these black pod-like casings started appearing and spreading rapidly on stems. The plants are roughly 6-8 weeks into flowering, under a 400-watt HPS. Only water for feeding, using a generic Vigoro potting mix medium.

I sprayed neem oil & caterpillar control solutions on the plant as well as picked all the pods off but they came back in mass numbers. When I squashed the pods' nothing came out of them, and they didn't appear to be bugs.

Any help would be greatly appreciated with an accompanying solution
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Oh yeah buddy. These are fucked. I got a russet mite infestation over the summer. It was a nightmare. I had to buy about 15000 predatory mites to fight the russet mites. I lost pounds of weed
 
I meant to add, my accompanying solution would be to scrap it as a learning experience. Clean really well, try to address whatever environmental problem that exists to prevent future bugs, and research a little on feeding cannabis through flower.

Vigoro and plain water would not be enough for your plants to be healthy, and stressed/sick plants are attractive to many insects.

I would cut my losses.
 
go go kid said:
wow, ive never seen scale on a cannabis plant b4
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Are you agreeing with me? or only saying that in more of a questioning way? I only ask as I was not sure but did think the light green bumps looked like Aphids. I have limited experience with insects, mostly Aphids, Spider Mites, and some thrips, all outdoors.
 
Ya... looks like scale. This late in flower you want to avoid treating with chemicals. You game plan should be to limit numbers until plants finish.

You can cover your high quality top buds with bags and gently secure them with twist ties, lay the plant on it's side and then blast them off with a pressurized garden sprayer. Do it 2-3 times a week until your crop finishes. You may can also want remove the ragged low growth that doesn't produce squat.
 
7CardBud said:
Ya... looks like scale. This late in flower you want to avoid treating with chemicals. You game plan should be to limit numbers until plants finish.

You can cover your high quality top buds with bags and gently secure them with twist ties, lay the plant on it's side and then blast them off with a pressurized garden sprayer. Do it 2-3 times a week until your crop finishes. You may can also want remove the ragged low growth that doesn't produce squat.
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The OP mentions using only plain water in generic vigoro potting mix under a 400 watts HPS. I'm not judging as I can't see from the pics, but I strongly suspect there isn't a lot up top, and by 6 to 8 weeks and with that many bugs, you have to wonder if the manual effort required to control the infestation is worth potential end result?

Just want to save you time, seriously consider starting over. You will absolutely do better every time if you even learn one thing and try to make adjustments.
 
Thank yall for the quick advice. I appreciate the feedback and will do what I can to pull together some sort of harvest. I Will post followup pictures in the next week!
 
TimPool said:
Thank yall for the quick advice. I appreciate the feedback and will do what I can to pull together some sort of harvest. I Will post followup pictures in the next week!
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If you are going to see it through, you will learn something, and maybe get something out of it. I would consider researching washing buds after harvest. If you make it to the end, you may have a lot more bugs crawling in your buds. There are methods to safely rinse your buds that some growers use.

You might not want to bother. Just thought I'd mention it.

Good Luck!
 
Relic79 said:
If you are going to see it through, you will learn something, and maybe get something out of it. I would consider researching washing buds after harvest. If you make it to the end, you may have a lot more bugs crawling in your buds. There are methods to safely rinse your buds that some growers use.

You might not want to bother. Just thought I'd mention it.

Good Luck!
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I appreciate it. It's my first crop back in about 10 years so I was keeping it real simple, testing the waters, getting my feet on the ground again. Luckily I took about 20 clones from these mamas so we can clean the space and give it another go!

Fortunately for now only 1 of the 3 plants has the mealybugs so I'll try and see it through and turn what I get into concentrates most likely so I can also get my hands dirty with that.
 
mistergrafik said:
I will sub to your next grow and make you stick to ur word! We don't play around here :eyesmoke: :peace:
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Update! I only lost 1 plant, I completely removed it from the rest before it really spread to the others. I handpicked off the few little buggers than did move over but the harvest is coming up this week, I will post pictures again soon.
 
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