Two pics of my Flowering plants - looking good=Are they Ready?????, One pic of my Veg pl ants:-( -- what the hell are these white critters????

Nope you have 2-4 more weeks and those look like aphids.

Whats the best way to get rid of the aphids? Where did they come from? 1st time seen these after a few grows

Yep, looks like aphids to me as well. They probably came from eggs. But then where did the eggs come from? We may never know. Ladybugs love eating them. Lots of sprays will kill them, like neem oil. You can spray them with water and a couple drops of soap then just wipe them off by hand if there’s only a few.

Those are aphids. Spray them off with a hose. Use your fingers to wipe them away.

They suck at holding onto stuff.

Do not spray anything on them at this stage of flower. Especially not neem oil.

Do not spray neem, your buds will taste like shit. Spray them off with a hose or 1/4 tsp citric acid to 16 Oz of water.

Don’t worry about the aphids at this point. Just keep going.

hotrodharley said:

Don’t worry about the aphids at this point. Just keep going.

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I have to respectfully disagree. Aphids reproduce super fast. In one week they go through an entire cycle. He definitely needs to manage the population. Getting completely rid of it ain't going to happen but if the population isn't managed they will get all up into the sugar leaves and shed the skeleton all over the buds to grow wings. It gets nasty and no amount of bud washing will get all of that out.

Wizzlebiz said:

I have to respectfully disagree. Aphids reproduce super fast. In one week they go through an entire cycle. He definitely needs to manage the population. Getting completely rid of it ain't going to happen but if the population isn't managed they will get all up into the sugar leaves and shed the skeleton all over the buds to grow wings. It gets nasty and no amount of bud washing will get all of that out.

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Almost certainly unless handpicked the solution is going to be worse than the problem at this stage. Check that bud. Unless it’s ladybugs.

hotrodharley said:

Almost certainly unless handpicked the solution is going to be worse than the problem at this stage. Check that bud. Unless it’s ladybugs.

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That's the shit behind it. The work is tedious to control population but man the behind not doing the tedious work is just not an option for me. Lol

I’d happily choose smoking dead aphids over bud rot or chemicals. Then after chop get savage with the room. Including doing a couple of sulfur burns before starting up again.

There is a product called Green Clean that is safe- it is soy oil and a bit of soap that smothers them- use it a few times - mist with water a few times

Bud man 43 said:

There is a product called Green Clean that is safe- it is soy oil and a bit of soap that smothers them- use it a few times - mist with water a few times

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He is waaaay to close to chop to spray this.

Want soapy tasting buds?? Do this.

Wizzlebiz said:

He is waaaay to close to chop to spray this.

Want soapy tasting buds?? Do this.

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It is so diluted it leaves no soapy smell or taste, less than 1 teaspoon per gallon is used. It is a minuscule amount of soap as it is already diluted in the bottle before mixing,
Confirmed by using it in a pinch and it saved my crop. Each plant was a different strain and none have any similar smell or taste that would lead me to believe you are correct.
It evaporates within a couple days and the water mist is not even necessary, but I figured it could not hurt to help evaporate anything left.
I went on vacation and came home to a pretty bad spider mite and fungus gnat problem.
I tossed the most infected plant and treated the others.
Bought lady bugs also but I think the trichomes keep the pests off the buds, and the lady bugs, or at least repels them so I didn’t have to soak the buds- but getting them all is practically impossible under all the leaves. I used it around a 6-7 weeks before harvest so that may be playing in here.
It did save the crop- getting 95% of the mites after a few treatments.
If they are all on the stems as shown it will be a lot easier to treat. You could probably make something similar with household ingredients.
I would have rather not used it but as stated above- not treating is really not an option if they already have a hold and I think I see big ones and little ones in the picture.
Look with your loupe and you will probably see little apartment buildings- lol- hope you get a nice crop- they look beautiful.

No spray when buds heavy. No no no.

Spray the veg tent .

Im only going to spray the veg tent --- Homemade solutions. I'm going to use apple vinegar - 10-Water/1-Apple Vinger/few drops of dish soap, 10 to 1 ratio. Also heard you can use baking soda. (1/3 tsp. baking soda, .25-gallon Water, .5 tsp- Vegetable oil, few drops of dish detergent. All natural . As far as my flowering plants - Will wait another 1-2 weeks. I will chime in next week with pics. Thanks all and enjoy the weekend.

It really is surprising how much control you can get with a couple times a day spraying them off the plant with water. Manually picking at them too but man their populations build fast. I'd still try to control it knocking them off the plant as much as I can. Some small pump sprayers you can turn to a jet nozzle and that will knock them off. Just takes time and as it's too late in flower that's what I'd do.

Okay we had aphids during veg and used a Bonide tomato & veg spray. Worked great, thought we had them. Just moved over to Flower and 2nd week and they are back, not as bad? This spray is organic so would it be okay to use? These bastards are like Jason from the Halloween movies, they wont die. Or what about neem oil? HELP, I dont want to lose this crop.