I respect your diligence but when you see worms, assume there are 5 times as many you can't see. You need BT. Next grow you'll pre-spray every three to five days. This way you won't be reacting to the problem but preventing it.
Your plants are looking great!
Yea, I think spinosad lasts longer than BT montery spray, as far as I know BT is 2 - 3 days "lasting" and you need to reapply every week or so to stave off any new eggs that hatch. Spinosad supposedly lasts 1 - 2 weeks, so you don't need to reapply as often.
Holy hell in a hand basket. Someone asked me the other day how outdoor growers deal with all this shit. It struck me cause I know the feeling.
Yeah, part of the fun of outdoor is how much clean crop can you turn in? Nature is going to take a piece. The game is how much you can steal back from nature. It's a formidable opponent. Throws alot at us. Nothing can replace our sun. That dank sticky. I hear ya on the indoor.
Not at all.I had a rad bug free summer, no PM, no nada, then came the fucking rain.Three weeks later I'm cutting out caterpillars like crazy.
and I found one plant that had budworms. I did research and I found out that moths or butterflies lay these little round white eggs usually on the top colas. Those eggs bust out little worms that usually go inside the buds and they start eating from inside out. You can tell you have budworms when your pistils are turning brown too early. The caterpillars crawl across. If you miss that sign for some reason then youll notice that a part of a cola is slowly losing color and then it turns brown (like it has bud rot). Sugar leaves close to that area will lose color too. They will turn yellow slowly. Pry apart the bud in that area and youll find fucken tunnels where the worms bore through.
You would be able to visually see damage at this point. I have been spraying every two to three days. No way I'm giving up the goods now. Beautiful weather in NE continues, hit 90 today. Thank you weed God's.
