Tumble stumbles upon a Spider Farmer clip on fan.. Growing Blue Cheese, North Thunderfuck, Cali Blues, and Bruce Banner #2

[Tumbleweed375]

Lookin awesome Tumble

Thanks just love! I appreciate that!

How are those beans popping over there? If you have a thread for them post a link. Or feel free to post some pics here . You know I love all the plant pics

 

[Justlovetogrow]

Thanks just love! I appreciate that!

How are those beans popping over there? If you have a thread for them post a link. Or feel free to post some pics here . You know I love all the plant pics

I don’t do threads I’m hopeless but I’ve got 6 popped up 4 cap junkys and 2 thc bombs see how I go

 

[Tumbleweed375]

I don’t do threads I’m hopeless but I’ve got 6 popped up 4 cap junkys and 2 thc bombs see how I goView attachment 2518684

Hell yeah! Now the fun begins .
Looking forward to seeing the progress

 

[Tumbleweed375]

This little guy is keeping an eye, maybe 8, on the plants in the rafters of the mother tent.

 

[Tumbleweed375]

Any guesses? At first I thought I was looking at straight up botrytis. But then I saw the eggs .
Eggs and 2 messed up buds removed. This okiexcman was the only one hit.

Luckily there's a back up:

 

[Captspaulding]

Is that the only spot?

 

[Tumbleweed375]

Is that the only spot?

Yeah. Just that one. I chopped the 2 buds around it. It's near the top.

 

[Captspaulding]

Any odd mucus type shit?

 

[Tumbleweed375]

Is that the only spot?

I was tempted to top it right there, but I left it. Just removed the messed up buds and cleaned it all

 

[Tumbleweed375]

Any odd mucus type shit?

Not that I saw. When I saw the brown bit of bud I thought it was run of the mill botrytis. Then I saw the eggs. They looked like caterpillar eggs

 

[Captspaulding]

Not that I saw. When I saw the brown bit of bud I thought it was run of the mill botrytis. Then I saw the eggs. They looked like caterpillar eggs

It’s exactly what I thought was going on there. You know I thought that maybe something was starting to build a chrysalis.

 

[Captspaulding]

It’s exactly what I thought was going on there. You know I thought that maybe something was starting to build a chrysalis.

Just wrong stage of life I guess

 

[Tumbleweed375]

Just wrong stage of life I guess

That might be it! I chopped any weird looking stuff and cleaned it up. Hopefully i got whatever it was. I love bugs... unless they start eating my plants

 

[lenhug]

I feel your pain! I seem to be doing the same as you every bloody morning now with my outdoor ladies. Quick check, more caterpillars and browning buds...snip, snip, snip.

I have to come up with a better solution or rather combat it earlier next year. Just start and keep spraying to combat it earlier next year.

 

[Tumbleweed375]

I feel your pain! I seem to be doing the same as you every bloody morning now with my outdoor ladies. Quick check, more caterpillars and browning buds...snip, snip, snip.

I have to come up with a better solution or rather combat it earlier next year. Just start and keep spraying to combat it earlier next year.

There used to be stories about guys using poisonous snakes tied to their plants to keep people away....

I've been thinking about putting a gang of chameleons around my plants next year . Or some birds or something.

Outdoors is a different game altogether.
Indoors it's all about increasing your yield... Outdoors it's about mitigating your loss .

Old chucky will probably say something about Mother Nature taking her cut, and I tend to agree.

 

[Oldchucky]

There used to be stories about guys using poisonous snakes tied to their plants to keep people away....

I've been thinking about putting a gang of chameleons around my plants next year . Or some birds or something.

Outdoors is a different game altogether.
Indoors it's all about increasing your yield... Outdoors it's about mitigating your loss .

Old chucky will probably say something about Mother Nature taking her cut, and I tend to agree.

Location, location, location!

 

[Tumbleweed375]

Location, location, location!

Ain't that the truth! I need to keep it in mind next season.

Already drawing up some plans! I have a spot in mind... but it's going to be back breaking trying to clear it out. So much damn Japanese knotweed in these parts. Do you get any of that in your neck of the woods?

 

[cpurola]

Ain't that the truth! I need to keep it in mind next season.

Already drawing up some plans! I have a spot in mind... but it's going to be back breaking trying to clear it out. So much damn Japanese knotweed in these parts. Do you get any of that in your neck of the woods?

I just looked that plant up and wow, it's bad news. Good luck digging it out. The website I looked at said it can grow back quite easily. Yikes.
Our biggest problems live in the hedgerow and include Virginia Creeper, wild grape vines and poison ivy/oak. I have noticed creeping charlie taking over the grass, but it's green, so it stays. LOL

Plants look great, except for the brown stuff.
I love the insects too and try to feed the beneficials all I can. This year I had lots of Dill seed so I sprinkled them around the plants. I have had no issues with bugs this year just Septoria and a few caterpillars.

But I'm not sure what to do about the yellow jackets under one of the planter boxes. I read that diatomaceous earth works. Ah, not for these hornets. Put it down 4 days ago, and we haven't had any rain, so...

 

[Tumbleweed375]

I just looked that plant up and wow, it's bad news. Good luck digging it out. The website I looked at said it can grow back quite easily. Yikes.
Our biggest problems live in the hedgerow and include Virginia Creeper, wild grape vines and poison ivy/oak. I have noticed creeping charlie taking over the grass, but it's green, so it stays. LOL

Plants look great, except for the brown stuff.
I love the insects too and try to feed the beneficials all I can. This year I had lots of Dill seed so I sprinkled them around the plants. I have had no issues with bugs this year just Septoria and a few caterpillars.

But I'm not sure what to do about the yellow jackets under one of the planter boxes. I read that diatomaceous earth works. Ah, not for these hornets. Put it down 4 days ago, and we haven't had any rain, so...

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Thanks! I'll need all the luck i can get I have some help. Early in the season we pulled/chopped the area and threw a big black tarp over the whole spot. Weighted it all down too.

For better or worse, I'm hopeful the heat and darkness killed everything underneath. We'll have the pick and shovel ready for next season anyway

I love the idea of dill. Any plans for some pickles?

My grandmother had a trick for wasps that was fool proof! She'd take a jam jar with the last bit left in and fill it 3/4 with water. Wasps loved the jams as much as we did apparently. They would land for a taste, get greedy, and drown. There would be 10 dead wasps in the jar every evening. My mouth is watering remembering the black currant, blackberry, strawberry, and gooseberry jams she'd make every year... but don’t get me started on that, I'm very sentimental .

 

[lenhug]

Right, I'm absolutely nicking that wasp deterrent. They've been and always are an absolute bloody nightmare round here and tried so many different things. As soon as you sit down to eat they appear.