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Could someone please offer some advice I’ve got aphids that have spread to all of my plants. Is there anyway to get them under control or should I go for an early harvest?
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Ladybugs. They will eat them and leave.
https://www.amazon.com/Buddy-Bugs-Hippodamia-Convergens-Guaranteed/dp/B0C8KFZ9BH
I have 2 local greenhouse that have them and I could have them in an hour so check with local suppliers.
Them and nematodes if you indoor you should already have scoped out where to get those quickly.
I’ve called every greenhouse around and no one’s got them. I don’t know if I can afford to wait to have them shipped they are spreading like crazy. Is there any other solution?
 
Leaf blower on low to sweep them off. If your local humidity will let you gentle water hose and shake the water off.
Problem is that each one of those will come back. Quickly.
I stickied a must have item in my non outdoor .pot growing lemme find it
 
I’ve called every greenhouse around and no one’s got them. I don’t know if I can afford to wait to have them shipped they are spreading like crazy. Is there any other solution?
Green lacewings, often called "aphid lions," are effective predators of aphids and other soft-bodied pests. They feed on aphids during their larval stage, helping to control aphid populations in gardens and greenhouses.
 
All i did was google aphid control.............dish soap & water spray and even garlic juice squeezed and mixed into that solution. Rinse with your hose also do bud washings right after harvest use 3 buckets.
 
Could someone please offer some advice I’ve got aphids that have spread to all of my plants. Is there anyway to get them under control or should I go for an early harvest?
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My indica plant was overwhelmed by aphids, are you close to harvest? Pick those leaves off, bag up the leaves or wet them as you pick off the leaves really stick with honey dew. Try the
Isopropyl + water spray mix Nick mentioned, but try to just spray leaves and stems, even wipe them down
 
i’d use 99.% isopropyl mix with water down to 50% strength than spray soak the plants, buds will be fine
☝️This. Cover the soil. Mix r.o. or bottled water 50/50 with 99% rubbing alcohol. Spray on infested areas. Spray it off with plain water after 20-30 minutes if it'll make you feel better. No harm no foul, except for what the aphids and no doubt mites have done already. One aphid? Smh. 10,000 aphids? Dude, where's my bud?😉

Had it this year myself. Nasty bastards.
 
Do aphids f with the buds, or just the leaves? Id assume even if they don't eat the buds, large swarms pooping on the buds would kinda suck..
 
Ok this isn't a good current solution.. it's not really even a solution but this season I grew something that was either king bling or motorboat (I think it was motorboat) and it had like a natural insecticide that went on steroids.. I would walk out to the thing and there would be just dead ants, aphids, spiders.. anything just hanging off of it, stuck suspended upside down by the trichomes death grip.. it was pretty nuts! It was 100% either king bling or motorboat. This isn't a plug lol I was just impressed.
 
Do aphids f with the buds, or just the leaves? Id assume even if they don't eat the buds, large swarms pooping on the buds would kinda suck..
Yes. They're sap suckers. Ants herd, protect and milk them for their sweet extract. Scale too, which I've had on plants many times. Get rid of the ants, use the 50/50 alcohol and cover your soil. From above and below. Turn the plant upside down if you can and spray it. It will kill the infestation.

All those aphids give live birth to more female pregnant off spring which in turn have dozens of clones a week. You've got to nuke 'em
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You'll still have to treat your plant weekly until a week before harvest. Jack's Dead Bug, neem oil, BT if there are bud worms.

All of them, from aphids to bud worms can damage your plant and in turn your harvest.
 
Yes. They're sap suckers. Ants herd, protect and milk them for their sweet extract. Scale too, which I've had on plants many times. Get rid of the ants, use the 50/50 alcohol and cover your soil. From above and below. Turn the plant upside down if you can and spray it. It will kill the infestation.

All those aphids give live birth to more female pregnant off spring which in turn have dozens of clones a week. You've got to nuke 'em
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You'll still have to treat your plant weekly until a week before harvest. Jack's Dead Bug, neem oil, BT if there are bud worms.

All of them, from aphids to bud worms can damage your plant and in turn your harvest.
You use all of that at end of flower???
 
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