Old guerrilla grower tricks for you. Would love to still use my skills but it's just not feasible. I'm an indoor grower now permanently unless I move. It's unnecessary anyways, I grow more than I need with a 4 x 4 tent. When growing outside I kept the plants small and short in stature and still could get 2 or 3 ounces from them. I'd bend them down or top them. Bending them down increased the yield. I would build cages from square mesh chicken wire and it would still allow in plenty of sunlight. They were so easy to build. Just cut squares and tie them together with gardening cable. Pin them to the ground with stakes and the wind won't take them. That was to keep the deer off. Or they would eat all of my plants to the ground every year. Then I painted them to camouflage them. You could substitute a camo net. If you spray the cage or net with Raid or some other
Pyrethrin aerosol insects will not cross the area. How long is that effective? Maybe 7 days. Rain of course can be a factor in how often you apply spray. Insects smell it before they even get close to it. This is also somewhat effective just spraying it around the plant on the ground. I've never experimented with Sevin on the ground around the plant. But it would keep ants and crawling insects off the plant. And caterpillars. Because they would get sick or die crossing through it. Grasshoppers may also crawl onto plants. Not always fly. That's often how caterpillars can reach your plant. Crawling on the ground. But for me it's not stinky enough. They smell the
pyrethrin. Bugs will just stupidly walk through Sevin dust and dried residue from liquid spray. Which turns to dust. The grasshopper will be dead in an hour or two. But as it is getting sick will still do some damage. Just get or make an appropriate covering, lay it flat on the ground and spray it with Raid or Black Flag or any
pyrethrin aerosol. Drape it over your plant. No more grasshopper problems. I used a smaller gauge of wire. A larger gauge would probably work fine. Like maybe 1-inch square cage wire. I think I had 1/2 inch. You know if you have a plant with over $1000 worth of weed spending $50 on a cage isn't a big deal.
