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Rain does not wash off trichomes. :)Umbrellas might stop the rain washing off the trikes, but you’d still have the problem of rainy humidity.
No little green fuckers that get into the center of the buds and chomp out the centers. Courtesy of a little white flutterby. Tried sprays, doesn’t work, don't want to use heavy shit, just have to check inside buds every few days and nab the fuckers before they get big and do too much damage. Otherwise you smoke a nug full of caterpillar crap.
Hate to say it, but it sounds like you fellows weren't prepared. Start spraying, in rotation, every week, Bt alternated with Spinosad. Spinosad is now known to harm honeybees, so it should only be sprayed in the evening, fortunately I haven't found anything that says the residue is harmful, so by morning it should be ok for those pollinators. Bt is not known to harm pollinators or honeybees, but because the bacteria can be harmed by sunlight I also spray that in the evenings only.Agree with Noah. We use both Safer Caterpillar Killer and Safer Insect Killing Soap. My young "genius bar" bud at the local hydro store taught me Safer Caterpillar Killer is unique in that it requires "clean water", ie, distilled water without all the nasty crap in technically "pure" tap water. Apparently the stuff in tap water - in our area, at least - is enough to kill the biological process in Safer Caterpillar Killer that makes the little bastards explode from within. SO we no longer mix Caterpillar Killer and Insect Killing soap - we use tap water with Safer Insect Killing Soap then distilled water with Caterpillar Killer. If you have extra clean water where you live, you're fine without using distilled.
Both these products work GREAT but you've gotta use caterpillar killer as soon as you see the first insect of any kind around young buds. Once moths lay eggs on growing buds, those eggs lay there waiting to hatch til surrounded by your delicious bud... The year we lost some huge colas to the ravages of cats we saw caterpillars but naively presumed they were just passing though. Nope. Brer caterpillar came out of a bud - you caught him as he was relocating to another juicy future nug....
Caterpillars tend to be one of those sort of pests most of us find out about only after we lose some bud. Zap any eggs that might be there early then every 7-10 days afterwards. We use insect killing soap on the same schedule.
Spinosad is now known to harm honeybees, so it should only be sprayed in the evening, fortunately I haven't found anything that says the residue is harmful, so by morning it should be ok for those pollinators.
i use organic "Safer" brand insect killing Soap, its organic, and EXTREMELY effective in controlling caterpillars. Theres also a caterpillar killer by the same makers. I use both these sprays in conjunction. 5 years ago, i had a few cata. every few Oz. Now I have literally ONE or TWO a harvest per year.
The insect Soap, is alot like surfboard wax, has a bitter smell, but works FANTASTIC!
The cata killer is an organic fungicide I believe, best to use beginning of moth season, and early in veg.
Pros: Cheap/Effective/ORGANIC
Cons:
Works only on LEAF EATING pests. And have to re-spray every few weeks. Doesnt work on Mites. Seems everything else is great!
Wears off/ washes off easily. Also leaves little puddles of white where spray collects. Sometimes looks like mold, but u can rub it off if in doubt.
Dont spray late in flower!,water based, causes mold.
They also make cloth screens (different hole sizes) and they're pretty cheap. Just cover your lady in it and its all good! Most let like 90%+ of sunlight through also. Get the white ones.
Fascinating observations! I don't raise wigglers, I raise mealworms (originally for my chickens). I am now getting so much frass that I've been able to stop using the worm castings. Everything I compost goes into a single small bin, we just don't generate enough waste for an actual compost pile. It's whatever food scraps the birds don't eat. I figure that since I alternate the Spinosad in rotation with Bt and what remains isn't being concentrated in one location, I'm probably ok. I can only assume we've still got segmented worms down in the dirt, but it's been SO long since we've had a good enough rain for me to even see them, ya know?idk I raise my own wigglers n other compost insects to produce my nutes for my herbs....I had been usin moterrey for budworms a few years outside and recently got lazy and spoiled added it to my neem routine.....It beat the mites ass and I could spray every two weeks as opposed to every 4 days with just neem n soap n thrive,.........but in the long view over a few months to a year I noticed it was killing my wigglers cuz I feed them 100% of my canna scraps roots stem leaf ya name it..........this made me wonder what other part my bio food chain spinosad was killing? I stopped using it inside and only use is three times a season outback now and only right before dark and Im still skeptic.....i certainly don't wanna disrupt my ecosystem because im lazy even if somethings natural it still can be too strong........
cap is the foliar pack effective on caterpillars?permanent solution to this problem is mosquito netting. no white butterfly, no green caterpillar.
cap is the foliar pack effective on caterpillars?
what is in the foliar pack if you don't mind me askingyes it has BTi.
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