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Lutador420
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Hello,
this is my first grow and I just noticed caterpillars late into harvest. I have 6 plants which I have been growing outdoors in 5 gallon pots under a 6x8 greenhouse. I'm at the end of flowering and recently started noticing a few sugar leaves turning brown. I mistakenly thought it was due to heat and as the plants were nearing harvest. However, upon further inspection I started noticing a few caterpillars and then looked inside the buds and started seeing their poop as well as some bud rot set in.
the bud rot doesn't look bad from the outside at all, however, I do see it inside near the trail of poop from the caterpillars. This is so disheartening, but live and learn. I noticed indicas were hit harder over the sativas. In any case, I flushed about 10 days and about to harvest tomorrow, last watering was a couple days ago.
I wanted your help on how I should harvest this crop and prepare it for drying. I already cut out several budlets that had the budrot, but was curious on if I should even keep the buds that have trails of caterpillar poop, or throw those away all together. Many buds, unfortunately have some sort of poop on them. I would say 50%... all except one plant, the tangie, had some type of poop trail.
My plan was to eliminate any buds with clear budrot and then for the remaining to do a wash using the 4 bucket method of water/hydrogen peroxide mix, lemon juice with baking soda mix and the remaining two buckets with water. I would only use the hydrogen peroxide mix with branches that had trails of poop or in which I removed any budrot. For those branches that didn't have trails of poop, I was going to just use the lemon juice/ baking soda mix and water buckets.
Please help, any advice on how to handle this crop and prepare for drying is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Randy
this is my first grow and I just noticed caterpillars late into harvest. I have 6 plants which I have been growing outdoors in 5 gallon pots under a 6x8 greenhouse. I'm at the end of flowering and recently started noticing a few sugar leaves turning brown. I mistakenly thought it was due to heat and as the plants were nearing harvest. However, upon further inspection I started noticing a few caterpillars and then looked inside the buds and started seeing their poop as well as some bud rot set in.
the bud rot doesn't look bad from the outside at all, however, I do see it inside near the trail of poop from the caterpillars. This is so disheartening, but live and learn. I noticed indicas were hit harder over the sativas. In any case, I flushed about 10 days and about to harvest tomorrow, last watering was a couple days ago.
I wanted your help on how I should harvest this crop and prepare it for drying. I already cut out several budlets that had the budrot, but was curious on if I should even keep the buds that have trails of caterpillar poop, or throw those away all together. Many buds, unfortunately have some sort of poop on them. I would say 50%... all except one plant, the tangie, had some type of poop trail.
My plan was to eliminate any buds with clear budrot and then for the remaining to do a wash using the 4 bucket method of water/hydrogen peroxide mix, lemon juice with baking soda mix and the remaining two buckets with water. I would only use the hydrogen peroxide mix with branches that had trails of poop or in which I removed any budrot. For those branches that didn't have trails of poop, I was going to just use the lemon juice/ baking soda mix and water buckets.
Please help, any advice on how to handle this crop and prepare for drying is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Randy
