tomatoesarecooltoo
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The following changes have helped me gain the upper hand in my battle with the caterpillars. They are still coming every day, but I am able to catch them sooner, before they do much damage.
1) More manual hunting. Checking the healthy buds, not just the affected buds I have found quite a few caterpillars hanging out before they do any damage.
2) Less BT more often. A gentle misting every evening and every night. No way the BT survives half a week in the sun IMO atleast not in my climate.
3) Pumps are not for chumps at least in this case. I think the atomizer was killing the BT before it got to the leaf, the week that I lost the most to the caterpillars (a few ounces at least) was the week that I tried using the atomizer.
I am fortunate that I did not encounter any other difficult issues this run and fortunate that rot does not spread quickly in my climate. After removing the dead areas of the flower and inspecting the buds, I do not see and bud rot spreading from the attacks, but I am still treating the effected flowers with food grade peroxide to be safe.
Another batch of buds coming down this Saturday.
1) More manual hunting. Checking the healthy buds, not just the affected buds I have found quite a few caterpillars hanging out before they do any damage.
2) Less BT more often. A gentle misting every evening and every night. No way the BT survives half a week in the sun IMO atleast not in my climate.
3) Pumps are not for chumps at least in this case. I think the atomizer was killing the BT before it got to the leaf, the week that I lost the most to the caterpillars (a few ounces at least) was the week that I tried using the atomizer.
I am fortunate that I did not encounter any other difficult issues this run and fortunate that rot does not spread quickly in my climate. After removing the dead areas of the flower and inspecting the buds, I do not see and bud rot spreading from the attacks, but I am still treating the effected flowers with food grade peroxide to be safe.
Another batch of buds coming down this Saturday.
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