my plant is in the great outdoors but inside a little greenhouse,I feel like she is extremely vulnerable to pests, do I need to make preventative measures?
I have my girl outside right now with no protection. All I do is spray with a organic pesticide once a week, and that does wonders! I have ladybugs outdoors in my garden aswell, and they eat most things that threaten the cannabis plant. Also some strains have been bred to be more bug resistant than others, so genetics play a big roll.
Spray plants once a week with a rotating spraying of BT with Azamax or another product for mites plus uncented biodegradable dish soap and Spinosad with neem oil plus a tad of plus uncented biodegradable dish soap. Mite can become resistant to incestisides so by using different product prevent them from building resistance. Spinosad and BT will kill moths and caterpillars. The dish soap is also to kill mites and you only need a small squirt of it.
You need to protect your plants ASAP. The longer you wait the further the pest will damage your plants. I hope you like smoking bugs.
I do have precautions but in a really unrefined form I dunno if there doing much though, they some cloves of garlic on top of my soil and patchouli oil in a dish, you should see how many bugs are repelled by garlic when its just growing and patchuli is also bug repellant, my plant barely has any bud yet so im not worried atm, shes in a pot btw
I put spiders, assassin bugs, lady bugs, and preying mantis whenever I can find them on the plant...the youngsters know there's a five dollar bounty on a live mantis they find in the yard, HA. Other than that I'll neem a few times if it looks like they want it. I'm only growing for personal though and I've lost up to twenty percent or so usually to budworms, still averaging about twenty zips on two plants.
Why loose any bud to something you can prevent? I lost nothing last year to pest. Plan to repeat that again this year.
huh? I dont plan to lose any bud? I will make a spray soon, I dont have any ingredients on hand, in the meantime I have basic precautions to protect my currently budless plant
I was responding to carlsburn but forgot to quote. Believe it out not even bud less plants are affected by pest. They will suck the plant juice and eat holes in leaves. Come flowering they burrow in flowers and eat then stem causing tops to dies. It's easier to prevent them than trying to eradicate them once they have taken over.
ok ,I wasnt sure who your were replying too. yeah im gonna get It soon , I also read that chives repell nearly as many pests as garlic does when its growing and I have 3-4 big tufts of chives growing very nearby, even without the spray I would be confident enough in leaving it outside with no protection, plus I live in a colder climate where a lot of smaller insects , e.g mosquitoes, just cant sustain life. still gonna make a spray though although unless there is something about a cannabis plant that attracts all kinds of pests I really dont see how there is much of a risk atall? its a plant, it evolved around pests for millions of years, around my grow location is hundreds of acres of thriving dense vegetation that seems to be invunerable to pests. anyway If I do lose a plant because i didn't take great enough measures ill learn a life lessen early on rather than later on when my grows are bigger and better.
Also going on from this point,, I assume you spray the leaves and buds , wouldnt oil sprays dissolve or damage trichomes or degrade thc? and wouldnt soap stick to your buds ?I couldnt see the rain getting rid of all soap without it being scrubbed, and with all the hairs and crevaces on buds it seems like it would really be stuck to it, so where does it go? not doubting these methods as they obviously have been in practice for a long time just wondering how it works
People shouldn't use pesticides on cannabis, the thc itself is an anti-pest mechanism. I suggest against it effects quality, and you don't want to be smoking bug spray. I never used in any outdoor grow and it didn't make a difference.
I limit the products I use in flower. I use bio degradable soap. It breaks down and does harm the bud. I use so little of it and use a fogger so if goes a long way. It hasn't harmed my bugs yet.
I hear you and I know you're right, guess I just have a general distrust of anything that comes in a bottle and claims to kill something...understand it's organic but it just doesn't sit right. If it came down to having no bud or losing a paycheck I'm sure I'd be spraying. Have a great season brother! Here's a stacked kush...stakes are about six foot from the top of the pot, homage to 5150 down at the base.
We planted onion and garlic chives and seem to be doing great, but I also made my own concoction that seems to be awesome so far. 32 ounce sprayer. Half teaspoon neem oil, half teaspoon dish soap, half ounce pro-tekt and 1 ML. Super thrive and water shake and spray. I know its simple but working like I should be marketing it. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using Grasscity Forum mobile app
Skip the super thrive. Research has found no added benefits to grow plants. No need to waste your money on it.
I have serious heat right now and thats why I'm using it. Thankyou though, I will listen to your guidance. You have already helped me. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using Grasscity Forum mobile app