my outdoor plant was doing fine. survived all the frosts all the wind everything. but now with the last few weeks of flowering coming to a close its getting covered with little black bugs they are not really in the bud its self, theres only a few that i can see. but the underside of the leaves its just covered like a poppie seed bagle. what can i do to et rid of these fuckers with out hurting the plant.
yeah, I think i know what you're talking about. I got those on my last grow. just a few on the stems, yours sounds more like an infestation of them. all I did was scrape them off with a razor, but if there are too many for you to do that, i'd try a very careful application of neem oil, avoiding spraying the buds. they didn't go in my buds, either, so they should be ok to smoke, even if you can't kill them. other than that, I couldn't find any info on the web about them, or know what they're called. sorry i cant help more, I know how you feel.