Okay, as the title says, I have a “new guy” question. Plants are 6 weeks along, 4 Super Skunk and 2 Apple Fritter autoflowers. Just found these small light colored critters on the underside of some leaves this morning. Already ordered some Captain Jack’s and it will arrive tomorrow. Am I on the right track?
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Yes. Good choice.
Welcome to the forum.
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I cant see good anymore, what kind of insect is it? Aphids? Looks to big to be spider mites.
You ordered some good stuff but here’s a tip, spray at dawn and dusk. Do not sprsy when sun is high or in the middle of a grow cycle.
Simply mixing a spray of two tablespoons per quart of filtered cayanne pepper with one tiny drop of soap works on alot of critters, but not all.
Outdoor i have found the bio fungicide and insecticide products to work as advertised.
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Ladybugs will hunt aphids.
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Yeah, looks like aphids. After doing a lot of reading, it seems there are a few different remedies. I do have some Captain Jack’s arriving today. Also saw that neem oil, peppermint oil, and someone suggested a cayenne infusion mixed with a little soap might work. I like the idea of adding some ladybugs in the mix too, but want to be careful that any spray might be bad for them. I’m doing my grow in a greenhouse along with my veggies, so it’s something of a closed environment.
Almost have too many choices now! Thanks for the input. It’s always a work in progress…
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I had praying mantis in mine for a while an lil jumping spiders eat aphids but poison works to lol.
After looking over the other plants in the greenhouse, I can see there are more aphids scattered around. They do seem to prefer “the girls” though. Think I will be coming at this from a couple directions. I have some neem oil and peppermint oil on hand, in addition to the CJ’s that should arrive today. Thinking I will acquire some “friendly bugs” too, to get into the hard to reach areas. Now I just gotta watch out for my tendency to “overkill” the problem and keep a balanced response.
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Doing some more reading, I’ve found that tomato plants have certain “pesticidal” qualities. I have some thinning out to do on my tomato plants, so might give this a try (in the name of science, of course).
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You can buy them in bulk like lady bugs an when they clear you problem ( run out of food ) they move on i like putting them in my gardens
An i had lil jumping spiders they hopped all over did no harm
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Im going to go thin my tomatoes lol an make some of this myself
Thanks for the confirmation on that.
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good luck with them bugs!
Niiice!
It was a runt i grew
Stay away from oil based insecticides. The oils is absorbed by the plant. Stick with the CJDB. Maybe mix it up with another fruit/flower safe product.
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I made a tea from tomato plant and garlic cuttings and sprayed the plants down with it for a few days and that seemed to have done the trick for the aphid issue a few weeks back.
Now, looking over trichomes on one of my autos, which is not far from harvest, I spotted this critter cruising around.
I’m guessing I have a week or so until harvest. Thinking I need to break out that tomato/garlic tea again, but wondering if I’m too close to harvest. Any advice here would be appreciated.
I would wait, cut, and drown the bastards.
Not sure if it works, but I tried 8 hours under water.
Then I cooked the bastards (decarb dry to a crisp 170/5hrs). and mined the kief. Been smoking Kief enhanced home-rolled.
washing my weed in H2O2 and H2O, clean and soft.
Cooked decarb-ed and kief mined, not viewed for bugs. They burn wen dry.
Ladybugs deployed but they didn’t like Jack’s deadbug spray.
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