Hey everyone. I’m on week 7 of flowering on my first grow using a seed found in dispensary weed (got ILGM seeds for my next run ). It’s been grown in shitty organic soil from the hardware store and fed Emerald Harvest nutes. Recently I noticed these bumps showing up on some of the lower stalks:
They’re squishy to the touch and easily smear off the plant. My plant in general is covered with tiny bumps but they’re very stiff to the touch and a part of the stalk.
What do you think is my best option for treating them given how far along the plant is in flowering and the fact I can’t really move it due to the trellis?
I’d spray at least once a day until I had them 86’d. If you do it during lights on, turn the lights down until it has dried. You can get the RTU sprays at Ace/Big Box, the concentrate off Azn is a better deal and you can up the strength, which I always do when I use it. Fungus Gnats, adults use sticky’s & larvae use BTI (Mosquito dunks/bits) this too you can pick up at ACe/Big box. The larvae is what eats the roots, the flyers are just annoying and lay thousands more…
Been treating all my plants with dunk water for a few weeks now. There seem to be slightly fewer of them now, but they’ve infested my entire home and are all over the damn place.
How fast moving are mealybug infestations in your experience?
Fungus gnats are the pits to get rid of in your house. They love ripe fruit and beer. They will hang out in a empty beer can. I save aluminum cans. If you don’t have a lid on your can you put the cans in the gnats will take it over.
Definitely have noticed them around drains and in the bathroom too. They do this thing where they hangout on the condensation on the bathroom ceiling, then die when it dries out and leave behind a collage of dead gnats on my ceiling.
You can wipe the mealybugs off with a paper towel wet with alcohol, they die easy, its just getting them all thats the task. Yeah Gnats, you have to break the lifecycle, they lay thousands of larvae and hatch every 3-5 days…so those pricks you just have to be diligent.
Like @flitme said this time of year its difficult, I have a huge garden so we are constantly in and out with grocery bags of peppers/toms and whatnot., so the GF keeps a couple small bowls of redwine vinegar out, they’re attracted to it and drown.
I went through and removed all the ones that I could see and get to. It seems largely confined to particular stems.
It seems like I’m specifically dealing scale bugs as @Pet_de_Chien named which are in the same family as mealybugs, but don’t have some of the same fuzzy and powdery appearance which most articles highlight. Apparently the scales become immobile once they reach the stage that I have in my pictures.
I ended up looking through my plants to see if any others were infected with scale. I noticed a neglected elephant bush trimming is covered in the them. It wasn’t in the same room as the tent, but maybe this is how they got indoors. I applied the 50% peroxide 50% treatment on this as a test.
I ended up harvesting yesterday, and the infestation was far more extensive than was visible when the plant was fixed into the tent with the trellis.
There were a good number of scales that had made their way up into the higher branches. While all the upper and larger kolas were left untouched, I ended up having to discard a number of smaller nugs that had honeydew on them or had scales next to them. Overall, there weren’t any more choice nugs that were affected.
I suspect that by the time I noticed the infestation they had already gained a big foothold on the plant, and there wasn’t much I could do without ruining the buds.
). It’s been grown in shitty organic soil from the hardware store and fed Emerald Harvest nutes. Recently I noticed these bumps showing up on some of the lower stalks:
