This is my first harvest (tiny lemon autoflower grown outdoors) and I noticed some dead tiny white and dark insects stuck mainly to the trichomes at the base more so than the top.
Given that they are stuck in the stickiness of it all, I would ask, whether I should just leave it? Would I try and wash it? And what is best for this situation? Or would you discard this yield altogether?
Can you smoke it as is, once dry? Is smoking bud with insects attached a problem?
Anyone from Queensland Australia know what they are?
I think the dark spots are aphids and the white spots are their ‘poop’
You can wash the buds but I would be picky during trim that I kept r the cleanest for smoke and the rest for edibles
I dont reckon much will be left if he selects the choicest buds…let alone enough to make one jolly rancher…lol
I guess he could add it to a shake bag.
We inhale and digest many insects a day. Bread…candy…soda…macaroni…if it is a food, be sure it has bug parts. I belive cigarettes do aswell. Smoking it wont hurt.
I had horrible aphids last summer
Outdoors. I did a triple wash and double rinse. While trimming I used a powerful scope and plucked dead bodies out of the best buds then used the rest for edibles. It was time consuming but I had a lot of great buds I did t want to lose.
