Bud Worms are ruining my life.

just kidding not my life. but my plants are being devastated by them. It's frustrating. I bought trichogramma wasps and ants ate the eggs. i tried spraing them with organic spray that says it kills budworms but it doesn't. idk what to do. gg to my plants.

update i bought tihs stuff. anyone nkow anything about it?http://generalhydroponics.com/site/index.php/products/maintenance/azamax1/

I used Spinosad pellets in the soil and I sprayed mine down with Azatrol right after they began to flower. And I still got destroyed

i went to a hydroponics shop by my house and that's what they recommended. but i brought them 2 of the budworms and they said they've never seen anything like it and said this stuff should work. but idk.

I hose em with BT. The bacteria destroys their gut after they feed. Its safe for you too. Usually 3 sprays as rain washes it away.

what coho said...peace

"Caterpillar killer" commercial BT product. It works.

Spreading diatomaceous earth (DE powder) on the ground will kill em before they can even reach your plants.

they didn't have bt. i asked. they said they had never seen the worms before. so i thought they were dumb.

the key to budworms is diligent precaution. in late veg/early flower, i would use a insect killer that has pyrethrin. This kills eggs and hatched catepillars. I continue with BT...this continues to provide poison for those bastards. All the while I'm using this, i also cover my potted plant with a mosquito net, caped around the entire plant using bamboo stakes. This helps keep moths/butterflies from laying eggs. Any openings from the mosquito net provides an entrance but definitely reduces exposure to flying insects.

I use BT up to Week 3/4 of flowering and just keeping a careful eye on everything as it ripens. You really can't eliminate budworms but you can reduce the amount of lost bud.

in your stage, you can two things, either take an early harvest and watch the worms start crawling out as it dries or let it ripen more and suffer an even smaller harvest. I would take a early harvest. look into investing in a mosquito net to cover your plant and better precaution

thanks dante. yeahh. precaution is the best defence definitely. they caught me off guard though. thanks for the info.

Another thing about those bastards...if you have the time - and patience - some worm eggs look like tiny white hairs about a 1/4 inch long with a ball or bigger part about the size of a pinhead (if that) on the end, on any given part of a leaf. Sometimes clusters of two or three. Aaaggghhh!!! That's an army If you see a leaf that is just a tiny hole, that might be where the egg has hatched and the worm ate through. The first sign I see of worm damage is a wilted leaf, and on that leaf is that tiny little hole. Fuckin worminators.

Hope im not thread hijacking.... I just found a few caterpillars. I have no read hairs just pure white.
3 weeks and longer, near a month till harvest.

Ima spray with safer caterpillar spray.

Thank that is ok?
Has no oil and my local store said do it and she is ~NEVER~ wrong.

Im no where near harvest but I do have huge buds.

One year I sprayed azomax late and it was ok but I wont spray oil this lat again.

BT is the best product when in late flower...using spinosad or neem or azamaz can make your bud taste like rotten ass ..they seem to come at prime time also...plus thier crap on the leaves promotes bud rot...the procust called caterpiller killer by garden safe works well....but you still have to look over the buds to get any shit on them...I hate caters...

hay guyz this is what I was told to use.
http://www.saferbrand.com/store/outdoor-insect/5163

And in fact I just nuked 4 more colas today, so I better figure something out while im still 100% white hairs.
still a month out till harvest.

One question please, I just sprayed with 1 tsp per gallon of water with Safer catt killer.

Question, I see damaged buds and I removed them.

1. Question the new caterpillars hatch, do they eat the bud and damage/kill the bud or come out and die?
My buds are not really "Stacked" you know so early.

thanks peace,