Ants in buds with one week remaining!

What's good y'all? Well much to my dismay today, I went to check the garden to find that I had fireants with there little devil servamts, aphids in my little girls. I have about a week n a half left and have no idea what to do. There weren't a ton, but they happen to take a liking to my most picturesque cola. Is there something I should do, or should I cut 'em a bit early? They happen to be in the same spot that I cut out some brown mold yesterday due to two days of drizzly ass rain. What's the call, chop early or let 'em sit? Thanks!

Buy diatomacous earth, and a hand blower. DE is natural and will not harm your plants. In fact it will supply some minerals. It works by cutting the ants/mites... and killing them

I think the ants are going after the aphids. Don't they eat them? That sucks dude. In my grow spot. I spray the perimeter every few days with organicide, and the outside permiter with Malathion. It's worked so far. Knock on wood.

Will spraying my plants this close to harvest with DE cause problems with smoke though? I don't want my lungs getting cut up by little shards of organic glass. lol. The ants farm the aphids for the sweet substance that the aphids secrete when they eat plant matter... = (

Aphids sound terrible. Yikes.