aphids on buds harvested now what ?

baxbax

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Hi rollitup , I harvested today my autos and saw one of them has aphids on it , a few lower branches and top cola is free of aphids , the most of them was on leaves and I detected few that stick to trichomes and unable to move I removed all aphids I can see under sunshine with magnifying glass honestly was not too many aphids on buds my surprise, but under fan leaves was full of aphids ,

I put them now to dry ? Is this ok ? my concern is if aphids grow again on buds after I harvest possible ? there is no visible aphids on buds now I removed likely all under sunlight and with magnifying glass .
 

baxbax

Active Member
What about all the ones that crawled into your buds and died.
you mean inside of bud where seeds develop ? if you mean except inside of bud the outer layer that trichome covered I found few there stuck to trichomes and can't move (good one) , removed all roughly , I also opened the layers of bud and removed every aphid was ,
but my surprise is they seem do not like buds at all, most of them was under fan leaves
 

NGA

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You will never know their there when you smoke it enjoy, As a rule by old school growers is if you have bugs deal with it by picking a few leafs or spraying a friendly safe soap in veg only , I had crops when I was younger that where covered in a white blanket lmao people didn't complain
 

baxbax

Active Member
I decide not to use spray that late in flower and let them go finish and they did , but the fact I found is aphids can not live easily on flowering cannabis , they can live on fan leaves but as they move into buds all stick to trichomes and die ,

the infection on buds was not proper just few there on lower branches and all doomed by trichomes , but lower fan leaves was badly effected ,

when I compare this plant to other plant near it I can tell it has very low odor , other plant has very strong odor and completely aphid free ,

and aphid effected plant produced more resins trichomes compare this to other same gen plant .

any way I think I removed every aphid with Tweezers , you can see I did job and buds are all part part
 
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