Question about first outdoor grow and bugs

wanijkesv

New Member
Let me start with its an outdoor grow, three bag seed plants (1 afgooey, 1 chocolope, and 1 unknown) all three of which were females. About 3-4 days into flowering, planted mid April. Will post pictures soon!
..So I have a few random bugs on my plants. Some are moth looking things (dark colored), some grass hoppers, and I suspect a few others I haven't found yet. There aren't really any white spots or anything on the leaves to my untrained eye, but there are large chunks of leave missing (no animals eating them, just bugs). My question is getting down to how to handle the insects if I plan on running the trim to make wax? I've heard neem oil and others alike can ruin wax and concentrates of used, especially while flowering.
Thanks for reading guys, just don't want to fuck up, couldn't find any answers on Google regarding this specific situation.
 

DancesWithWeeds

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Without any more info than we have here, I'd say thefirst thing to do is spray your plants for afids and hose them off. There are several good recipes on line for spray. It sounds like you have a serious bug problem so the next thing, as soon as the plants dry, dust them lightly with DE, and dig a a little into the top of the soil.

One of the most effective things is the yellow sticky traps. I get mine at Amazon.

Some of how you control bugs now that you are in flower is going to depend on how you mak your oil. If the budd is going to be used for oil you can filter it thru a C-Lite filter (fanncy DE) so none of the DE will be in the finished product.

Where are you? You must be far south to be growing outside now.
 

OldMedUser

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Unless you are seeing major damage to your plants nature can keep things from getting too bad. Maybe use a hose to wash the plants down good with just water which can keep populations down and won't wash off many resin glands. hit the undersides of the leaves good as that's where many like to live.

Any of the bug sprays used in flower will afect the taste of the product or even make it toxic. Pesticides approved for fruits and veg are meant to be washed off a smooth skin but will be embedded in all the nooks and crannies of the buds.

Just say no to chemical warfare!

:peace:
 

green_machine_two9er

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I used insecticidal soap and dr zymes kept most everything at bay and tested clean. But I sprayed every chance I got. Once or twice a week average cutting out about 4 weeks into flowering.
 

FresnoFarmer

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You can buy praying mantis eggs for grasshopper control. Fill a small dish or can with 1 part molasses and 10 parts water. The grasshoppers will be attracted to the molasses, and will drown in the solution. I have found that spraying grasshoppers with the same solution clogs their breathing pores and suffocates them.
 
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