First grow journal!

[socaljoe]

Can’t wait u til I have to deal with those! What are the signs? I’ve noticed a lot slugs out here

If you don't mind sharing....what state do you live in? If you're far enough north, you may not have to deal with them. I talked with some Wisconsin growers and was told they don't really have to deal with caterpillars there.

If you do get budworms in your area, you'll see medium-sized (quarter-sized) white/cream colored moths flying around and landing on your plants where they lay eggs, which then hatch and the caterpillar burrows inside the bud and starts to eat (and shit).

The best way to prevent them is to keep the moths from being able to land on the plants, my suggestion would be a screenhouse...that would be a greenhouse frame covered in shade cloth material, reasoning being if they can't land then they can't lay eggs. BT (bacillus thuringiensis) spray will work, but it doesn't work well enough to be 100% reliable as they have to ingest the active bacteria. The problem with using BT is that most of what they eat is inside the flower cluster, the BT spray mostly goes on the leaves and outside of the buds.

 

[socaljoe]

Oh, and fucking grasshoppers man. My plants were covered with the little green ones. I left them alone though, they eat leaves and don't do enough damage to worry about. But man, I had dozens of them across 8 plants.

 

[H.A.F.]

Oh, and fucking grasshoppers man. My plants were covered with the little green ones. I left them alone though, they eat leaves and don't do enough damage to worry about. But man, I had dozens of them across 8 plants.

I'll stick with inside and my fungus gnats thank you

 

[H.A.F.]

Don't forget the PM and bud rot as the weather gets shitty right before harvest...

 

[sfrigon1]

Don't forget the PM and bud rot as the weather gets shitty right before harvest...

U trying to get him all excited about his first outdoor grow ? Lol

 

[H.A.F.]

U trying to get him all excited about his first outdoor grow ? Lol

Dude - I have thought so many times how cool it would be to do an outdoor grow - then September and October roll around and the bitching starts

If I did it I would run autos just so they weren't out there as long.

 

[Thomasbruh]

Ehh learning curves and no electrics bills or anything really which is nice

 

[Thomasbruh]

If you don't mind sharing....what state do you live in? If you're far enough north, you may not have to deal with them. I talked with some Wisconsin growers and was told they don't really have to deal with caterpillars there.

If you do get budworms in your area, you'll see medium-sized (quarter-sized) white/cream colored moths flying around and landing on your plants where they lay eggs, which then hatch and the caterpillar burrows inside the bud and starts to eat (and shit).

The best way to prevent them is to keep the moths from being able to land on the plants, my suggestion would be a screenhouse...that would be a greenhouse frame covered in shade cloth material, reasoning being if they can't land then they can't lay eggs. BT (bacillus thuringiensis) spray will work, but it doesn't work well enough to be 100% reliable as they have to ingest the active bacteria. The problem with using BT is that most of what they eat is inside the flower cluster, the BT spray mostly goes on the leaves and outside of the buds.

I live in Michigan

 

[socaljoe]

I live in Michigan

Well...you'll find out soon enough if you get the budworms there. It'll be a good test case for going bigger next year.

 

[socaljoe]

I found a pic of the little creepy crawlies. Weird thing is, I've seen them in green, brown and kinda pink like this one.




If you look close, you can spot some of the necrotic spots on the bud. They get down to the base of the calyx cluster and chew the stem, effectively cutting off the supply line for the calyx cluster to stay alive.

 

[Thomasbruh]

 

[MtRainDog]

Dude - I have thought so many times how cool it would be to do an outdoor grow - then September and October roll around and the bitching starts

If I did it I would run autos just so they weren't out there as long.

If I was a billionaire, I would make enough auto seeds to fly over areas in my private jet and just let those seeds fly. Cover the nation in autos.

 

[Thomasbruh]

Just hit up my yard

 

[MtRainDog]

You bet dude! We ain’t free until we can grow as many dag on plants as we want.

 

[H.A.F.]

If I was a billionaire, I would make enough auto seeds to fly over areas in my private jet and just let those seeds fly. Cover the nation in autos.

I don't get many bag-seeds, but I have had a few plants pop a seed or two that were beauties, and one plant that fully seeded and never showed anything. Didn't even know until the plant was dry and I started bucking and jarring.

I have a jar of seeds that I'll never grow in a tent that would be perfect for that.

 

[MtRainDog]

I don't get many bag-seeds, but I have had a few plants pop a seed or two that were beauties, and one plant that fully seeded and never showed anything. Didn't even know until the plant was dry and I started bucking and jarring.

I have a jar of seeds that I'll never grow in a tent that would be perfect for that.

Exactly. who ends up popping those beans? No one. Next GG4 could be hiding in there.

 

[socaljoe]

Exactly. who ends up popping those beans? No one. Next GG4 could be hiding in there.

And the legends to go with it.

The seed for this cut was found in a bag I got at a Miley Cyrus show. It's called Hannah Montana OG.

 

[MtRainDog]

And the legends to go with it.

The seed for this cut was found in a bag I got at a Miley Cyrus show. It's called Hannah Montana OG.

Shit, change the band name and we got ourselves the Chemdog story! This makes me feel old. My twenty something year old niece was into Hannah Montana and that was forever ago.

 

[BrokenHoeFarms]

Hannah Montana

 

[H.A.F.]

Exactly. who ends up popping those beans? No one. Next GG4 could be hiding in there.

When I have had ideas for different ways to germinate, those are the beans to use. I never intend to grow them out, but I have popped quite a few just to test theories