After spending 10 days away I came back to a nightmare: lot of fallen leaves marked significantly the general green mass of my ladies and of them had something we first diagnosed as a Fusarium but inveszigating it a bit better it might be hemp borer caterpillars.
It would explain the slowing down of the growth and the too many yellowing leaves as well.
But it also means that the plants have been infeczed for a few weeks now.
I applied Bacillus thuringiensis on the leaves and even injected some into the stems.
Now I am just hoping that these once beautiful plants will make it through the harvest and give me some buds.
Update:
Znfortunately she is also infected with fusarium. Today I’ve found one branch wilted and the interior was greyish black with the fungi.
What a disaster!!!
So
This is the end of this road…
I am very sad about it.
sweet, but in myopinion your plants are to close
i normally give my outdoor ladies 1-120 cm distance to each other
or you do some advanced training or scrog we will see- follw with interest
@Biotabs, they might be too close but i am not sure a training would fix this , because lst or scrog is taking more space horizontally. I was planning to do it, but then I decided to let them go upwards. Maybe when they pass their fence I would gently guide them out of the flowerbed. I would gladly take any advice. Should I transplant one of them?
well, in my opinion using BT is not for outdoor use, because it is poisoning birds and bats, that eat the poisoned insect too
and all the other insects gt a portion of the poison
and there is an aquatic toxicity too, when the bacterias are washed into the envoirement
greetings
@Biotabs,
As I know BT has a lot of specimens and one is only dangerous on a very few species. That’s why they use it as a biological defense against mosquitoes in a huge scale, as well.
The one I use (bacillus thuringiensis kurstaki) it is against caterpillars, no other thing is harmed by it. On the package it also says: it has no effect on the aquatic life either.
By the way : today it turned out that Fusarium is my enemy this year. So my plants are doomed :(.