for some reason today i am notice a huge number of flies around my plants. my plants look perfect and i have no stagnant water anywhere near my plants. im in the north east and we had a hot day. my plants are 2 week from harvest. is it the smell of the plants that is attracting the fies? i stoped using neem and bt about a week ago.
should this be on concern?
any advice would be huge. i dont wanna do nothing and loose my whole crop.
If you are growing in soil - they live in the soil and cary the fungus that causes root rott. Let the soil dry out and looks at some fruit safe spays. They are hard to get rid of…
Avoid using neem oil three weeks before harvest because the lingering oil may affect final flavors. That said, it would be very bad luck for something to go wrong in the last three weeks.
I’d do a bud wash after chop, that may help and something I’d do for an outdoor plant harvest anyway. Yeah Neem should not be used once buds have set in, but I’d wash them and dry them and see how a bud smokes after that.
I once had spider mites in mid/late flowering and used a pyrethrins pest spray, buds tasted so bad that they were not able to be smoked, had to throw it all out.