rollinred
Well-Known Member
Well this year right about at harvest time the aphids found my plants. I had been watching for them all year and only found a couple. These are second year plants btw.
I harvested a little over 1 pound of wet hops last night that looked like there was a few aphids on them and put them in my dehydrator last night.
This morning I woke up to find what looked like a few hundred aphids crawling on my dehydrator. I am assuming the hops got dry enough that the aphids were no longer interested and started crawling out of the crevices I could not see.
So what do you guys think... do I need to throw out these hops because of aphid contamination? What is the SOP for this situation?
You can bet your A$$ that I am going to be full on hardcore chemical pesticide next year. I refuse to deal with these little bastards in a gentle way any longer. I don't even believe in the value of organic anyway so I have no idea why I even tried.
Thanks for the help.
I harvested a little over 1 pound of wet hops last night that looked like there was a few aphids on them and put them in my dehydrator last night.
This morning I woke up to find what looked like a few hundred aphids crawling on my dehydrator. I am assuming the hops got dry enough that the aphids were no longer interested and started crawling out of the crevices I could not see.
So what do you guys think... do I need to throw out these hops because of aphid contamination? What is the SOP for this situation?
You can bet your A$$ that I am going to be full on hardcore chemical pesticide next year. I refuse to deal with these little bastards in a gentle way any longer. I don't even believe in the value of organic anyway so I have no idea why I even tried.
Thanks for the help.