Bugs showing up on plant in the last 2 weeks of flower.

[Xtensity]

So, one of my plants, had like 10 black ants crawling on it, that I spotted easily in like 15 seconds of looking at it. Black ants being the ones that DO eat green and have been reported to be disastrous to plants. This last 2 weeks.... supposedly I'm not supposed to put any kind of pesticide(neem/pyrethins) or the taste will be altered greatly.

Up until the last 2 weeks of flower(which just started), I spared Neem solution dilute on all my plants, soaked from top to bottom, AT LEAST once a week...

There was also one little tiny spider that was suspended from a web near one of my base buds, I can probably pick him off tomarrow.... But the ants are what's concerning me.

Any tips if I can't use pesticides? Also no ant-killer strips, because it's raining constantly, nearly every day for the next 2 weeks, which sucks because it's also going to be cloudy.

 

[dargo]

id be more worried about 2 weeks of rain for your last 2 weeks of flowering. I leave spiders on the plant, they dont do me any harm and they will eat a leaf eater faster than a leaf eater eats leaves.

can you put something atractive to them by your plant to draw them away?

 

[rocket high]

id be more worried about 2 weeks of rain for your last 2 weeks of flowering. I leave spiders on the plant, they dont do me any harm and they will eat a leaf eater faster than a leaf eater eats leaves.

can you put something atractive to them by your plant to draw them away?

lol dargo .... i like the spiders too they do more good than bad

 

[Xtensity]

id be more worried about 2 weeks of rain for your last 2 weeks of flowering. I leave spiders on the plant, they dont do me any harm and they will eat a leaf eater faster than a leaf eater eats leaves.

can you put something atractive to them by your plant to draw them away?

Would the rain hurt as long as the soil is well airated?

I remember reading that as long as your soil is very airated it wont matter if there's always water in the pot. The soil drains extremely fast when rain lands in it.

Should I be worried much about mold? What are the negatives of too much watering if root rot isn't an issue?

 

[rocket high]

mold might be your biggest problem xtensity .....when it rains it usually hits 90-100% humidity which isnt good for a constant two weeks ...

 

[Xtensity]

mold might be your biggest problem xtensity .....when it rains it usually hits 90-100% humidity which isnt good for a constant two weeks ...

It's not raining all day lol. It's throughout the day(sometimes only like 5-10 minutes aday, but cloudy on the days they predict the rain usually), but everyday.. After every rain shower there is direct pure sunlight for quite some time(most of the time).

I've been checking on my plants after every rain basically, and I'll basically say, in the past 14 days, It's rained.... 10 times? No problems, plants look healthy, don't look overwatered...I Kind of shake them off, but they dont get too wet, due to their size.. plus the buds aren't that big to form too much mold. This run was primarily a seed run. I wouldn't be too mad if the bud got ruined as long as the seeds were usable.

Tbh.. I actually don't know if they got pollinated or not, because the male collapsed on it's own weight because all it's pollen sacks absorbed water from the gargantuous amounts of rain...My only male died and seed calyx formed a few days later, so I'm not sure if they're pollinated or not.

But yeah.... it rained like 5 days past week, practically was always wet outside, no mold formations or anything odd, and I looked carefully.

The seeds wont be ruined if the bud molds will it?

The area around the plants is largely cleared... TONS of airflow room, which from researching various other sites and forums, is all you really need.... If air flow is adequate mold shouldn't form according to others. Considering, these rain 'blitzes' pass fairly quickly, meaning the wind is blowing the clouds into another direction.

 

[rocket high]

well xtensity i would'nt worry ... sounds fine to me
The plant try's to protect the seed as much as it possibly can' as these are its possable baby's so to speak
so they should be fine ....