HMMM?.. bumps, ants ... Where is Sherlock ?

[Garden Knowm]

look closley, the ants are managing these bumps, harvesting something from the bumps, when you squeeze these bumps they pop and some brown shit comes out...

it taste like sugar ------ just kidding, I didn't taste it... LOL


Well, let the games begin..

What da F--k?

: )
SMB

FYI - I took these pictures of some guys outdoor harvest... almost done flowering... the other picture is from the same plant.... one of its nugs... look closely you may see a spidermite : (

[Garden Knowm]

if you want a closer look...

[Garden Knowm]

C'MON!!!!!!!!!!!!!

show some LOVE

[ponics101]

that shit looks freaky.. ive never seen anything like that before, i used to be an organic grower.. now im turnin to hydro(in the midst of it) and ive NEVER seen shit like that. youd almost think it was some kind of bacteria/bark-like stuff? maybe some type of rot? i definately want to watch this post for any answers bc id like to know if that ever showed on any of my plants so i could act immediately, maybe direct the ? to zandor?

[ponics101]

hows the humidity?

[Garden Knowm]

NONE - outside....

I really think the ants are harvesting something.. I think they infect the plant on purpose to harvest that gooooooo...

You gotta love the picks... I guess I am the only one excited about it...
Thanks for the attention PONICS 101 : )

[HARDDON]

Those look like baby slug embryos...some kind of larvae.

The ants are filling their bellies with the juices of the larvae and taking it back to the colony for ditribution to the queen.

Those slugs are prolly feeding on the stem itself sucking nutrients from the plant as it pushes them up the tubes of the stem.

I would get rid of them.

I slept in a Holiday Inn last night so I am pretty sure I am pretty correct. :)

[Garden Knowm]

hhahahah

cool...

[Garden Knowm]

c'mon ZANDOR,, at least make a cameo on my thred!!!!!!!!!

you gotta LOVE the pics... feel free to download them and use tham as your desk top..

[thechronic]

Those look like baby slug embryos...some kind of larvae.

The ants are filling their bellies with the juices of the larvae and taking it back to the colony for ditribution to the queen.

Those slugs are prolly feeding on the stem itself sucking nutrients from the plant as it pushes them up the tubes of the stem.

I would get rid of them.

I slept in a Holiday Inn last night so I am pretty sure I am pretty correct. :)

lol a good way to get rid of them is to pic them off one by one.(It works)
Harddon you crack me up......
I have heard from a former grower that if you boil peppers, the juices from the peppers are a bug replent. put the boiled water with the commbination of the peppers in a spray bottle. Spray in the problem areas i wouldn't spray on the bud havent tested that yet. only spray it on the stem were the problem areas are.
I hope this helps
-Thechronic

[orangeman]

C'MON!!!!!!!!!!!!!

show some LOVE

Ewww, that looks so fuckin nasty xD.

[4x5]

second pic looks like mold to me, the first with the bugs is scary and plain gross.....

[u.g.u]

looks like some kinda plant STD maybe HPV just kidding I have never seen anything like that in or outdoor

[latewood]

I only know from your dvd's...Interesting...It is something that got me curious, when I 1st saw it this AM...peace

[Garden Knowm]

KANKERS...
picking them off is very very dangerous.. cause that is how the problem can spread.. the juice. the juice.. is very contagious..

[bob bobbinson]

I was thinking it was some sort of slug also. Because some parts do not look to be fully connected to the plant. they look like there fighteing over which slug can suck life from the plant. And the ants are eating them, or cleaning them. Then it would be a symbiotic relationship.

I dont see any dead slug looking things. So thats my guess.

Do those slugs or bubbles of ooze move? can u pick at least one off and look at the underside of it?

[stinkyattic]

Some species of ants 'farm' aphids just the way people farm honeybees.

The aphid takes plant juices and process them into a purer, more usable form of sugar.

The ants then consume that sugar.

In exchange, the ants fiercely guard the aphids against other insect predators.

It's a classic case of symbiosis.

I have neve seen aphids that look like that though. I think it's a scalebug of some sort.

[stinkyattic]

Google 'Fletcher scale'. It's a pest of ornamental evergreens. Looks like your little guys.

[Garden Knowm]

canker ...

GOOGLE that...

: )

iloveyou

[Sabrinaleena]

Whoa, those are some freaky looking.... things. Definitely I'm going with some larval form of slug like another poster suggested. They have those same mottled/striped markings of younger slugs. And the way the outer edges of their bodies curl and wave up off of the stem seems indicative of some kind of slug. The ants are having a good old time though :D

I would definitely get rid of those slug thingies asap. But maybe try and be careful that when you wash them off, you dont run them off into the surrounding bed of soil. (Assuming you're growing in the ground or in soil).

Good luck!

[The Taquito Bandito]

Neat!

[stinkyattic]

Some scale insects, specifically the 'soft' scales, do not have the protective shell associated with scalebugs.

The soft bodies resemble a slug.

Canker is the term for a plant's response to a specific canker-causing bacterial infection. It isn't an insect.

Did you know that slugs are hemaphroditic? Some species can even self- fertilize, while other species display a behavior that involves one slug biting off the penis of the other. The second slug then has no choice but to behave as a female since it can no longer deliver sperm.

Anyway I still have my money on soft scale.

[stinkyattic]

Oh yeah, if they were slugs they would be eating the leaves, not the stem.

[Garden Knowm]

CANKERS!!!!!!!!!!!

i said CANKERS!!!!!!

iloveyou

sabrina.. my dear.. what are you doing over in these parts?

iloveyou

[stinkyattic]

Canker is the term for a plant's response to a specific canker-causing bacterial infection. It isn't an insect.
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This is what you get when you Google plant canker.

http://plant-disease.ippc.orst.edu/disease.cfm?RecordID=180
Gordronia cassandrae fungus.

And I still have my money on soft scale.

iloveyoutoo.