This is on a Florida Big Cuban top. Here’s a few pictures. 1st year growing this and not sure if it’s normal with this strain. I’m in the lower Ohio river valley about 100 miles S.W. of Louisville Ky. Never seen this on any of the local burley I’ve grown. Any help is appreciated. Thanks
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Almost looks like aphids w/eggs to me. Im not expert though. Perhaps someone more educated than me will chime in.
Guess I should have said that this was the only plant with this and it was a cluster of 3 left the tops for seed. If anyone knows whether this is a bad trait or otherwise undesirable I’ll just cut it out. Plenty of others to collect from.
Old Gasman
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They look like green fly to me.
Looks like gobs of aphids. If you hose them off forcefully enough to dislodge them, but not so hard as to bruise the leaf, they can't climb back up. Then you can just use a light spritz of permethrin to kill the remaining ones for bud heads you intend to bag. If left open, the permethrin will kill pollinators. An alternative for the remaining aphids is to smear them into the next world with your thumb.
Bob
Bob
Thanks I’ll give it a go. Appreciate the help.
I’ve had them on veggies a few years ago. I used a spray with a diluted dish soap & cayenne pepper. Needless to say, it helped for little while, but a few days later they came back. Is the permethrin a killer & preventer?
Permethrin is an insecticide (a pyrethroid). It's the same thing that is sprayed on garments and netting, to avoid tick and mosquito bites. Pyrethrin is the natural (certified organic) insecticide produced by chrysanthemums. Permethrin is a synthetic version of it. Both are low in human toxicity.
Bob
Bob
Is it systemic?
No.
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