I've been getting holes in my bud leaves and ive found several of these green little grasshoppers no bigger than a pinky that are munching away on my babys i need some advice on how to fight back against these pests, could really use your advice thanks.
Homemade hot pepper/garlic sprays will make the leaves unpalatable. When I used to grow way way out in the canyons around SoCal, occasionally I would find a green grasshopper silently munching away on my plants. The single one I'd sometimes find didn't due much damage, and they are beautiful. A vibrant almost iridescent emerald green, I didn't have the heart to kill 'em. But I didn't want them eating my plants either. So I started carrying along an empty coffee can with holes punched in the lid. I'd capture the 'hopper in the can and let him go about a mile down the trail on my way out.
What a rightous thing to do ranger,I think you would of gone about it in another way if there had been a infestation.
Had there been an infestation I would have whipped up a batch of my homemade chili/garlic spray. That doesn't kill them, it just makes the leaves unpalatable; they look elsewhere.
