Alienwidow
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Thats too bad, im gonna be out there around noon. Should be a nice day for a stroll in the sun
Powdery Mildew? Help!
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innerG
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Welp.
Found some little patches after lights out that were too close for comfort. She's coming down in the morning.
Don't want to spread spores around and infect my other plant. I have a clone I took of this in a separate space, I'll try and flower it again after the Kush finishes. I'll prob take some clones of it, keep them smaller and keep the airflow up to see if it gets rid of the problem.
She doesn't look too bad for only being 6 weeks though I'm sure it'll be halfway decent smoke
Found some little patches after lights out that were too close for comfort. She's coming down in the morning.
Don't want to spread spores around and infect my other plant. I have a clone I took of this in a separate space, I'll try and flower it again after the Kush finishes. I'll prob take some clones of it, keep them smaller and keep the airflow up to see if it gets rid of the problem.
She doesn't look too bad for only being 6 weeks though I'm sure it'll be halfway decent smoke
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Alienwidow
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She looks nice man. I hope it smokes good. Before i go and chop a plant early i always take a tester bud off just to make sure it doesnt taste like hay or grass. Thats the worst. You might want to consider it. You can always take a rag and wipe the infected areas after you spray just to give a little better clean up and get a couple more days of flower. Good luck.
innerG
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It was only ever visible on fan leaves and I removed them. It was reeeeally early along ( see pic in first post)
Either way, I'm sure I've smoked a lot worse back in the day when we smoked brick weed lol
Thanks, we tried a tester earlier and it got the job done. Tasted surprisingly fruity for being dried quickly over the oven!
Alienwidow
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Good deal,tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimber!
Jimmy Sparkle
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We need to figure out how to get AQ-10 to be made available to us. I don't remember if I mentioned it but its an all natural bacteria that kills the P.M not treats it. It's used in Vinticulture, its a natural product, can be used up until day of harvest and is not persistent in the plant or environment. It's granular and spray applied.
innerG
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I can take comfort knowing she's in a better place now.
(Drying in my garage lol)
Oh well, made more room for my Kush plant and the healthy Bubbleberry clone. Cleaned a little, def keeping airflow up and keeping a better eye on humidity with this one.
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Alienwidow
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What kind of kush is that? Nice heads on it. St helens was killer man, you shoulda came out.
Extrome
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I hear a lot about fungicides to kill powdery mildew but nothing about enhancing your plant's already existing defense against that to prevent it in the first place. Give your plant calcium with some with some form of biostumulants to increase uptake. The calcium will help the plant form pectin from pectic acid, the substance that supports cell walls and makes them stronger, so that when the mildew goes to insert it's germination tube into the cell walls on the leaves, the innercelluar space is filled with pectin instead of water, failing to penetrate they end up drying up and dying off.
Plants have survived and evolved for hundreds of millions of years without our help, they have their own system to do everything on their own, instead of making our own system for them like fungicides or feeding them sugars etc, it's better to enhance a plant's own way of doing it so it relies less on us and more on itself, learning and growing stronger.
Happy growing.
Plants have survived and evolved for hundreds of millions of years without our help, they have their own system to do everything on their own, instead of making our own system for them like fungicides or feeding them sugars etc, it's better to enhance a plant's own way of doing it so it relies less on us and more on itself, learning and growing stronger.
Happy growing.
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Jimmy Sparkle
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The only problem with that is that the plants that we grow , cannabis , herbs, squash, tomatoes ect have all been tweaked by inbreeding , cross breeding ect these plants no longer have the disease resistance that their more rugged far distant relatives have had or still posess. So we have to do all these other treatments for diseases nutrient uptake issues ect , ect, ect. However more modern breeding techniques have been shown to actually enhance the plants disease resistance, however they are still far away from perfection in my opinion. So until then we must be very diligent in our preventative measures and curse the stars when despite everything that we have done still doesn't work and our plant ends up taking the "long nap" anyway.I hear a lot about fungicides to kill powdery mildew but nothing about enhancing your plant's already existing defense against that to prevent it in the first place. Give your plant calcium with some with some form of biostumulants to increase uptake. The calcium will help the plant form pectin from pectic acid, the substance that supports cell walls and makes them stronger, so that when the mildew goes to insert it's germination tube into the cell walls on the leaves, the innercelluar space is filled with pectin instead of water, failing to penetrate they end up drying up and dying off.
Plants have survived and evolved for hundreds of millions of years without our help, they have their own system to do everything on their own, instead of making our own system for them like fungicides or feeding them sugars etc, it's better to enhance a plant's own way of doing it so it relies less on us and more on itself, learning and growing stronger.
Happy growing.
Extrome
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I'm talking about using an already existing system the plant primarily uses to keep itself together. No amount of breeding is going to prevent the plant from creating pectin, if it did the plant wouldn't be able to grow, it's cells would fall apart without it.
Certain fungicides have been known to decrease harvest in many plants. It's always better to help the plant do something on it's own than use outside chemicals.
In any event an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. In the case of cannabis that kinda means two things
http://maximumyield.com/what-to-do-about-powdery-mildew/
Certain fungicides have been known to decrease harvest in many plants. It's always better to help the plant do something on it's own than use outside chemicals.
In any event an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. In the case of cannabis that kinda means two things
http://maximumyield.com/what-to-do-about-powdery-mildew/
I had it in early days of growing ,never had it since ,I think everyone as had at one time or another ,once you got PM you can only try slow it down ,I found low fat milk with water diluted works for a wile but it will return .1 part milk 2 parts water .spray bottle warmish water .once you have sorted your PM out you will probably encounter bud mould in one of your grows sometime , that really fucks your crop up In lightning fast time ,
one thing I did use in veg is neem oil ,couple of sprays of that at night over a week ,seems to prevent it later on in flower .
but I not used neem oil for a wile now ,never had any problems with PM or mould since I got a good dehumidifier ,cost me £125 but NO mould NO pm .
another thing I used to do ,but never do now ,is mist or spray my plants .?
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one thing I did use in veg is neem oil ,couple of sprays of that at night over a week ,seems to prevent it later on in flower .
but I not used neem oil for a wile now ,never had any problems with PM or mould since I got a good dehumidifier ,cost me £125 but NO mould NO pm .
another thing I used to do ,but never do now ,is mist or spray my plants .?
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