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Clemon

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Did you have any issues with pm from them sunflowers?
Thankfully, and knock on wood, no PM issues with the weed. This was a solid year for the garden. Tomatoes, peppers, zucchini, eggplant, corn, canteloupe, and string beans all yielded well. The sunflowers, however, were a disaster. I wanted to border portions of the garden with sunflowers to help hide the weed, but several of my small sunflowers died. The sunflowers that did get big died really early. Never had issues like that before. Strange…
 
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Clemon

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Been 2.5 weeks since most of the plant snapped off. The remaining lower level branches are filling in pretty nicely, however. Thankfully the weather dried out after the 5 days of rain. Calling for storms Thursday, but I want to hold off a couple weeks before harvest if possible.
 

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Sir Napsalot

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The last time it was this nice this time of year was in 2015, which was the first year I grew after it became legal in my state (OR) to do so
 

Clemon

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Thursday is looking a bit troublesome here. 1-2 inches of rain possible with strong winds, possible severe t-storms. Then a strong cold front next week with temps possibly getting down near freezing. ‘Tis the season…
 

Sir Napsalot

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Thursday is looking a bit troublesome here. 1-2 inches of rain possible with strong winds, possible severe t-storms. Then a strong cold front next week with temps possibly getting down near freezing. ‘Tis the season…
It can test one's mettle to be sure
 

Sevenleaves

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Mine will be coming down today, it's close. I would like to leave it a bit longer but we have some nasty weather coming.
 

Clemon

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Cold rain last evening followed by heavy dew. Some of the lawn had ice on it this morning. Hit her with BT a couple days ago. Sprayed her down with the last of my Dr Earth fungicide at dawn today as a preventative. One small side branch is hanging by a thread, I’ll pull it later today when it’s dry. Rest of the plant is intact and ripening further. Could probably harvest now, but going to try to hold out another week or so. Next three nights look frosty, and a freeze warning for next 2 nights. Will have to get the blankets out. By the weekend temps back up to 65-70. Long range looks dry. Coming down the home stretch. If any signs of rot, I’m pulling her and calling it another season in the books.
 

Clemon

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Bless their souls, and knock on wood, they are naive. Wife doesn’t drink or smoke, doesn’t know much about that stuff. Thankfully she puts up with my drinking. Lol. I’ve been asked a few times over the years “what is that big thing growing in the corn?” My reply was that it’s some sort of bush or weed that pops up in the fall, looks itchy, might be poisonous, don’t touch it. They don’t go to the garden area much. That’s my domain. Going to need taller corn such as silver queen next year, and need to focus more on keeping a healthy sunflower barrier.
 

Sir Napsalot

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Well, I've got ~10% amber trichomes and it's supposed to start raining tomorrow night so I erected my makeshift raincover and will start harvesting tomorrow

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There's a dead caterpillar in the last pic
 

farmerfischer

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I'm not sure, but I think it might be a different strain of PM that attacks sunflowers and squash compared to cannabis. This year I had tons of squash and sunflower PM, right next to a few cannabis plants, which had zero PM.
Same here.. i had afew going inbetween sunflowers which had pm that didnt spread to my plants20220815_175952.jpg20221009_152740.jpg
 
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