awesome man thanks for sharing that recipe johnny
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No offense to the recipe or it’s maker cuz. but, the Hypo acid works best and costs less! Easy to make a generator so you can produce an endless supply of cheap Molds & mildews killer! I was born raised in the SouthEast, grew there the biggest part of my life. I only wish I had this when I was outdoor growing circa 70s & 80s (moved to indoor growing in winter 1984)
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Meh, I still got 5+ gallons of the same everclear in a case stored for tincture/oil. No reason to buy more I suppose. Thanks though! Gonna check it out anyway. 
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Make the generator, and it’s pennies per treatment. Also, it’ll work much better!
But hey, do as you want cuz lol Already having that much Everclear on hand, it’d def save money to use it up first! lol
I deal with PM every year because I literally have to grow in a swamp, so out back, it’s fairly close to the weather you have down south. One of the 12 strains I grew last year was Pistachio from the Humboldt Seed Company. Out of all 12 strains, it was the most PM resistant. I only had 2 little spots on a 13ft plant over the course of the season, and the smoke that it produced was exceptional, everyone wants it because it tastes like old school Columbian or Acapulco Gold when it gets resined up. Everyone who I gave clones to, had very good success with it also, it was the most PM resistant in their grows also. The last time I checked, Chitown seeds had it for $80 for a 10 pk of feminized.
The worst strains were from Mosca, they were PM magnets, will never try anything from them out back ever again. Blue Iguana indoors would probably be very good, but outdoors, PM just ran rampant on it.
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That’s what I worry about. @Oldtimerunderground has outdoor stuff. I wish you much luck.
I’ll try and use a cold pressed neem oil. You definitely got to put dawn dishwashing liquid. Don’t care for the alcohol. Critter spray works pretty good. Dr. Earth has finally stop that works great. Most sativa’s do pretty well outside. If that doesn’t work I use the hard core stuff. Old urine works. Let it sour in some bottles. It will help keep animals away. Mosquitoes don’t like the ammonia smell. If you can use landscaping trim. Put it around your plants. Some bugs will not climb over that. Even an Old garden hose.
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The farther north the genetics are bred generally the better the resistance in my experience.
Copper rings work well for some critters dont know which dont.
I have no idea whats true and whats not true in terms of what actually helps but preventative methods such as milk, silica and potassium among other things strengthen the plant.
Hydrogen peroxide spray kills it off and can be used throughout flower from my understanding.
Most important in my opinion is not the killing it off but making a strong healthy plant so the plant can resist it and also spacing so they can breathe.
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Anything with Spinosid is bad for bees.
I tried the hydrogen peroxide in late flower but noticed it would oxidize the buds and make them look like old brick weed. I think I was diluting it 1:10 water. I’m going to try to find some local strains to BC Canada or the PNW if they do good with all that humidity over there they gotta do good over here.
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Spinosad and prayer for the caterpillars Sulfur for PM @JoeCrowe
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Yah break the cycle of the powdery mildew so you don’t have to keep treating it. Grow the plants in a greenhouse to prevent water from touching the buds, so you don’t get botrytis. BTK if you use it at the right time, will extinct the caterpillars. There’s more detail, but those are the basics for your problems in OP.
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I seen a show on Netflix where they sent in the ducks. The ducks ate the sails.
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The only strain I know of that says it should be very PM resistant is Purple Pineapple Express from Annunaki Genetics. Check it out.
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@JoeCrowe thanks for dropping by joe, can’t do a greenhouse coastal virginia would be a nightmare trying to keep the humidity down in the summer.
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While were on the topic of resistance, fungicides, and insecticides…
Maybe I could ask a question of my own?
(I’m not attempting to highjack the conversation, so let me know if you’d like this removed).
I seem to have the opposite problem, lol.
Does anyone know of an Indica or Indica dominate hybrid that does exceptionally well in a very DRY climate?
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Don’t worry about high jacking the threadblowd I’m always down to read learn and talk growing
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Thanks.
Yeah I’ve been able to make anything work so far.
But I fear that I’m always having exceedingly slower growth in veg because of my climate. I also have nothing against growing sativa. It’s just that I’m rather limited with my headspace and things could get out of hand rather quickly when running multiple.
Only way i can think to make that work cause that was my immediate thought as a greenhouse here in the uk is just a humidity dome that has its own rain system 
i think is run it like a grow tent with tech up to the eyeballs but that defeats the point of growin outside really.
A good point that was just mentioned was a purple strain, lots of purple strains excibit greater resistance to mould and mildew.
I know it aint usually a thing people in legal states do but thought of running lots of autos? Time em to finish during lower humidity times of the year?
Funny enough, I wanted to ask the same question as @Pier_Rat . I’m in SE Asia and we get hit my 2 monsoon season every year, making PM & Botrytis an around the clock worry! Last season our “Apricot” got Bot even under greenhouse cover just due to humidity alone. Scratched that strain off our list!
I’ve just posted a thread asking about Irie Genetics’ strain “Sun Kiss”. Somebody posted a link to a you tube podcast of the breeder describing the strain and one of his points was “Has NEVER shown any signs of PM”! Here’s the podcast link; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMSEknDXC7I
I can’t say one way or the other (yet!), but might be worth looking into?
I CAN say that BudBusterPro Bob’s Hypoclorious Acid post turned me on to the best Botrytis weapon in my arsenal! Apparently it works on PM just as well. I’m stunned by how fast it works, but it still all depends on catching it in time!
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