The secret is the powdery mildew on cannabis has conidia. It doesn’t grow chasmothecia. lol! Definitely look that shit up. The asexual “spore” of the mildew species we’re talking about is called conidia.
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Ok. What’s an original source? If I’ve never seen it, I’ll never get it as long as I don’t bring it in?
Nother question. I had it last year on peas, verbenas, squash, and a few others. From what I’ve gathered from those university studies, it can winter over in infected parts. It’s pretty hard to totally clean up the detrius in the garden, at least for me, and especially where it’s been heavily mulched… so do you think a few sulfur sprays in those areas now will help?
It really doesn’t seem to effect the plants too much, but looks like poo on ornamentals.
Am I getting off topic yet?
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I’m less concerned about the weed than the flowers… silly, I know.
As far as the conidia vs chasmothecia…
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ooo now you are asking some really good questions! I’ll bore into the specifics of what I did. See the mildew kept coming back every year, and it was raging for probably a decade, but I mostly ignored it. I would grow my weed amongst the mildew dripping pumpkins and squash, knowing it would never spread to the cannabis. Yet the question was this:
If I was starting the seedlings in a safe area where I knew there was no mildew, and the mildew can’t travel an infinite distance to spread magically, then the source must be local. So I looked around and I could see blossoms fell from the squash and were just laying on the floor. Bits of old plant material that was laying in some pots. Fallen from the plant and just sitting there. I had read the mildew could survive on bits of the host plant laying around. So, I hatched a plan.
I would go and spray sulfur on all the plant material and all the plants that could host it. Except, I would put a control plant in there as well. One plant, completely untreated. Butternut squash. I sprayed all plant material, including the seedlings growing there. cucumbers, butternuts, pumpkins. Sprayed the bits of fallen debris. So on. Since the infestation was only in a certain area, I didn’t go over to where the mildew wasn’t growing on nearby plants. I didn’t spray them, because I had never seen an infestation.
In the end, there was absolutely no mildew spotted on any of the cucumbers, pumpkins, or the untreated butternut plant. Microscopic scan revealed a complete lack of mildew colonies.
Now, as long as I don’t bring in new infected plant material, there’s no reason to think that things haven’t returned to “normal” like the previous 30 years we grew without mildew on the pumpkins.
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I grew pumpkins last year. No cucurbits the previous year, tomatoes instead.
How did my pumpkins get mildew last year? No one within 6 meters of my garden is growing any cucurbits…or really anything at all. Rental houses, mostly. I started from seed.
Is it POSSIBLE spores can travel more than 20 feet? Or you gonna say “vernal wrong airborne spore stop at 6 meters”?
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Don’t worry vernal, your special pleading doesn’t work here. If I followed your “knowledge” I woudn’t be able to get rid of powdery mildew either. Congrats bro, you got that shit for life lol!
Read that page, it’s incredible.
Crudely drawn totally badass dragon now says:
Anyone who gets powdery mildew outdoors on their vegetables is now also a special pleading troll.
Trolls all the way down lol. Eagle 20 got rid of it on the pumpkins though lol.
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I love it when narcissists describe others as narcissists. It’s like every ex girlfriend I’ve ever had 
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sweet! The entire brigade of ignorant trolls are here. I suppose the information I posted was wayyyy to much for them lol! If you want to appear smart, go back and read what I said about conidium and agree with me. Then you can appear at least half informed bah hah! I got good news! I went into the garden and pulled out some plant material from a cucumber. Check out the image! I wonder where them powdery mildew spores are at? I thought they were “everywhere” or “blowing in the wind”.
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hahhah, see I figured you out when you first came in here chump. I knew you were just a sealion/troll! Welcome to abusive narcissist ville!
lol awesome comeback dude, knew you were a fungi
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