Cleaner is always better. It just solves so many damn problems.
I can’t say how long something will remain after a clone of a treated clone is flowered…things measured in the low parts per billion are a tricky situation. There’s a little of everything…everywhere. Hell, gold is 11 parts per trillion in seawater…just to illustrate a point.
Shit try em both, neither is terribly expensive. I think your strategy is a winner, once you finish flower and start with mold-free mothers you’ll feel a whole lot better.
Yea I have stuff being flowered now, so no point with anything systemic right now, but if sulfur doesn’t do the trick while in quarantine I’ll use it. I’ve only seen PM on one set of cuttings I’ve received (I think, would be water stain ). It did not showed until after the cutting rooted but it was still in an isolated sealed container. They have been sprayed with cana control, couldn’t find sulfur today. I think I’m going to turn a few fish tanks into new isolation chambers. Just need to figure out a air filter for exhaust and air exchange.
I didn’t wash it off except on the floor where it dripped. The fan leaves and crap from veg won’t even exist in bloom anymore for the most part. The buds will never have been touched by it.
examine it under the microscope! They recommend a HEPA filter. Distance makes the difference as well! Like I can have mildew cucumbers in one greenhouse and none in the other as long as I don’t like… carry some crap over there, the infestation never sets in.
Edit: wait that’s actually a crazy greenhouse tip. If it’s infested in there you stop growing that plant type for two years and the mildew is definitely toast.
So technically under this protocol you could spray the 2nd time (2 weeks after the 1st) and then go directly into flower? I have so much coating on my leaves and it’s not like they will die during flower. I’ll either have to strip them or wash them off. I wouldn’t want to risk knocking a leaf and dusting flowers with sulfur.
yah the sulfur I sprayed on there was like bonded on there it never moved it wasn’t like a powder or something. It was almost like a crystalline coating on the leaves. Never tasted it on the buds, that’s for sure. If you put some powder on there, I suppose you could always try and wash that off. They say the sulfur never washes off the buds, so never get it on there
But yah stands to reason you can slap em into bloom right after. I didn’t because I wanted to make sure it was totally toast first heh heh hyper vigilance even though buddy had told me it would be gone forever after the second spray.
Ok thanks. Yes most of the stuff I sprayed is pretty well stuck like you described, but then I did a round of dusting with a brush and that’s still kind of loose. I’ll likely give them a quick water spray down just to make sure the loose stuff is immobilized.
@schmarmpit it’s not powder, but I have sulfur burned many times up until week 2 of flower with no problems whatsoever. I just make sure to stop sulfur treatments before the pistils start popping.
Thanks, bud! I’m sure it’ll be OK, but when your leaves are looking this crusty I get a little worried that it’s going to contaminate the buds at some point. I’ll just veg it out a week longer and do some heavier defoliation, maybe a light rinse at some point before flip.
The marketing blurb says it kills pathogens, yah. Is it being proposed as a solution to active infection or a preventative measure? Got a story to go with it?
Yeah, I see your concern now. That’s pretty crusty. I would rinse it off, but I’ll be curious what others think. Thank you for posting up your progress.
Well luckily the possible PM is isolated in their own chambers, in a separate room from my grow. I striped all but the top node of leaves and sprayed them with Cana control. I have sulfur in order. The Safers sulfur spray is only .40% sulfur?!?
however the root aphids I’m sure have spread. Luckily they stay in the soil and I haven’t seen a single one on the plant leaves or stems other than when I water heavy and flushed them out. I’ve since completely submerged all the plants in safer soap for a good min or two and drowned what ever it would reach. I took cuttings after the dip. Will do that again in a few days.
It does both but everything is better as a preventative.
There are active alternatives that can also be combined as part of a rotating IPM program. Like wettable sulfur, foliar enzymes, horticultural oil sprays, etc.
If it is a full blown PM bloom in flowering I would cull, clean and restart with better FAE and air movement as well as other controls.
Any experience with a copper based solution like captain Jack’s copper? Besides sulfur, I want to have a few options for attempting eradication besides eagle 20. If I use eagle, it’ll be several generations of clones off of clones before really keep A mother for clones to flower.
). It did not showed until after the cutting rooted but it was still in an isolated sealed container. They have been sprayed with cana control, couldn’t find sulfur today. I think I’m going to turn a few fish tanks into new isolation chambers. Just need to figure out a air filter for exhaust and air exchange.
