Powdery Mildew?????????

Were you able to get rid of it completely?

 

As far as I can tell I have. If I bring in new clones or something that has been stored outside, besides spraying them for pests or cleaning with hydrogen peroxide and or bleach, I just run my Burner for a couple of dark cycles and no worries. I had it really bad too and I tried like 10 different sprays and none of them would get rid of it for good. It always came back as soon as I missed a spray treatment or waited too long between treatments. I mean quick style too. I would come back within 2 weeks maximum if I wasn't constantly treating them.

 

Cool, I'm gonna find a DIY thread somewhere so I can make one.

 

There is one her on GK in the DIY forum.


This is the one I built though. The only difference is instead of a green flood lamp as a heat source I used a ceramic reptile heating element.


DIY Sulphur Burner


This is the actual burner I built.

 

Here is one of them on GK: http://forum.growkind.com/showthread.php?t=45750&highlight=Sulphur+Burner

 

Nice. Thanks a bunch. Can I use this method with adult plants that are in bloom now?

 

Yeah. Sulphur is organic, plus it really doesn't leave much of any residue unless you burn for a really long time.

 

Rehashing an old thread...


I'm not 100% sure I have PM - I only see a bunch of junk on the stems. Looks/feels/acts like you've described PM tho... The leaves are a bit junked because of my pH dilemma about a month ago, plus my neverending battle with mites. Really hard to tell WTF is wrong with my plants these days....


I monitor humidity in there, and it's probably consistently 50%. There's almost always a little bit of water that comes out of my hempy bucket when I feed. I do have a fan, and it's pulling at a pretty good rate, but there's still usually some muck water in the bottom of one of my trays even after a few days.


I've been spraying the fuck out of the plants with Bronners to try to tackle the mites, to little avail. I will def try the peroxide, but I'm not sure what affect that will have with dousing with Bronners as well.


Any thoughts?


GTWT


:XXhippylove:

 

You gotta get something stronger to deal with the mites. Floramite or Avid. You can hit them with Neem or AzaMax and that will knock them down pretty good. In my experience the thing that has worked the best has been FloraMite. A couple of treatments with Floramite a few days apart does the trick to pretty much eradicate them for a long period of time.


For the PM the only thing that has worked for me has been burning sulphur. They make a powdered sulphur that can be dusted on the plants though and that will work for both the mites and the PM

 

I like the sound of that. This shit is getting old.


I'm getting inattentive to my plants because I'm tired of doing stuff and seeing no results. Thus furthering the cycle. Terrible attitude, I know, but it's the truth.


GTWT


:XXhippylove:

 

OMFG Floramite is expensive.

 

I paid $20-30 for an ounce, and have only had to use a quarter teaspoon of it. It killed all mites and I have had no signs of a return.


This one ounce will last me another year or two, and acts as a nuke when I need it. I use Neem and Diatomaceous Earth as my preventatives.

 

Look on Ebay. People sell individual ounces for $20-$30 You only need 1/2 Tsp. Per Gallon of water.

 

Aha. Well, I read you shouldn't use it in flower stage, and my girls are a month in, so I'll get it for next time/chop/clean time...


I got, in the meantime, some of that Ed whatever's Zero Tolerance stuff. We'll see...


GTWT


:XXhippylove:

 

Meh. The Ed Rosenthal will knock them back and it's organic. Smells ok but I wouldn't spray it on my heavily flowering plants just due to the potency of the smell of the cinnamon and clove oils in it. It's less effective than neem oil in my experience and much more costly. asssit:

 

But neem isn't something I want to put on flowering buds though either, is it?


They still have at least a month to six weeks...


GTWT


:XXhippylove:

 

Res, I bombed that fucking room twice already, and it didn't phase them.


Sprayed the walls down with bleach solution, too, when I found out about my males.


:BangHead:

 

Ehem, I'm at least a month into flower, dude. I reeeeeally want to avoid putting a lot of crazy shit on there. (I do have some moms to take care of tho...)


I did think, though, if I dump some shit on there, and kablam, mites are gone after a week, why couldn't I go back a few times after that and spray them with water, to kinda rinse things off?


Wadda ya think?


GTWT


:XXhippylove:

 

That's kinda why I'm shying away from the heavy duty, total annihilation stuff. I just want to keep them at a very low roar. No crispy brown leaves, no corpses in my budz.


I already know it's a battle I will always fight. I have dogs, and I'm always outside horsing around, and I'm sure I track shit in.


GTWT


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