Yeah so I go outside after a nice rain storm and notice black color in all on my leaves, I notice white little fungas balls growing at the base, then I see an old dead thick twig with fungas on it and realize it infected my plant. I removed the twig and tried to take off all the fruiting bodies I could, how can I remove the mold? I cannot let this die!
i got this stuff from the local hydro store called "serenade garden" its called disease control concentrate. fungicide that attacks harmful garden diseases. i used it for powdery mildew and it worked great. it is a redish pink bottle and is $22.99. it says it controls black spot, powdery mildew, rust, gray mold, leaf blight, and scab. you can probly find it online or at lowes if you dont have a hydro shop by you. good luck
Thanks but thats fucking ridiculously expensive. I'm not made of money. Yes you may say it's only 22 dollars, but say that for everything I would have to buy and before you know it I'm spending over a hundred dollars on this plant. I'll have to research this, there must be a natural thing I can do. Would flushing it work?
Call your local nursery and explain the problem with your tomato plants, they may have something if all else fails. BTW, where are you growing? I had real tomatoes and peppers and had that shit happen, but it wasn't a moldy twig. It was some mold that was in the soil. Frankly it's the only reason I don't ave veggie garden this year. I remember that you said MG soil, but it is in a bed that used to have veggies in it? Pix would be helpful
Flushing is not going to get rid of mold on the leaves. Pix would defin help, might not be mold, might be lock out or something else. If it is mold you could prob find something at a nursery center for under $10. Might not be as good, and prob shouldn't use it during flower, but it may help. Through up some pic if you can. Dont panic you have some time
No no it's not the soil, it's new from the bag, there was mold already growing on this dead branch that was in my soil, it infected the base of the plant, saw small yellow-white fruiting bodies on it, removed most of them, just big splotchy blackness on all the leaves except the new ones. I think the only natural way to rid the plant of it is to cut the leaves off So resinrubber can I FREAK OUT now?
That kinda outlook on things in a grow, will get you nothing but unsuccessful situations IMO/IME Sometimes, nobody has the answer and the right answer is whats obvious. Flushing will do nothing and a single "twig" with some type of brokedown material on it is not going infect a plant and give it black spot on the fan leaves, let alone many many foreign growths on it either
Well I dont think it was a twig, it was about nickel coin in thickness. Amputation seems my only option, though everything but new leaves are affected, so I dont know if it would have enough to gain energy from sunlight. *sigh* I read this on another forum after seeing pics like my plant
neem oil concentrate. it's like 12-15 bucks. Spending just twelve or 15 or even 30 if needed can prevent loss of a plant potentially worth a grand
uh, don't know, spider mites are a big problem if you see em! they have nothing really in common that I can thinnk of except they both kill plants. Why do you ask?
I was saying I've heard of people using neem oil for spider mites, but not mold so I was wondering what does it do to mold
I had a buddy that would spray iso alchohol on weed that that would have that white powder mold shit. Now that was a 1/4 or 1/2 LB of schwag, but the shit dissapeard. Something else you might try is is a MILD bleach and water solution, key word being MILD. I have scrubbed a lot of mold off decks and houses with a hard bleach solution and it never affected the grass or plants around the deck, but it sure killed the mold
Tex I like the way you think man, I was just pondering myself a few hours ago a 10% soap solution and spray it on the leaves. So how little we talking? Like maybe 1 teaspoon? Or drops? Can anyone verify this or at least it's safety?
Man my goat got tore up by a dog and I was using a couple tea spoons of bleach and a couple teaspoons of baking soda in a gallon of distilled water. Can't remember the name they called the solution. That was in open wounds and he never flenched when I spayed it. So start out small, i'd say a couple teaspoons in a gallon of water. I'm sure someones got a comment on that.
Use one tablespoon of 3% hydrogen peroxide to one cup water in a spray bottle. Don't try to save the peroxide solution. Mix a fresh batch for each use and apply several times over the next week. It's cheap relatively effective and available at the grocer or local pharmacy. The Neem will be more effective as a fungicide if you add a few drops of dish soap to your Neem/water solution. All the soap does is break the surface tension of the water allowing the solution to more effectively wet your plant. Don't go mixing 10% solutions of anything you're unfamiliar with and put it on your plants. More is not always better. For soap solutions I've never used more than a few drops per gallon as a wetting agent. Think about it for a minute.....does dish soap leave a residue on your skin if you don't rinse it off? Do you really want that film on your plants clogging the stomata? One last thing....money is always tight.....but if your plant yields 2 zips that's $600-$800 of weed your protecting. If some cat walked up to you today and offered you 2 zips of prime weed for a hundred bucks you'd find a way to get the $100. Plus, once you buy the items needed to take care of your plants they'll last for many gardens. So it's really only pennies per plant in the long run. I know it sucks at first but find something to give up....don't go out with the boys a couple nights, give up beer for a week.
Ok I will see what I can do maybe I can find some neem oil. Until then I have to do damage control, does the hydrogen peroxide act as a fungicide?
Thought you said you already had some neem oil, my mistake. Yeah, the hydrogen peroxide acts as a fungicide. If you reuse an old spray bottle from Windex or something be sure to wash and rinse it really really well including the sprayer.
Oh no. I've been out of work for a few months for things out of my control, but now I am going back tomorrow, thank god my boss is like family to me, else I would not have a job right now lol. So thats why I said money was REALLY tight, but now if I go back to work, I'm sure he'll give me a few bucks to protect Deadweed from mold invasion. But for now I'll try the H2O2 solution tomorrow morning before work just to slow the spread of mold. I was freaking out again, but my face almost dropped when I went outside and saw this huge black mass all over my leaves, almost wanted to cry as this plant is like my little son to me. The mold looks like it's inside the leaves, and it's not pitch black, just a very dark dark overshad on the green so almost black but not really. I know you need pics, it was too dark out to get them by the time I decided to post this topic.
I think this may be root rot, from all fungi infected plants non look like this, and the large spread of the blackness could but rot. Found out that H2O2 actually treats and prevents root rot SOURCE: http://www.weedguru.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=88&t=27917
