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rev.hodl revhodl@cornychat.com 2 years ago

I agree, do you think it's likely that the PM jumped from the squash to the cannabis? It is planted in the food forest about 150ft away from the cannabis garden. I think the problem is more so with the specific plant. The others in the garden have no issues but this plant was covered. It might be the way it grows more bushy and with lots of overlapping fan leaves while the others are more spread out. Maybe this plant is also just susceptible to powdery mildew, something in the genetics?

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ibe (no-till weed) 2 years ago

Ya probably had a cut or something. Wind could move spores far, also animals could possibly move the spores that far (including humans)

Andrew 2 years ago

Spores are almost everywhere. That cool stretch in August lowered the dew point and made the right environment for PM. It's very hard to control PM once it happens, and I don't like the idea of foliar sprays once the buds are 3-4 weeks into flowering. It's very likely that cross contamination happened from other more vulnerable plants in the garden, but the other half is that some varieties are more susceptible. I've seen different phenotypes from the same lot of seed where some are resistant and some susceptible. My thought is it's easier to let's some go to the compost pile than trying to manage it. You can't control the outdoors, so it's always going to happen to some degree.