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CLONER

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Can any one tell me what powdery mold does to a plant.i know if left over time the leaves will start to brown up and die but does it slow growth or anything like that.
I know its a dumb question but Im tring to figure out what went wrong on my last grow,so i'm work all angles.I had mold most of the way through,not real bad but still there and what I was wondering is if it could have plugged up the (stomatta?) and slowed growth.
Thanks
Cloner
 

Blackvelvet

Member
Haustorium, plural haustoria, is the hyphal tip of a parasitic fungus or of the root of a parasitic plant (such as in the broomrape family), that penetrates the host's tissue :yoinks:, but stays outside the host cell membrane.
 

Blackvelvet

Member
CLONER said:
LOL. The powdery mildew lives on the leaf surface not in the plant. It sends these root-like things called haustoria into the plant tissue and sucks the goodies out of the plant. Not a good thing. :wave:
 

CLONER

Member
Well why didn't you say so.
So, no goodies = low yield :chin: This could be part of my problem.Along with my brown thumb and my flutuation in temps that I had in the last three weeks dew to my midstream changes ie: new AC unit.Things didn't work out so good
Cloner
 

CLONER

Member
Oh ,one more thing how the hell can I get the spore's out of my room before I start again?The only thing I can think of is to run a sulpher burner for a while before I bring in the new troops
 

wildheart

Member
PM ideas and solutions...

PM ideas and solutions...

Hey Cloner,

Consider the old school ways as well... generally easier, cheaper and usually works better too. People have been 'farming' for a loooong time... Consider some of their methods - such as, wettable sulfur, found at any nursery anywhere.

Used in this way, your problems should disappear. I NEVER have PM using these methods. In my neck of the woods I'm considered one of the only people that is not constantly battling PM, but when I tell them to use wettable S, they get all freaked out... Umm, go figure! The grape growers are all over this!

In a small spray bottle put some room temp water, and three/four drops dish detergent. In a small cup add a teaspoon of dish detergent, and fill the cup 1/2 way with the hottest water. Whatever the size of your spray bottle add WS at ratio of two tablespoons per gallon. Put the WS into the cup, fill with a bit more hot water and stir vigorously until you have a yellowish slurry - pour this into your spray bottle and fill the rest of bottle with room temp water and mix it!

With lights off, and waiting until new clones/plants have gotten past transplant shock, spray plants topside/underside once a week for the first three weeks and you're done... Viola! No more PM!

Best regards,


Wildheart
 

wildheart

Member
Hey Cloner,

a ps... I never worry about 'what's in the room' because in many respects it doesn't matter. It only matter whats on your plants!!!

I wouldn't in any way worry about spores going around in your room and here's why, as this is a perfectly valid scenario... you clean the hell out of your room like nobody's business, you hire COIT, and follow them up with Serve-Pro, your room is the most pristine ever. On the third day after that when you walk into the room you unkowingly bring in new fresh mold spore... Oh well! That's how easy it is!

It like people thinking they need to be spraying Avid all over the room to get those mites hanging out high on the walls... Your room could be infested with mites, but if they're not eating the plants, who cares. Reverse is of course also true. If you can handle mites once they start showing to be a problem on your plants, then one needn't worry about being so fanatical that you can guarantee people that there is not a single mite in your room. I mean really, who gives a shit!

Best,

Wildheart
 

MTF-Sandman

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Veteran
A short answer is yes, PM can drastically lower your yield.

Get a sulfur burner in there, drop the RH% and raise the temps a little...
 

Ono Nadagin

Active member
MTF is correct.. solid advice... somewhere floating around this site there was a DiY sulfur burner

you should scrub with a mild bleech water solution when you clean between grows

And to stop bringing in things off the street into your grow you can put some powdered sulfur in a sock and tie it off then dust yourself with it very lightly to combat that I am told... never done it myself but I have a buddy that does it religously
 
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CLONER

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Hey thanks for the info guys,as always the info i get from this site saves my ass time and time again
Cloner
 

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