I was aware of that as well, its mentioned in any good cannabis tutorial about using a foliar spray on your plants. Have to do it very early in the morning or after the sun sets, otherwise you get that magnifying glass effect as Doc said. I do not get heat anywhere near what Doc gets, has not been over 84 degrees where I live in 8+ years. So, I don't need multiple waterings per day or stuff poured to cool down the plants, honestly I don't think I even really need to pull them into the shade except maybe on the 2-3 hottest days of the summer (which for me would be right around 80 degrees). I just wanted to verify that misting them would be OK and might help when the RH is low like it is now. Its usually between 40% - 50% (with an average right around 45%) so a bit low but not in the 30's like it was the last couple of days. I have an extra spray bottle and I will start misting them tonight.
wit your temps and situation not sure if you want to mist at nite..PM (powdery mildew) just might be promoted..early AM hrs as sun comin up is the best time imo..i know its not convinient but there it is
btw i did defo all my plnts last nite as the sun went dwn..i'll hv pics when sun comes up.clean and green top to bottom..no sign of bugs anywhere..erly IPM got them and lots of neem cake in the soil mix so no thrips
Yeah anytime you add moisture to the system you have to be careful of mildew. The leaves look better today after being misted last night, but I can do it in the early morning for now on so that it evaporates sooner and does not promote PM.
All i have to do to get pm is to grow the wacky weed in these small spaces. I’m hoping to demonstrate to myself that i can have 1 grow where i’m yielding big without pm. Here’s a good challenge: Slowly shifting to flowering:
I was reading about some people using a product that they felt worked better than Hydroguard, called Garden Friendly Fungicide. Apparently it contains 98.85% Bacillus Amyloliquefaciens strain D747 whereas Hydroguard contains .038% of the same thing. This product has one billion CFU's per ml versus the one thousand CFU's per ml that Hydroguard has, and its $8 for a pint. I read some glowing reviews where people said their roots looked better than they had ever seen them, so I bought some and decided to try it. I diluted it 30:1 with water and then used 1 ml per gallon in my reservoir. Its been six days since then, my soup has never looked cleaner and check out my roots then and today (the bit of brown color in the roots rinsed right off after I took the photo):
Read the riu thread, sounds good. On non-gating items, i take the conservative farmer approach, “if it ain’t broke....
I generally feel the same way, and only bought it because it was really cheap so if I used it for one week and wasn't happy it was no big deal. But so far it looks like the big claims are true and it has exceeded my expectations, which is not easy to do......
I would give it a shot. It will save you a bunch of money over Hydroguard because its so much more concentrated (a 100 times more of the Bacillus Amyloliquefaciens), just be sure to dilute it before using in your reservoirs.
Sounds like a good $ value, and some think it’s better (more bacteria, diff strain) than hydroguard. rollitup . org/t/fixing-root-rot-hydroguard-v-southern-ag-garden-friendly-fungicide.947857/
Yes, I read several more discussions like the link you show here, if diluted properly it seems to work super well and obviously a TON less money since you use 1/20 - 1/30 the dosage of Hydroguard. I am almost afraid to see how big my roots are in a couple more weeks.......
White Widows: Starting week 5, filling in well, sugar leaves developing on colas. Last week This week Swirlin on!