New Grower First grow, outdoor GCS Critical Purple Cold Weather

[HavanaJazz]

@The^Dude : i am sorry man for your situation, I wish you no more problems with the other plants till harvest. I am on the same boat with bad weather, but my plants are few weeks behind, no real buds yet.

Good luck!

 

[The^Dude]

Thanks everyone. Harvested sour Stomper this morning, got maybe an 1/8-1/4 usable off her, she’s pretty fluffy and leafy, but she was showing some amber trichs at least. Was earlier than I wanted, but she was showing issues too.

 

[The^Dude]

Today they all got shaken to try and help dry. Put them in front of a fan (except ak 1, she was too droopy to move far) and sprayed the heck out of everyone with h2o2 at 3%. Hoping that’s not to strong a concentration, but I wanted to be absolutely serious. I can’t deal with losing many more like this, I need a break. First chance I get and hopefully before the next storm they are getting a shelter built. I have 4 plants that have not started to flower yet, and 1 Sour Stomper that is in early flower. Lessons learned, let’s do this. Thank you @Growtogrow for giving me parameters on how often I can get away with h2o2. I will use it often now.

 

[Growtogrow]

Today they all got shaken to try and help dry. Put them in front of a fan (except ak 1, she was too droopy to move far) and sprayed the heck out of everyone with h2o2 at 3%. Hoping that’s not to strong a concentration, but I wanted to be absolutely serious. I can’t deal with losing many more like this, I need a break. First chance I get and hopefully before the next storm they are getting a shelter built. I have 4 plants that have not started to flower yet, and 1 Sour Stomper that is in early flower. Lessons learned, let’s do this. Thank you @Growtogrow for giving me parameters on how often I can get away with h2o2. I will use it often now.
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You're welcome pal no problem[emoji482]

The h202 is a great to use. You can mix it a little bit stronger and doesn't hurt anything.
Ive mixed it very strong before
and haven't had any problems with it. And have accidentally left weed in a bucket soaking overnight and didn't find it until late the next day and it still came out great.
I don't think you want to use it every single day really strong though on living plants. But you can use in a weeker forum with no problem. Like one quart of hydrogen peroxide to 1 gallon of water is a pretty good mix to use on a daily basis for a wash.
The hydrogen peroxide and water mix can also be used in the soil to help combat root rot and fungus Gantz. But with that being said if you use the hydrogen peroxide in your soil as a drench. It's for a cure only. I would not use it all the time because it can kill your microbes and of course that will make your plant not be able to produce as much as it could have produced if you didn't kill your microbes.
But if you had to use it for a drench to kill root rot or fungus Gantz just remember that you have to build your microbes back up again.

There are a lot of treatments for the p.m. I've been studying it a lot recently and it found out that it's actually a systemic. The plant has it inside. I found out that if you see p.m. on your plant it's most likely been in your plant for about 4 weeks.
Of course this is probably not a good thing.
So to help you and me Aloe vera is a good product to use. As a drench and foliar.

Beneficial fungus. beneficial fungus will eat the bad powdery mildew fungus. So you can start feeding beneficial fungus to your plant early.
Actiovate is what I'm using now. I just started using this product so I can't tell you much about it other than its recommended by many major grow stores such as Monstergarden.com and others.
I youtubed it and it found its a very effective. But the best time to start with a powdery mildew treatment or any type of treatments like this fungus is when the plants are seedlings and you can let the plant feed upon these beneficial fungus all it's life And that'll help it combat powdery mildew in the future.

The best thing I can tell you is it's the study and research all the different systemic ways to combat the powdery mildew.
Obviously you got it in your area just like I do.
I can't control my neighbor's yard. My whole entire neighborhood has powdery mildew in it. I can't control everybody's yard. I can only control my own so I'm going to be dealing with this stuff as long as I live in this house. I can't control it it's Airborne everywhere.
Now I have to start thinking about how to fight it from a feeding standpoint so the plant takes it up and become stronger.
Builds up an immunity to it.
Also look for strains that the breeder or somebody else has grown that says the strain is resistant to the PM and doesn't affect that genetics.

I can tell you right now the Mango hash plant from Bodhi seeds. Does not get the p.m.
My plant
It is surrounded by p.m. in my garden and of course like I said the neighborhood. And it hasn't exhibited not one spot..not an inclination of p.m. .
This plant will be in my garden probably forever just because of the that. Not to say the way it looks and grows. I've already heard the story about how good it is. [emoji106] I haven't sampled it myself yet. I couldn't tell you from my point of view. But from the guy I got the genetics from that has been growing it for a long time says it's an awesome plant. And the effects are too.
I'm growing it and it seems to be an awesome plant my plant is huge and growing phenomenally.

So you can also use the hydrogen peroxide and water mix as a wash to wash your weed with when you harvest too.
You mix up a bucket of the hydrogen peroxide and water. Using 1 or 2 qts to 1 gallon of water.
Chop a branch off your plant and soak the whole damn branch in the hydrogen peroxide and water for a few minutes 10 minutes or so swishing it around a little bit in that water. Then take it out and rinse it in some clean water. You can use another bucket of clean water or you can actually rinse it off with the garden hose or sink just don't use a lot of high pressure.
Then shake it off and then trim and let it hang dry and then cure as normal after that.
You will appreciate how clean your weed taste after the wash and how well the flavors come out.[emoji482]

 

[The^Dude]

Thanks for all the detail and advice @Growtogrow, I will take all of it to heart.
Found my first powdery mildew of the season today on a zucchini plant. Zuc got sprayed with h2o2, as that’s what I was finishing up at the time, and then pulled and tossed in the trash bin. All the girls got a 1% h2o2 spray this morning. Will probably do again tomorrow morning, and then give them a day break. I built a rain/dew shelter, it’s about 6.5’ tall and 8x8’, so I’m hoping it’s not too tall the block sideways rain. Any time I have a chance of rain for the day they will go in there.
AK1 is falling all over herself, her buds are too heavy for her. Gave her some extra support, her slightly smaller sister has much stronger stems.
Chemdawg has started to show an amber patina, not on her trichs but on the buds themselves. Maybe the beginning of a little purpling? I think we are 2 weeks out from harvest on most of them, doing my best to make it.
Chemdawg smells like fresh squeezed orange juice, it’s amazing.

 

[The^Dude]

 

[Growtogrow]

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They look good. Not to far from harvesting. Nice job. [emoji106]

 

[Jean-O]

Nice work their bud ! Ull b smoking home grown in August it looks like ! I just smoked the last of my critical purple last night I miss it already lol !

 

[The^Dude]

Nice work their bud ! Ull b smoking home grown in August it looks like ! I just smoked the last of my critical purple last night I miss it already lol !

I hope so! My current usage rate is about half a gram every five years, so I’m hoping to have enough to last me til next season lol. I’ll have to start smoking more

 

[The^Dude]

Should I be concerned with this?