[oldestschool]

agonyms

[Smokalottapotamus]

Huh?

[oldestschool]

Lol 😆

[oldestschool]

Help an Oldman out

What’s IPM

[Smokalottapotamus]

Integrated Pest Management

[Hash]

Though overkill for most, I thoroughly enjoy using an electrostatic sprayer for applying foliar IPM concentrate like Lost Coast Plant Therapy or Pure Crop 1… You just squeeze the trigger and the tops and bottoms of all the leaves are coated. 🤙😁

I’m sure there’s plenty of opinions (and experts present to chime in) on what to use and when.

Personally I’ve had great success implementing micronized sulfur…but it’s corrosive (think tent poles/lights) and long term use can lead to molybdenum deficiency in your plants… So I reserve that for certain situations.

Also, I have continued success with Lost Coast Plant Therapy. Eliminates PM as advertised and demolishes mites. A big plus is it smells like peppermint. 😁

Oh. Important to not to NOT use sulfur or an oil based product within 6 weeks of each other on the same plant. Sulfur and oil don’t mix. Will burn your plants.

• This reply was modified 2 weeks, 3 days ago by  Hash.

[ZoomyCat]

I do my best to take care of the medium and keep a healthy plant. I check my plants pretty often, I don’t do everything I should to be honest but I do the best I can.

Monitoring with sticky traps, trying to reduce the population with a zapper strategy but the one I need to try still is either mosquito bits or mosquito dunks. I can find the dunks but not the bits but they do the same thing from what I’ve researched. They contain a healthy bacteria to the medium and that bacteria feeds on the larval stage of the medium dwelling pests.

Next is environments temperature/humidity and how you accomplish VPD. The plant just tends to want to hit VPD that is good for it if I keep the temperature stable and relatively cool. This is easier than you would think in a cold climate winter. I’m more afraid of the hot temperatures of summer. But the correlation of VPD is that to a point if you have a cooler temperature you will have a wider humidity range that the plant will be pleased with to transpire. Most of the time I kept the plant around 19-21C or 66.2-69.8F and the plants in the area if checked daily and kept watered appropriately have kept VPD in check.

I wanted to run a bunch of healthy herbs beside the Cannabis plants to repel any local pests or pests that may target Cannabis. Most of them died or had severe issues when I had the Tent issues. I need to run some new healthy herbs once I move to run as interference on pests once I get a restart done after this full run goes through. You should look up if they will compete and pot in their own pots accordingly if you plan to do this.

There are also sprays for different things but I’m wary of these with Autos because they generally start showing before much really develops so there are blurred lines on all that with an Auto. I’d definitely be more inclined to use them for a photoperiod I was keeping in veg though.

I’d rather do as @scottyreal advises on the show and keep the plant as healthy as possible. I’ve run a limited plant count but I’ve tried to learn as much as possible from my mistakes. Of course we can always do better next time or in the future.