Found one EnviroNize Multi-Use 200 Anolyte Sanitizer - Indoor Farmer Can Hypochlorous acid be used through flower on the whole plant to prevent budrot?
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boostedhonda
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It’s my understanding you can use any hypochlorous acid made with potassium salts through harvest. I’ve heard of people fogging hocl multiple times through flower with no ill effects. Some people even use it for a bud wash as it’s much more effective than peroxide. Anolyte, agrowlite, green Houston, floraflex root drip.
weedstoner420
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Maybe, but mold that grows on the soil surface usually doesn't infect living plant tissue. There are tons of different species of white mold, not all of them are bad
Edit: here's a pic of my soil after a recent grow, and I had no mold inside the buds...
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conor c
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Clean everything including your wick system honestly how folk manage it idk in my decades of growing ive never had bud rot in my grows indoors once knock on wood lol ive only ever seen it outdoors or indoors with some friends that were not so clued up where i stay humidity rarely dips below 70% ever with good climate controls keeping it below 50 %your golden ime long as everything is pretty sterile also any cloth in the room burn it worst cases of it i seen were compounded because the grower had hung a curtain over as u walk in inside the door of the growroom to try to hide the light and spores just hide in stuff like that so yeah growing in a clean room is a must so blitz it after every run mind you i dry my weed in tents and grow in rooms i dont like grow tents for growing in maybe that helps me somewhat anyway good luck op hope you sort your issues out bud
amneziaHaze
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Yea but it allways comes when you overwater.let your soil dry more
weedstoner420
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Possibly an unpopular opinion, but I don't think you need to go crazy with cleaning/trashing/burning your stuff. Spores are always floating around in the air, but they need the right conditions to geminate and grow.
Botrytis (aka bud rot) doesn't just need high humidity, it requires freestanding water on the leaf surface to germinate. Outside, this happens all the time from rain and morning dew. Indoors, unless you're spraying your plants with something, it comes from condensation.
Humidity is important, but airflow is really the key to prevention. Condensation can happen in two situations:
Rapid humidity/temperature swings, like when your lights turn off, the temperature rapidly drops and the relative humidity spikes (see "dew point", and why liquid water forms on the outside of a glass). Keeping the humidity stable is just as important as keeping it low. If you increase your exhaust speed/rate at which the air is exchanged into/out of the tent, it will keep your humidity more constant.
Poor airflow around/through the plant. The leaves and buds are constantly transpiring water vapor, increasing the relative humidity inside the buds themselves, and you need to move that humid air away from the buds before it condenses. This is what the circulation fans in the tent are for, so make sure there is air movement everywhere and no dead spots.
All that being said, as others mentioned some strains and phenotypes are just more prone to mold than others. I think it's partly down to natural immunity, like at a cellular level they can resist pathogens better, and partly the structure of the buds allowing more or less air penetration and condensation buildup.
Hope some of that helps you. Good luck!
Botrytis (aka bud rot) doesn't just need high humidity, it requires freestanding water on the leaf surface to germinate. Outside, this happens all the time from rain and morning dew. Indoors, unless you're spraying your plants with something, it comes from condensation.
Humidity is important, but airflow is really the key to prevention. Condensation can happen in two situations:
Rapid humidity/temperature swings, like when your lights turn off, the temperature rapidly drops and the relative humidity spikes (see "dew point", and why liquid water forms on the outside of a glass). Keeping the humidity stable is just as important as keeping it low. If you increase your exhaust speed/rate at which the air is exchanged into/out of the tent, it will keep your humidity more constant.
Poor airflow around/through the plant. The leaves and buds are constantly transpiring water vapor, increasing the relative humidity inside the buds themselves, and you need to move that humid air away from the buds before it condenses. This is what the circulation fans in the tent are for, so make sure there is air movement everywhere and no dead spots.
All that being said, as others mentioned some strains and phenotypes are just more prone to mold than others. I think it's partly down to natural immunity, like at a cellular level they can resist pathogens better, and partly the structure of the buds allowing more or less air penetration and condensation buildup.
Hope some of that helps you. Good luck!
joesoap2013
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You could duct your intake you don't need a fan for it surely
Bit of silk screen on each end dont let any bugs in
Bit of silk screen on each end dont let any bugs in