hydra-glide
Well-Known Member
The reason to switch up pesticides and fungicides is to prevent acclimation by the targeted pest, resulting in resistance to that particular pesticide or fungicide.Pest populations that are over-exposed to a single pesticide may develop resistance to that pesticide. This why farmers use different pesticides or fungicides, with a different MOA, in rotation. It is called IPM (Integrated Pest Management).
Pest populations that are over-exposed to a single pesticide may develop resistance to that pesticide. Resistance is due to the innate ability of some individuals in the pest population to survive even after being treated with a pesticide. When using pesticides repeatedly for crop protection, it is important to manage pesticide resistance by rotating chemicals with different modes of action (MOA) on the target pest or combining chemicals with different modes of action in the tank/spray mix.
Botrytis, (bud rot) as you know, is devastating. I am presently rotating Cease and Fracture fungicides, but Fracture is much more of a curative than a preventive fungicide. I will be incorporating Triathlon into my IPM program during the vegetative stage, to avoid Botrytis becoming resistant to Cease -- which could result in losing an entire crop, or a majority of the crop.
(I have already encountered mite resistance with some miticides, and that is why I rotate miticides. e.g. Avid (Abamectin), Tetrasan, Beethoven, Pylon, etc., etc., etc.)
You can purchase individual gallons of Triathlon for $91.95 with free shipping, rather than having to purchase a case of four gallons:
http://www.grosupply.com/en/triathlon-ba-biological-fungicide-bactericide-organic
I will attach a copy of a document, addressing the MOA of different pesticides and fungicides, I suggest you refer to when choosing a pesticide or fungicide to use in your IPM program.
You mentioned that you will be "using the Mini until the veg-prints exceed the 3x3' veg margins, then I'll install the Mega and burn 640-watt electricity for (15) hours, keeping the plants in the tent until they bud and harvest..."
Before your tent gals grow to the size you want, flip the Mega to a 12/12 schedule with a timer. You should keep in mind that your gals will continue to grow (stretch) even after being flipped to a 12/12 schedule. You can expect another 12" - 18" of stretch, after flipping to 12/12 -- if you have not defoliated them already. If you have defoliated, then you may only get 6" - 10" of stretch, at most.
It's a toss up. If you want large plants with thick colas, don't defoliate. But, being as you are constrained to the 50x50" square footage in your tent, then you can stunt them by defoliating during veg. The result will be smaller colas, but that is the trade off.
I will leave you with the link to an interesting thread addressing a wayyy different way to cure. It is called cobbing, and one must be patient to achieve the outcome desired.
The "commercial" market, aka dispensaries, will probably have no interest in cob, as the average consumer wants "bag appeal" consisting of dense stinky buds that are green. I call it "form over substance" as the average consumer rarely smokes any of the product before purchasing it -- but instead relies upon sight and smell. As for me, I prefer to choose what I smoke based on the "head" instead of the "look or smell."
For even heavy users, 2 - 3 tokes of a cobbed pinner will be like taking a low dose of LSD or shrooms. I suggest you read all 80 pages of the thread. Here is the link: - farmer
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=309172
Pest populations that are over-exposed to a single pesticide may develop resistance to that pesticide. Resistance is due to the innate ability of some individuals in the pest population to survive even after being treated with a pesticide. When using pesticides repeatedly for crop protection, it is important to manage pesticide resistance by rotating chemicals with different modes of action (MOA) on the target pest or combining chemicals with different modes of action in the tank/spray mix.
Botrytis, (bud rot) as you know, is devastating. I am presently rotating Cease and Fracture fungicides, but Fracture is much more of a curative than a preventive fungicide. I will be incorporating Triathlon into my IPM program during the vegetative stage, to avoid Botrytis becoming resistant to Cease -- which could result in losing an entire crop, or a majority of the crop.
(I have already encountered mite resistance with some miticides, and that is why I rotate miticides. e.g. Avid (Abamectin), Tetrasan, Beethoven, Pylon, etc., etc., etc.)
You can purchase individual gallons of Triathlon for $91.95 with free shipping, rather than having to purchase a case of four gallons:
http://www.grosupply.com/en/triathlon-ba-biological-fungicide-bactericide-organic
I will attach a copy of a document, addressing the MOA of different pesticides and fungicides, I suggest you refer to when choosing a pesticide or fungicide to use in your IPM program.
You mentioned that you will be "using the Mini until the veg-prints exceed the 3x3' veg margins, then I'll install the Mega and burn 640-watt electricity for (15) hours, keeping the plants in the tent until they bud and harvest..."
Before your tent gals grow to the size you want, flip the Mega to a 12/12 schedule with a timer. You should keep in mind that your gals will continue to grow (stretch) even after being flipped to a 12/12 schedule. You can expect another 12" - 18" of stretch, after flipping to 12/12 -- if you have not defoliated them already. If you have defoliated, then you may only get 6" - 10" of stretch, at most.
It's a toss up. If you want large plants with thick colas, don't defoliate. But, being as you are constrained to the 50x50" square footage in your tent, then you can stunt them by defoliating during veg. The result will be smaller colas, but that is the trade off.
I will leave you with the link to an interesting thread addressing a wayyy different way to cure. It is called cobbing, and one must be patient to achieve the outcome desired.
The "commercial" market, aka dispensaries, will probably have no interest in cob, as the average consumer wants "bag appeal" consisting of dense stinky buds that are green. I call it "form over substance" as the average consumer rarely smokes any of the product before purchasing it -- but instead relies upon sight and smell. As for me, I prefer to choose what I smoke based on the "head" instead of the "look or smell."
For even heavy users, 2 - 3 tokes of a cobbed pinner will be like taking a low dose of LSD or shrooms. I suggest you read all 80 pages of the thread. Here is the link: - farmer
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=309172
