Washing off PM?

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Lucius Vorenus

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It's time and all his plants are ready. The problem is his plants have powdery mildew at the bottom of most of his buds. I helped him get it under control around week 5 with Potassium Bicarbonate but its definitely still there.

My question is for those of you who have ever had this issue. Whats the best way to get it off and is it worth even trying? I am temped to tell him not to even sell that to his patients and just make it all into butter but he really needs to recoup his cost of this grow, i get it, its 24 plants.

What would you do?
 
Nightmarecreature

Nightmarecreature

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Use non fat milk as a foliar spray. It will get you through flowering and works better than any chemical. My plants got PM and I destroyed them all. I started over and I have no PM. You cant get rid of it!
 
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Lucius Vorenus

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Nightmarecreature said:
Use non fat milk as a foliar spray. It will get you through flowering and works better than any chemical. My plants got PM and I destroyed them all. I started over and I have no PM. You cant get rid of it!
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All of his young plants in veg have been treated systemically with Eagle20. It kills it and keeps it killed. You just can't spray it in flower.

Just looking for a way to help him salvage the existing plants in flower and get the PM off.
 
dbkick

dbkick

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Nightmarecreature said:
Use non fat milk as a foliar spray. It will get you through flowering and works better than any chemical. My plants got PM and I destroyed them all. I started over and I have no PM. You cant get rid of it!
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tried PM wash by the makers of Mighty wash? NPK industries. If the PM wash works as well on PM as the mighty wash works mites its good to go, having not gotten a PM problem I havent' used it so couldn't tell you how well it works.
 
obijohn

obijohn

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Jorge Cervantes has a video floating around on how to remove pm from a harvested plant. Essentially you put some hydrogen peroxide in some water and bathe them..shit floats right off.

Last year one plant had it, and it worked great
 
Nightmarecreature

Nightmarecreature

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Like I said. Non fat milk. Eagle 20 is the only thing that works but it's nasty stuff. I can't find the scientific journal on milk and PM but milk works just as good as any PM treatment.

Surprisingly enough, household milk is an effective fungicide. A study by scientist Wagner Bettiol showed that diluted milk, applied regularly, greatly decreases mildew and mold in plants by up to 90%, which is competitive when compared to synthetic fungicides. The milk also acts as a foliar fertilizer providing salts and amino acids that essentially boost the plant’s immune system.
To prepare try diluting your milk by adding 1 part milk to 9 parts water. Apparently skim milk works best for this. Put the diluted milk in a spray bottle and apply to your plants once a week."

Skim milk is Fat-Free milk!

10% Fat Free Milk foliar spray
 
lordjin

lordjin

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Milk has to be unpasteurized to work. So unless you have a cow in your backyard use Serenade.

If you're already harvested, do the Cervantes bath.
 
shagalicious

shagalicious

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obijohn said:
Jorge Cervantes has a video floating around on how to remove pm from a harvested plant. Essentially you put some hydrogen peroxide in some water and bathe them..shit floats right off.

Last year one plant had it, and it worked great
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use the 29 percent shit
5-7 ml/gallon
submerse, rinse, repeat
 
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Lucius Vorenus

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obijohn said:
Jorge Cervantes has a video floating around on how to remove pm from a harvested plant. Essentially you put some hydrogen peroxide in some water and bathe them..shit floats right off.

Last year one plant had it, and it worked great
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Didn't work. Tried it using the 3% and used a full bottle to a gallon of water. Maybe it wasn't enough strength.
 
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Lucius Vorenus

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Nightmarecreature said:
Like I said. Non fat milk. Eagle 20 is the only thing that works but it's nasty stuff. I can't find the scientific journal on milk and PM but milk works just as good as any PM treatment.

Surprisingly enough, household milk is an effective fungicide. A study by scientist Wagner Bettiol showed that diluted milk, applied regularly, greatly decreases mildew and mold in plants by up to 90%, which is competitive when compared to synthetic fungicides. The milk also acts as a foliar fertilizer providing salts and amino acids that essentially boost the plant’s immune system.
To prepare try diluting your milk by adding 1 part milk to 9 parts water. Apparently skim milk works best for this. Put the diluted milk in a spray bottle and apply to your plants once a week."

Skim milk is Fat-Free milk!

10% Fat Free Milk foliar spray
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You missed the part where we are trying to wash it OFF and harvest. Not prevent it. The prevention is under control thanks to Greencure and future PM prevention is being handled by EAgle 20 and Immunox.
 
Villa

Villa

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Being a medical grow I believe you hold yourself to a higher level then if you were doing a personal grow. The first question I would ask is what can happen from smoking
bud that had mildew on it and how will it effect my patients. I have battled pm in veg with the skim milk and it worked great but never on flowering plants. I'd try the skim milk.
 
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Lucius Vorenus

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Villa said:
Being a medical grow I believe you hold yourself to a higher level then if you were doing a personal grow. The first question I would ask is what can happen from smoking
bud that had mildew on it and how will it effect my patients. I have battled pm in veg with the skim milk and it worked great but never on flowering plants. I'd try the skim milk.
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You missed the part where we were just trying to help him wash it off. Not control it.
 
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