2022 Massachusetts Outdoor Growers

PioneerValleyOG

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Peroxide time, the PM plague has arrived, only a few spots so far -

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Already! Not only that, the 'teensy-weensy' bit of of mold I thought I saw on the Creme? One rain and molded to the point I had to pull her. She was close, a lot of red hairs which I don't know why don't show in the pics, very few white. But she's retired now, gotta figure where to hang her.
 

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p59teitel

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Hazards abound. I get PM during droughts because that stuff loves dry nights in the 70s. Wasn’t a problem last year because it rained from July until November. Probably spreads from my Concord grapes.

Your Creme still looks pretty good. Might be a little zippy out of the gate, I bet 6 months in a jar would agree with it.
 

7CardBud

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I had a pretty rough time with PM last year. This year I have doing mechanical removal with a forceful water jet and spraying with DE and Neem to fight mites. The side effect might be that it helps PM spores from getting settled. Now that mites are in check, the plants are starting to take off.
 

MICHI-CAN

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Last year was hell with PM here. Have been adding Regalia CG to my fertigation once per month. And I spray copper fungicide every 2 weeks. Copper messes up my good bugs. Only for a day or two though.

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YardG

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I usually spray copper early in veg, and neem on occasion. This year I've been doing EM1 spray once a week, and I've been spraying AgSil roughly once a week as well. I used to use Serenade... but I think the bottle I have must be at least 4 years old... maybe not that useful at this point.

ETA: I haven't noticed any PM on my pot plants yet, but there's some kind of tall weedy flower that grows in the bed in front of the house and year after year you can always count on that to start showing PM first. Sure enough, PM. I tried spraying it with Serenade figuring what the heck, but I need to use a better sprayer, tried using some cast-off cleaning spray bottle which didn't work all that well.
 

MICHI-CAN

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Yes it kill spores i dont consider those higher life forms here, I grow things for food an pay bills i dont like chasing my own tail over bugs an mold spores. I have sprayed cooper on lady bugs they dont even blink.
I was referring to my microbes in soil. And a true garden has a balance. If not? Your harvest is lacking. Go green.
 

thumper60

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I was referring to my microbes in soil. And a true garden has a balance. If not? Your harvest is lacking. Go green.
I hear ya but my harvest would be zero if i didnt use things like copper. Not like iam dumping gals of it everywhere I have a very healthy compost filled food plot that i use copper on without copper i couldn't grow tomato's or cucumbers because of blight an pm. Copper is very mild compared to a lot of stuff.
 

PioneerValleyOG

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I hear ya but my harvest would be zero if i didnt use things like copper. Not like iam dumping gals of it everywhere I have a very healthy compost filled food plot that i use copper on without copper i couldn't grow tomato's or cucumbers because of blight an pm. Copper is very mild compared to a lot of stuff.
I somewhat agree. Copper isn't to kill bugs, it's to harden the outside layer so that bugs can't easily munch. At least that's how it works on tobacco. I don't believe it's an insecticide at all.
 
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