PM 2 Weeks Before Harvest. Chop it Now? Pics

So things have been if anything too dry in my grow tent. But somehow last night it got really humid in there and PM popped up on a few leaves of like half the plants.

I removed all the leaves with white spots on them. I inspected everything pretty well and it was almost all lower leaves.

I know it's too late to spray. If I keep it dry in there till harvest do you think I'll be ok? Should I harvest it now to save it? Or is everything ruined?

Thanks for any input!

2 weeks away is a long time to go, you'll have to decide. I got some about 2 weeks away last round. Since it was so late only thing I tried was a 15% milk solution w/ filtered water. It didn't remove it but it did stop it from spreading further and it was mainly affecting the lower leaves, seems to attack those first. I removed any bad leaves and sprayed every 4-6 days, seemed to keep it in check. Might be worth trying if you decide to keep them going.

your going to have to do the hydrogen peroxide dunk if u continue to flower or chop. its on you tube. You have a bad case of pm. keep it dry in your room and try and finish out 14 days if thats all u got left. Unless u feel its better to scrap the grow and clean and start over. you would know best, being its your garden.

"If anything too dry"

Exactly how dry is that?

Baking soda will stop it...mix a table spoon to a quart of water and spray directly to infected leafs...leave for a few hours and spray with fresh tap water..the baking soda changes the ph of the leaf surface to 7 ..pm..can survive in an environment of 7...do not spray young seedlings or clones that are not well rooted it can kill them.....don't be pulling the leafs off your plant needs them for energy ..hope this helps

a mongo frog said:

your going to have to do the hydrogen peroxide dunk if u continue to flower or chop. its on you tube. You have a bad case of pm. keep it dry in your room and try and finish out 14 days if thats all u got left. Unless u feel its better to scrap the grow and clean and start over. you would know best, being its your garden.

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Damn, even now the buds are fucked unless I wash them? I've got some nice buds but I'm not sure I want to even risk the washing.

And you think its that bad uh? The pics are pretty zoomed in btw. Those leaves aren't very big.

SnaFuu said:

"If anything too dry"

Exactly how dry is that?

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35-40 normally.

Your buds are not trashed yet. I've gotten late pm before. Milk solution does work. If you spray the buds it will turn the hairs red. But I'd rather have burnt red hairs and finished pm free buds personally.

Sent from Northern Colorado.

Man... I can't decide what to do. I've done some more reading up, basically looking for opinions at this point. I know there is know way to "cure" it at this point but can still stop it from growing right?

I know my whole room is infected now right? I have been working on getting a perpetual grow going in my spare bedroom. Have flowers in the closet and grow tent. Have some new moms(2 foot) in the room vegging under a t5 fixture(which are bouncing back from deficiencies atm)

I should prob go full backstory at this point. The closet also got PM 1-2 weeks ago, I caught it early as well. It had several 6 week flowers in there which went straight in the trash. There were 4 in there that had only been flowering 2 weeks. So I sprayed the shit out of them and the closet with Mildew Cure, after removing the PM leaves. The 4 that I treated have not shown any further mildew growth.

So the question is, start over, or keep going and hope for the best? Perhaps treat the mothers and trash everything else?

I don't want to spray the flowers, even with milk, BUT I also don't want to harvest them early.

If I do nothing but keep it dry in there will the buds still grow mildew? 2 weeks is a long time...

If I harvest them tomorrow, will the mildew still grow on the buds? I assume everything is infected if not visible. I mean I can live with a few invisible mildew spores or whatever, I'm sure I've smoked a ton of it in the past.

Sorry if off topic, what is PM stand for? just trying to learn, thinking plant mold?

Powdery Mildew. It's a fungus.

Dammit! I'm so pissed this is some nice ass flower. Not a lot mind you. Maybe 8oz if I dried it right now but dammit.

PS> The flowers are in prime stage for juicing I think, lol. Anyone got a juicer?

PPS> If I did harvest now, despite not being mature the biggest issue is not being flushed right? Been feeding veganic nutes so I don't think that will be AS big of a deal.

AlGore said:

Dammit! I'm so pissed this is some nice ass flower. Not a lot mind you. Maybe 8oz if I dried it right now but dammit.

PS> The flowers are in prime stage for juicing I think, lol. Anyone got a juicer?

PPS> If I did harvest now, despite not being mature the biggest issue is not being flushed right? Been feeding veganic nutes so I don't think that will be AS big of a deal.

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if u pulled right now and did nothing your flowers would be bad to smoke. try what post 5 says to do if he/she has done this maybe u can get some clean flowers. u should mic it, then u will really see how bad u are. then check after spraying. see if it did anything.

a mongo frog said:

if u pulled right now and did nothing your flowers would be bad to smoke. try what post 5 says to do if he/she has done this maybe u can get some clean flowers. u should mic it, then u will really see how bad u are. then check after spraying. see if it did anything.

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They would be bad smoke because they are early or because they have pm? I have not seen any pm near the top bud yet. Just on the lower leaves, all of which I removed.

My thought was, if I chopped the tops in the morning and made fresh frozen bubble hash with it, there would be very little, if any, pm in the final product.

Also, you mean the baking soda method correct? Would this be better than milk? From what I've read online both methods only stop it from spreading and growing, the don't remove it other than by washing off some i suppose.

And do you think I should "clean" everything like with the dunk method regardless of what I do? So spray baking soda(on everything?) to stop it from getting worse, then peroxide dunk at chop?

AlGore said:

They would be bad smoke because they are early or because they have pm? I have not seen any pm near the top bud yet. Just on the lower leaves, all of which I removed.

My thought was, if I chopped the tops in the morning and made fresh frozen bubble hash with it, there would be very little, if any, pm in the final product.

Also, you mean the baking soda method correct? Would this be better than milk? From what I've read online both methods only stop it from spreading and growing, the don't remove it other than by washing off some i suppose.

And do you think I should "clean" everything like with the dunk method regardless of what I do? So spray baking soda(on everything?) to stop it from getting worse, then peroxide dunk at chop?

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u have to do the dunk method if your going to smoke those. just looking out for your safety. do u have any access to actinovate? spray with that once or twice before u harvest. the dunk method is pretty simple and it will not fuck with any smell taste or anything. do as the guy did on the video branch by branch.

jorge cervantes has a pretty good video on boobtube showing how to dunk your plants for pm..

umm, i'm just curious, but wtf are those leaves sitting on top of in those pix of the single leaves? ty..

racerboy71 said:

jorge cervantes has a pretty good video on boobtube showing how to dunk your plants for pm..

umm, i'm just curious, but wtf are those leaves sitting on top of in those pix of the single leaves? ty..

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I was wondering what that was too. I like your lude avatar, it almost made me remember the 80's.

racerboy71 said:

jorge cervantes has a pretty good video on boobtube showing how to dunk your plants for pm..

umm, i'm just curious, but wtf are those leaves sitting on top of in those pix of the single leaves? ty..

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Yea I've watched it and read about it. Prob gonnna do this after harvest. But was wondering how to treat till then.

And It's a gannet counter top.

AlGore said:

Yea I've watched it and read about it. Prob gonnna do this after harvest. But was wondering how to treat till then.

And It's a gannet counter top.

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oh, lol, i see it now, at first it looked super funky and kind of moldy too, lol..

a mongo frog said:

u have to do the dunk method if your going to smoke those. just looking out for your safety. do u have any access to actinovate? spray with that once or twice before u harvest. the dunk method is pretty simple and it will not fuck with any smell taste or anything. do as the guy did on the video branch by branch.

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Hey I missed this post somehow.

About a 1-2 weeks left on these. It keeps popping up, for a few days it seemed cutting it out was working. I've cut off prob way more branches and leaves than I should have, lol.

Anyway, I've given up that method and am spot treating with baking soda till harvest. I'll do the peroxide wash then.

AlGore said:

Yea I've watched it and read about it. Prob gonnna do this after harvest. But was wondering how to treat till then.

And It's a gannet counter top.

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Oh shit, I thought it was snow, lol!