What? Mold in Early September?

Here’s an example of what I’m seeing in early September, I thought that mold is an October problem around here!

It’s actually been moderately warm lately, and there’s a breeze in my backyard more often than not.

Here’s a pic, let me know what you think. What should I do?

Powdery mildew.. it can happen any time of yr

Green clean

I sprayed 30/70 milk water mixture and it’s knocked it out for now. Hope I only have to do it one more time at the most before harvest.

GiovanniJones said:

Here’s an example of what I’m seeing in early September, I thought that mold is an October problem around here!

It’s actually been moderately warm lately, and there’s a breeze in my backyard more often than not.

Here’s a pic, let me know what you think. What should I do?

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Go for Regalia. I've used it on tables I can't lose and it gets me through flower to harvest and best of all it's OMRI certified

Download the small tank mix instructions from here:
You need to mix it double the recommended use rates because you have an active infection. I ordered mine off Amazon.

my outdoor zucchini and pumpkins gotta hit by pm pretty hard this year kinda sucked.

My outdoor plants have the same thing. I spray the plants down with 1 part skim milk 9 parts tap water. Spray 1st thing in the morning, soaking the leaves, buds and stems then it will dry off in the sun. It gets rid of it for a week or so, then when it comes back i spray again. Plants look very healthy.

what state do you live in?

I've been dealing with PM for decades having outdoor vegetable gardens. I've tried many things even the expensive products. Nothing ever got rid of it completely. I noticed a few spots starting on my pumpkins so I sprayed everything with a potassium silicate foliar. It's been over a month and not a sign of any PM. You can get potassium silicate for under $20 a pound. It only takes a little per gallon so you can make quite a bit. I'm rather amazed at how well it's worked. I did use a little sesame oil in the foliar but I wouldn't use any oil on a flowering plant. But the K2SiO3 changes the pH on the surface to where the PM can not grow. At least that's my understanding which is why milk and baking soda have been common remedies for a very long time.

xtsho said:

I've been dealing with PM for decades having outdoor vegetable gardens. I've tried many things even the expensive products. Nothing ever got rid of it completely. I noticed a few spots starting on my pumpkins so I sprayed everything with a potassium silicate foliar. It's been over a month and not a sign of any PM. You can get potassium silicate for under $20. It only takes a little per gallon so you can make quite a bit. I'm rather amazed at how well it's worked. I did use a little sesame oil in the foliar but I wouldn't use any oil on a flowering plant. But the K2SiO3 changes the pH on the surface to where the PM can not grow. At least that's my understanding which is why milk and baking soda have been common remedies for a very long time.

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just ordered 2 lbs of it should last a long time.

Do a search on horse grass tea for PM.
You can use it today. Great for all garden plants.
It feeds the plant with immunity boosters to fight the disease.
Your plant is INFECTED with PM a disease. What you see on the leaves is the spores coming out of the infection in the leaves too re-infest other plants. Now imagine if you had an infection coming out of your skin and spreading around the town.
Sure you can wash it off or change the PH of the leaf, but your plant is infected within!!!
Your plant is sick. Stop washing it and thinking that it's better. It's not!
Cure it.

Haze the maze said:

Do a search on horse grass tea for PM.
You can use it today. Great for all garden plants.
It feeds the plant with immunity boosters to fight the disease.
Your plant is INFECTED with PM a disease. What you see on the leaves is the spores coming out of the infection in the leaves too re-infest other plants. Now imagine if you had an infection coming out of your skin and spreading around the town.
Sure you can wash it off or change the PH of the leaf, but your plant is infected within!!!
Your plant is sick. Stop washing it and thinking that it's better. It's not!
Cure it.

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xtsho said:

Horsetail Tea Tutorial....my PM is gone!

Sup Nerds, Nugs here with a whole new appreciation and enthusiasm for my garden.....i was almost ready to throw in the towel with this fucking tenacious powdery mildew problem....i tried almost everything, Serenade, Green Cure, lemon juice, milk, baking soda, neem, Oxidate...i even started...

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That's right My friends and thank you so much for finding this xtsho.
My zucchinis live forever in My garden since last year. They don't die of PM like usual. They just keep going! My weed plants are no longer sick all the way through flower.
This is going to save your day. just spray it on and the infection is gone for good! the plant will heal it's self and have an imunity to further infections. no longer sick!!!
Warning!
This is not a cure for mold!
Mold needs to be controlled with environmental controls.
Fans and humidity controls.
Basically don't let your plant be wet for to long. like a sponge sitting on the sink or a jar of pasta sauce sitting in the fridg mold needs wet non moving air to grow.

Haze the maze said:

That's right My friends and thank you so much for finding this xtsho.
My zucchinis live forever in My garden since last year. They don't die of PM like usual. They just keep going! My weed plants are no longer sick all the way through flower.
This is going to save your day. just spray it on and the infection is gone for good! the plant will heal it's self and have an imunity to further infections. no longer sick!!!
Warning!
This is not a cure for mold!
Mold needs to be controlled with environmental controls.
Fans and humidity controls.
Basically don't let your plant be wet for to long. like a sponge sitting on the sink or a jar of pasta sauce sitting in the fridg mold needs wet non moving air to grow.

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Potassium silicate works as good or better than other remedies but when you mentioned a natural alternative I was all ears. Actually I've heard of Horsetail and had considered using it in the past. Thanks for bringing it up. It's going to work nicely into my future self sufficient growing. I owe you thanks for bringing it back to my attention.

It's interesting that it itself reproduces by spores. Pretty cool plant. Grows native here in Oregon and I know places where I can harvest my own. It's considered a weed. I'm going to propagate my own.

I just grab about 20- 30 stalks about 1-2 feet long and cut it up into 2 inch pieces Then let sit over night in 1 gal. of water. Then it's into the kitchen to steal my wife's big stock pot. Bring this to a boil and simmer for 1 hour. Cool right. I mean cool the liquid down. You are going to need some cheese cloth, but I like to use a 5 gal. paint strainer. I also like to run it though a painters cone strainer like for spraying fine finish, but that's just Me. I don't like clogs in My sprayer. Do add a drop of natural unscented liquid detergent as this will help it to stick to the leaves. Then go out in the morning when you are absolutely sure that the plant will dry before the sun hits the plant. Either it must be warm out or set fans onto your plants DO NOT let them stay wet or else mold. See above! You can wet out all the leaves top and bottom. If you have buds the the warning above is especially true. I would think that you could add a little milk or whatever you like to get rid of any obvious outbreaks, but that is not the point of the horsetail in this solution. Horsetail is the cure for PM. Your plants will love you for doing this. Like you love them.
BTW
Horsetail can also be fermented into tea. This process takes longer, but makes a solution that actually feeds the plant with nutrients for an even strong result. It's something I have not done, but is also recommended by the organic farming community.
When your all done being good to your plant.
Be good to yourself.
Smoke some weed.