[Blue Shark]

Originally Posted by Microbeman

Do you have a link for your quote? BTW, I'm not arguing with you in the slightest. Don't stop posting.

@ Microbeman, is this the link you're looking for

[guest2012y]

Actinovate.....well it works,yet as I suspected and as the directions indicate...an application every 7 days to protect new tissue.

I sprayed the flowers to see if it burns the hairs...it did not burn the hairs on any of the plants in the spray area.

I would and do spray bacterial concoctions around 15 mins b4 lights out...that way the heat,light,etc. doesn't discourage the bacterial colonies from forming...right?

I have not reached full PM attack mode yet...I suspect as the season progresses and the flower size increases I will have more opportunity to play with Actinovate in the next few weeks.

[jaykush]

id also like to add to this thread that there are certain species of ladybug that eat PM right off of leaves. they are not your average red and black spotted ladybug. one species is yellow and has many small black spots.

i have seen a few, but have not gone out to observe them eating the PM on some of the wild plants around here.

[guest2012y]

I've tried everything with PM and have a rather close relationship with this thing. The observations I make and the solutions I use work simply due to living with it. I've a list of 'do's and dont's' that keep me in the game without ever losing my crop to PM.

The big winner for me is bacterial controls..they work if you are attentative to your garden,yet the environment is everything. The organic bacterials such as Actinovate only protect the treated tissue and have to be re-applied. Some colonies of PM eating bacteria may die off in a couple days and leave the leaf tissue unprotected.

The conditions in which PM needs to grow need to be avoided...control that and you control PM. After you get it in your room it's all about treatment and future prevention.

A week later after the Actinovate application there is no sign of it returning....so far.

[guest2012y]

Double post.......but,I should also say that for 20 dollars you get a pouch of Actinovate that has 2 oz's of a white powder in it. 1/2 teaspoon per gallon of water for a foliar spray. Not bad considering that that 2 Oz's will last a long time at that rate of application.

[Microbeman]

Originally Posted by Blue Shark

@ Microbeman, is this the link you're looking for

Looks like it. Thanks

[mad librettist]

I may be wrong here but I don't believe the pm you see is a fruiting body. The mildew is the mildew.

[Microbeman]

This is a test because I cant see my previous post

[jaykush]

Our PM problems in our greenhouse a number of years back subsided when we stopped using fertilizers and used compost tea consistently

i didn't see this but i agree, i have noticed that not only with PM and pests but larger organisms like deer for example will go for a "fertilized" plant long before they will an identical plant that has been naturally grown( mulching, polycropping, etc...) i really dont understand the whole concept fully but its almost like we are unintentionally "Sweetening" up our plants for pests, for no reason at all. not sure what to call this but i think its a valuable topic to discuss for moving natural farming forward.

[3rdEye]

Excellent information and clarification. Thanks to all the contributors.