What are your standard IPM protocols

It really depends on if I am indoors or out. If bring stuff in from outside. Drip, drench. Homemade sprays with soap, essential oils, vinegar ect. Depends on what I am dealing with. Staying vigilant checking plants often. You can add neem meal to soil. There are good and bad nematodes. Companion plants I like marigolds. My biggest nuisance growing outdoors are moths. Tiny caterpillars. I try to do everything myself like jadam or KNF.
 
I am a scorched earth kind of guy. Powdery Mildew is my nemesis. I am sure I will get called out about this, what works works.

I use Eagle 20 a week after I flower. Some would say it is a little late. I flower into 70 days on most strains so the extra week of protection helps. I have tried and tried to get this whole house clean. Between crowded grow rooms, carpets, grow equipment, I can never totally eradicate PM. Mostly I am just running from it.
 
Spider Mites indoors. Caterpillars and these crazy black beetles that decimated my totmatoes outside. Scrub & Bleach everything ib the rooms between rounds indoor. Rotate through a few organic options inddor every other day durng veg. Favorite is Method 1. The girls seem to like it and I like how it smells. Proably just mint oil & water. Prayers during flower. Outdoor Neem oil and Monterey BT for the butterflies in training. Still learning what Nature thows at you outdoor here in OK. One cool thing I did learn this year was that you can defintitley get in 2 full sun crops. Ecited for next years outdoor.
 
Back in the day there wasn't much to control these problems specially the outdoor grow. Indoor grow was at its infancy. MH with conversion bulbs to start, followed by HPS program. Having an extensive horticultural background the only solution I could offer garden customers was these products below. Ambush is banned in all provinces except Quebec. Absolutely amazing! Malathion is the next best option, excellent for any mites and fungal issues. Indoor spray lightly, outdoor apply generously. Plants love it, they respond with sheen of pure health.
 

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Spider Mites indoors. Caterpillars and these crazy black beetles that decimated my totmatoes outside. Scrub & Bleach everything ib the rooms between rounds indoor. Rotate through a few organic options inddor every other day durng veg. Favorite is Method 1. The girls seem to like it and I like how it smells. Proably just mint oil & water. Prayers during flower. Outdoor Neem oil and Monterey BT for the butterflies in training. Still learning what Nature thows at you outdoor here in OK. One cool thing I did learn this year was that you can defintitley get in 2 full sun crops. Ecited for next years outdoor.
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Those black Beatles are squash beetles use sevin dust as against it as I am it's the only thing I found works for those fuckers
 
I typically just preventive maintenance with regular room cleanings after every harvest and once a month in veg room. IPM preventative protocol is every other Sunday, preventative dose of either Athena IPM (peppermint, lemongrass, and geranium oils) or Mammoth Cannatrol (thyme oil) rotating between them. Main culprits indoor are fungus gnats and PM. No matter how much I clean the house, I cannot seem to eradicate them for good. Occasionally something else will wander in off me and I’ll do treatment dose 3 times, once every 3rd day. Any ipm treatment is a drenching spray down of entire plants with an electrostatic sprayer including top of soil.

Also, diatomaceous earth is a great friend too.
 
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It really depends on if I am indoors or out. If bring stuff in from outside. Drip, drench. Homemade sprays with soap, essential oils, vinegar ect. Depends on what I am dealing with. Staying vigilant checking plants often. You can add neem meal to soil. There are good and bad nematodes. Companion plants I like marigolds. My biggest nuisance growing outdoors are moths. Tiny caterpillars. I try to do everything myself like jadam or KNF.
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I forgot I also have a big bag of diatomaceous earth I use every now and again. Along with some wettable sulfur.
 
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I typically just preventive maintenance with regular room cleanings after every harvest and once a month in veg room. IPM preventative protocol is every other Sunday, preventative dose of either Athena IPM (peppermint, lemongrass, and geranium oils) or Mammoth Cannatrol (thyme oil) rotating between them. Main culprits indoor are fungus gnats and PM. No matter how much I clean the house, I cannot seem to eradicate them for good. Occasionally something else will wander in off me and I’ll do treatment dose 3 times, once every 3rd day. Any ipm treatment is a drenching spray down of entire plants with an electrostatic sprayer including top of soil.

Also, diatomaceous earth is a great friend too.
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To add, outdoor is a bit heavier on the same IPM prevention schedule. PM and Inch worms eating pistils, poppin on buds and makin nests that cause bud rot are my outdoor enemies. The climate in the fingerlakes just absolutely feeds PM.
 
Hey guys, no often I pop in but saw Katsu’s email invite to this thread, so here I am.

Not sure if it’s because I am an organic grower, being farther north (45th parallel), pure luck or maybe some of the issues others deal with just are not common here, but I rarely have issues and there are only 3 I can think of off the top of my head.

Indoors I have had issues with fungus gnats by times. These I generally deal with by top dressing my soil with DE and if they get out of control, I will use nematodes which tend to eradicate them in short order.
I will also use Bti (mosquito dunks) indoors but never on my outdoor crops because Bti will kill bees as well.

Outdoors, my only issues have been weather, we get hurricanes and tropical storms fairly often here during late August and September with can create havoc. Not much I can do to cure the weather aside from growing in a greenhouse which I’ve done the past 2 years.
Frost can also be an issue here anytime after the first week of September, again the greenhouse these days.

The last issue, bud rot, is generally a combination of Corn Borer worms, frost and wet weather. The greenhouse cures most of this but before when growing in the great outdoors, I would watch for signs of worms, split the stems where I find sign and stab the little fuckers causing damage. I never got them all but signs of BR in the bud would warrant cutting it out.

Last season, first for the greenhouse, I did run into some form of mould, even earlier in the season before budding starts. The tips of some leaves would die, turn brown and curl up. Some form of mould would start and grow these stalked spores.

I initially blamed it on the AACT feed I use being too potent coupled with a lot of rain causing the ground they grow in to be over wet (swampy) which is not a good thing for 100% organic grows. This caused some mould on some bud but minimal.

I did notice it again this year back in May/June but it seems too have stopped from what I can see, the 4 girls took over and filled the greenhouse like an Amazon Jungle this year 😂

That picture is looking in the door, I can’t get pictures inside, no room to even stand upright when I go in and there are wires and cords everywhere pulling tops away from the roof
 

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Caterpillars outside. Learned my lesson this year after missing a few BT sprays. Needs to be weekly when I see the yellow moths and lovely butterflies. Fuckers!

For mites, others, I use a rotating mix of Lost Coast, Dr Zymes and neem (in veg) proactively. The LC and Zymes also help with any fungal challenges. Proactive control seems to work
 
Outdoor veg, I rotate between organishield, dr zymes, neem, canncontrol.
Outdoor flower, I rotate between organishield, dr zymes and bt.

Plan on using lost coast if I run into pm outdoor, but I've got the girls covered (clear tarp - just top, sides open) so they stay dry and have fans on them 24/7 after flower starts.
 
For my IPM in the routine I use PureCrop1 and add in Plant Bodyguard (Lawless Grow / VA company that rocks) biweekly to spice it up or any given thought of pest presence. As far as the root zone & soil maintenance I make sure there's a strong rhizome with microbes doing the heavy lifting and I also monitor dry-backs and adjust accordingly. Above everything the grow area has gotta be clean to the best extent I can.

Another little "secret" that I use is using silica (silicone dioxide) frequently, and use a foliar spray with fulvic acid and kelp @ a 5:2 ratio. From a VT study (I believe 2014?) they noticed that using the ratio increases the effect/benefot of both inputs by 50% vs using either alone. I can't remember the full science at the moment but there's a full body recipie that I use that also can pull readily available silica to plant tissue at the sign of infection from PM, crystallizing the "taproot" of the fungi.

This can be used in an organic recipe or whatever nutrients you have available that are recommended for foliar use. The excess water can also be used on the roots to stimulate root growth and be a little "booster shot" to the root zone.

Foliar Recipe (per 1 gal of water)
- Fulvic acid / Kelp @ 5:2 ratio
- Yucca/wetting agent
- Aloe extract
 
MattFlaker said:
Caterpillars outside. Learned my lesson this year after missing a few BT sprays. Needs to be weekly when I see the yellow moths and lovely butterflies. Fuckers!

For mites, others, I use a rotating mix of Lost Coast, Dr Zymes and neem (in veg) proactively. The LC and Zymes also help with any fungal challenges. Proactive control seems to work
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I was told from a friend out in Washington what he does for his outdoor crop is spraying heavily with Monterey BT for 2 weeks before flower and moderately for the first 3 weeks of flower helped his crop a lot - little to no bugs for the rest of the season. If you are able to get some bug netting it helps a bunch. Hope it helps!
 
I also grow super hot peppers. I make a homemade tincture with them. Soak the peppers in alcohol (I use vodka most of the time) few ounces in water and spray. Use it in veg for most things in veg outdoors. I’ve found it works fairly well. Dr zymes, ohn, em5. I rotate these and have had good results.
 
In hydro veg they get a spray/ fog of plant vitality killer mite 1 week and then SB Plant Invigorator the next week.
Nothing in flower.
In the organic living soil pots some times a stocking over the soil to stop fungus gnats and flys coming from the soil.
And sometimes week 3 in flower a dry amendment Bloom 2-8-10 fully organic.
Spider mites are the only problem I’ve had apart from HLVD.
Never really suffered with other problems like that..
Bought natural predators for spider mites but using a spray fogger works better.imo.
Used to have real hard water before RO filters.
keeping the environment stable is a main stay and stops other problems.
Sometimes on them winter nights you gotta check the fat buds just for piece of mind to make sure there’s no bud rot.
And take all of that tiny piece of dead leaf outta the bud as that’s sometimes a trigger for the rot.
Mostly you know how a plant grows if that makes sense.
After you’ve grown the same strain for a while you notice things for different strains.
Like maybe 1 strain is a more heavy feeder.
But I am indoors.
 
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