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Bud rot, or rather, Botrytis Cinerea spreads through wind, water, rain, and infected pollen*. So this tells me that our rainy season definitely can spread it around but that doesn’t explain how or why it chooses what it chooses.
It does produce sclerotia to weather unfavorable conditions, and inoculates when conditions are good, so if it’s struck before it likely will come back if it isn’t destroyed.
Molds and mildews prefer warm and damp conditions to sprout and grow. We put foods in the fridge where we keep the temps and humidity down as a way to slow down the growth of molds and mildews. So why would being outside be different? I do not understand why we can figure that molds will spread and start growing just because it is rainy and/or cool temps outside in the fall. They have already been there on the plants. This year was the least mildew infection I have had in several years and I am thinking that since I put the plants out late, the last week of July, I missed the prime season for the mildew spores. Noticed the same thing when I plant cucumbers and squash later.
The spores had to have been there for awhile. Then this time of year the molds and mildews are at the end of their season and we are seeing the final stage. Similar to going outside with the daughter to help her pick a gazillion of those dang little cherry tomatoes that I spent all summer tending. Now there are more ripe cherry tomatoes than there are green.
Back to weed plants and powdery mildew. There are about 7 varieties of PM and each infects specific plants. What hits Cannabis does not infect most other plants. Each summer I try to catch when the mildew first hits my plants and walk around the yard looking to see what other plants get hit at the same time. This year the first signs on the plants were the same week it showed on my Zinnia. And what I noticed this year was that the PM hit the same week I first noticed rust on the lawns, both mine but also neighbors and the few customers I still do lawn service for. Yes, the PM and the lawn rust are two different things but now I am thinking that I can be prepared for the PM if they both require the same weather and environmental conditions to go into full bloom.
As far as I can tell the PM on the Cannabis is a different variety than on cucumbers or squash, different than grape mildews, different than what infects oaks and some maples and a few other common garden plants.
* Here’s my source:
I’m gonna dig deeper into this and see what I come up with
the two of them are pretty petty and emotionally childish so they weirdly compete out of anger or jealousy. My MIL was convinced my FIL was gonna fail because he started so late and doesn’t know what he’s doing. He just grew them like the rest of his veggie garden. He has produced much higher quality plants that are much more healthy 
That cola in the 2nd pic is stacking really nice
