I agree that there are times when spraying (foliar feeding, et cetera) are warranted. As I was getting at, the advice against spraying/feeding during flowering is not a hard rule for all times/situations/growers. Merely... Well, you can spend two minutes explaining to someone how to grow cannabis, or you can spend (at least) a day. If giving the "quick
basic cannabis course," lol, I would say, "Try not to spray your buds." Experts (and those who wish to one day be experts) would, I assume, try to learn more than the barest essentials.
I especially agree with what you mentioned about foliar feeding certain nutrients. Some things... I have noticed that some things are more readily absorbed at different pH than the generally accepted ~5.8 for hydroponics / ~6.5 for soil. It might be simpler and easier to administer such things as a foliar feed.
I'm not sure that I would want to place General Hydroponics' Rare Earth silicone product in a DWC reservoir ever again, lol. It caused a rather extreme (and rather fatal :rolleyes3 ) pH shift. Still, I would like to be able to give it to my plants, because I feel that it does have benefits. I will probably try giving that as a foliar feed at some point in the future.
And, regardless, it probably is not at all fun
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Cannabis...
Yes. But I presume that those strains are ones that have been naturalized/acclimatized over generations to thrive under such conditions? I could probably spend an hour browsing at one of our seedbank
sponsors' websites and come up with at least a few plants that would not do well at all in your climate.
In many parts of the world, Botrytis Cinerea (et cetera) spores seem to be pretty much everywhere. In a lot of northern latitudes, it can be tough to grow many strains outdoors. And even indoors. I am kind of in a "flip a coin" area - mold can destroy a bud, destroy a crop, or not even be present (or at least not be observable). This does not seem to be much affected by the cleanliness of the grow room - total sterilization only means that there are no viable spores
to begin with. I have no airlock with a decontamination station inside, along with Tyvek suits to put on, lol. I grumble about spider mites, calling them "The Borg" and mentioning that I hate them. This is because, if my grow area becomes infested, it is a real battle. But it is a battle that
can be won. With mold, it seems like one cannot truly completely kill it once it gets established - only fight to minimize it, do damage control, keep applying treatments and removing affected portions of the plants (and then plants), whilst hoping that there is still
something to harvest. As I will be giving to people for medicinal use (and as my lungs are kind of shot), I would probably just tearfully destroy every plant, dismantle the grow, wash everything down with a strong Clorox bleach solution, and try again.
Nice! Around here, we've been saying "gets you there" ever since 1976 when Rush released their 2112 album.
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