When my grow is in flower, I put on my rain suit, go out in the field after every fog every dewy morning and after every rain, and physically shake them dry. I have a windier than average location, so that helps too. I’ve never seen actual mold but have had a spot or two of powdery mildew. I do foliar application of diluted hydrogen peroxide if I encounter that or just remove the affected flowers or leaves to a sunny spot to dry up and die as far away from my plot as possible.
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I do recall under $30 two pound harvests, with miracle grow only, then improvement after improvement, soil amendments, quality seeds (ILGM), and finally the frustration of fighting nature won out. In my tree lined, woodsy location…I can’t get what I want from outdoors with high temps, bugs falling from the trees, and mold. The only thing going for me is our drought, I controlled their water!
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Its the high humidity that is killing them here @Willd
It doesn’t help that they are far out in the bush so shaking every morning isnt an option, and we had two weeks of constant rain before I installed a tarp over all of them, which is what started the mold on only one of them. Now that we’ve had rain plus humidity levels around 70-90+% its a mold growing haven. Not much I can do about it unfortunately
So I’m at a bit of a crossroads. Ive already harvested one gold leaf, this one fell over during all the rain a month back and split the stem, it just hasn’t been the same since. Not much yield and been slowly dieing off while still growing buds. Tomorrow I’m harvesting the remaining half of the big GSC, and also another one of the GSC’s. I will be left with one golf leaf and two GSC’s. From thursday onwards we are getting another week or more of daily rain and plenty of moisture in the air. Id love to give the raining 3 time to fatten up, the gold leaf is huge, but buds still need some fattening as they are more airy than the rest. All 3 are having minor mold problems, but I fear with the weather predictions it will get much worse. Ill be checking daily so I can always cut down at any point if I have to. So I’m left with two options, harvest all 5 remaining plants tomorrow, cut my losses and still get a huge harvest of mostly milky trichomes. Or, harvest the two I was planning to tomorrow as they are theworst affected by mold, tarp up the area again so the remaining 3 are covered from the rain, check on them daily and hope I can get another couple weeks out of them.
With the mold a continuous problem I dont know how much longer theyll be able to hang on as it is thats the thing. As I said mold is only minor on the 3 I’m talking about, but as any outdoor grower knows, it can turn into a major problem very, very quickly. All opinions welcome, its been a long 8 months leading up to this so voice some inputs 
@Countryboyjvd1971 @kabongster @BIGE @Willd @maxlarge @ktreez420 @Matthew420 @bob31 @Nug-bug and anyone else with any opinion is welcome 
Heading out to give all plants a water with flawless finish, will report back soon
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Well sounds like you’re faced with a decision to make. I saw something about a cyclone down there so that can’t be any good either. I’ve never had actual mold issues except one time when I was still new to growing, I jarred everything up before it was dry enough and went on two week vacation. I lost every last oz of it.
I know hydrogen peroxide solution works on powdery mildew but I can’t speak for mold.
Either way it’s still a better problem to have to resolve than running out.
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Cyclone is up north luckily, they had 260km/h winds so I’m glad I’m not in the thick of that. This mold is very different to powdery mildew, and in circumstances like mine where the humidity is so high, H202 solution won’t do a thing. For the problem to be fixed, the environment around the plants has to change and well, thats just impossible outdoors 
Im thinking I’m going to give the 3 plants a try with the tarp above and see how long they can hold it out without too much mold problems
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That’s fortunate. I’m glad to hear you’re not being impacted by Deb. Sounds like you have a plan. I’ll be keeping my eye on this one. Mostly milky isn’t necessarily the worst outcome either right? Best of luck.
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@Countryboyjvd1971 there ya go 
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Mostly milky is a pretty decent outcome, I was never looking for too much amber as I’m not after a couch lock stone anyway, but was aiming for around 10%. Either way, a harvest is a harvest and ill take all I can get 
Ill give you a tag in a few days to keep you updated on how things go, cheers
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Well sir if it where me and I had to make the same decision I think I would take them early if they are mostly milky I think you’ll still have a good smoke on your hands once cured proper
And since it sounds like the weather not going to change for the good I would cut your losses and get it hung
But that’s me bro I will tell you what you’ve worked to hard to loose them now let me know how you make out bro and what you decide to do
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Sounds like if you get that house you mentioned in another post you’ll have a better situation down the line.
I live in a rural area with a population density of 11 people /sq km so you can grow cannabis hidden in plain sight right in your vegetable garden.
It’s legal to cultivate 6 plants per person in a household here as of Nov 2016 so I think the backyard grow is going to become a more common thing in spite of the short growing season.
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Cheers for the input bro, Im tossing it up and I think I might be able to squeeze a couple more days in. Sun tomorrow, big southerly with 40knot winds hitting thursday, 50+mm of rain, then friday saturday looking like its just cloudy and a bit of sun, then sunday the week of rain and cold kicks in properly. So I might just tarp up thursday, and give them that couple extra days then pull saturday arvo. Thats best case scenario anyway. Im with you on the early pull. I dont think it’ll be worth leaving them up once the rain kicks in, with constant cloud and a clear tarp over them which does shade them a bit still, I dont think the UV would be strong enough to warrant much growth anyway
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Now that my friend, sounds like heaven… I hope Aus one day will adopt some sensible laws and allow the same, but I dont see it happening for the foreseeable future. Ill be looking forward to you growing some backyard monsters! If its a short growing season, autos are the way to go Some of the ILGM autos I’ve seen people grow are just amazing, buds bigger than my arm
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On a plus note, the dehumidifier has got the RH levels down to around 65%, which is pretty good considering the outside RH (80-90) and the size of the room I’m drying in (about 10x5 metres),
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That’s going to be a huge benefit. I see @Countryboyjvd1971 point if your outdoor conditions are not expected to improve before too long. I just hope for a dry Autumn here in the northern hemisphere come Oct.
I don’t think I can get autos big enough. I started 2x as many bag seed as I wanted to harvest inside in mid-late March most of my grows and force flowering of cuttings to sex indoors and yank the corresponding males before they sexed in the field. On the recommendation of a new friend, I purchased Sour Diesel and Bubba Kush clones for my last grow in 2015. It yielded way more than I expected.
I discovered ILGM in January 2017 and got eager. I started in Feb this season. Also threw down the Outdoor SCROG Challenge last week.
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Well I say keep them out as long as possible bro if you think you can and if the weather turns you can always take them down but only once hahahaha
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I agree with CB, go day by day.
the buds not mold prone you might want to try and mature longer…the best part of an outdoor grow is the size of the harvest, if you lose some buds there are plenty more but every loss is traumatic.
as the buds get bigger there are more places for mold to take hold.
look for mold resistant strains for your next grow.
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That’s some good advice @kabongster
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Indica dominant like Blueberry tend to have very good mold resistance and yield a bit smaller than stativa’s yes but tighter nodes and buds imo
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That outdoor grow spot looked amazing, love the set up. Did you have any animal issues with it not being fenced off?
Love the look of that greenhouse grow too, ill be sure to follow along looks like your gonna have a huge crop in there! cheers for sharing
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