Hey guys im growing outdoors in the North east and as many of you know it tends to get humid and cold at night which is a recipe for bus rot. Im trying to prevent it as much as possible. How often would you suggest I spray my plants with dr zymes eliminator to prevent bud rot?
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Try to not spray anything with your flower in my opinion, but I am a new grower and have never grown outside. I have seen people mention they shake the morning dew off of their plants in the morning and after a heavy rain to help with moisture.
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I planted early with heat mat, domed pots, and lights so I could get the grow in in August. Previously, I used a pop up canopy in high humidity and fog, but that doesn’t work if it’s windy.
I am harvesting in August this year, while last year I was starting in mid Sept and finishing in Oct…2023 grow year 7 was my worst year for losses from caterpillars and mold (but I still got enough flower, barely). This year is grow year 8 for me, it is 8/29 and I am nearly half done with harvest. I am taking the buds earlier, instead of trying to get more CBD by waiting. I use milk for PM and Regalia (mostly) drench. I used botanigard spray this year and it was great against bugs. Plants are often sensitive to sprays in the sun. I don’t like to spray at night because it makes mold worse. Milk must be sprayed in the sun or it doesn’t work. Next year I will be more aggressive about the early start. This year I didn’t use any venerate and much less spray. I started out using spinosad and grandevo drench and spray for a strong pest free start. I used a lot of beneficial nematodes on the property against army worms and thrips etc. I did not use the canopy this year, which is so much easier than rolling all the plants under every night.
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Yeah i wish I started in may, i ended up starting in june and plants are just now three weeks flowering and looking strong just looking out for the next few weeks. Btw what do you mean use milk at pm? Are you spraying your plants with cows milk?
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Auto plants might be a possibility next year Will allow you to harvest earlier. before rain season and high humidity. Recipe for Bud rot or white powder mildew. Good luck 
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I chopped my purple kush autos two weeks ago and lost a lot to rot and mold. We had a stretch of high temp, high humidity and lots of rain.
Yes…I heard about it for years, and just didn’t believe it. But finally 2 years ago I tried it and it works. Recently, I read that using nonfat milk smells less, and that seems to be true. It is great for tomatoes too. Any time you spray a lot, and the bug load gets high, plants will get sticky and dirt will stick to them…so I try to keep spraying to a minimum and harvest asap. I have washed my buds wsith hyrogen peroxide in 2 past years, but I did it so late in the day and season that it may have resulted in more mold. This year I harvested earlier and did not wash them. Harvest earlier in the season AND in the day…is a lot better…I am outdoor only for the grow/harvest (dry inside in the semi dark with fans)…cure in closet.
POWDERY MILDEW is PM. I need to stress that you MUST use milk spray only when the sun is out. People who say to spray the undersides of the leaves (usually vegetable gardeners) do not understand that the sun must shine on the milk for it to work. UV is essential.
So do you also spray the buds with milk and how often do you spray and what is the milk doing is it killing off any mold pr mildew present or preventing it from growing?
Milk stops PM from growing but there is no way to completely kill it. Using the diluted milk (you should look it up on youtube) allows the plant to grow and get a good harvest, otherwise, in my case, I would lose the plant. I have lost whole plants before I knew about milk. I spray a fine mist early when it is sunny. There are other kinds of rot that milk does not work for. When the stem is brown, and that rot starts spreading, that is different, and needs to be cut off below the rot. I use Regalia for that and it needs to be done before the problem starts. I harvest early, if possible, for both problems.
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