Smart growers do not walk around buggy outdoor gardens and then visit an indoor garden. Wash your hands before touching foliage and after handling diseased pants. Personal cleanliness is fundamental to preventing pests and diseases. A quick heating with the torch will sterilize metal tools immediately. Another quick way to sterilize pruners is with a hand held torch. Disinfect tools by dipping in rubbing alcohol or washing with soap and hot water after using them n each diseased plant. Pests, diseases, and fungi habitually ride from plant to plant on dirty tools. A separate set of indoor tools is easy to keep clean. Growers who wear clean clothes and use clean tools reduce problems considerably. It does mean normal and regular sanitary precautions must be taken. This does not mean growers and their tools have to hospital clean every time they enter a grow room, even though that would be nice. Growers and their tools often transport many microscopic pests, diseases, and fungi that could ultimately destroy the garden. Insects and fungi like nice hideaway homes found in dirty, dank corners, and under dead decaying leaves r rotting mulch. The grow room should be totally enclosed so the environment can be controlled easily. PreventionĬleanliness is the key to insect and fungus prevention.
Pests, fungi, and diseases can be prevented, but if allowed to grow unchecked, extreme control measures are often necessary to eradicate them. Fungi will settle down and grow if climatic conditions are right. They may be introduced by an infected plant or from air containing fungus spores. Fungi are present in the air at all times. Indoors, they live anywhere you let them. Insects, mites, and maggots slither into grow rooms eating, reproducing, and wasting weed. Chapter 14: Pests, Fungi & Diseases Marijuana Horticulture: The Indoor / Outdoor Medical Grower’s Bible
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