So, these White Russian fast flowering seeds were sent to me by Crop King Seeds (aka Rocket Seeds) when I won the Purple Kush photo contest. They sent me a bunch of Crown Royal seeds along with a bonus hand-full of these. I germinated a few of these and we ended up putting two in my garden. Well... I had originally planned to only put one in the garden, and I was going to give the other plant away, but my husband took pity on the tiny root bound seedling and stuck it in the ground beside the rhubarb plant. Plant #2 is the runt of the litter....
However, both plants are completely full of flowers. Not huge fat buds, but tight helixes of buds that cover each stem from apex down to the main stem.
Plant #1 is struggling with mildew... I suppose that part of the garden doesn't get enough air circulation, and the plants are more crowded than they should be. I put in fewer plants this year, and I put more distance between them... I thought that would mean they would have more space... but instead the all grew bigger and so they were just as crowded as before. I mean... we have the same canopy size with fewer seeds, so that's good. The nether regions of the plants are still pretty bare... I'll try fewer still next year...
The milk + water (40:60 mix) worked well, but it needs to be repeated regularly. It's a fairly simple cure, and it doesn't involve commercial soapy products... so that makes me happy.
Plant number two has no mildew and is growing well even though she's the runt.
Flowering started earlier on this plant but the buds don't seem to be getting fat. There will still be plenty of yield, but the physical characteristics of this plant are different from the others. Actually... now that I think about it... this plant really resembles my Crop King Seeds Purple Kush... not as heavy on the yield per se. However, she still has time to ripen up.
It's not over yet.
You could also try fermenting milk to create Lactic Acid Bacteria which are why milk works for powdery mildew and mould. U of Hawaii has info pages about how to do it as part of KNF. Iβve had some small bits of mould but itβs mostly under control so I think it helps a lot.
@Northern_Ent, yes! so the deal is that we spray on the milk on a hot summer sunny day... and the lactose and milk protein work their magic. The fermentation takes place once it's on the plant :) So far it's working really well. The leaves went from powdery and grey, to shiny and green. Today it's raining to wash the milk off. I'll evaluate tomorrow when the sun comes out. I'll re-apply the spray on any remaining mildew. Apparently it can take two applications three days apart to see the best results. And they recommend rain in between. I got lucky that the weather is 100% cooperating... sunny and hot... then rain... then more sun and heat in the forecast :-)
I had that last year, mildew all over on my automatics.just because my garden was to filled .
Thsi year i cut off everything what is hundering the airflow. and luckyly no mildew
crossing fingers for your crop
@Mrs_Larimar, Yes... I knew this was a risk due to crowding of big plants an a sheltered part of the garden where there is little air movement. I put in 2 fewer plants than last year... but instead of having more space the plants just grew *BIGGER* LOL... I'll have to do better next year. I'm not really complaining... I'm getting the same size of canopy with two fewer seeds, so that's a good efficiency.
The milk treatment seems to be working! The leaves are nice and shiny today... we put on the milk on a hot summer sunny day. And then two days later it is raining to wash most of it off. In a couple of days I'll treat the plants again to treat the leftover mildew. I'm feeling optimistic.