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  1. They got my birthday wrong, even though it was clear on multiple forms. I complained and requested an accurate card. A few week after that they sent me the same card, with the same incorrect birthday. Great job, MDCH. Good to see 7.5 Million in Application fees is being appropriated properly.
  2. Did you ever get you super critical extractor working?

  3. After 4 months a person I am caregiver for received her card. My information was listed on the back. My birthday was wrong, even though it was very clear on the application form. It has been over a week and I still have yet to receive my caregiver card for this patient. The MDCH needs to get their bunny muffin together.
  4. I harvested a little over a week ago. Today I tried a couple small test buds. First off this Purple Kush is pretty darn potent. It smells like a rag soaked in gasoline. There was no noticeable effect from the Greencure, other than the really dark, blackish pistils. I am hoping I can make this stuff last long enough to see what a two month cure does for flavor and aroma. Being only a week from harvest it still tastes pretty "hot". I had dropped down to a 1/2 teaspoon since I was close to harvest. I have since been treating my vegetative plants with 1 teaspoon per gallon, applied weekly. I have not seen a spot of PM since I first used Greencure.
  5. Ten Million Dollars and the MDCH cannot hire a few more people? It clearly seem deliberate. When are the lawsuits coming?
  6. I went down to 1/2 teaspoon. I harvest these plants in about a week, so I wanted to use as little as possible. The problem with higher concentrations is it burns the pistils, if you put them back under the lights before they have had a few hours to dry the leaves can burn too. I line watering up with applying Greencure. I will water when lights come on, then right before lights go off I apply Greencure.
  7. Today I applied my third application of Greencure. Since the first application I have not seen any signs of PM, and I look hard. This time I decided to go with 1/2 teaspoon per gallon, as has been recommended by a few others. If you use a higher concentration the pistils can get burnt, though it does not seem to have any effect other than appearance. It has been over two weeks and no PM to be seen. I think it is safe to call Greencure a success.
  8. rafaeltoral

    GDP--PurpleKush--MagChampagne

    This is a low res pic of my perpetual flowering tent. Right now I am running a 400 watt HPS cooltube with lumatek ballast. I have a Canfan RS-6 sucking air through a Canfilter 3, and blowing air through the cooltube. My temps are 75-80 lights on, 65-70 lights off. Humidity 30% lights on, spikes at 50% during lights off. The tent is a Secret Jardin Growlab 100.
  9. If the GreenCure fails I will be sure to try Sulfur. I don't think it is going to be necessary though. It is important to remember that potassium bicarb and sodium bicarb are two different animals. Looking over your grow, from the link you provided, I noticed you never gave potassium bicarbonate a try. It's been nine days and I have not seen any PM. I spray once per week so I don't see how it is going to come back.
  10. It has been a little over a week since I first applied greencure. I have seen no signs of PM since. Airflow inside the tent is great. Humidity has been between 35%-45%. For my first application I used 1 tablespoon greencure per gallon of distilled water. This concentration pretty much turned all of my pistils brown. Since then new pistils have developed and the buds have continued to swell. For this second application I used 1 teaspoon greencure per gallon of distilled. I took my time and sprayed every nook and cranny. Any uncovered surface is a place for PM to regain a foothold. It seems counterintuitive to soak a plant in it's 7th week of flowering, but apparently greencure protects againgst budrot, and other no-fun fungi. I sprayed before lights out. I took all 5 plants into the tub, sprayed 'em all down, then put them back into the dark tent. Also, I have been trying to line my watering schedule up with the greencure applications. The plants look great today. I can't tell if any pistils were burned as they were mostly already brown. I have 2 Purple Kush at 7 weeks flowering, 2 Magnum Champagne at 6 weeks, and 1 Aurora-Indica in vegetative.
  11. I purchased GreenCure at Superior Growers Supply in Livonia. The trick, from what I understand, is to make sure all plant surfaces are coated when applying the GreenCure solution. Its kinda hard to pull that off if the plants are late in flowering. I had a couple that were at 5.5 weeks flowering. I took my time making sure I got inside the bud, and everywhere else for that matter. Thanks for the tip on the Sulfur Burner. If I find the GreenCure to be insufficient I will try a sulfur burner. However, I am in a 250 square foot apartment, and my grow tent is only 4x4, so I feel burning sulfur in this tiny apartment may not be ideal.
  12. Hello everyone. I am starting this thread to relate my personal experience with Powdery Mildew. A little over a week ago I noticed what looked like a little patch of dust on a leaf of one of my plants. It never got out of control, or spread to any bud, but in a matter of a week it had spread to all 7 plants in my tent. I run a perpetual grow. This is my first time growing from clones. Up until now I have used seed. This is my first time seeing Powdery Mildew. The causes are the following: Infected clones brought into the garden Inadequate air agitation inside the flowering tent Humidity spikes after lights out up into the 60% range Temperatures in the low 60's during lights off At first I spot treated with neem. I added enough fans to make a tornado jealous. I got the humidity in check, it never goes above 45%. I increased night time temperatures so they did not fall below 70. This kept everything under control. I read quite a few threads and articles, pertaining to PM and cannabis, online. After educating myself I decided Greencure would be my best bet. Greencure is a proprietary blend of potassium bicarbonate. Potassium Bicarbonate kills PM on contact, and leaves a residue that lasts for upto 2 weeks that prevents PM spores from germinating. Greencure can be used up until the last day of flowering. Unlike baking soda, which is Sodium Bicarbonate, Greencure does not need to be washed off. I prepared a solution of 1 gallon distilled water to 1 tablespoon of Greencure. I shook it up really well, let it sit for twenty minutes, then shook it up really well again. I took all 7 plants, in their various stages of flowering, into the bathtub. I sprayed each plant very thoroughly. I got every nook and cranny, every surface area was coated. The few spots of PM vanished. The plants looked very healthy, except most pistils turned brown. I probably should have not put the plants back under the HPS. It is recommended to spray directly prior to lights off, I believe this may be one reason why. Everything else was unaffected. So far it has been three days and I have not seen a spot of mildew. The plants that had their pistils burned seem unaffected. New pistils have sprouted from new calyxes. I will continue to spray all of my plants, every week. I will not spray the last week of flowering, as I don't want any excess potassium affecting the flavor of my buds. I will probably try a slighly more dilute solution of Greencure next treatment, probably 1 teaspoon as most of the threads I have read seem to suggest. I will continue to report my progress with the Greencure. I'm hoping it can get me through a few more cycles before I upgrade to a closed growing environment. P.S. I understand Powdery Mildew is systemic and cannot be completely eradicated from an infected plant. I have read of something called Malatox that is really nasty and can, allegedly, sanitize a plant of a Powdery Mildew infection. However, my main goal is to simply keep the PM from rearing its ugly head at all. From much of what I read the Greencure will allow me to do this with minimal drawbacks. Its kind of like having herpes but never having an outbreak. Weed herpes.
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