I need him to stop doing this but I dont wwant to cause a major argument. I want him to stop doing this--How bad is it to drench your harvested bud with
hydrogen peroxide? I dont have all the answers but I figure if I tell him that I researched it online and asked other growers that maybe that might help. How bad is it to spray down our pot? am I over reacting? Please help me win my argument.
First, learn how to break your stuff up into paragraphs. I skipped just about EVERYTHING to hit this. Guess what! I'm not going to help you win this argument, because I've done literally that--dunked my just-harvested plants in a mix of peroxide (OxiDate) to eliminate the fruiting bodies of PM. I've also used
Greencure and can taste a soapy flavor, so my vote is for a peroxide.
It IS a perfectly safe technique, and in my experience, and therefore opinion, peroxide is far preferable to sodium bicarbonate or potassium bicarbonate. Jorge Cervantes has recently released a video outlining how to do this very thing, about a year after I did it just to see what would happen.
So far I've not been able to find a single instance of death or illness caused directly by ingesting/smoking powdery mildew, or buds treated for it, not even with folks who have compromised immune systems. I've read a single report of an
Avid-related cannabis death, but haven't found anything giving good veracity to the claim. If someone has information that clearly demonstrates that the fungi responsible for powdery mildew can also infect humans, I truly want to see the paper (an abstract is fine).
A dip in peroxide
causing botrytis? Really? How's that work, exactly? Again, my experience says this is not an absolute.
I believe that if ingestion of PM spores or infected tissue were truly a real problem, we'd have stronger controls of such with regard to foodstuffs. Of course, I could be wrong, but that's my take on it.
Leave it to me to go against what everyone else says. Fucking hippie. :damnhippie: