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I know, a woman needing to be reassured, so cliche LOL!
Anyway, Hi all, new here and fairly new to growing (about a year), so please bear with me. I took over my parents small operation (legal) financially and all, when it became to difficult for them to manage due to health reasons. Dont worry, they are both still here, annoying the hell out of me, and I love it! LOL. They were doing hydro for 6ish years. However the room was really poorly set up, space was not utilized, equipment was ancient, and though indoors the room was far from properly protected from the outside elements. Despite all this, all had been running well for some years. Then, about 10 months after I took over, pm reared its ugly head. I am quite sure it came from some friends, but I guess I cant say for sure.
I immediately trashed everything, gutted the room, did my best to sterilize the room and whole damn area nearby as well. Then I hired a safe crew to build me a proper new room. I Then I killz2 primered everything, cleaned again, and then used fungicide fogger about 3 days before getting a few new clones from a very trusted source. All in all the room was down for 1.5 months. They are in organic soil, but I have a ton of nonorganic nutes that I cant afford to not use, the down time rebuild took nearly my last penny lol :( Anyway, I have two, 16" fans pointed on them, and will eventually get more as the room fills up. I dont have a thermometer, dehumidifier, or humidity monitor, or whatever else I need but am not aware of yet, but will get that asap. Point is, that I know there more work to do before I have things dialed in.
I am so on the fence about doing preventative treatments, reading here it seems that many do, but then I worry about resistance, and dont like the idea of spraying stuff on the plants (even the organic ones). With diligence, a clean room, clean starts, plenty of wind, and lower humidity, and whatever else I need to monitor and control (let me know), is there hope that I can not have pm without preventative care? Or do I need to suck it up and do at least some sort of something once in veg, and once early in bloom? Also any other random advice will be considered. Thanks much.
"Thatgirl"
Anyway, Hi all, new here and fairly new to growing (about a year), so please bear with me. I took over my parents small operation (legal) financially and all, when it became to difficult for them to manage due to health reasons. Dont worry, they are both still here, annoying the hell out of me, and I love it! LOL. They were doing hydro for 6ish years. However the room was really poorly set up, space was not utilized, equipment was ancient, and though indoors the room was far from properly protected from the outside elements. Despite all this, all had been running well for some years. Then, about 10 months after I took over, pm reared its ugly head. I am quite sure it came from some friends, but I guess I cant say for sure.
I immediately trashed everything, gutted the room, did my best to sterilize the room and whole damn area nearby as well. Then I hired a safe crew to build me a proper new room. I Then I killz2 primered everything, cleaned again, and then used fungicide fogger about 3 days before getting a few new clones from a very trusted source. All in all the room was down for 1.5 months. They are in organic soil, but I have a ton of nonorganic nutes that I cant afford to not use, the down time rebuild took nearly my last penny lol :( Anyway, I have two, 16" fans pointed on them, and will eventually get more as the room fills up. I dont have a thermometer, dehumidifier, or humidity monitor, or whatever else I need but am not aware of yet, but will get that asap. Point is, that I know there more work to do before I have things dialed in.
I am so on the fence about doing preventative treatments, reading here it seems that many do, but then I worry about resistance, and dont like the idea of spraying stuff on the plants (even the organic ones). With diligence, a clean room, clean starts, plenty of wind, and lower humidity, and whatever else I need to monitor and control (let me know), is there hope that I can not have pm without preventative care? Or do I need to suck it up and do at least some sort of something once in veg, and once early in bloom? Also any other random advice will be considered. Thanks much.
"Thatgirl"