Hydrogen peroxide and bud rot

Im no expert by any means so i have nothing to contribute to this thread but id love to see a picture for possible future reference. You know preemptive education. .

i'd chop..............

I had the same issue, I cut out the rot and used a torch on the area and sprayed with H2O2... a few days later it was apparent that I had to chop.

I may have to

problem is with work and all I don't have time til next week

Originally Posted by 1sttimeguy

I had the same issue, I cut out the rot and used a torch on the area and sprayed with H2O2... a few days later it was apparent that I had to chop.

So it did nothing far as stopping it, right?

No budworms for me, used bt a few times over the past few weeks

Cut it away and keep an eye on it. It doesn't need to be an urgent matter if you're looking every day and cutting away infections that you can see.

It seems inevitable that once a particular bud is infected, it's a goner. But as long as that bud isn't in direct contact with other buds, it's far from certain that the infection will jump to another bud. I realize there are spores everywhere, but I personally am not finding it hopeless to keep it spreading from bud to bud.

My own research yielded some recommendations for H2O2 (3%) to fight botrytis, but not much. Right now I am putting my money on weekly treatments of Captan fungicide, for which there is ample favorable evidence that it's highly effective in agriculture for controlling rot. I just started using it though, so no personal experience to talk about.

Until this week I was using a copper soap fungicide but how can I prove whether I prevented something or not? It sure didn't prevent it 100%, that's for sure, but I have no idea if my problems would be worse without it or not.

Good luck.

There were no bud worms. I'm in a coastal region and the humidity is what did it.

The treatment slowed the rot down considerably but rot appeared in new budsites every time I checked it. The treatment was effective the kicker was when it came time to dry, a slow spread occured during the hang time in the buds adjacent to where I cut out the damaged flower.

For example I would cut out the middle 1/3 of a cola (including some of the healthy bud) I then used a BBQ lighted to torch the area (and the area immediately above and below the removed flower) until it blackened (UGLY). I then hit it with H2O2 (full strength 3%) on the torched areas including the stem.

The 5 days after the treatment it seemed to have worked and the remaining 2/3 of the cola continued to swell with no signs of new mould. It was after 7-8 days of drying that I found new mould in that 2/3 of remaining cola. I SEEEMED to only spread up the cola, not down. Plant was dried upright.

Originally Posted by StainedClass

Im no expert by any means so i have nothing to contribute to this thread but id love to see a picture for possible future reference. You know preemptive education. .

Me, too! I asked for pictures in another thread but no luck.