🚫 TOP FIVE MISTAKES in Pest Management, with Matthew Gates

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Jordan River

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Greetings cultivators worldwide. Jordan River here back with more. Grow cast your best friend in the garden. Today, we've got Matthew gates, IPM, pest specialist, very excited to do this episode with Matthew. We've got a Pesta Palooza coming in July. That's right, we've got a new schedule this year, so stay tuned for updates on that. Today, Matthew is here to talk about mistakes in the grow. You don't want to make these mistakes. Make sure to note them. See if you're committing any of these and tighten up that game. Plug any leaks in your IPM game. It could mean the difference between an amazing harvest or total crop loss. So I know you're gonna love this episode with Matthew. But before we jump into it, quick, shout out to AC infinity. That's right, they make the best grow gear on the market. Acinity.com, code grow cast one five saves you 10% that is the maximum discount we've had the code forever. We've been partners with AC infinity for years. And why? It's because they make the best tents you can get your hands on. They make the best inline fans, the best oscillating fans. They make really, really great quality accessories like scissors, pots, Ratchet hangers and things like that. And now they also have lights. They've got the ion board and now the ion frame bar style, really, really great stuff at AC infinity. Get the whole grow kit you've been after. You know, you can get a three by three kit, a five by five kit. You know you want another one, just go ahead and pop over there. Use code grow, cast one five, always at checkout for the max discount. And thank you for supporting us and AC infinity. We love them so much. They make our favorite grow gear out there. I'm looking at two AC infinity tents in my bio dome, and you won't regret grabbing one. Use code grow, cast one five at AC infinity.com. Thank you to AC infinity. All right, let's get into it with Matthew gates, thank you for listening and enjoy the show. Hello, podcast listeners, you are now listening to grow cast. I'm your host, Jordan River, and I want to thank you for tuning in again today before we get started. As always, I urge you to share this show. Turn a grower onto growcast podcasts, the best way you can help us out, or turn someone on to growing helps us on our mission of overgrow. Make sure you're subscribed. And of course, go to growcast podcast.com to see all the stuff. Membership, seeds classes, it's all there, everybody. Thank you for your support, especially you grow cast members. Today we have return. Friend of the show, guest of the show, IPM expert, Matthew gates is back to talk about IPM mistakes today. What's up? Matthew, how are you doing? Man, I'm doing really good. Yeah, I like to hear it, brother, you stay in dry in San Diego as it floods down there in SoCal,

Speaker 1

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there have been some severe flooding, but right now, as we speak, I'm looking at a very typical blue sky San Diego. Haha, February is when it gets the most rainy. In my experience living here most of my life, what happens

Jordan River

02:57

to the pests when all that rain comes down? Man, here, here in Molokai, like, stuff happens when the heavy rain comes, you know, all the frogs come out and stuff like that. Do you see as a, as a Bug Guy, any big changes when the monsoon comes in?

Speaker 1

03:11

Yeah, well, fortunately, it doesn't get quite monsoon like. But right now, the major problem is that with the pest, there's like a there's a balance and a counterbalance effect. On the one hand, the humidity, first of all, the rain, can be very disruptive. So in some ways, that's that can be beneficial to you. There are insects that will be, like, kind of disturbed by this, but some, like ants, for example, which, you know, not a huge like agricultural pest, but they can be ancillary. They will start to create the spawning reproductives around this time too, because it's easier to burn the the ground.

Jordan River

03:52

Oh, that makes sense. Okay, see them all come up after the rain and then burrow. Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah,

Speaker 1

03:57

so. But I would say that, like on the whole like, there are some things like powdery mildews actually don't do well in the rain. A lot of the spores will die because they'll be over saturated with water. But if the colonies survive, then the the humidity that you get after the rain, when the sun comes back, right, that is beneficial for the spores, because it helps them. There's a there's a reaction for their release, and as things do dry down, you do have, like, a nicer environment, so they don't need moisture like a lot of fungal spores do. So that was something I was talking with a client about recently with regards to, like, predicting powdery mildew in their grow

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