MagicMike66
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You sure do know how to take great pics of your ladies!
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ChadWestport
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Tersky thanks for compliment, you have nailed a big part of IPM, cleanliness. 
I certainly do have different IPM protocols for personal home grow and the massive commercial buildings. IPM management can be broken down into a few categories but one of the most important for home growers is Cultural control. This includes things like sanitizing your tools, removing dead leaves from the grow area, cleaning up soil on the floor, not letting water pool on the ground ect. Another aspect of that is cross contamination, as an example, if you have been working outside in the veggie garden, walking through the woods or rolling in the grass, before you enter your cannabis garden, change your clothes, shoes and even socks. The last thing you want to do is bring pests in as travelers. Often, this is why people don't recommend you bring outdoor plants inside. Those are a few of the basics there.
At the commercial level, chemical control is usually preferred over biological control because of the targeted effectiveness. Chemical control in the home grow, I don't do as a preventative measure, I'd rather not spray the plants if I don't have to. But on the commercial scale, everything is treated as a preventative because a single outbreak can destroy $250,000 of product very quickly, which is scary. So the majority of commercial grows treat the plants as if they had insects or PM or other nasties.
When it comes to chemicals here, since we are in a legal and regulated market, there are many banned products that are highly effective and used in regular agriculture. The problem is, none of those chemicals have been tested for combustion. As an example, the super popular Eagle 20 product was very effective but when you heat it, the main ingredient turns to cyanide gas, which isn't healthy at all. So with those restrictions, I recommend what is approved by our state. One line of products to look at for control is https://marronebio.com It's important to have variety of treatments for the pest you are trying to control, often times bugs can build immunities and come back to kick your ass. Using a few different active ingredients in different sprays helps reduce that possibility.
I didn't create the text below, but it gives you an insight into the areas of a full IPM program, which is good to at least have one in your mind or playbook.
The most effective, long-term way to manage pests is by using a combination of methods that work better together than separately. Approaches for managing pests are often grouped in the following categories.
Biological control
Biological control is the use of natural enemies—predators, parasites, pathogens, and competitors—to control pests and their damage. Invertebrates, plant pathogens, nematodes, weeds, and vertebrates have many natural enemies.
Cultural controls
Cultural controls are practices that reduce pest establishment, reproduction, dispersal, and survival. For example, changing irrigation practices can reduce pest problems, since too much water can increase root disease and weeds.
Mechanical and physical controls
Mechanical and physical controls kill a pest directly, block pests out, or make the environment unsuitable for it. Traps for rodents are examples of mechanical control. Physical controls include mulches for weed management, steam sterilization of the soil for disease management, or barriers such as screens to keep birds or insects out.
Chemical control
Chemical control is the use of pesticides. In IPM, pesticides are used only when needed and in combination with other approaches for more effective, long-term control. Pesticides are selected and applied in a way that minimizes their possible harm to people, nontarget organisms, and the environment. With IPM you'll use the most selective pesticide that will do the job and be the safest for other organisms and for air, soil, and water quality; use pesticides in bait stations rather than sprays; or spot-spray a few weeds instead of an entire area.
These IPM principles and practices are combined to create IPM programs. While each situation is different, six major components are common to all IPM programs:
1-Pest identification
2-Monitoring and assessing pest numbers and damage
3-Guidelines for when management action is needed
4-Preventing pest problems
5-Using a combination of biological, cultural, physical/mechanical and chemical management tools
6-After action is taken, assessing the effect of pest management
I certainly do have different IPM protocols for personal home grow and the massive commercial buildings. IPM management can be broken down into a few categories but one of the most important for home growers is Cultural control. This includes things like sanitizing your tools, removing dead leaves from the grow area, cleaning up soil on the floor, not letting water pool on the ground ect. Another aspect of that is cross contamination, as an example, if you have been working outside in the veggie garden, walking through the woods or rolling in the grass, before you enter your cannabis garden, change your clothes, shoes and even socks. The last thing you want to do is bring pests in as travelers. Often, this is why people don't recommend you bring outdoor plants inside. Those are a few of the basics there.At the commercial level, chemical control is usually preferred over biological control because of the targeted effectiveness. Chemical control in the home grow, I don't do as a preventative measure, I'd rather not spray the plants if I don't have to. But on the commercial scale, everything is treated as a preventative because a single outbreak can destroy $250,000 of product very quickly, which is scary. So the majority of commercial grows treat the plants as if they had insects or PM or other nasties.
When it comes to chemicals here, since we are in a legal and regulated market, there are many banned products that are highly effective and used in regular agriculture. The problem is, none of those chemicals have been tested for combustion. As an example, the super popular Eagle 20 product was very effective but when you heat it, the main ingredient turns to cyanide gas, which isn't healthy at all. So with those restrictions, I recommend what is approved by our state. One line of products to look at for control is https://marronebio.com It's important to have variety of treatments for the pest you are trying to control, often times bugs can build immunities and come back to kick your ass. Using a few different active ingredients in different sprays helps reduce that possibility.
I didn't create the text below, but it gives you an insight into the areas of a full IPM program, which is good to at least have one in your mind or playbook.
The most effective, long-term way to manage pests is by using a combination of methods that work better together than separately. Approaches for managing pests are often grouped in the following categories.
Biological control
Biological control is the use of natural enemies—predators, parasites, pathogens, and competitors—to control pests and their damage. Invertebrates, plant pathogens, nematodes, weeds, and vertebrates have many natural enemies.
Cultural controls
Cultural controls are practices that reduce pest establishment, reproduction, dispersal, and survival. For example, changing irrigation practices can reduce pest problems, since too much water can increase root disease and weeds.
Mechanical and physical controls
Mechanical and physical controls kill a pest directly, block pests out, or make the environment unsuitable for it. Traps for rodents are examples of mechanical control. Physical controls include mulches for weed management, steam sterilization of the soil for disease management, or barriers such as screens to keep birds or insects out.
Chemical control
Chemical control is the use of pesticides. In IPM, pesticides are used only when needed and in combination with other approaches for more effective, long-term control. Pesticides are selected and applied in a way that minimizes their possible harm to people, nontarget organisms, and the environment. With IPM you'll use the most selective pesticide that will do the job and be the safest for other organisms and for air, soil, and water quality; use pesticides in bait stations rather than sprays; or spot-spray a few weeds instead of an entire area.
These IPM principles and practices are combined to create IPM programs. While each situation is different, six major components are common to all IPM programs:
1-Pest identification
2-Monitoring and assessing pest numbers and damage
3-Guidelines for when management action is needed
4-Preventing pest problems
5-Using a combination of biological, cultural, physical/mechanical and chemical management tools
6-After action is taken, assessing the effect of pest management