I'm using milk with cinnamon for the first time. It really worked, in 24 hrs. I used 1 cup milk to 2 cups water and 2 teaspoons of cinnamon. Let it sit for a few hrs, shaking or stir once or twice then put through a good strainer. Put in spray bottle n spray all the mold away, I saturated plant.
It's actually really simple I mean just think about it if you take milk and you put it outside at room temperature it turns into yogurt. Yogurt is full of living probiotics, mainly lactobacilli. One of those is called lactobacilli Caseii and plantarum. Those are both known as extremely strong inhibitors of pathogenic fungus, such as powdery mildew. They also are powerful decomposers of organic matter. They keep things clean.
@@tameromari2102 no i believe it’s a difference cuz yogurt is processed. if you turned milk to yogurt the natural way (leaving it to curdle) that’s when the probiotics and healthy bacteria form
For the indoor ganja growers, it works great. Use skim milk, less fatty traces on the leaves & buds.I do 50 h2o and 50 skim milk. I will try it on pumpkins haha. Cool vid.
Do you apply everyday? And also I've heard that the lights must be on with this particular application. These are for some house plants that are growing
My whole garden get maybe 7 hours of sunlight. I have squash really in the wrong place. Ive worked in nurseries and green houses where neem and other concoctions were used. I just mixed a small bottle of maybe 2 parts milk 5 parts bottled water. Im waiting a bit for the sun to go down. I will trim a bit, then apply the fresh milk solution. Thank you for the well done video. ❤
I’ve read that spraying when the sun is out is a good thing as it enhances the antibacterial properties of the milk mixture. I know that oily products can cause the leaves to wilt or burn or just die, so I’m probably going to just try skim milk during the early afternoon and see how it goes.
I have watched many videos on powdery mildew and this one says it best. YOU CAN'T CURE POWEDERY MILDEW. Its like getting old, you can slow it down with different techniques, but in the end you just live with it.
Over 20 years ago my friend visited me here in SF from Chicago and asked me if I polished my houseplants foliage with milk. I never heard of it. She looked at me crazy. Her Grandmother did it her whole life. Never heard of it since then until this video, even though that was for houseplants, I'm certain it's the same chemistry at play. I've used neem & get burned leaves or it clumps in the bottle. I don't like the chemicals. Guess I need some milk! Thanks for the cool video- I just subscribed 😁
I knew a guy years ago when I was younger that used milk to make his pumpkins grow big. Not sure if it was true or not but they were always big pumpkins! I've just started getting this so I will be trying this, we drink a lot of milk in our house but I can spare a few cups, lol!!
They do know how it works. It's the lactobacillus bacteria. Look into Lactobacillus serum for your garden. Way more effective than milk on its own so to speak and has lots of more benefits in your gardening and composting. Great addition to fermented plant extracts and teas. Easy to make from milk...
The proteins and enzymes in the milk are believed to have antifungal properties that help control powdery mildew. This natural remedy is safe for plants and typically doesn't harm beneficial insects. Be consistent with applications, and you may start to see improvement in the control of powdery mildew over time. Good luck!
It’s still not a waste of money milks cheaper than a lot of the other stuff you buy or all the time it takes to mix concoctions with all the other ingredients
Great video, thank you! I watched another video saying Powdery Mildew is splashed up on the bottom leaves from the soil that is infected with it then spreads thru out the plant. Do you think that's true and what do you think about applying the milk mixture to the soil? Thank you so much.
When I first found the milk method, I used it in 5 gal bucket grows and just added powdered milk to my water and watered it in. I think it worked then so silly do it again this year, may foliar spray too but we'll see.
Are the milk or baking soda methods safe when the plant flowers are open and pollination is occurring? With mangoes Powdery Mildew hits when the trees are flowering and it destroys the crop.
I have used skim 1 part milk with 8 parts water. It worked pretty well as a preventative - I have never noticed it killing powdery mildew that was established. I have had some luck using neem oil to actually kill it and then switch to milk if I can get it killed. The other formula I have used to kill it is 1 tablespoon potassium bicarbonate mixed with 1 tsp soap and 1 tsp cooking oil per gallon of water and shake it well to mix it.
What is skim milk? I tried finding it in the stores but couldn't find any milk that says "skim milk" like I use to see back in the day. Is it fat free? Or 2%? Or 3%? Which ones the best? I'm fighting powdery mildew right now. Nothing has worked except for peroxide and water. Or neem oil worked a little bit but it just keeps coming back
@@MattyDemello Where are you from? That's interesting - we still have it labeled that way here. You don't have to use skim - 1%, 2% milk or even whole milk will work fine but the fat will make it smell a little bit more after a few days in the sun. So I would buy the lowest fat version you can find - from what I have read they have tested it and found the milk fat component of milk was not what worked against PM. I have never seen milk actually stop powdery mildew once it was established. I have had luck with using it as a preventative and I have seen it work when the powdery mildew was just barely starting. After you use milk you need to CLEAN YOUR SPRAYER better than you ever have before or it smells horrible and has mold growth in it. You'll see little spots of mold down the tubing etc. Have you tried potassium bicarbonate? This has probably been the most effective at truly eliminating PM on a plants all over the yard. I have never found it locally though - had to buy the powder off of Amazon.com. What kind of plants are you trying to stop the PM on? Toward the end of our growing year (more like late Sept here) I have never successfully completely eliminated PM off of squash plants. It seems like it gets to a certain age and time of year and it just succumbs to it. I even used chemical fungicide one year and that didn't kill it either I did postpone it/reduce it a little but it was a lot of effort for the limited reduction and I had to spray it very often - maybe because of heavy dew that we start getting in September.
@@MattyDemello Neem oil is actually poison. On the milk issue, try nonfat or 1% milk. A dietician could tell you for sure which one they used to call "skim" milk. My best guess is the nonfat.
In my experience, the best results with PM is to do many repeat applications, like once a day for 7 days, and then every other day after that. This interrupts the reproductive cycle by washing away the spore strans as they develop but before the spores break off. Nothing works if you don't keep at it diligently.
Hey, anyone else notice some pea-sized round fungus growing around the affected plants? Some were spheres, some seemed to have exploded, leaving what looked like a small empty acorn top filled with....white powder. Maybe we need to focus of those--probably the source! They probably go POOF in the night, and that's why it starts on the underside of the leaves.
Some say it bounces up on the lower leaves when water splashes from the PM being in the soil. To avoid he said to mulch around the plant to prevent water from splashing. Do you think if applied to the soil the milk mixture would kill it in the soil? What do you think?
QUESTION; powdery mildew just took over my row of Peonies!! 2nd year and much worse this time. Its time to cut back for Winter & I want to move them to a Sunnier spot. Can this be done? Should I spray the cleaned roots w/ Baking Soda before replanting?
Yes, you can move them this time of year. Don't worry about washing the roots because powdery mildew spores are everywhere anyway. Just being moved into full sun will help tremendously. Good luck and happy gardening!
Milk works great! its cheaper than any spray you will buy, it works because of something with a protein in it when its exposed to sunlight but I think its also because it throws the ph off and inhibits its growth. I mix it 1part skim milk and 3 parts water and use it every 7 to 10 days
I've grown smaller gardens throughout my life, Health of the plant, Grow your garden in open areas ,away from wooded areas, Or brush. Well Ventilated with no crowding , Try to trim your plants from touching the ground,Only water plants from the ground And if you can cover them during the rain ? ... Homemade funguside the garden and around the garden during the season. The more you try to achieve all of these Will drastically improve White Mildew problem, And other funguses. Also you could choose the right kind of seed some plants are more susceptible..
I tried a sulfur spray from a local hardware store and it didn't do a THING. Next attempt is the milk, which I hope works because nearly EVERY leaf on my Howden pumpkins is mostly covered but I have some fantastic looking fruits I don't want to lose.
@@sophi3s.667 It did on the plants where I used it early enough in. Most of my Howden pumpkins had more than two thirds of the leaves covered in mildew and those leaves didn't survive, which led to the vines dying. But the Big Max pumpkins and summer squash had just early spotting and were easily saved. Next summer I'll be watching much more closely and attacking any mildew at first sign using this method.
@@NordicDan does pruning or cutting off the Mildew leaves still effect the whole plant? I’m dealing with the mildew on my hydrangea leaves and I been trying to cut the leaves that are effected asap. But I’m going to try the milk method. Thank you for responding.
@@sophi3s.667 I've battling it again this year, but I've been much more on top of it this time and it's doing a much better job of keeping it in check. Pruning doesn't hurt the plant as long as you're doing it right and not being overly aggressive. Unfortunately the growing season started so late this year that I likely won't have any fruit big enough to carve for Halloween, but it's given me the opportunity to be a little more experimental with pruning methods and other tricks I've learned about.
potassium bicarbonate is an approved antifungal for powdery mildew, with no sodium or other problems, such as leaf burn from foliar applications. it's also a well absorbed form of potassium that plants will use as nutrient.
I had terrible issues last year with powdery mildew. That spread to every plant that I had. After searching forever on a solution and reading all kinds of case studies I think this year I’m going to try Vansil-w10 calcium silicate at 1 or 2 tsp per gal and spray the plants. May also try a top dress of 1 tsp per plant biweekly.
Tablespoon of baking soda with a little bit of soap. Knocks it out really good almost better than most chemicals. I use a omri horticultural soap which also has properties to kill powdery mildew which is more refined and has less chance of burning. For me it seems to work better than milk. Scenes to last longer. Oh yeah and that's per gallon of water. It also seems to have residual power. Powdery mildew came back but only on New growth that wasn't sprayed.
No powdery mildew so far this year, probably because of the drought, but I will definitely be keeping this for when it does show up. We have used baking soda spray before, and it was not that effective for us. But I will say that the straw bale garden seems to have made a difference with all sorts of pests!
I have heard mixed things on disposing of the powdery mildew leaves. Some say that powdery mildew organism is endemic in the environment, meaning it is pretty much everywhere, and already hanging out in the soil. So trying to get affected leaves out of your garden isn’t going to do much…the spores are still around and just waiting to break out if given the right conditions. I have no idea which is true.
Brew City Gardener my post below was intended to be about powdery mildew, and honestly, I just tried out my harvest of some AK-47, and went off on a tangent into politics. if you have an aversion to it, I will delete the part where it departs from the PM issue. thanx for your help, as I have a plant which has been adversely affected by it, due to early Fall humidity. and as you all know, some plants have a rough time from the beginning, which was the case here. 2 other stronger plants are fine, except for specs of it on a couple harvested leaves. sometimes a little bird turd resembles it, but that's usually across a leaf, not growing w/ the leaf.
Tony M, funny you got sidetracked and ranted about politics...well actually ironically, cause I almost left a comment after your first post. It was going to be a short kind of "wise guy" comment saying something like " um, this is about pm and not who should be our next president". Glad I did not. Then came your second comment with a hint of an apology. It's all good Tony M, and maybe I will look into Jo Jorgensen and see if he gets my vote, although politics is not really my thing. Anyways, just came from outdoors this evening after having just applied the milk/water/soap recipe on my 1 plant I have grown this year. I believe or hope that I have caught it early enough. Week or so left before I harvest her.
@@61spindrift yeah,politics isn't a lot of fun, but Jo Jorgensen is short for Joann. I have one plant left outside which was stricken w/ PM (too much humidity here after end of Summer) ,I chose not to deal w/ it, but PM is apparently easy to get rid of. BCD here is one way, and I saw Jorge Cervantes doing a wash w/ peroxide and water which did make the white ''scum'' as he calls it, rise to the top of the water's surface. he washed harvested buds, which sounds scary, because of the moisture, but he knows. best of luck to you @61spindrift.
When i lived on farm growing wheat etc we buŕnt all the stubble every 5 years on average i don't know if it killed the fungus spores but it got hot when you burm 5 thousand acres it did kill a lot of pests but little fires might not hot enough
Great info on how to use milk to combat powdery mildew. The great thing about using milk is then when you eat your vegetables you get a small daily helping of dairy. 😎😎😎😎
I’ve been using 2 tablespoons of regular peroxide, a bit of neem oil, a tad bit of least expensive dish soap in a spray bottle… AWESOME.. I’m going to scale it up with a hose end adjustable sprayer.. I saw looking at the settings the only way I can do it is to buy 12% peroxide then add the neem and cheapest dish soap
Never heard of the milk method. I'll have to give this a try sometime! Luckily the grape variety in our vineyard is not very susceptible to powdery mildew -- downey mildew is their big disease -- but some are very susceptible and this would be a nice way to cure it. Most chemicals only prevent, they don't cure. Thanks Opie!
I tried milk spray for 2 consecutive weeks. No obvious results. Trimmed out infected leaves. Attempted baking soda and dish soap method and I have some burnt leaves. Not sure if they are burnt as the mildew is dying in the part of the leaf and the leaf was a dead host or if the soap and baking soda killed a bunch of leaves.
Now you was pose to tank a swig of that sour milk to make sure the texture was just right before adding it into the mix. LOL. Awesome tips buddy! Funny you don't have stink bugs and vine borers in your squash. We sure get them every year. Thanks for the info and how to. Have a great week my friend!
This is a really good question and I'm not completely sure. By my understanding, it's the reaction between proteins in the milk and sunlight that act as an astringent. However, I have heard others claim it's the natural bacteria in the milk that causes the action. I would love to see a half milk / half powdered milk trial to see which works better or if they are the same. Sorry I couldn't be more help on this one. Either way, good luck and happy gardening!
It's always a good idea to spot test your plants first. However, I think this will work well for all but the most sensitive plants without issue. Good luck!
I smoked reefer long before I ever grew it, but in 9 Summers, I've seen some mold, some powdery mildew (thankfully not a lot), but after seeing these things, I realize that in my high school days and after, I HAD to have smoked both of those things from time to time .I know that I saw ''mud'' on buds of yesteryear that I bought on the street, so to speak. this is why I'm glad(never thought I'd say it) that the Federal G'umint is going to (apparently) be more involved w/ quality control of Cannabis .the state level laws will eventually lead to the Feds finally seeing that they have to get behind weed, and re-consider Hemp, which was very good to our early Republic. anyway, since I now have essentially delved into politics, I'd like to remind folks here (some here already agree) that there is a candidate who wants to stop the ''drug war'' and unlike the 2 clowns....excuse me, candidates, that we choose from every 4 years, even addresses it. Libertarian Jo Jorgensen is the (L) candidate in 2020 .maybe one day we can end battering rams taking doors off hinges, cops and citizens getting shot, all because people like stimulants. always have, always will.in any liquor store, whiskey ,beer and wine are poisons we can choose from freely, which is what Libertarianism is all about.
@@scottsandquist5381 I gave up growing for a while, and I never tried it, but it sounds like enough to confuse me, as it resembles mildew. I wish you nothing but the best w/ it, though. have a good harvest. I'm still enjoying my AK-47 nearly a year later.
@@user-mw9jf4wc9j That's happened to me as well, man. When I opened the pack the odor of cat piss alone was powerful enough for me to throw the whole pack in the trash..glad I didn't light one up! Man, I'd hate to know what cat piss actually tasted like! 🤮
I'm from WI and now live in CO, i planted an apple tree and now i see this powdery mildew. 😔 She's only one year old now. Her leaves are still brown and intact. Im going to try this ans get some mulch for her as well.
It’s the sour milk that actually fights off the mildew. And when you spray milk in the heat and sun it sours on the plant. What is happening is the microbes in the sour milk are fighting the microbes in the mildew.
Skim or Whole and can POWDERED Milk be used? Also, would spraying the SOIL before an Outbreak, around the time when the disease normally attacks the plants, work at all or HARM the plant's roots in any way?
Hi, thank you for this tip. What did you mean by "straw bills" which you said typically keeps squash bugs away? I am not certain if that's what you said, however. Much appreciated!
I am referring to "straw bales" because I specialize in straw bale gardening. I typically don't have squash bugs because I use fresh new bales every year. That doesn't give squash bugs a very good opportunity to overwinter in the soil only to emerge and become a big problem the following year. Thanks for watching! Happy gardening!
I believe the reason the mild works is because it feeds the lactobacillus bacteria. There are many types of lactobacillus bacteria and when they feed on the milk they create a lactic acid.
Hello,,I know this is off topic,,but last yr I had trouble with fleas in my yard,,stray cats ,,I treated with diatomaceous,,bc its natural,,I need a head start this yr,,In very allergic to flea bites & they tear me up,,any other natural suggestions?? It's April 4th & I'm in Ohio, so I need to do this soon,,of I can't work in the yard,,really don't want to use chemicals, unless I half to
I think you're on the right track by broadcasting D.E.. For a bad infestation. I would alternate D.E. with Pyrethrum. It's a natural pesticide extracted from chrysanthemum flowers. Also try to limit places for them to hide (things in the yard like paving stones or yard ornaments). They like to live and breed under these types of items. Good luck!
@ Brew City Gardener How often do you apply the mixture esoecially if you are getting a lot of rain? Does this work to prevent rust or black spot? I’d like to try it in my roses.
I'm not certain about different fungi. However, I would think it would be effective on them as well. I apply twice a week or after every rain. It can become tedious if you are have an especially rainy season. Good question!
Yes, it will work on Cannabis. I would avoid spraying on flower buds near harvest. Nobody wants to smoke sour milk. Any milk will work but I always used 2% or whole. Good luck and happy gardening!
