Protecting Your Crop from Pests and Disease - Cultivation Technical Assistance - March 16, 2023 Peer Networking Event
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Cultivation Technical Assistance
Protecting Your Crop from
Pests and Disease
March 16, 2023
Peer Networking Event
Responsible Pest and Disease
Management
Why? Protects the Consumer
Protects the Integrity of the Industry
Protects your Brand
Protects your Bottom Line No amount of pest or disease pressure is worth using
residual pesticides
Some Every environment is different and there is no single
Guiding solution
The pest and disease battle requires constant
Principles: vigilance
PREVENTION IS THE BEST MEDICINE Good Sanitation procedures are the cheapest and
most effective pest management method
Prevention Seeds are cleaner than Leaves
Assume live plants/clones will have issues
Best Quarantine on arrival
Practices
Treat and scout before introduction to grow space
Keep Records (required for compliance)
Application log
Weekly scoutingIntegrated Pest Management
Uses many strategies to control pests and disease
Balances the cost of the application vs. the economic
cost of the damage
Considers the impact on the environment
Get to
Control Strategies
Know IPM Sanitation
Environmental and Cultural best practices
Scouting and Record keeping
Use of BCA’s: Biological Control Agents
Chemical control ONLY AS LAST RESORTThe Bad List The Good List
The allowed list is found
Your Pesticide Test is a
with our pesticide
good resource for what
Pesticides: not to use!
guidance on the CCB
website
The Problem Ingredients listed are
Provide a range of safe
residual/systemic
and The Compare product active
options
Solution ingredients with those
Check product active
ingredients to make
listed on the pesticide
sure they are allowed
COA
Be cautious about
DO NOT USE THESE
applying anything in late
INGREDIENTS!!
flower stagesThe
There are organic/ OMRI
certified pesticides using the
active ingredients on this list!
BAD
LIST OMRI products are NOT
automatically appropriate for
use on Cannabis
These materials were not
designed for the many ways
Cannabis is processed and
consumedActive Ingredient Product Example (s) Pesticide Type
Indole-3-butyric-acid Clonex Rooting Gel PGR- Growth
The GOOD LIST
Stimulator
Canola oil Natural Guard Brand Horticultural Insecticide,
Oil Fungicide, Miticide
Mineral oil All Season Horticultural & Insecticide,
Dormant Spray Oil Concentrate Fungicide
Soybean Oil Golden Pest Spray Insecticide
Castor oil Mole & Vole Stopper Rodent repellent
Active Ingredient Product Example (s) Pesticide Type Cinnamon oil Safer Gro Herbicide
Acetic acid Vinagreen Herbicide Clove oil Nature-Cide All Purpose Insecticide
Azadirachtin / Neem Azamax, Azasol, Insecticide, Miticide, Cottonseed oil Spider Mite Control Miticide
Garlic oil Captiva Insecticide
The GOOD
Molt-X Nematicide
Ammonium soaps for Finalsan Herbicidal Soap Herbicide Mint oils Trifecta Crop Control Fungicide,
higher fatty acids insecticide
LIST Bacillus spp. Double Nickel, Serenade, Agree Fungicide, Rosemary oil Trifecta Crop Control Fungicide,
WG Insecticide insecticide
Beauveria bassiana spp. Botanigard ES Insecticide Sesame oil Organocide 3-in-1 Garden Spray Miticide, Insecticide,
Isaria spp. PFR-97 20% WDG, Preferal Insecticide Fungicide
Microbial Thyme oil Thyme Guard Fungicide,
Streptomyces spp Mycostop, Actinovate Fungicide Insecticide,
Trichoderma Rootshield, Incept Fungicide Bactericide, Virucide
Citric acid Eliminator Miticide, Insecticide, Peroxyacetic acid Bioside HS 15% Fungicide
Cytokinins Agra-Rouse PGR-General Potassium bicarbonate Kaligreen Fungicide
Diatomaceous Earth Celite 610, Diafil 610 Insecticide Potassium salts of fatty Exile, KOPA Insecticidal Soap, Insecticide,
Geraniol Banish Fungicide acids Safer Soap Fungicide, Miticide
Gibberellic acids HM-1354-A PGR-General Mono and Di-Potassium Fosphite Fungicide
Hydrogen dioxide Terraclean 5.0 Fungicide, salts of phosphorus acid
Bactericide Reynoutria sachalinensis Regalia Fungicide, PGR-
Hydrogen peroxide Jet AG Fungicide, Algaecide GeneralWhat’s On It?
Ingredients are considered safe for consumers
Includes Biological pesticides
Bacteria
Mycorrhizae and similar organisms
The GOOD Insecticidal Fungus
Ingredients on the list could be found in EPA registered or
LIST 25B category pesticides
EPA registered products are better researched and regulated
25B products may have mislabeled active ingredients
Manufacturers can be good sources of information and
support
Many have cannabis specific supports and application
schedulesDiseases
COMMON DISEASES POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS
The GOOD Powdery Mildew
Botrytis (Grey mold, Bud rot)
Bacillus spp.
Double nickel, Cease
LIST: How Oils (mineral and botanical)
Suffoil-X
To Use It Banish (Geraniol)
Peroxides
Zero-tol
Potassium Bicarbonate
MilstopInsects
INSECT PESTS POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS
Spider mites
The GOOD Aphids Potassium salts of fatty
acids (insecticidal soaps)
LIST: How Thrips
Azadirachtin (Neem derived)
Azamax
To Use It Beauveria bassiana
Botanigaurd
Oils (Mineral and Botanical)
Soybean, mint, garlic oils
Citric Acid
Dr ZymesProducts of Note
REGALIA BOTANIGARD
Beauvaria bassiana is an
Contains the active
The GOOD ingredient Reyoutria
sachalinensis (a type of knot
insecticidal fungus
Will infect many different
LIST weed) types of insects – a
generalist
Stimulates the plants
immune system Boosts the effectiveness of
materials like azadirachtin
Is listed as a fungicide
when used in a tank mix
Works best if applied
Is a good addition to clone
regularly in vegetative stages
dipsBiological Control Agents
The Standing Army
Requires good scouting and ID to use effectively
Can be cost effective or costly depending on
Beyond the management
GOOD LIST Totally safe for late flower insect issues!!
Takes research and practice to use effectively
Perishable life forms that need TLC when shipping
and handling
Much easier and faster to apply than pesticides (and
more FUN!)FUNGUS GNATS STEINERNEMA FELTIAE
Using Beneficial Nematodes
Nemesys, NemAttack
Annoying flying mosquito like
BCA’s to insects that are common to
any kind of indoor or
Effective solution used in
fight greenhouse plant production
large commercial
greenhouses
FUNGUS Reproduce in soil or media
Larvae may feed on roots
Can be applied through
irrigation
GNATS Adults don’t feed but can
stick on flower if high in
Best if applied weekly or bi-
weekly
numbers Must be stored under
refrigerationCCB.Compliance@vermont.gov CCB.Vermont.gov/guidance
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