Episode 30: Powdery Mildew, Botrytis, and VPD with Travis Higginbotham

Cannabis Cultivation and Science Podcast

Tad Hussey.

Cannabis, Gardening, Natural Sciences, Cultivation, Leisure, Science, Home & Garden, Marijuana, Weed, Growing, Organics, Grow

4.7 • 716 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2018

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Mold and Mildew are such a problem for many growers. In this podcast, Travis describes how these pathogens work and how to best manage them through environmental controls. Travis Higginbotham is the new director of Cultivation Support for Fluence. Prior to working at Fluence, he worked at a state of the art environmentally controlled greenhouse covering 50 acres where he was the head of research and development. They grew annual and perennial crops for big box retailers supplying the NE united states. His focus was on rearing beneficial insects, IPM protocols, disease testing, and trialing new genetics from around the world.He recently received his masters horticulture from Virginia Tech. This resulted in equipping irrigation booms with lights for photoperiodic flowering applications to a controlled environment which propagated over 1.2 million perennials from stage 3 tissue culture per year. He also has a bachelors of science from Clemson University. https://www.kisorganics.com/pages/cannabis-cultivation-and-science-podcast-episode-30

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Cannabis cultivation and science podcast. I'm your host, Tad Hussey of Kiss Organics.
0:20.2	This is the podcast where we discuss the cutting
0:22.6	edge of organic growing from a science-based perspective and drawn top experts from around the
0:27.4	industry to share their wisdom and knowledge. My guest this week is a repeat guest. I wanted to
0:32.4	follow up again with Travis Higginbotham. Travis is the new director of cultivation support for
0:37.4	Fluence. Prior to working
0:39.0	at Fluence, he worked at a state-of-the-art, environmentally controlled greenhouse covering 50 acres
0:43.8	where he was the head of research and development. They grew annual and perennial crops for big
0:48.8	box retailers supplying the northeastern United States. His focus was on rearing beneficial insects, IPM protocols, disease testing, and trialling new genetics
0:58.0	from around the world.
0:59.4	He recently received his master's in horticulture from Virginia Tech.
1:03.0	This resulted in equipping irrigation booms with lights for photoperiotic flowering applications
1:08.0	to a controlled environment which propagated over 1.2 million perennials
1:12.4	from stage three tissue culture per year. He also has a Bachelor's of Science from Clemson
1:17.4	University. Hey, Travis, I really appreciate you coming back on the show. There was a lot of stuff
1:23.2	that we didn't get to touch on during our last talk about lighting. And you have this vast background in controlled environments and agriculture that I'd
1:31.8	really love to chat with you about today.
1:33.8	Yeah, Ted.
1:34.8	No, I'm happy to be back.
1:36.8	I'm eager to see what we talk about today.
1:39.3	So this podcast is probably going to jump around quite a bit.
1:42.3	But the first thing I wanted to talk about was VPD, which stands for vapor pressure deficit. As you know, it's a relationship between
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