🧠 Intelligent Alien Fungi Are Attacking Your Plants, and Learning Your Weaknesses, with Matthew Gates
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4.7 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Pest expert Matthew Gates is back, and this time you're in for a doozy! The boys start the show by discussing a recent infestation in Jordan's garden, of a pest that is seemingly less common in indoor spaces: leaf miner type insect pests. Often confused with thrips damage, these particular pests need to be approached with a totally different strategy, and Jordan shares his non scientific trial of spraying down his plants with an abundant solution of living nematodes. The conversation turns to powdery mildew- which is one of the oldest, most ancient, fast spreading, and adaptable plant pests on planet Earth. Not only do these intelligent species of fungi adapt their genes to resist your attacks as a farmer, but they can mutate and adapt in as little as a few weeks. Also, the fact that PM relies on similar pathways as beneficial fungis like myco, may point to a hint that PM was once a beneficial, who has since gone rogue and turned to the dark side. If it's true, as many mycologists theorize, that fungi can survive space travel, and may have been some of the first life to land on this planet via asteroid, then this enemy your dealing with is a truly ancient, and highly intelligent one.
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings growers worldwide. Jordan River here. Back with more Growcast, mining into the good content. |
| 0:07.5 | Today we've got Matthew Gates back on the line. We're talking about powdery mildew and how intelligent it is and how it learns things. |
| 0:14.2 | We also talk about borer, minor bugs, insects, pests, and how you needed to treat them differently than a lot of other pests. |
| 0:20.9 | It's a really solid episode. I know you're going to love it. Before we jump into it with Matthew |
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| 1:50.8 | Hello podcast listeners. You are now listening to Growcast. I'm your host, Jordan River, and I want to thank you for tuning in again today. |
| 1:56.9 | Before we get started, as always, I urge you to share the show, tell a grower about Growcast, |
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