Welcome to the Cannabis Cautilance Podcast. I'm your host, Tad Hussey of Kiss Organics.

This is the podcast where we discuss the cutting edge of growing from a science-based perspective

and drawn top experts from around the industry to share their wisdom and knowledge.

My guest this week is a returning guest.

Dr. Nicola Goce is a pathologist and professor and extension

specialist at the University of Kentucky. Her program focuses on disease management of specialty

crops, including hemp. In her extension role, she develops educational and outreach programs

to help growers manage disease through identification, understanding of pathosystems, and

integration of management strategies. Her research program focuses on a range of hemp diseases,

including fusarium head blight. Dr. Goethe earned her Bachelor's of Science in Horticultural

Science and her PhD in Plant pathology from Louisiana State University.

She joined the UK College of Agriculture in 2011 and began working with industrial hemp in 2014.

There will be a link on the podcast page to access to her resources and research and social media.

Now on to the show.

Hi, Nicole, thanks for coming on the podcast again today.

Hello. How are you? Wonderful. I'm really excited to talk to you again. It's always great to hear a pathologist's perspective on cultivation. And I actually went back and re-listened to our last conversation, which was,

I think a year or two ago now. And there were some really important takeaways that I thought

growers would find really interesting. Could you review some of those? I know we just talked about

them before the show, but maybe the especially

ones around powdery mildew. Okay. So powdery mildew probably hands down number one disease on cannabis,

in particular in greenhouses. We see powdery mildew in the field in kind of like the northeast,

a lot less so like in the south and southeast.

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