THC Academy course
Plant Health, IPM & Biosecurity
Build an evidence-first plant-health workflow around scouting, pest and disease identification, sanitation, testing, and clean-stock practices.
Course outcomes
What you should be able to do
- Scout plants and production zones before damage becomes severe.
- Identify pests by organism and life stage rather than damage alone.
- Separate disease signs, symptoms, environmental stress, and systemic-pathogen questions.
- Use quarantine, sanitation, clean stock, records, and compatible controls as one integrated system.
Guided sequence
5 connected units
1Diagnostic foundationsStart every plant-health problem with location, pattern, progression, measurements, and recent changes.Open →2Two-spotted spider miteIdentify eggs, mites, stippling, and late-stage webbing correctly.Open →3Powdery mildewSeparate fungal colonies from residues and other pale surface material.Open →4Hop latent viroidUnderstand why laboratory testing and clean-stock practices matter for HLVd.Open →5Pest scouting & hotspot mappingTurn repeated scouting observations into spatial and population trends.Open →