there are 2 plants with bud rot right next to healthy ones

[THUGGA]

its in between the buds i tried to send pics but i cant they also have caterpillar's eating and carrying the bud rot to other places its not even the mass of bud rot jus so many spores littile black dots almost on every nug do i chop 2 to save 2 ik its hard to tell without pics i tried removing the bud rot before but the weather has not been on my side and its almost everywhere i chopped 1 already that was next to the other healthy one i had 3 in 1 pot the healthy ones not as developed but is getting there

 

[Ninjadogma]

Bud rot sucks, that's for sure. For your next run, try doing a weekly application of BT all the way through to harvest. This year I had way better results keeping the moths in check with BT than I did keeping the mites in check with spinosad. It slowed them down though!

If you want to keep going, you can throw on some nitrile gloves and dig through all your colas and get all the larvae out. You'll risk additional rot and loss from the caterpillar poop left behind and when you harvest you'll want to break those buds up pretty good so you can throw out all the necrotic pieces. I'd also recommend a good cool water dunk before you hang it to wash away some of the dead bugs, their poop and drown some live ones that might try and follow you to the drying tent.

 

[RoadKillSkunkHunt]

Food for thought here ... if you're in an area that struggles to finish photo-period plants, consider running autos next year. Modern auto-flowering cannabis strains can really kick out some nice THC numbers. Start the plant in May, be all done with harvesting before September 1st. Some of these newer autos are pushing 30%. They are perfect for short summers.

 

[RoadKillSkunkHunt]

Bud rot sucks, that's for sure. For your next run, try doing a weekly application of BT all the way through to harvest. This year I had way better results keeping the moths in check with BT than I did keeping the mites in check with spinosad. It slowed them down though!

If you want to keep going, you can throw on some nitrile gloves and dig through all your colas and get all the larvae out. You'll risk additional rot and loss from the caterpillar poop left behind and when you harvest you'll want to break those buds up pretty good so you can throw out all the necrotic pieces. I'd also recommend a good cool water dunk before you hang it to wash away some of the dead bugs, their poop and drown some live ones that might try and follow you to the drying tent.

I'd do more than just a cool water dunk. I would use a peroxide rinse, followed by a regular rinse. I usually empty a quart size container of peroxide into a 5 gallon bucket and then fill it with water. (Some people will do a baking soda water wash in there as well.) People who have done a bud wash routine will tell you the water that's leftover is pretty dirty after washing out all that insect debris.

 

[THUGGA]

i already sprayed them in hydrogen peroxide water mix should that stop spores from spreading to the other one there 9inchs away from each other at most i didnt want to chop if there was no white mold also what is BT

 

[RoadKillSkunkHunt]

i already sprayed them in hydrogen peroxide water mix should that stop spores from spreading to the other one there 9inchs away from each other at most i didnt want to chop if there was no white mold also what is BT

BT is a biological fungicide. Basically its a microbe and it eats funguses.

Keep us posted on how things go battling that bud rot.

 

[Ninjadogma]

BT is a biological fungicide. Basically its a microbe and it eats funguses.

Keep us posted on how things go battling that bud rot.

Bacillus Thurengensis which I'm probably not even spelling right, which is why everybody abbreviated it as BT

It's a natural soil bacteria, harmless to people but it's toxic to moths and their larvae so you can find it on store shelves as an insecticide spray usually called BT on the bottle. Sometimes you'll see it listed in the ingredients of certain soil amendments if there are any mycorr's in them. It's good for the root environment and protects the plant's roots from soil bugs.

Honestly though, I hadn't heard of any fungicidal properties of BT. Neem will work as a fungicide and kill the bugs. Nobody wants to use it in flower but if you're out of options, a good wash at harvest should purge it of that weird neem tart tea smell.

 

[Ninjadogma]

Here's how I decided to deal with moths and their bud rotting worms...

 

[RoadKillSkunkHunt]

Bacillus Thurengensis which I'm probably not even spelling right, which is why everybody abbreviated it as BT

It's a natural soil bacteria, harmless to people but it's toxic to moths and their larvae so you can find it on store shelves as an insecticide spray usually called BT on the bottle. Sometimes you'll see it listed in the ingredients of certain soil amendments if there are any mycorr's in them. It's good for the root environment and protects the plant's roots from soil bugs.

Honestly though, I hadn't heard of any fungicidal properties of BT. Neem will work as a fungicide and kill the bugs. Nobody wants to use it in flower but if you're out of options, a good wash at harvest should purge it of that weird neem tart tea smell.

Here's what Google says about BT as a fungicide -

Fungicidal Mechanism​

• Bt inhibits pathogenic fungi by secreting chitinase, lipopeptides, and other antimicrobial compounds that disrupt fungal growth.pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih+1
• Studies show Bt strains can suppress a wide range of fungal species, leading to lower infection rates in treated plants.

Another one is Southern Ag's Garden Friendly Fungicide. It's active ingredient is Bacillus amyloliquefaciens - both have anti-fungicidal properties.

Edit: I didn't say this yesterday because the OP seems determined to run this out to the end ... but my thoughts were that there's a real risk of spreading if an infected bud is close to a healthy plant. Spraying it with H2O2 had to help, but did it drop spores prior to that? Personally I would bag the infected bud and remove it from the plant.

 

[THUGGA]

i took the two infected down 1 had a moth larva on its leaf so i lit it on fire and burned them theres jus 1 og left the others were heavily infected can i spray neem oil to stop caterpillars and save my lonely og its the youngest so i still have a long battel with nature ahead out of the two i chopped there were 2 uninfected branches on 1 of them is it safe to smoke i took them to dry ik the spores are on or around them but no visible black dots on in or outside would a good wash get them clean

 

[RoadKillSkunkHunt]

i took the two infected down 1 had a moth larva on its leaf so i lit it on fire and burned them theres jus 1 og left the others were heavily infected can i spray neem oil to stop caterpillars and save my lonely og its the youngest so i still have a long battel with nature ahead out of the two i chopped there were 2 uninfected branches on 1 of them is it safe to smoke i took them to dry ik the spores are on or around them but no visible black dots on in or outside would a good wash get them clean

Neem oil on cannabis flowers leaves your buds tasting nasty. One member here used a paint brush to brush neem on the leaves only.

I'm glad to hear you got rid of the infected flowers!

 

[THUGGA]

are the two branches i took off safe tho to smoke i understand it has spores all around/on it i got them drying right now like i said they were the only two that were good on the whole plant so i didnt feel to bad about chopping?