Depends on your weather. My experience of bud rot (which IMC is often triggered by worm damage) isn’t a linear process during the grow. It actually peaks in September and then tapers off through October. I typically won’t get winter rains until November. So in about a mouth I’ll be pulling my hair out, saying “it’s bad, it’s all going to hell in a hand basket! At this rate there’ll be nothing left”. But then as October approaches there’s a come to Jesus moment where the angles sing and I’m saved yet again and coast to the finish line.
A peek at my local weather charts shows my greatest risk isn’t November, it’s September. (And the charts don’t tell the whole story, as I’m less than 5 miles from the bay, so 90% humidity before the sun comes up.) Of course these are just averages, so IMO best to keep the colas small but prolific (with multiple toppings). Easy enough to make a big plant/bud, but harder to get them over the finish line outdoors.
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