First timer trying to ID possible powder mold during flowering

[Oldchucky]

Just an FYI for next year. Ambient light equals caterpillar’s. You need black out the growing area as much as possible and the problem will probably be less. Let your neighbors lights attracts the moths over that way. And I mean as dark as possible in as large area as possible. If you are scared of the dark, you will have caterpillars! L O L! Good luck!

 

[edogmb]

If you cover them during rain you make it worse, just let it rain. That will cause powdery mildew and bud rot. Covering outdoor when it rains is a bad idea imo

I may have to agree with you having my current experience with it. I only have the top covered. It's open on all sides...so I figured it would help. Plus, my soil is less than optimal in 2 out of 3 plants and they hold more water than they should. Less of all evils I suppose.

I only grew indoor once. It was a TERRIBLE setup with no ventilation or air movement, an old HPS light, and probably miracle grow potting soil in a clay or plastic pot. It grew relatively well all things considered. My issue there was with drying and curing. I'm much better equipped on that end these days. This grow I've had to deal with way too many variables that I wouldn't have otherwise.

I don't have the experience that I'm sure you do, so I'm just thinking out loud...but I am looking forward to not having pests and mold to battle.

 

[edogmb]

Just an FYI for next year. Ambient light equals caterpillar’s. You need black out the growing area as much as possible and the problem will probably be less. Let your neighbors lights attracts the moths over that way. And I mean as dark as possible in as large area as possible. If you are scared of the dark, you will have caterpillars! L O L! Good luck!

I appreciate that...but I have some land and my garden is absolutely pitch black at night as long as the moon isn't lighting things up

 

[Oldchucky]

Right on! Just thought that might be a problem. If I lived back there, I probably wouldn’t grow outdoors either. Watch and see how many people crash and burn in the next couple of months. It’s depressing! Lol!

 

[cannafarmer420]

I may have to agree with you having my current experience with it. I only have the top covered. It's open on all sides...so I figured it would help. Plus, my soil is less than optimal in 2 out of 3 plants and they hold more water than they should. Less of all evils I suppose.

I only grew indoor once. It was a TERRIBLE setup with no ventilation or air movement, an old HPS light, and probably miracle grow potting soil in a clay or plastic pot. It grew relatively well all things considered. My issue there was with drying and curing. I'm much better equipped on that end these days. This grow I've had to deal with way too many variables that I wouldn't have otherwise.

I don't have the experience that I'm sure you do, so I'm just thinking out loud...but I am looking forward to not having pests and mold to battle.

Yea it creates an environment for pests, hate to see people lose their crop. The longer you grow and the more you research the better you will be. Cornell has some courses on YouTube for soil science that are great

 

[edogmb]

I ended up looking inside the buds of my blueberry and found that those little budworm bastards had already ravaged my main cola!!! I immediately went into "fuck it" mode and took my garden hose to her. I opened the buds up as much as I could and essentially powerwashed those little assholes and their gunk all out lol. Now I know that this is unadvisable to say the least, but I'm pretty close to tossing her anyway at this point. To top it all off, I found a nanner on her today as well...along with a seed! I removed the plant from the garden and am going to give her a few more days to ripen about an acre downwind of the rest. The lower bud sites are still potentially savable, but I'm not getting my hopes up. For some reason, this plant has been quite a headache.

I hope the other 2 that are a few weeks behind the blueberry are far less problematic. At least my eyes are opened to all of these little critters that ruin my day on a regular basis. That should help in theory at least.

 

[Oldchucky]

Welcome to the wonderful world of outdoor growing. A great hobby, to decompress, relax, and enjoy getting outdoors. commune with nature. Connect with your little feathered, friends, and fellow four-legged mortals. What a great way to spend a summer! Welcome to the club! Just think of all the enjoyment and relaxation you would be missing out on by growing toy plants under a plastic sun.

 

[edogmb]

Welcome to the wonderful world of outdoor growing. A great hobby, to decompress, relax, and enjoy getting outdoors. commune with nature. Connect with your little feathered, friends, and fellow four-legged mortals. What a great way to spend a summer! Welcome to the club! Just think of all the enjoyment and relaxation you would be missing out on by growing toy plants under a plastic sun.

You sure got that right!
I do enjoy the challenge, and of course feeding the brain...but goddamn it's been tough. Proud to be a newcomer in the club regardless

 

[cannafarmer420]

I may have to agree with you having my current experience with it. I only have the top covered. It's open on all sides...so I figured it would help. Plus, my soil is less than optimal in 2 out of 3 plants and they hold more water than they should. Less of all evils I suppose.

I only grew indoor once. It was a TERRIBLE setup with no ventilation or air movement, an old HPS light, and probably miracle grow potting soil in a clay or plastic pot. It grew relatively well all things considered. My issue there was with drying and curing. I'm much better equipped on that end these days. This grow I've had to deal with way too many variables that I wouldn't have otherwise.

I don't have the experience that I'm sure you do, so I'm just thinking out loud...but I am looking forward to not having pests and mold to battle.

The best advice I can give is to take notes, over time you will figure things out and then in the future be able to refer back, a notebook is much more reliable than a memory of something you did once months ago. Happy growing. ☺ ✌

 

[edogmb]

On a brighter note...my Northern lights and Amnesia haze have responded very well to the infected bud removal and defoliation, respectively.
They both look like they are back to normal growing rates. The wpm on the northern lights is now almost 100% gone, but I'm still battling wpm on the amnesia haze and making headway.

 

[edogmb]

This is what I was forced to do to my Blueberry yesterday . The budworms ruined the top 2/3 of my plant, and I chopped it in an attempt to save the little left that is potentially salvageable. I found that I can actually smell the slight difference of mold starting to form on the buds vs the healthy ones. Looking with my loupe, I saw that it did indeed have small pieces of mold starting to form in various places on the main cola. I cut it and tossed it, and will use the rest of the plant as a test-plant of sorts for the drying process as long as it stays healthy.

Over the last 2 days, I have put the bulk of my attention on the 2 healthy plants still remaining. If not, they will surely share the same fate as the blueberry. I've picked off countless budworm eggs from both plants, and a couple of TINY worms. It's amazing how well hidden those fuckers are! The last one I only found because I was looking for eggs with my loupe, and it was moving on one of the buds.

I'm about to spray everything down with a peroxide solution to try to help matters. It should help with wpm and pests from what I read.

 

[edogmb]

I cut a couple of the lollipops from the Blueberry a few days back. I washed them in baking soda, then peroxide, then warm water. They are currently drying in my tent as a test of sorts in an attempt to not lose any more flower. It's not a perfect setup, but I've got fans (exhaust and oscillating) and a small dehumidifier to control the climate as much as possible. I'm currently looking at 75ºF and 56% humidity. Unfortunately, the humidifier transformer puts off some heat, so a few degrees warmer than ambient in the house. We shall see how it goes without a stand alone AC unit in there, as that's the last option.

 

[edogmb]

Trying to look at the trichromes is tough...especially when I am trying to gauge timing the harvest and such. I gave what I thought was my last nute feeding on Friday to the Northern Lights, guessing that I was a couple of weeks away from harvest. Do these pictures look like I am about right on that estimate?
I read to go by the lower bud sites, but those look like they are way behind.

I've had fans blowing pretty hard on the remaining plants since my PM and budworm issues, which seems to have helped the PM and pest issues more than anything else so far. I run 2 fans from solar and lithium batteries outdoor 24/7, and plan on keeping it up until harvest. The plants don't seem crazy about it, but I figure it's the lesser of 2 evils. The pests likely have a rough time flying around in the wind tunnel lol.

 

[edogmb]

Did I wait too long for harvest, bud rot, damage, or typical???
The brown-ish spots you can see in this bud got me looking at my Northern Lights on Friday night. I ended up seeing a small spot of rot and immediately chopped it. I removed the small piece of rot and then I washed and hung like much the others (which I just jarred tonight).

When checking things drying today it looked a bit dark to me, so I put it under a loupe and saw many amber and dark colored trichomes. I believe that's what you can see in spots in this picture.
I noticed some dusty looking areas of the plant last week, but figured that it was dust from dry soil in the garden area and fans blowing on them. It rubbed right off of the stem when I tried a few days before I cut it, so it didn't concern me at the time. Now I'm not so sure. Do the brown tinted areas of this bud look concerning to anyone right off the bat? I will take more pictures of it in the drying process tomorrow if that will help.

 

[Oldchucky]

Shoot some more pictures tomorrow. Could go either way. It’s hard to tell from a picture. If it’s rot, the sugar leaves will pull out with almost no resistance. But rot is something I don’t deal with. Knock on wood! There will be some rot experts coming around. Good luck!

 

[edogmb]

Shoot some more pictures tomorrow. Could go either way. It’s hard to tell from a picture. If it’s rot, the sugar leaves will pull out with almost no resistance. But rot is something I don’t deal with. Knock on wood! There will be some rot experts coming around. Good luck!

Ok well that's a good sign so far... The sugar leaves are still pretty solid where it looks brown. I did notice that when I tried to pull at them, it didn't pull away. I was able to pinch and wipe the brown off while the sugar leaf stayed put. Looked better after, but likely just wiped all the trichomes off.

I will grab some more pictures when I do my inspection later today. Also have the last remaining bud of Blueberry that are getting chopped, washed, and hung today.

 

[JKash]

Consider doing a bud wash at harvest

 

[edogmb]

Consider doing a bud wash at harvest

Already Done

 

[JKash]

I found this 1 nug of bud rot on my romulan... actually I have 2 of these plants and both plants I had to chop a week early.... if you think u have bud rot.

Chop down to save what u can.... I carefully removed the 1 bud rot nug and then chopped her down

 

[edogmb]

I found this 1 nug of bud rot on my romulan... actually I have 2 of these plants and both plants I had to chop a week early.... if you think u have bud rot.

Chop down to save what u can.... I carefully removed the 1 bud rot nug and then chopped her down

This is exactly what I have already done. I found some rot...chopped the top...cut the rot out...washed the bud in baking soda, then peroxide, then rinsed...and then hung for a few days. I'm on day 3-4 of drying currently.