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Fungus or trichomes please help me diagnose this ASAP

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I need help AI says it's not fungus but its had to tell if it's just the trichomes and it's just me and the plants
 

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Its everywhere but Ai says its trichomes I did the hydrogen peroxide 3% Q Tip test no reaction visible from the wipe it stays on the leaf after drying (its visible but not when wet) it's all over the leaves like whit leppard spots
 

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maybe just stick to golf from now on
 
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Ok troll
 
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That's an incredibly sharp question, and the answer gets to the heart of environmental control and plant stress.

There are several key reasons why this trichome/powdery mildew confusion likely didn't happen with the last generation outdoors:

1. The Sun is Unforgivingly Clear.
Natural sunlight is the best possible light for distinguishing between the two.The sun provides a full, broad spectrum of light from all angles. This makes trichomes glitter and sparkle unmistakably. Indoor lights, especially from a single, overhead source, can create flat, confusing shadows and don't always catch the glint of the resin glands, making them look matte and powdery.

2. Constant Air Movement.
Outdoors,there's near-constant wind. Powdery mildew hates this; it needs still, stagnant air to settle and spread. The relentless air movement outside makes it much harder for PM to get a foothold in the first place. Your indoor tent, even with fans, can have still microclimates under the canopy.

3. The Plant Was Less Stressed.
Your outdoor plant,while feral, was growing in its natural environment. Your current indoor plant has been through a gauntlet of extreme stress: the stem split, the high humidity period, the surgery. Stress can trigger a surge in trichome production as a defense mechanism. You're now seeing a stress-induced resin explosion that you wouldn't have seen on a more relaxed outdoor plant, making it more pronounced and easier to mistake for something else.

4. Lower Humidity and Rain.
Even if you had high humidity outside,it was likely broken up by periods of lower humidity and, crucially, rain. Rain physically washes powdery mildew spores off the plant. Indoors, without that natural washing, any spores that land just sit there.

In short: Your outdoor environment naturally suppressed powdery mildew and made trichomes easy to see. Your indoor environment, despite being controlled, accidentally created the perfect conditions for this specific confusion to happen.

You're comparing two completely different growing worlds. The lessons from one don't always directly translate to the other, which is another brutal lesson of indoor cultivation. You're having to learn a whole new visual language for your plants.
 
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njl627 said:
Its everywhere but Ai says its trichomes I did the hydrogen peroxide 3% Q Tip test no reaction visible from the wipe it stays on the leaf after drying (its visible but not when wet) it's all over the leaves like whit leppard spots
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imgrowing said:
maybe just stick to golf from now on
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Ok troll
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hey it’s hard to see what’s going on with your plants with that purple light,. use normal natural light,.
 
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maybe just stick to golf from now on
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be nice
 
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hey it’s hard to see what’s going on with your plants with that purple light,. use normal natural light,.
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75% veg 100% bloom its for the health of the plant blue and red together it's more than likely a trichomes but this is my first time doing tent DWC and Scrog And Nutrients and have no peers to give feedback
 
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75% veg 100% bloom its for the health of the plant blue and red together it's more than likely a trichomes but this is my first time doing tent DWC and Scrog And Nutrients and have no peers to give feedback
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ok because those pictures with purple light show nothing we can help with,.
 
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I need help AI says it's not fungus but its had to tell if it's just the trichomes and it's just me and the plants
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It is very hard to say, I need a clear picture to see the leafs , it all purple .
 
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ok because those pictures with purple light show nothing we can help with,.
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Or what also can come out clear is just do a camera flash shot in the dark, no blurple interference there... but remembering my own night shots, trichomes look powdery there so never mind, going back to the bong... night
 
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What kind of strain are you running,? How far are you along? You have peers here on the farm.. some of us are here to help each other out. As long as people are willing to listen and accept criticism when asking for help. Some don't understand when someone is new and trying new things. A mild question, why did you defoliate your plant so hard? Maybe on the next one hold back a little or alot? And see what happens. You want leaves, just not covering nodes or bloom sights and on the lower of the stock. And with that light you can't tell a thing. We don't know if you used some kind of foilar spray or what. Identifying an issue you need light to see, it will not cause an issue. Believe us, we don't care if you think you know what your doing, most of us here have history in the cannabis industry in some way, and have years of experience. You want help, you're gonna need to take a pic with a flash from the camera.
 
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Yo homie, blurple is fine for growing (not the best, but ok), but sucks for taking color accurate photos. Just shut the light off and take some pics with your flash on (closeups as well as whole plant), then turn the light back on; easy peasy (or just be there right at lights off, or just b4 lights come on). Trichomes are little clear stalks that are "standing up" with heads on them.

It's important to have a $10 jewelers loupe and/or $30 bluetooth microscope in your tool kit. Not only for looking at trichs, but also for looking for bugs, mildew, mold etc.
Amazon.com : bluetooth microscope for android
Amazon.com : jewelers loupe

hope it helps

Welcome to the farm, happy growing

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Thanks for the advice it's most definitely trichomes sticky and dank when wiped with finger not dry odorless
 

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Looks like trichomes to me.
 
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What kind of strain are you running,? How far are you along? You have peers here on the farm.. some of us are here to help each other out. As long as people are willing to listen and accept criticism when asking for help. Some don't understand when someone is new and trying new things. A mild question, why did you defoliate your plant so hard? Maybe on the next one hold back a little or alot? And see what happens. You want leaves, just not covering nodes or bloom sights and on the lower of the stock. And with that light you can't tell a thing. We don't know if you used some kind of foilar spray or what. Identifying an issue you need light to see, it will not cause an issue. Believe us, we don't care if you think you know what your doing, most of us here have history in the cannabis industry in some way, and have years of experience. You want help, you're gonna need to take a pic with a flash from the camera.
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A mut is a 8th + gen outdoor first nutrient dwc tent 4 week of bloom
 

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Or what also can come out clear is just do a camera flash shot in the dark, no blurple interference there... but remembering my own night shots, trichomes look powdery there so never mind, going back to the bong... night
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It is very hard to say, I need a clear picture to see the leafs , it all purple .
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Looks like PM to me. Sorry.
 
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Looks like PM to me. Sorry.
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AI keeps saying its trichomes I Google AI image search with the question is this fungus on my plant
 

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This is my vivosun humidifier prob data the plant had no reason to have fungus from the humidity or bad air circulation I have the exhaust the 2 clip fans where they should be and I do a flush every 7 days new clean bucket new nutrients soaking stones clean and dry before replacing in resievor (the walls were cleaned the floor the pre filter changed the fans cleaned the clay pebbles swapped out for clean the air pump is 4 valves 2 go 1 and another 2 go to the other 2 valves per stone one stone a bucket pump is on max
 

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