Heat stress...

[EastsideEagle]

So I had a little problem and the heat soared to unforgivable heights...The fans never turned on to cool the bulbs for 6 hours. Main colas are covered in red hairs. There is no question that I'm going to finish these out. I'm 30 days in and I got another 25 to 30 to go...

My question is the buds that have red hairs from said stress.....Will they shoot out new white hairs or are they a lost cause....Its not only a few hairs...its most of them on the top colas.

If they are a lost cause, I'm going to clip them so the emphasis goes towards the remainder of the plant. Any feedback is much appreciated.

 

[Dr. Detroit]

I'd recommend not further stressing your plant. Do not touch for at least a week or two and see what she'll do.

 

[EastsideEagle]

Thanks Dr. Detroit...Does anyone else have any other ideas.

 

[dank_]

Seeing how you're in WEEK4, I wouldn't cut the plant any. But those burned colas are gonna be nasty.

 

[EastsideEagle]

Dank, thanks for the input. Ok so it was worse than just being scorched hairs. The tips started to rot and to prevent the rot from spreading I opted to chop it off down to healthy smaller flowers. I realize what I did would cause stress but if it is going to herm, it will be from the heat stress. My guess is they will herm but all in all I don't have anything ready to throw back in flower and I didn't want these top rotting nugs to steal all of the light. I also wanted to promote the new growth on lower areas immediately. It is what it is. My mistake. Now i'm on damage control and hoping for the best here. I will harvest, but it won't be the magical one I was expecting. I will update with the results. I figure I'm just going to pull everything at 55 days, so expect it soon.

 

[Seamaiden]

If those areas are burned to the point that the plant can't build on them anymore, it's probably going to build around them. I've had a couple of instances of that happening and I just cut the bad portions of bud away and the remaining just grew and filled in where it could.

If you have a good source of silica in your feeding regime they probably withstood the heat better than you think. If not, get silica into the regimen, especially if there's a chance of this happening again.