How Do Lowers Get Hard In Rain?

[The Humanure]

been raining and now rain all week.
I have all my lowers still plumping up.
The second and third pulls on each plant.

How do they get hard with a week of rain? Not much sun.

 

[The Humanure]

 

[Seamaiden]

I don't stagger the harvey for OD grows anymore, specifically because of the weather. I don't think your lowers are gonna harden up.

 

[The Humanure]

Well they do for me but its now just late and wet. Just a day or two of sun but its not happening.

 

[Growfellaz]

Iv had tops I left in rain double in size some like it I guess

 

[Bulldog420]

Letting your little's mature can be a big difference. My sky lotus I left nothing over a gram, and now I have some nugs that are pushing 5g's. Littles don't really rot in the rain either, if your plant is healthy. I have had 8 days of rain in the last 14 days. No rot yet.

As for why this happens. The root zone carries excess energy. Once you take 90% of a plants foliage away, the plant is forced to use up it's reserves, and send it to the flowers as a last ditch effort to reproduce. Now you have a GIANT root zone, with huge amounts of stored potential, all being fed into 10% of the plants foliage. All that energy goes strait into the buds.

 

[The Humanure]

that is one amazing answer.

 

[GrowGod]

Viagra?

 

[frebo]

Rain is fine as long as you have breaks where the humidity drops, but if they can't dry out you are going to have mold. I finished last night pulling all the little buds that had grown quite a bit and I found several small pockets of mold. It seems like they are fine one day and moldy the next. After November 1 you are just asking for mold here in S. Oregon