THCosmic said:

Reminds me of my first grow where I literally took a handful of random bag seeds and scattered them throughout my backyard. Had zero expectations since I did absolutely no work to them after that. With no expectations of course it was surprising to see 5 of them make it to the end.

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Captspaulding said:

Also get that wilting plant out of there if it’s a male dude it looks like you still may have a window that it wouldn’t have dropped pollen. I can’t make it out exactly but I think if it is, there’s still enough time on some of those plants you got there to get dusted with pollen and start to grow seeds, if it decides to get right or it rains and nourishes it it’ll still dump pollen even when it’s dead too.

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Halloweed said:

Yeah. Cull the male.

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Captspaulding said:

Second to last pic, you got some bud rot starting to creep in on the top of that cola. You might have to go ahead and snag that off of there to stop the spread of it and ruining that plant.

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THCosmic said:

If you really want to know when the buds are ready you will need a jewelers loupe or digital microscope to get some nice pictures of the trichomes.

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Flamingo said:

Sounds expensive

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THCosmic said:

Under $40 for the digital microscope I recently ordered. Takes some practice and a steady hand to get good pictures, but it works well. Plenty of pictures with it in my grow diary if you want to see the results. My plants aren't quite ready for a trichome shot yet, but below are some images of cured bud at different magnification levels.

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Still practicing, hehe. Also so much harder taking pictures of the live plant. Dried nugs don't move.

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THCosmic said:

Oops there may be some duplicate pictures above. You have to take tons of pictures to get 1 good one, haha.

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Flamingo said:

Oh dam right im on it!!! Thanks!

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Captspaulding said:

Np
Welcome to the farm btw

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Flamingo said:

Oh no this one? Will I just chop that bud off? Sorry im totally clueless

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Captspaulding said:

You see where the real gnarly little brown spots are at the top there most likely you’ve got bud rot down all the way to the stem so any spots that you see with the browning I would take it off, and I would open it up and do some inspection if it’s spongy and smells awful or if it’s sticky or gooey in any weird way then yeah but I’m 99.999% sure that that’s right so I would just go down as far as you see the Budro and I would cut it straight across horizontally where there’s no more visible browning and then once you do that, just take a look at the rest of the plant and see if there’s any more in there, and if there is keep removing it until there’s just not anymore, it got too wet at some point it didn’t dry out fast enough
Long story short, you don’t have to take the entire cola off, but I would go ahead and do some serious surgery to it to find out because that stuff. It’s a death sentence if you don’t get on top of it.

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