-URGENT BUD ROT- 61 days flower HELP NEEDED.

I Love THC

I Love THC

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hey i went out to check my plants today and i noticed a few of the leaves on a bud where brown coloured so i proceded to check the bud and it pretty much fell apart in my hands. I grabed the scissors and cut of the bud and got it out of the room i had a closer look and the buds where very moist, brown and gooey they just overall looked fowl. The part at the top of the bud was ok so i quick dried to see how the plant smokes, pretty good doesnt taste to bad the plant is pretty much done its been flushed and only has days left.I looked over the plant and other parts of the plant have the same type of leaves and same look.

should i just harvest now a few days before it was set to be ?
will it infect my other plants? everything is almost done , close to done.
will i be able to dry non affected areas and smoke? and what to do with affected areas?

sorry for the write up im stressin. sorry no pics cameras not working,
thanks,.
 
Nice Ol Bud

Nice Ol Bud

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I Love THC said:
should i just harvest now a few days before it was set to be ?
will it infect my other plants? everything is almost done , close to done.
will i be able to dry non affected areas and smoke? and what to do with affected areas?
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Id harvest now before it spreads if I was you, rotton buds also attract rodents and bugs!
I dont think it can go from one plant to another but if it can happen to one it can happen to all.
Yes you can dry non effected areas, and for the affected buds, go to a middle school and make some money!
LOL.
 
I Love THC

I Love THC

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Nice Ol Bud said:
Id harvest now before it spreads if I was you, rotton buds also attract rodents and bugs!
I dont think it can go from one plant to another but if it can happen to one it can happen to all.
Yes you can dry non effected areas, and for the affected buds, go to a middle school and make some money!
LOL.
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haha, will it be alright overnight as its late right now im going to sleep also i noticed that my exhast fan hasnt been working.. shouldnt be much of an issue as im using cooltubes witch extract air out of the room anyway. But could it have contributed to the rot? , ive got afan directly on affected plant so it should be good till the morning? yes no?
 
Nice Ol Bud

Nice Ol Bud

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I dont see how drastic it could change overnight, so yes they will be fine.
You have to kind of look at it from a commen sense view, its hard to when your stoned off your ass.
 
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DinafemHazeAuto

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u should have taken it when u noticed bro its just gonna spread it happened to me over night and i lost over .5oz off of 3 plants..
 
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wbd

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Bud rot is a problem you only have once. People tend to be more careful of such things after they've had to flush handfuls of bud down the toilet. :)
 
Corbat420

Corbat420

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DinafemHazeAuto said:
u should have taken it when u noticed bro its just gonna spread it happened to me over night and i lost over .5oz off of 3 plants..
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^ THIS.

"bod rot" or botrytis cinerea is a fungal infection which attacks MANY plant species. parasitic Fungi are a very volitile life form, which has the potential to spread drastically in as little time as 24 hours.

harvest those plants ASAP.

wbd said:
Bud rot is a problem you only have once. People tend to be more careful of such things after they've had to flush handfuls of bud down the toilet. :)
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exactly.... my first outdoor i dropped almost an OZ to budrot :shock:
flowering humidity=40% = NO botrytis.
 
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wbd

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flowering humidity=40% = NO botrytis.
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Respectfully, that's not an entirely true statement as it stands on its own. You can have 20% RH and still get mold because your buds are almost all water. You need proper air flow and circulation and also just need to watch over your plants very carefully, especially towards the end.

Unfortunately I know this from experience, as I one time broke my oscillating fan and was too lazy to replace it, and my plant had a big fat cola and I was flushing it and it was heavy and wet and made a perfect environment for bud rot. And thanks to air conditioning my RH almost never even touches like 28%.
 
LILBSDAD

LILBSDAD

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Run a dehumidifier the last 3 weeks of your flower cycle and that will help a lot, bud rot usually occurs during this time. If your exhaust fan was not working it would definitely contribute to your problem.
 
Corbat420

Corbat420

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wbd said:
Respectfully, that's not an entirely true statement as it stands on its own. You can have 20% RH and still get mold because your buds are almost all water. You need proper air flow and circulation and also just need to watch over your plants very carefully, especially towards the end.

Unfortunately I know this from experience, as I one time broke my oscillating fan and was too lazy to replace it, and my plant had a big fat cola and I was flushing it and it was heavy and wet and made a perfect environment for bud rot. And thanks to air conditioning my RH almost never even touches like 28%.
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ACTUALY it is impossible for botrytis to form with less than 60% relative humidity. it if a fugnus, fungus come from spores, those spores need a high himidity, sustained for a long suration to form mycelium. once the mycelium is formed the fungas can take hold of the host and start growing rysmorphic mycelium, once this happens the fungus takes off and starts to sopre, thats when it turns from white to the collor it takes on. in the case of botrytis it forms ethier brown, or grey coloration.

if you keep the humidity below 60% the mycelium can not form, and unless your spraying your plants duering flowring (which is retarded.....) then the buds are NOT mostley water. they have alot of moisture but so do you, are you all moldy?
 
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DinafemHazeAuto

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Yeah mine happened becuz the humidty got over 70% outside for almost a week(had haze autos going) and temps up around 90+...mine literally happened over night and caught it quick or my 3 plants would have been toast, not just what i lost..Mine also happened after final flush had maybe 5 days left...
 
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wbd

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Corbat420 said:
ACTUALY it is impossible for botrytis to form with less than 60% relative humidity. it if a fugnus, fungus come from spores, those spores need a high himidity, sustained for a long suration to form mycelium. once the mycelium is formed the fungas can take hold of the host and start growing rysmorphic mycelium, once this happens the fungus takes off and starts to sopre, thats when it turns from white to the collor it takes on. in the case of botrytis it forms ethier brown, or grey coloration.

if you keep the humidity below 60% the mycelium can not form, and unless your spraying your plants duering flowring (which is retarded.....) then the buds are NOT mostley water. they have alot of moisture but so do you, are you all moldy?
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Welp, all I know I got bud rot in a room that never goes past 20-30% humidity. I'm sure there's a good explanation for it but I don't have it, maybe someone else will. If your information is accurate about what it takes to grow mold, then I might theorize that the environment near the stalk inside a big fat wet cola is conducive to bud rot despite the humidity in the grow room.

And you lose 75% of your weight in the drying process so you don't think it's fair to say that buds are 75% water?
 
Corbat420

Corbat420

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its 75% moisture. water alone does not signify moisture.

Moisture refers to the presence of a liquid, especially water, often in trace amounts. Small amounts of water may be found, for example, in the air (humidity), in foods, and in various commercial products.
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in the case of marijuana the moisture occures in the form of chlorophyll A, B, C and D. the water is absorbed by the roots and by the time it hits the stem its converted to chlorophyll.

your body is 84% moisture. blood is not water. tears arn't water. piss isn't water.

Edit: oh and yes, the hollow center to the stem of the plant is VERY susceptible to botrytis. if the soil has a major infection, large enough to infect roots it CAN spread up the plant into the sentral stem. its not common and just unlucky when it happens.....
 
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