Little white chunks of calcium in my buds. Everyone wants to say it's perlite. Well it's definitely not. Hydro Growers have found it so what in the

Jon Reinemer · May 28, 2022

I have little white chunks in my buds that look like calcium deposits. Everyone says it's perlite. Well it's not because even some Hydro Growers get it. Totally weird the bud is super dank sticky and there's little black dots like dirt and then chunks of calcium that crush and are dry

OldMedUser · May 28, 2022

Jon Reinemer said:
I have little white chunks in my buds that look like calcium deposits. Everyone says it's perlite. Well it's not because even some Hydro Growers get it. Totally weird the bud is super dank sticky and there's little black dots like dirt and then chunks of calcium that crush and are dry

I've grown hundreds of plants in hydro over the years and never seen anything like that.

Sure sounds like perlite to me.

:peace:

Instape · May 29, 2022

Undeveloped seed cases?

Rurumo · May 29, 2022

We need pics

harrychilds · May 29, 2022

Sounds like Nanners.

Jjgrow420 · May 29, 2022

Did you buy this weed? It's likely perlite from poor handling/letting material touch the ground

bk78 · May 29, 2022

Jon Reinemer said:
I have little white chunks in my buds that look like calcium deposits. Everyone says it's perlite. Well it's not because even some Hydro Growers get it. Totally weird the bud is super dank sticky and there's little black dots like dirt and then chunks of calcium that crush and are dry

I seen this shit back in the day buying ditch weed, 100% was perlite in the buds.

MidnightSun72 · May 29, 2022

Sometimes sprinkling IPM on leaves flecks of shit.

also if you use a humidifer with high calcium in the water it can coat the room in this white dusty deposit shit.

ComfortCreator · May 29, 2022

Sounds like humidifier deposits or soil/perlite. All it takes is for them to come in contact with the sticky pistils.

Herb & Suds · May 29, 2022

There doesn't seem to be a question as the OP claims he knows what it is
And we should just guess?

ComfortCreator · May 29, 2022

Without a pic Herb, the simplest answer is that soil or medium got on the bud. That is exactly how it would look if you rolled a bud in soil and shook it off.

Hollatchaboy · May 29, 2022

Little black dots like dirt = dirt, little white chunks = perlite. Seems pretty logical to me. If you have any kinda circulation down low, it'll get that shit all over the place.

Jon Reinemer · May 30, 2022

OldMedUser said:
I've grown hundreds of plants in hydro over the years and never seen anything like that.

Sure sounds like perlite to me.

Jon Reinemer · May 30, 2022

I just posted two pictures you can clearly see the white chunks and little black specks and believe me it's not dirt or perlite

Jon Reinemer · May 30, 2022

Rurumo said:
We need pics

Jon Reinemer · May 30, 2022

That's the best I can do with pictures. It's just an oddity I didn't drop dirt and perlite from above

Kassiopeija · May 30, 2022

It's hard to see anything on these pics but it really needs a microscope shot to help identify the crystal structure.

There are a few nutrition ions which are known to crystallize out at the edges or end of the xylem, these are Calcium & Bor, and a third micro. The reason for this is that these ions have very little phloem-mobility and will not be loaded much into it.

OldMedUser · May 30, 2022

Can't really tell one way or 'tother from the pics but certainly nothing I've ever seen on buds before.

Time to do a little search for bud washing and give those suckers a soak.

:peace:

Jon Reinemer · May 30, 2022

OldMedUser said:
Can't really tell one way or 'tother from the pics but certainly nothing I've ever seen on buds before.

Time to do a little search for bud washing and give those suckers a soak.

well thanks for the input guys they are a Dandy bunch of girls]. I don't see any harm done. Just an isolated incident

Kassiopeija · May 31, 2022

it could be some kind of guttation though, is it at the margin of leaves? though that, and xylem-crystallization, are a very similar/related mechanism

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