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Homestretch for the Strawberry Banana now! I didn't bother with an update last week as nothing was happening at all, but then this week, they were chunking up real fast and are looking amazing... but then tragedy struck!
Day 59 - BUDROT! (Botrytis)
Absolutely gutted to have found a load of budrot in my main cola. I cut the top off and hopefully that will isolate it so that the rest of the plant won't be effected, but I'll just have to keep an eye on it and make sure it hasn't spread. It's really easy to see this, the leaves died off all around the affected area and when you pull at the bud, you'll notice it just split open easily. Inside you can see fuzzy white mould and right in at the stem, the bud just turns to brown mush. It can spread quickly, so the plan is to cut off the infected area and isolate the plant as best you can from other plants and/or harvest early if that is either an option or a very last resort. It spreads FAST, so you need to make a decision and go for it.
The rest of the plant, however.... looks great thankfully! I'm going to start winding down nutrients after this week and get the plant ready for harvest, but for now, I'm still feeding 3/2/1ml per litre with Bloom/Alg-a-Mic/Grow. This week the buds have got real chonky all of a sudden, but the trichomes are still mainly cloudy. I think they have at the very least another 7-10 days before chop time, but I will almost definitely be harvesting early due to the rot and aim to rescue as much of the yield as I can. Far better to harvest early than not harvest at all and have the rot spread to my other plant too.
Best of Luck with the grow, really excited to see yours off to the races. Only 3/5 of My Strawberry Bannana germinated and 1 of them never did more than put out it's tap so I'm gonna live vicariously!
@scotch_egg, I honestly don't know. I have been following Fast Buds since '18 and they were my first grow based on how reliable their stuff seemed to be. All of my Forbidden Runtz thus far have popped and been incredibly resilient so maybe the SB is just a lot more touchy. Out of curiosity did you use Paper Towel method for yours? I did 3/5 Paper towel 2 put out taps, 1 pushed the top of the seed out of dirt once it was in and the other died in the soil. The other 2 I popped in peat pods and they got above ground but both had a hard time shedding the seed and their cotyledons were severely damaged.
@thebyrdman, ah that's interesting, I've always had good luck with germination rates, but my Strawberry Banana was the same with only 1 out of 2 germinating. The second one shot a taproot, but it didn't ever grow more than about .5cm long and ended up just rotting in the soil. I wonder if it's a strain thing?
51g, a little lower than you expected?!?1?1?!? unbelievable !!! wake up man!!! with that shity light you should kiss somebodys arse!!!!! get a proper light and you will get result like pro!!!!next time try grow under 5w led!!!! lol
@scotch_egg, gotcha 👍👍man well thats what probably every grower hate-after when you dry it its like 80% or i dono exactly how muchs gone!!!!😂👺😡 thats why we must try our best all the time cheerio👌👍
@skako3377, I think you misunderstand me, I meant lower than expected when I looked at the plant itself, it seemed like it would be more than that before harvest. Not sure about the rest of your comment 🤷♂️
@MrHightimes, Thank you mate! I still feel like I'm learning with every new strain, but it's been a fun couple of years of growing! Your Purple Lemonade is looking friggin gorgeous! I hope you're doing well!
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