Trials, Success, And Failures of a 1st

Bud Rot Bud Rot Bud Rot. Kept throwing out more and more cola’s buds all the way through flowering and drying. Cranked the temp up the last couple weeks to try and fight the bud rot, got some fox-tailing happening from the increased heat. The breakdown is like this. Early cut to remove bud rot – some colas had clean buds and I ended up keeping 3 oz (about 85g) Actual harvest day – Big SSH Girl – 887 g wet and 167 g dry SSH Clone 1 - 235 g wet and 47 g dry SSH Clone 2 – 140 g wet and 25 g dry Total harvest day – 1262 g wet and 239 g dry (8.5 oz) *we tossed a bunch as we jarred it due to mold Total Dry Weight = 324 g (11.5 oz) This was my first grow of MJ and my first time trying to grow inside and with bottled nutes. It’s been a lot of work making the room… setting it up, heating, cooling, lighting, humidity, and airflow. The SSH grew me some HUGE cola’s, however they got bud rot. Our biggest cola we weight wet (before throwing it away due to rot) was 80g. She grew big, fat, dense buds but we flew too close to the sun and the bud rot got us. Like everyone I had grand ideas how awesome this grow could be. But I tried to keep myself grounded and kept telling myself that I needed to be realistic for a first grow and that if I achieve 8 oz total from the tent (all the plants White Cookies and Super Silver Haze) it would be good successful for a first grow. I knew there would be mistakes, issues, and problems that I’d have to face as almost everyone does during their first grow. In the end I had to toss away over ½ the plant due to bud rot. All of the big large colas were affected, the smaller ones were the ones less affected and made it to the end. In the 4x4 tent I had 4 fan, three 8” oscillating and 1 static 6” fan. I had a 6” venting fan pulling from the top, A/C, heat at night, and a 70 pint dehumidifier. But one of the big problems was the grow room didn’t have enough power from the breaker panel and on the hot days the A/C would trip the circuit breaker. This would cause the heat and humidity to spike, the tent fans to turn off, and everything to go into the very bad extremes. This is most likely what started/caused the bud rot. Because it was a lack of power that was causing the issue it wasn’t a quick or easy fix. You can’t just put a larger breaker in because the wire run can’t handle the increased power, it’d burn down the room. Adding to the issue was that the breaker panel was full so adding another breaker wasn’t an easy option. A new breaker panel would need to be installed first and then new power lines run to the room. The project to upgrade the electrical capacity of the room ended up taking over a month. But that time was the critical flower month as power draw wasn't such an issue during vegging when we had smaller lights and better weather. I'm not going to lie, I felt very down and frustrated with this grow at points. It took a long time, I had many many issues, and the bud rot was like getting kicked in the gut over and over again as I had to continually throw away big fat colas every day or two. I was close to throwing in the towel several times on this grow but I persevered and have been rewarded in the end. DON"T GIVE UP!!! KEEP ON GROWING.... They say experience is expensive and they aren’t wrong. This first grow has been expensive in every way…. time, money, stress, frustration, yield, etc, etc…