Trials, Success, And Failures of a 1st

Should she be renamed Pinhead???? Hell Raiser???? Shit went badly sideways!!!! Our cola's and buds are short, fat, and dense. The buds are super dense too. We have 4 fans in the tent and a major dehumidifier in the room but it's not been enough. The venting has been an issue with the old AC and the new AC has been popping the breaker because it shares a breaker with the lights and exhaust fans. This has resulted in the VPD being higher then we'd like and the occasional time the AC, lights, and ventilation turned off because of a popped breaker and the humidity went way up (75-85%). All together this has resulted in the very bad and dreaded bud rot. Went away for a 3 day weekend to visit friends and came back to a few buds that had yellow dry leaves and dry buds. I investigate further to find that it was bud rot. So triage started, if any bud showed signs of rot I took the entire cola. This was painful but I know that bud rot is not to be messed with. It took 2 days to go through and deal with the rot and trim the cola's to recover the ok buds. This is how it broke down in numbers; SSH ___ 54 cola's pre - 27 removal = 27 cola's remaining (50% removal) Clone 1 _ 8 Cola's pre - 1 removal = 7 cola's remaining (12.5% removal) Clone 2 _ 5 Cola's pre - 1 removal = 4 Cola's remaining (20% removal) Total 67 cola's pre - 29 removal = 38 cola's remaining (43.3% removed) Total wet trimmed weight = 997.3g (29 cola's = 34.4g per cola average wet) Saved wet trim weight = 558.3g (56% saved) ***because of the rot we trimmed really closely, trimmed all the buds off the cola, took all stems and most of the leaves off to make sure none of the rot was left. I suspect we will have a higher % dry weight because we took off so much of the stems, leaves, etc. Our biggest cola was 48.23g wet trimmed before we dissected it into the buds and tossed away the rot. We took apart all the cola's and were able to save a lot of the lower buds as the rot usually was only on the top 30-50% of the cola's. This is still young and the tricomes are clear. Not sure how nice it'll be but we are drying it and will find out in a week or two. There might be some more that need to be removed in the coming weeks, we just don't know yet. I molested all the cola's hard, looked at the base of all the buds as best I could and pulled anything with even a bit of identifiable rot. The ones not taken have been handled a lot and will for surely be degraded. I read about some people using skewers to separate the buds in dense cola's allowing more air into them, so I'm trying this method. It's desperation at its best as we are only a few weeks away from the finish line. There will be a push this weekend to get the new outlet wired in to allow the A/C it's own breaker so that we stop tripping the rooms breaker, I think the ventilation issues with the old A/C and the new A/C tripping the breaker is what pushed us into this bud rot. Most of our biggest/fattest cola's got taken, so with us having 56% of the cola's remaining I'd expect if we can get this to finish and harvest we will end up with under 40% of what the actual harvest would have been if we didn't lose our big cola's to rot that made it through ripening. But we still might lose more we just don't know yet. Amazing how a seemingly healthy plant can go completely sideways so quickly. Bad part is it happened, the good part is that we did catch it fairly early. Less then 50% cola's effected and out of the cola's effected we were able to save 56% of the bud weight. It's not ideal but it's a lesson and we will learn from it.