Organic Outdoor Oregon

well i started losing ground to the blasted mold and harvested a few days ago. i've never had bud rot so early and most everyone i've heard of locally had a similar experience. and people with much better setups than mine who thought they were safe got it too...the year of diseases i guess . it's not apparent in the photo's i've posted since the forest fire ash but the plant is filthy and looks worse in person than the photos i posted here now. ash, soot, dirt, bug crap etc. i guess collected mostly on leafs but under my little field microscope the buds looked pretty dirty too...so i did a quick trim and then washed in lemon juice and baking soda and hung to drip dry outside for awhile before moving to the drying room...checking for mold at every step. i let one of the wash buckets settle overnight and was surprised at the amount of fine dirt. i took every branch down and checked for mold with a flashlight after one day of drying and again after two days. and i kept the drying room warmer and dryer than botrytis likes for the first two days...70-75f and 50-55%rh...and am feeling pretty confident it's no longer an issue. i probably only lost a few ounces to mold(dry weight)...what a hassle though. i'll post the dry weight in a week or two and anything else that comes to mind...sampled some that got clipped when the mold showed a couple weeks ago but it's not been dried and cured properly. update: ok so a week to dry till the buds snap off cleanly by hand (except the thicker stemmed tops). i was going to need another dozen canning jars and was going to have to settle for regular mouths at an inflated covid price, and not looking forward to burping so many jars daily for weeks. and it was cheaper to buy some food grade 5 gal. buckets so that;s what i'm using to cure in and have an empty one to pour into and help mix the mass daily. 3 ounces in jars that got snipped early due to mold, 20 and 17 ounces in the buckets from day one and day two of harvest. now then...stuff i'd do differently this grow in retrospect: either have provided more good compost humus to the bed or start giving nutrients when the leaf blade count dropped from 11 to 7 after node 22 some of the compost wasnt ready and maybe the source of the wilt disease i got...it was winter time compost and maybe hadnt got hot enough long enough to kill things...so i made more over the summer do some pre-emptive fungicide application do some insecticide application...it got eaten up a lot, mostly by leafhoppers this year, and weakens the plant somewhat and more prone to other diseases erm that about covers it i think other than the build a greenhouse thing! Peace, out. : )