My worst fear has come true! π± I spotted some yellow sugar-leaves on a top bud and pulled them out of the bud. Since I felt no resistance whatsoever when the leaves were pulled, I carefully pulled apart the top-bud to looked at the stem inside it and saw a grey fuzz: This is BUD-ROT! π The high humidity (always above 60% in the tent despite an air-dehumidifier in the room) has done its awful work and fungus has started to grow inside my buds. Since this process cannot be stopped and only gets worse when the plants continue to flower, I immediately stop giving any nutrients and start an emergency flush. This way I am able to harvest within a week, which is a little early, because I normally would have given them one more week of flower before I start the standard flush in the last week before harvesting. The plants have already grown such tremendously big colas under the SANlight Q6W-Gen.2 LED-lamps that I am happy with the result anyways. I hope that I can salvage most of the buds, without having to cut away a lot because of bud-rot. The LED-lamps are still kept at 50 cm distance and at the same dimm-level as last week. I could almost cry when I look at the HUGE buds and smell the DELICIOUS aroma inside my tent and already know that I will loose some of it too this damn fungus! The aphids have been battled successfully with the parasitic wasps and are almost gone now, so are the fungus gnats, but that is little consolation since I saw the bud-rot. π’
Do you have advice how to control 60% Humidity even if the dehumidifier was running. or what was the lesson?
Want to learn :)
P.S your grows are awsome! hopefully there will be another one :)
@FerryBaked, as far as I am informed they stopped selling Mills in the Netherlands in shops. You can definitely order it online via Plantasur in Spain. https://www.plantasur.com/en/products/mills-0
@MrHaze, Mahalo for your kind words! π I loved to grow my medicine and it breaks my heart when sth doesn't work as intended (damn bud-rot issue)..the Critical+ is an outstanding variety! ππ
That's an amazing end yield from our Critical+π€
Imagine what you could have achieved if you had not had the bud rot issue's π€¨
With that said, still an amazing result π€
Well done π
Diary approved!!π
All the best βοΈ
Mark..
@DinafemSeeds, Mahalo for your kind words! π Yes, the strain is AMAZING...i love π the Critical+ and with less humidity I would not have gotten the bud-rot issue! π« Next time I will grow it to its full potential!
@smoking_hills9, Mahalo for your kind words! π Yes, the harvest of the Ciritcal+ was outstanding and would have been even better without my bud-rot issues!π« I can only recommend this variety!
Do you have advice how to control 60% Humidity even if the dehumidifier was running. or what was the lesson?
Want to learn :)
P.S your grows are awsome! hopefully there will be another one :)