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Why is my plant bleeding honey?

V33Nice
V33Nicestarted grow question 5y ago
My Purple Lemonade is bleeding honey from the buds branches and stem. Is this good or bad. Its like week 9. All the trichomes aren't cloudy yet. Like 80/20 cloudy to clear. Im shooting for 90/10 cloudy to amber. Some are even turning purple.
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DonaldTrump
DonaldTrumpanswered grow question 5y ago
Sap guttation – there’s lots of speculation about what it is. No one knows for sure. Many growers who have run into this agree that the type of sap produced is sweet and doesn’t contain much (if any) THC. It is mostly made of sugar and water and so is not smokable. Seems to be related to the plant over-producing sugars, and sap productions is more common when Plants being in the flowering stage. Using sugar supplements like molasses, Botanicare Sweet, Sugar Daddy, etc. Big temperature difference between night and day, especially if it gets cold at night. Certain strains or individual plants seem more likely to produce sap ,Yet sometimes oozing sap seems to happen for no known reason ... Xylem is one of two pathways (phloem is the other one) in a plant's vascular system that transports water and nutrients, through a process called transpiration. During transpiration, the xylem and phloem help transport dissolved minerals throughout a plant from its roots into its branches and stems. Some nutrients, such as boron, calcium, copper, iron, manganese, molybdenum, and zinc, can only move upwards in the xylem. Others can flow both up, down, and throughout the xylem. Such nutrients include the macro-nutrients: magnesium, nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium, and sulfur. Xylem is a part of a vascular plant's anatomy. Along with the phloem, they make up the 'nutrient highway' in the plant in which nutrients travel. Excess water transported by the xylem is “exhaled” by the plant through its stomata. On cannabis plants, the stomata is on the underside of the leaves. Xylem sap can sometimes ooze out of the stomata (appearing like dew but formed at night when stomata are closed) in cannabis plants by a process known as “guttation”. Cannabis growers should be cautioned about using pesticides on their crops as any pesticide that the plant has absorbed may weep out in the xylem sap. This same xylem sap can cause burning of cannabis leaves if nutrient levels are too high. This will be visible on the leaf surface and appear like the efflorescence of winter salts on brick walls and walkways. 👍👍 From The White House
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itwasntme
itwasntmeanswered grow question 5y ago
This looks delicious:)
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russrahl
russrahlanswered grow question 5y ago
Yep, HarbingerOfHarvests is correct. Just looked it up...lol I’ve never had this, looks cool, but apparently it’s just water and plant junk. Seems it happens at night when excess water is expelled from the plant through the buds and this happens. It said it could be from to much humidity at night and/or your overwatering and to much water is in the root system at night, and the plant tries to expel it. Good old google. Lol
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DeadwebsiteBoringcommunity
DeadwebsiteBoringcommunityanswered grow question 5y ago
Ive only seen it once on my plants.. And I would lean towards it meaning something is just a little bit off... It's mostly water with a bit of sugar and plant material.
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russrahl
russrahlanswered grow question 5y ago
Wow! That is beautiful! I agree with blendmedmedman, once in a life time thing.... unless maybe you harvest her very carefully and reveg her, take some clones and try your luck again. Maybe you can keep this going...just saying...lol
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blendmedmedman
blendmedmedmananswered grow question 5y ago
this happens from time to time and it is rare, i had it happen to me years and years ago, where i thought i did something wrong, but later i found out i did nothing wrong. the plant turned out just fine but there was a little extra kick in the buzz. i tried so hard to reproduce the same effects of the honey effect with no luck. you my friend are a very lucky person when you harvest this bud. what you are looking at is sap. this usually indicates a higher thc in the plant. you can pop a seed of the same strain under the same conditions and never again see the result ever again. there is nothing wrong with this, it is very rare. happy soon to be harvest
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