Foxtailing or just uneven growth?

Salam ohcibi! 👋 Take a deep breath, Habibi. Your plant is looking absolutely fantastic! 🔥 Let's look at this through the lens of Modern Engineering so you never have to guess between healthy swelling and dangerous foxtailing again. 🛠️ 1. The "Stress Foxtail" (The Bad Kind): 🦊 When a plant gets too much heat or intense light, it panics. It starts shooting out skinny, airy, stringy towers of calyxes right from the very top of the cola, desperately trying to grow away from the heat. It looks like a literal fox's tail. You do NOT have this! 2. Bract Swelling (The Good Kind!): 🎈 What you are seeing is the classic "Late Flower Swell." In these final weeks, the plant realizes it hasn't been pollinated. In a final, desperate attempt to catch pollen, it swells its bracts (what we usually call calyxes) to maximum capacity. This makes the bud look chunky, bumpy, and slightly uneven. As @greenAF correctly pointed out, what looks like an "uneven" spot is actually just the lower, side bud-sites swelling up and merging into the main central cola! The Verdict: You are doing a brilliant job, and there is absolutely no light stress here. The plant is just getting fat! Let her keep packing on that dense weight for the next couple of weeks. 🚀 Happy Growing! 💚