Bud rot late into flower

Caught some bud rot in what I would guess is it’s pretty early stages. I had a hard time with humidity for most of the grow, but I finally have it solved.

This was supposed to be a 60 day strain and it’s around 80 days old and there are still plenty of white pistils. I have a pocket microscope to look at trichomes but I have a hard time keeping it steady enough to really see how cloudy they are. Besides, being my first grow I’m not even sure I would know when they were cloudy enough.

Should I chop this plant before the bud rot ruins the whole plant? This is WW auto from MSNL and I it has been through some STRESS. I was not expecting that much of a learning curve. But I have some Fastbuds zkittlez that I’m going to pop next. LST then ScrOG, feed the correct amount, prepare the coco, basically the whole nine yards. Like I said I learned a lot since I started.

I don’t mean to ramble, but should I cut this freaky bitch down?

Yes

I’d just cut it down and do extracts. It spreads fast and silently.

It don't look rotten to me

Instead of trying to salvage this grow ask yourself why this happened
If you can provide some measurements of humidity temperature inlet and outlet , what equipment you use and whatnot a lot of people here will have good input instead of putting a band aid on this situation

Dirk8==D~Diggler said:

Caught some bud rot in what I would guess is it’s pretty early stages. I had a hard time with humidity for most of the grow, but I finally have it solved.

This was supposed to be a 60 day strain and it’s around 80 days old and there are still plenty of white pistils. I have a pocket microscope to look at trichomes but I have a hard time keeping it steady enough to really see how cloudy they are. Besides, being my first grow I’m not even sure I would know when they were cloudy enough.

Should I chop this plant before the bud rot ruins the whole plant? This is WW auto from MSNL and I it has been through some STRESS. I was not expecting that much of a learning curve. But I have some Fastbuds zkittlez that I’m going to pop next. LST then ScrOG, feed the correct amount, prepare the coco, basically the whole nine yards. Like I said I learned a lot since I started.

I don’t mean to ramble, but should I cut this freaky bitch down?

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80 days! Its looks 5-6 weeks right now? Its smallish, due to stress etc. But it looks ok, just early

Skewbong said:

80 days! Its looks 5-6 weeks right now? Its smallish, due to stress etc. But it looks ok, just early

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Shes very sativa dominant, so its gonna be longer for sure. Her leaves are very narrow; more sativa than hybrid....could be the long flower time. Not to beat the dead horse; stress likely, even lockout, or bad pheno....been there bro! Enjoy your harvest, know what you did right and wrong, and enjoy your fruits...keep learning. BTW, this is very long, even for a sativa

As far as the bud rot goes we'll have to trust you on that one because from the pictures I can't tell. I've caught rot in some monster colas of some strains with a few weeks to go and I've always just let it finish. I have never seen an explosion of rot that people seem to fear, just stays where it within the bud and ruins it. So I would recommend just letting it finish.

Like others have said above, things have gone wrong. Curious what you feed them and how.

I did a run a long time ago in a new grow, had multiple strains (shot gunning beans) in a 4x4 tray. I kept the humidity from going above 55% but it was pretty much always at least 50% - humid basement and not enough dehu. The six strain run turned out great except for just one strain, Skunk #1 (the freebies Nirvana gave away a long time ago). The rot was limited to the largest colas of course. That strain wasn't very impressive anyway, just not even that skunky compared to something like super skunk or the old Arkansas skunk we used to get back in the day in Missouri. The other strains had zero signs of botrytis in the exact same grow.

You need to be able to keep the humidity low enough for the strain you are growing to prevent botrytis. I think this is why some people can get away with higher humidity in flower trying to stay with VPD, their strain is resistant.

Good air circulation is also part of the equation, if you have areas with stagnant air it can cause a micro climate that has higher humidity. Remember the RH% likes to spike at lights out.