Bud Rot, Overripe, or something else?

Hey all, first grow and first post here. I'm near the end of flower, planning on doing the chop in a couple days. Today i noticed a couple buds with some browning, not so healthy looking sugar leaves right at the top of the buds on one of my 3 plants. The affected leaves were also starting to curl up, and were fairly stiff. I chopped them off and dissected them, there was a maybe a little bit of brown on the inside but they we not mushy or brittle like i've read bud rot can be, and no visible signs of white mold. I thought maybe its overripe since this one matured a little faster than the other 2, although the trichomes are not overly amber (maybe i'm just trying to convince myself its not bud rot). Like i said, i'll be harvesting them in a couple days and hanging them in the tent to dry and then i'm off to the lake for 5 days, so i can't keep an eye on them to watch out for mold during the drying process. I'm pretty concerned that if this does look like the start of bud rot, that there could be more hiding in other buds that might spread to the other 2 plants during the drying process. Any insight to what this looks like to people would be great, as well as any advice on how to handle the situation. Thanks!

If you're leaving in a few days, why don't you gonna head and chop? That way you can watch them and make sure all goes well beforehand.

Also i can't give you any info on what's going on as i wouldn't know what to tell you. Sorry bud.

Could be a root health issue. What setup are you running? If it's soil or coco and you didn't slow down on the watering frequency as they go into ripening mode then you can kill off the roots with root rot.

At the top? What kind of light and how close is it?

Merkn4aSquirtn said:

If you're leaving in a few days, why don't you gonna head and chop? That way you can watch them and make sure all goes well beforehand.

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Ya, good call. I think I'll chop that one tomorrow after work, so I can keep an eye on it for a few days before I'm gone. If there's no new signs of rot, do u think it would be safe to have all 3 in the same drying tent?

Renfro said:

Could be a root health issue. What setup are you running? If it's soil or coco and you didn't slow down on the watering frequency as they go into ripening mode then you can kill off the roots with root rot.

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Thanks for the advice on root rot. I'm growing in soil. At the start of flower they were drinking quite a bit, but slowed down in the last few weeks, been watering about every 4 days when the top inch or 2 of soil is dry. Although I did just run 2 heavy flushes thru them in the last 1.5 weeks (9 gallons thru 5 gal pots to get ppms down)

hotrodharley said:

At the top? What kind of light and how close is it?

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I found these about half way up the plant. My light is a 600W viparspectra about 20" above the main colas.