Help, Botrytis, Is it everywhere?

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coolfool

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I recently harvested and the whole thing went bad, it was on all the flower but didn't pronounce until it was all in the curing phase. Now I have 2 stages of clones in a room I'm in the process of decontaminating. Once the room is done I have some stuff to treat the plants with - Potassium Bicarbonate and Copper Fungicide. I have some new clippings in a cloning machine and then I have some in 5" pots ready to pot up and flower right away. I assumed all the bigger plants were infected and then I looked at the roots of my clones and found this:
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This is not the effect of non-white lighting on these roots. They are all tinted orange. Is it possible, with a high degree of certainty, to save these plants, both the mature ones and these clones? And which of the two products I got to treat them should I use, or should I alternate both?

Thank you in advance!
 
The solution to the botrytis is to reduce the humidity in flower. Don't be concerned with VPD, unless you enjoy the bud rot, get the RH% below 50 after you have some bud mass going.
 
JoeBlow5823 said:
If your buds got moldy, you likely didnt dry them enough before you put them in the jars. Mold spores are everywhere. They do not grow on dry surfaces. They thrive on wet plant mater.
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It was my understanding that it is a systemic infection that survives in different forms. When the time is right it infects the flowers and makes spores...
 
coolfool said:
It was my understanding that it is a systemic infection that survives in different forms. When the time is right it infects the flowers and makes spores...
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Fix your environment
ie...more air flow, humidity
You don't have some disease no one gets
It's your environment that is out of whack
 
coolfool said:
It was my understanding that it is a systemic infection that survives in different forms. When the time is right it infects the flowers and makes spores...
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Again, spores are everywhere unless you are growing in a sterile lab with all sterile equipment and medium. Mold requires a certain level of humidity to grow. Properly dried and stored plant mater will never grow mold. A lot of people think they can cure once the outside of buds feel dry/crispy but often times the inside of them is still soaking wet. That is why "burping" is recommended a couple times a day the first week. And if the buds get real wet after a day or so, take them back out to dry farther.
 
JoeBlow5823 said:
Again, spores are everywhere unless you are growing in a sterile lab with all sterile equipment and medium. Mold requires a certain level of humidity to grow. Properly dried and stored plant mater will never grow mold. A lot of people think they can cure once the outside of buds feel dry/crispy but often times the inside of them is still soaking wet. That is why "burping" is recommended a couple times a day the first week. And if the buds get real wet after a day or so, take them back out to dry farther.
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I see.... Thank you

In the beginning of flower, first run for this room I had a humidity spike for a few days until I got my dehumidifier dialed. This was in first couple weeks of flower though, no buds yet. Could they have got it then?

I read somewhere that cuttings are particularly susceptible. That's why I posted pic of clones. Their roots seemed unusually orange to me.

Also when everything was really dry to touch hanging I put it all in mylar bags, but I was using 5 gallon ones. Is that too big, no matter what the total quantity is?

Thanks!
 
coolfool said:
I see.... Thank you

In the beginning of flower, first run for this room I had a humidity spike for a few days until I got my dehumidifier dialed. This was in first couple weeks of flower though, no buds yet. Could they have got it then?

I read somewhere that cuttings are particularly susceptible. That's why I posted pic of clones. Their roots seemed unusually orange to me.

Also when everything was really dry to touch hanging I put it all in mylar bags, but I was using 5 gallon ones. Is that too big, no matter what the total quantity is?

Thanks!
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Also... When I was pulling it off the line after hang drying part, I noticed poofs of spores on some of the buds...
 
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