Week 8 (54F) BUD-ROT FEARS, chop or stick it out?

Hi guys, hope everyone's doing better than I am right now... I could use some input especially if anyone has experience surviving bud-rot please

I live on the coast and the past 12 hour dark cycle has been between 80-95% ambient humidity and this expected to go on for the next 3 days at 70+ RH. I've already taken off 4 top colas, 3 from one plant and 1 from another just now, due to bud-rot but my other 2 plants are still unaffected. Dehumidifiers and fans help to an extent but it's just not cutting it at the moment. Trichomes are mostly cloudy with some amber and some clear but another week or 2 would be preferable. The plants are drooping from thirst but I don't want to water them and increase humidity. I have 3 options, chop them all before next night cycle, chop the 2 affected plants and let the other 2 go for few more days or borrow as many fans as I can and light up my fireplace to try to stick it out for a few days to a week, what say you guys?

I've harvested heavyweight fruit punch at 8 weeks before and at 11 weeks and was shooting for 9 weeks for two of them and 10 weeks for the other two because the 11 week harvest was definitely more potent. My fear is that mold/rot will break out in every cola and destroy my harvest so I'm leaning towards chopping all of them today.

Are you able to keep your humidity down to 20% or less? If not, I'd be inclined to cut down early.

You can risk it and just run it, keep an eye on every bud. Just realize that if you have humidity botrytis could be growing within and you may not be able to see it.

stemresearch said:

Are you able to keep your humidity down to 20% or less? If not, I'd be inclined to cut down early.

You can risk it and just run it, keep an eye on every bud. Just realize that if you have humidity botrytis could be growing within and you may not be able to see it.

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That's exactly what I'm worried about... that spores have already germinated inside every top bud which will take a few days to show on the outside. The more I was hashing out the pros and cons here while typing this post the more I was convincing myself to chop them all today.

I don't see any way of lowering the night time humidity below 70% for the next night or two. All i can do is get a bunch of fans and light up my fireplace.

DazeHazy said:

I don't see any way of lowering the night time humidity below 70% for the next night or two. All i can do is get a bunch of fans and light up my fireplace.

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70%+ is budrot heaven.

If you could get the humidity to under 40% even, I'd consider fighting it, but with 70%, I would just pull them.

stemresearch said:

70%+ is budrot heaven.

If you could get the humidity to under 40% even, I'd consider fighting it, but with 70%, I would just pull them.

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Yeah anything above 65% I consider the danger zone. Thanks. I think I'm gonna go full chop even though I font really want to. Early weed is better than none I guess.

I was so looking forward to this being my best grow yet but mother nature has decided to be a cruel bitch right now... 1 week more and I would've been happy

I endure the same problem every year on my outdoor grows. All I can suggest would be to keep the girls going and closely monitor for rot. If and when it does show up, cut out the affected parts and see what happens. I always lose a small portion of colas but the majority finishes just fine. Don't panic.