Indoor A 2x4 And Nothing More

[Cobstopper]

Day 84
QB has colored up nicely and harvest will take place tomorrow. Both of these will be processed into cobs. I’m going to try a new method to form them and will post up in my cob making thread.

 

[Delps8]

a surprisingly large amount of people just don't get that while climate control is important to use if you have it, that whatever the climate, there is a completely separate micro climate deep into the buds near the stem,sativas or willowy stems are much safer thick indices are more susceptible, and the outside being perfect won't change that.

Agree completely. After getting bud rot in a really nice photoperiod plant a year ago, I modified how I look at temperature and humidity in my 2' x 4' tent. My practice had been to put the sensor for my AC Infinity controller at canopy level but I decided to put Govee sensors in the canopy.

Bud rot plant

Check the temp and RH for sensors 1, 3, and 5

The temp and RH values in the tent were high 70's and 50'ish (going from memory) but it was a very different story in the plant itself—and that's what counts.

Also I've long ago trashed my 480p shitty digital magnifer/microscope and replaced it with a pretty impressive 4k version that connect wired to computer or on a wifi network to the iPhone. It will be great for a lot of stuff so I can now absolutely confirm that this device is in no way better than the BelOMO 10x achromatic triplet loupe. The clarity of the belomo at 10x is more revealing than a giant sharp version on a screen, you see no more. This did surprise me. All you ever see online is photos of cloudy trichomes posted or worse just a leaf with cloudy trichomes and an 'is this ready', but the tops always go like that, it tells you nothing about the whole plant.

It's like the old joke how much to tighten the head gasket...just keep turning till you feel the thread strip, then back off a little.

That's great.

What I'm saying in a long way is pushing plants to some imagined goal without regard for the ever present danger of bud rot, is a bad strategy, which has taken me a short while to learn. I've left a plant simply because she was too pretty to chop down, and lost the best cola.

Yup. Better to err on the side of caution but it can still be hard to know when to chop.

I followed the advice of Mitch Westmoreland in his incredible video (a "must view" for cannabis growers)



and kept the temps of the colas in the mid-70's. "The road to hell is paved with the best intentions", right?

I just finished a grow that was taking forever as I waited to get "just the right amount of amber" and, on day 132, one of the buds had turned mushy brown in the middle. RH was low in the canopy (40's and 50's) and I had good air flow but I still ended up losing one bud.

The "bad bud" was the large one in the back left. The black paracord dropping into the canopy have the Govee's attached to them.