Bud Rot Advice

[Jordanr]

Hi All,

I have cut down and started to dry my first harvest.

I have started to dry them on herb drying racks in the garage. I have noticed some slight brownish color on some of the buds, i think its very early days of bud rot but i want to correct this if i can asap! The temp of the garage is up and down with it been in the UK. Going up to 23c during the day and dropping to around 14c on a night.

What shall i do, cut the brown parts off and dry indoors? Any help would be appreciated thanks.

 

[knoxie]

Could you post some pictures?

 

[St. Tom]

Hi All,

I have cut down and started to dry my first harvest.

I have started to dry them on herb drying racks in the garage. I have noticed some slight brownish color on some of the buds, i think its very early days of bud rot but i want to correct this if i can asap! The temp of the garage is up and down with it been in the UK. Going up to 23c during the day and dropping to around 14c on a night.

What shall i do, cut the brown parts off and dry indoors? Any help would be appreciated thanks.

hi growbro if you think it may be rot or mould separate it from your ok stuff and don't even use the same scissors on them to trim also pics tell a lot more if you can post them i lost a whole plant to mould outdoors in the UK last month with all the rain

 

[Olderfart]

You likely have more of it than you think. I went through this last summer, and lost about a third of my bud by the time I got rid of the bad bits.

I dealt with the problem by drying individual buds on screens rather than hanging whole colas. It was only after trimming and cutting the colas apart that the smallest bits of mould became visible. Unless you get it all, it will continue to spread.

Good luck with it.

 

[Jordanr]

Thanks for the reply guys.

Unfortunately it was bud rot and since has spread to another plant in my greenhouse. I have chopped all the infected buds off (a lot) and followed the following method. Please let me know if this is still safe to smoke after this carrying out this method.

4 buckets total. (5 gallon buckets are perfect) Bucket 1: 3 parts RO water to 1 part 3% H202. Bucket 2: 5 gallons of RO with 1 cup baking soda, 1 cup Lemon Juice Buckets 3 and 4: RO only. Cut down plants, pull off fan leaves by hand, remove any necrotic leaves. Leave sugar leaves and anything with frosting on the plant. Fully submerge in bucket 1 (H2O2) for 30 seconds. Submerge for a full minute if you had ANY sign of PM or bud rot. Let water drip from buds and then..... Fully submerge in buckets 2 through 4 for 30 seconds each...lightly agitating the whole time. Allow produce to drip dry. You can blow a fan on it if you like, just make sure it's blowing clean air. Hang and dry per usual. Final manicure of buds is best done after they dry. It goes very fast and you're left with washed, highly resinous trim....makes superb joints. I'm also educating my customers to select untrimmed buds, which are actually better than the manicured ones because they still have sugar leaves attached. The trichomes in the leaves have more THC than those in the buds.....so it's good to get the whole spectrum in there. I give instructions for this in my journals, as I do it every single week, on every single harvest. Once you try it, you'll never go back. This works so well for a couple reasons: 1. takes off dirt, foliar sprays, bugs, fiberglass dust, etc. 2. fully hydrates the leaves, allowing photosynthesis to occur for a day or two on cut and trimmed buds. I recommend leaving a light on the buds for the first day or two after washing. This results in very, dense, clean burning, smooth tasting produce! That's the basic recipe....and I'm tweaking and changing it all the time.