First Harvest

[Cannagus]

One early hint that your outdoor plants are headed for trouble is if you see little droplets of water on the tips of your leaf serrations in the morning. This is called guttation, and happens when relative humidity is too high for normal transpiration. In my experience, if you see guttation, Botrytis will likely follow. The yellowing leaves in buds is the primary early symptom of bud rot. The yellow leaves are dying because rot is killing them from the inside of the bud out. It is only later that the rot progresses to the point that it is obvious on the outside of the bud. Any time you see sugar leaves in buds starting to yellow earlier than other parts of the plant naturally enter serious decline, suspect bud rot. By the time you see symptoms, there is usually lots more of it that you can't see yet.

I spotted guttation on a couple of plants that were really my highest hopes but I've known there was some problem for a while with these two, they both have branches that aren't quite healthy although right now they are both stretching and aside from those branches appear healthy. On the infected branches even the calyxes have a jaundiced look to them. The plan is to go at them with as much Neem and Southern Ag Garden Friendly Fungicide as they can handle, maybe some copper. I might be able to cut some of it away if it were seriously necessary to salvage anything, but for now I'll practice biochem warfare upon the bud rot invader. I'm going to treat everything I have going this way and hope it doesn't get established elsewhere.

But without your tip, I might have noticed the guttation but I wouldn't have connected it to anything so Thanks.

 

[Olderfart]

I spotted guttation on a couple of plants that were really my highest hopes but I've known there was some problem for a while with these two, they both have branches that aren't quite healthy although right now they are both stretching and aside from those branches appear healthy. On the infected branches even the calyxes have a jaundiced look to them. The plan is to go at them with as much Neem and Southern Ag Garden Friendly Fungicide as they can handle, maybe some copper. I might be able to cut some of it away if it were seriously necessary to salvage anything, but for now I'll practice biochem warfare upon the bud rot invader. I'm going to treat everything I have going this way and hope it doesn't get established elsewhere.

But without your tip, I might have noticed the guttation but I wouldn't have connected it to anything so Thanks.

Keep an eye on things. Bud rot really gets going once it becomes noticeable. You can help keep a lid on it by cutting infected branches, but in my experience it is usually a losing game, just a matter of when. Even with fastidious removal of visibly infected branches in my rot events, and earlier harvest than I wanted, I still found more of it inside what looked like healthy buds when I wet trimmed them for drying as individual buds in paper bags. I still got some decent bud, although I would say that in both of my outdoor grows up to half of the bud was lost in spite of my effort. The only thing that will persuade me to do another outdoor grow will be a positive result from the RotBlock test that I and others are doing now. Otherwise just not worth the effort given the typical grow conditions where I live. Intermittent RH of 99% just does not cut it.

Good luck with your grow.

 

[Cannagus]

Ended up, the bigger part of the yield from this was ok. I gave a good portion of it to my friend that has been generously sharing bud from last years grow and it met with his approval.

Also going to provide some to another friend, a 'Nam vet, who has been stricken with multiple cancers any one of which by itself is a doombringer. He has declined aggressive treatment for less aggressive that might still buy him a bit of time. He doesn't want to be super sick, sometimes less is more. Agent Orange claims another victim.