Outdoor Seeking help with "Bud Rot?" or whatever

[Kurt]

This summer has been very foggy nearly every morning in this section of VT. My outdoor plants (only the outdoors ones ) are showing a brown region that has no underlying structure on some buds of a few plants. This discolored portion just crumbles away. See the pictures.
The plant shown is a Karalla/Skunk strain which was a free seed sent with my order. Its location is the edge of the field and has good sun and breeze. Seems to affect the inside even on healthy appearing buds.
My questions are:
1. Can you identify the malady and suggest a cause?
2. Though I won't be smoking this plant I wonder if it is okay to use for QWET or glycerin extract?
Thanks for your help.
Kurt

 

[Balarama]

1. Cause is mold spores traveling with wind and landing on a moist surface with good conditions to spread, your buds for example.
Might partially prevent it with spraying plants in preflower stage with sulfur solution and later with peroxide localised spraying on affected areas.
Best solution is a better spot and better/more resistent strain and prevention. KeralaSkunk is known to be mold friendly.

2.Some say yes, I don't trust them and would never use moldy buds for any consumption.

 

[Kurt]

1. Cause is mold spores traveling with wind and landing on a moist surface with good conditions to spread, your buds for example.
Might partially prevent it with spraying plants in preflower stage with sulfur solution and later with peroxide localised spraying on affected areas.
Best solution is a better spot and better/more resistent strain and prevention. KeralaSkunk is known to be mold friendly.

2.Some say yes, I don't trust them and would never use moldy buds for any consumption.

Thank you for the reply, I also fond it on my fuschia plants.

 

[lilm00re14]

Woot Vermont.next door to me in Massachusetts brother!. Good luck with your plants. I had to cut the head off of a few colas outside myself

 

[Another One Bites the Dust1]

Kurt, a friend of mine who grows at lat 54 in the UK, has been using a product called GreenCure for mold prevention this year, and has NO mold on 20ish different strains he is growing. He has always dealt with mold at his lat and outdoor environment.

Please do not take a chance using ANY thing that has mold on it. Not worth the chance of getting very ill.

Peace.

 

[KapScot]

Always sad to see a crop had by the dreaded rot. Personally I wouldn't bother with any infected buds - if you examine them closely you will find all the goodness in the trichomes has gone - they just collapse 'fungal vaporware' stylee. So apart from smoking some spores it makes for a pretty weak smoke.

Hmm GreenCure seems interesting - will have to investigate further. I grow UK and suffer from some bud rot every year. Unfortunately when guerilla growing it isn't possible to keep plants dry as the temps get colder, so I like mine close to hand for inspections every few days as harvest approaches.

I'm trying to finish off 3 plants (that were late starts) and its down to 9 deg C at night here, but fortunately has been relatively dry last couple of weeks. Plants which I harvested earlier had the start of rot (you got to catch it quick to stop it spreading tho). I managed to eek out another three weeks finishing from these plants by removing all infected material - which in my case normally starts on the denser main cola - so it's a case of removing all the main cola and praying the plant will respond in finishing off the side buds - which some did.

To avoid disappointment I like to grow some staple plants and a few exotics just to see how they get on but every year the weather is different so it's impossible to 'nail down' good strains.

 

[F.N.]

Can you not make BUBBLE hash I am not 100% on that. I think the mold stays on the top of the water. I am, not talking about infected rotted peices but the plant it came from. What does QWET stand for sorry iam old lol