Symptoms of bud mold

ataxia

ataxia

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I have an L.A. woman that is about one to two weeks from finishing. I realized midway through my grow that i under fed. You can see the yellowing in the pics .. my nighttime temps are ok but the humidity goes up! .. i've posted a thread about this before.
now....
like i said the bud leaves are yellowing and browning and dying off. today i found some yellow and when i ripped them out they looked a little greyish near the bud site when i pulled them. 0Could this be the beginning of bud mold??? i know there is no way to tell unless it actually starts to mold .. but this plant's trichs are about 50 percent cloudy .. the other clear to cloudy. I know it's not ready to clip. but tell me your opinion. hopefully my pics can give you a little insight on what i'm dealing with. BTW... the problem area that's worrying me is the most dense main cola. CLIP IT???
 
ataxia

ataxia

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below0 said:
Maybe its a little Potassium Def. Is it appearing on the leaves or only the buds?
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thanks for paying attention man.. yeah it's just on the leaves .. and i'm sure it probably is a K def. but like i said my nightime humidity is high. and the leaves are yellowing and dying.... leaving me to worry that those leaves dying back into the bud will lead to mold.
remember. I picked of some dying leaves from the bud and the innermost part of the leaf thats crammed in the budsite had a bit of grey ... but no nothing on the bud yet...
 
cowboylogic

cowboylogic

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Keep a close eye on the bud in question. And if it does have mold then chop just the affected buds and leave the rest to finish. Also keeping a fan running during lights out helps during those humid nights.
 
below0

below0

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If your two weeks, from harvest, maybe you could squeeze in one more feeding with a good dose of PK to prevent more of it happening.
The yellow is probably just due to lack of N, and a natural state of dying.
 
ataxia

ataxia

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cowboylogic said:
Keep a close eye on the bud in question. And if it does have mold then chop just the affected buds and leave the rest to finish. Also keeping a fan running during lights out helps during those humid nights.
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always good to see ya pop in with advice cowboy!!! i've been running the fan .. but at some point i have to cut it off due to noise issues ... but it seems its the most humid first thing in the morning. I've kept a 30x scope on it to see if i can see anything forming
below0 said:
If your two weeks, from harvest, maybe you could squeeze in one more feeding with a good dose of PK to prevent more of it happening.
The yellow is probably just due to lack of N, and a natural state of dying.
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I agree about the N ... i was thinking about giviing it another feeding but i flushed about a week ago. I didn't realize this strain matured at a slow rate. I figured I'd be halfway to cloudy and amber by now .. but it's not ready yet.. another feeding ... ya think??? ah you're right . but i wanna keep an eye on the mold issue first. i think. I'm a bit perplexed. rep to both of ya's though for some piece of mind so far.
 
ataxia

ataxia

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ok ... well i haven't cut or fed yet .... my almost done L.A. Woman seems to be fine. However ... i've noticed a problem on some of my leaves, which goes along with my mold queston
My lower sets that are dying off on my other plants are yellowing. But. They also look like they have a dark greenish sort of spotting on the edge of the leaves .. i'm not sure if i've encountered this before ..
to me it looks like mold. My gf disagreed but. I looks like bread mold to me. Dark greenish that wasn't there the day before.
also these plants were just given a healthy dose of P for the first time.. meaning their first bloom food feeding
any suggestions?? or has anyone encountered this before??
 
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lieuser

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if its bud mold, you can simple tell by just pulling on the leaves attached to the bud, if they jus slide off with no resistance, that bud has mold. hope that helped a bit.
 
ataxia

ataxia

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lieuser said:
if its bud mold, you can simple tell by just pulling on the leaves attached to the bud, if they jus slide off with no resistance, that bud has mold. hope that helped a bit.
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yes that does help a bit.... i haven't had that happen yet. But if anyone cares to comment on my latest finding ....on the leaves . that'd be great. rep
 
ataxia

ataxia

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Robert Paulson said:
how high does the humidity get?

do you have an air intake? pack that thing full of charcoal and it will help drop it.
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at night it gets pretty high.. almost 70 to 80 at some points..
I actually chopped today.. it was mostly cloudy with few amber and few clear. too early i know. but those dying bud leaves and high humidity have me panicking ... i'm hoping to getting a 400 next week and get a proper ventilation system in there also ... so no more worries about humidity hopefully ...AND BETTER YIELD FINALLY. fuck these cfls...
they gave me some pretty dense tops though....
i'm planning on cooling the 400 with an 8 inch ..500 cfm duct fan.. i was going to only exhaust the air .. no intake for the first few weeks..
sound doable??? think i have a problem with heat with that much air venting a 400? also thinking i may need a cooltube but i think 500 cfm should take care of it right.
 
cowboylogic

cowboylogic

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You probaly be surprised at how littlle heat the 400 produces. And look into the Ceramic Metal Halides. I have been hearing some great reviews on them. No need to switch from MH to HPS for flower. Run the same bulb all the way through.
 
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