Bud/Stem issue on AK - 47...worried...PICS!!!

Hello friends!

So my beautiful AK-47 girl, Bertha...has been absolutely thriving this summer! She is outside, in a 30gal grow bag with Vital Earth Soil, started up with some Happy Frog Jump Start, and the only ferts I have used on her are Super Thrive and BioBizz - Bio Grow. She just last week started the BioBizz-Bio Bloom! She has been large, beautiful, healthy and flowering like a fiend with no problems!

Today during my daily inspection I noticed a problem in two areas. Browning of the stem and destruction of the surrounding flower. I have attached pictures of both sites as well as an overall picture of how beautiful she is! In both places its just a small section of the stem with the rest of the branch, leaves, and flowers beautiful and healthy. Is it perhaps a mold? Fungus? Pest? Totally unsure and never encountered this...any help is much and incredibly appreciated!!

Peace and love my friends :)
 

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Nullis

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Looks a hell of a lot like fusarium (a horrible fungus), including those irregular dark spots I notice on that leaf. Pretty nasty stuff, if this is what it is I am very sorry.
Some beneficial bacteria and fungi strains help keep it at bay and improve resistance, but there could be no hope for plants already infected. Remove the infected areas, spray them and ALL utensils with a hydrogen peroxide solution. If it is fusarium you need to keep the spores contained as best you can and destroy what you can of it.
 
Oh shit son...hahaha.

I got the idea of some sort of mold/fungus. I'm not the worlds best green thumb, but I grew up in a mountain/farm community and also have a decent amount of common sense and knowledge heh. I did remove the affected areas (( although on one that might mean the entire stem... :/ )). Great advice for the utensils. I do use tea/tablespoon measurers and a 2gal watering bucket. I will make sure to clean/sterilize them as well. Do you have any advice as for beneficial fungi/bacteria to pick up?

Sad to think there may be no hope....she has done so damn amazingly well thus far and shows a promising harvest! :(
 

Nullis

Moderator
This is according to my Healthy Marijuana Plant Handbook: Streptomyces griseoviridis, Bacillus pumilus, Bacillus subtilis and gliocladium which is the fungus.

If you have multiple plants and it seems like there is one affected much more than the others you might be better off destroying that one entirely. Don't plant there next year for sure.
 
Well this is just one plant of 4 different plants I am growing in my yard (each a different strain).

The spots were small. The plant still looks great. I removed the affected areas and I am going to keep goin with the girls until something tells me to stop! However, I am now about to go through your handbook! I hope that its not a huge problem yet...
 

zigzagzak

Active Member
I'm sure that my plants have this same problem. Does anyone know of anything that can cure it? Or stop it from spreading?
 
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