Had to harvest due to botryris, positive thoughts only thanks

hanimmal

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I live in Massachusetts and I still have 4 plants outside. I started harvesting some tops because of bud rot. western ma is cold and wet and I choose sativa hybrid clones from some random guy. why is this such a common problem outdoors? is it because most strains are now specifically bred in a very controlled indoor environment?
Because outside of beautiful California, people have had to hide their grows and so we are having to be the ones doing the work of figuring this shit out in our local environments. Some people out there know what they are doing and do it well, but outside everything is different even a few miles away from pests/shade/soil/runoff/wind on and on so doing what they did might not translate to success in your micro environment.
 

OneMike

Active Member
And buds will turn dark in the drying bins, after you have picked though and removed all the bad ones. I know you have to toss them, but it's still not easy for me. I used to grow only local sativa strains and never had bud rot.
My friend grew a bunch of cinex this year and that got hella moldy early and that is supposedly all or mostly sativa (i dont buy it). The cinex was the first strain of his that flowered tho and the buds got super huge and dense so by the time we got our first rain it was the perfect storm for bud rot. Super big / super dense buds and insect excrement seem to be the biggest factors for rot in most gardens in my area...freakn catapillars! Theyre easy to deal with but such a chore when u have to spray for everything else alrdy. Which reminds me, spray in morning before the sun hits em to avoid mold, i had a partner that swore by late evenings saying the humidity is worse than just stagnant water droplets but i dunno, guess thats for a new thread.
 
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