Problem with Dry Crispy Buds still on plant

This is my first grow and first post here.

So I am somewhere around 12 weeks into flowering. The reason its that long is because I am waiting for the trichomes to amber.

The fan leaves were all dying and the sugar leaves were drying and curling as well. I decided to use just water the last month (It originally started as a flush at around 8 weeks because I thought that was average flowering time but never went back to nutrients.

I am reluctant to call this bud rot because there is no signs of it on the inside. Just the outsides of the buds are crispy. But I want to make sure I'm not going to smoke bud rot lol.

The plant still smells great. It looks more like its dying because the sugar leaves are all brownish yellow and curling/dry. Its starting from the outside and working its way inside the brown/drying

I will post pictures can someone please help??!?!?!

THANKS

Sounds like you need to pull it. You can
Over flower a plant and that's what looks like is happening.

some strains the trics dont amber

Thanks for the quick response guys.

I have been using straight water for the last 4-5 weeks so maybe its (something) deficient. Those pictures are of the top bud but the rest of the plant basically looks the same. It starts at the sugar leaves with yellowing/drying and moves to the bud where its crispy/dry and darker than the inside of the plant.

Its still smokeable though right? Prob just wont get as high or taste as good as it should.

If you flushed it I bet it'll taste good still. It's deteriorating is what's happening.

So I should have harvested earlier even though there are very little amber trichomes?

Bud rot will make the tips soft and crumbly. Your buds look overripe.

Well the sugar leave tips are dry and crumbly. As well as the darker parts of the buds which just crumble away

jdankman said:

Well the sugar leave tips are dry and crumbly. As well as the darker parts of the buds which just crumble away

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Hmm... could go either way. I'd make butter with it.

My plant is doing the same thing

I was thinking nute burn