Hi,
The crux of this question is that I'm a first time grower and the weather got weird in New England at the end of August this year. Cold overnights, lots of AM dew. and I ended up cutting off some moldy buds and moving my operation inside my greenhouse earlier than I anticipated.
So I was worried about my mold issues although i'm doing the best i can over here. I have 3 harvested a little earlier than I wanted, one basically total loss due to botrytis/rot, and 3 still going in a climate controlled area with low RH and good air circ. While i was trimming the first 3, i decided to buy a nice jeweler's loupe and a USB microscope for inspections. It is pretty cool, only 30 bucks from "Plugable" (bought on amazon). But now that I can see more, I think I'm even more torn/driving myself nuts. My buddy that grows in Cali told me "if you can't see it with your eyes don't worry about it" but the internet says different. So here are my pics from these trimming sessions. Would anyone be willing to flip through and give their opinions? Here are my thoughts on each gallery based on what I have seen online:
Critical Cheese:
Granddaddy Purple:
Black D.O.G:
The crux of this question is that I'm a first time grower and the weather got weird in New England at the end of August this year. Cold overnights, lots of AM dew. and I ended up cutting off some moldy buds and moving my operation inside my greenhouse earlier than I anticipated.
So I was worried about my mold issues although i'm doing the best i can over here. I have 3 harvested a little earlier than I wanted, one basically total loss due to botrytis/rot, and 3 still going in a climate controlled area with low RH and good air circ. While i was trimming the first 3, i decided to buy a nice jeweler's loupe and a USB microscope for inspections. It is pretty cool, only 30 bucks from "Plugable" (bought on amazon). But now that I can see more, I think I'm even more torn/driving myself nuts. My buddy that grows in Cali told me "if you can't see it with your eyes don't worry about it" but the internet says different. So here are my pics from these trimming sessions. Would anyone be willing to flip through and give their opinions? Here are my thoughts on each gallery based on what I have seen online:
- The Critical Cheese and Granddaddy Purple looked overall decent. You'll see a couple pics in those folders that are definitely mold, the white hairy kind. I pitched those buds - sadly it was always on the biggest ones that I found it. Those basically always look like a little hairball or thin white/transulcent hairs connecting trichs. I'm reasonably confident of my curating on those ones, if there is any mold on what I kept it's probably super minimal.
- The Black D.O.G. is where I'm having my biggest conflict. Basically it's super frosty and probably would end up being my strongest buds so far. But there are spots that I just can't decide on. And if I decide they are mold, then basically the whole harvest is junk because some version of them exists on most buds. There are a couple of spots that look like thinner, maybe more opaque hairs growing on leaves, pistils, and stems. But unfortunately it's tough to tell because as far as I can tell the trichs/resins grow thinner and pointier in these areas as well so I'm never quite sure. I don't see a lot of the "order of magnitude thinner extrusion connecting to another part of the plant" that typifies that type of mold. There are also some spots (on pistils especially) where it looks like the resin melted into itself. Maybe the weird weather or something could have caused this and now it's extra frosty looking? Or maybe it's mold and I'm just lying to myself so I don't have to throw out the whole plant's harvest. I know there are also ways in which strains look different from eachother so some of this could be normal. Just not sure.
Critical Cheese:
Granddaddy Purple:
Black D.O.G:
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