Plant is drying out top to bottom

[avillax]

So this is an Ortega Indica, one day the top leaves started to curled up, then dry out. It might have been due to heat issues, these heat issues only lasted about 3 days and that's when this happened, this is my only regular, the others were auto and are absolutely OK.



I was using very little nutes, in fact for the last 2 weeks I haven't been using nutes at all. It started to have some new growth in a few leafs among the top but then they are drying out too. As you can see, the bottom buds and leaves are fine.

Should I cut the entire top cola or leave until harvest? Whatever has dried out still works for smoking? Looking through 40x lupe those trichomes are still transparent and don't know if they will turn amber, will they?, it has still like 2 weeks to harvest, trichomes not ready yet.

What to do?

 

[8thGenFarmer]

Pull the bud open, look in towards the stem. Is the stem a healthy color? Any fuzz? Soft brown?

Normally it's a disease or trauma to the main stem to take down a cola like that.

I'd cut it below the damage, separate it into pieces save what you can whatever is moldy toss.

 

[avillax]

I just looked at the stem and it looks fine.

Does this have to do with nutrient deficiency? I haven't fed nutes for more than 2 weeks since everything was looking good but I realized I still needed a long time for harvest, in other words, I stopped feeding nutes long before harvest.

Should I cut this whole cola?

 

[8thGenFarmer]

I just looked at the stem and it looks fine.

Does this have to do with nutrient deficiency? I haven't fed nutes for more than 2 weeks since everything was looking good but I realized I still needed a long time for harvest, in other words, I stopped feeding nutes long before harvest.

Should I cut this whole cola?

I would, if it's only two early I'd pull it. Maybe wait a day but if it's getting worse in there why keep pushing that part. Let the plant send rest of its energy to the remaining buds.

When the plant is dying off a over a certain point it's generally a disease or a trauma. Too see something so pronounced wouldn't be like a deficiency I've seen, and I would expect that to be present over the whole plant, not concentrated.

 

[abe supercro]

You have to really dig into the bud, at every node region. There is a very good chance Botrytis is in that main cola somewhere, the densest region! In that case remove entire cola.

even if it's something else, remove ea dead leaf at the petiol base before they affect the buds. The tip looks over tho... Heat and Humidity, how were they recently? Let us know if you discover gunk inside between the bud marbles with thorough inspection.

 

[avillax]

Yes, I removed the main cola, it was completely crispy and upon closer inspection it had dried stem parts and a fungus, so I removed the whole cola and some side buds that seem to be getting affected. I only left buds that look healthy. It still needs 2-3 weeks to harvest. My other 2 small autos seem unafected and was planning on harvesting them down in about 5 days.

 

[avillax]

So what do you think, does it have any chance now to make it to harvest?

 

[abe supercro]

good eye. hopefully you salvage plenty from the remaining healthy section. autos shld be fine. get those spores far away now

 

[avillax]

How far, can they be on the same room with this plant? (5 days to harvest)

 

[abe supercro]

How far, can they be on the same room with this plant? (5 days to harvest)

The lower section of the plant may be fine now. I was only referring to the removed section. throw most of it away or freeze any potential spore affected material, before u remove it from building.

 

[avillax]

I did. Thanks.