Bud rot! Need advice on next steps

[ltecato]

Strictly for background info, not an endorsement, but I found this "2018 Fungicide Guide for Burley and Dark Tobacco" published by the University of Kentucky. Had no idea that milk was considered an effective tool for fighting tobacco mosaic virus.

https://plantpathology.ca.uky.edu/files/ppfs-ag-t-08.pdf

It mentions mancozeb and I have used that on plants I grew indoors. Unfortunately I had to leave mine in Salinas when I was forced to relocate to LA County, and I can't find any local suppliers who have it in stock now. I consider it more of a preventive measure than a treatment for an active infection, anyway. Only used it on plants in vegetative stage.

 

[too larry]

Strictly for background info, not an endorsement, but I found this "2018 Fungicide Guide for Burley and Dark Tobacco" published by the University of Kentucky. Had no idea that milk was considered an effective tool for fighting tobacco mosaic virus.

https://plantpathology.ca.uky.edu/files/ppfs-ag-t-08.pdf

It mentions mancozeb and I have used that on plants I grew indoors. Unfortunately I had to leave mine in Salinas when I was forced to relocate to LA County, and I can't find any local suppliers who have it in stock now. I consider it more of a preventive measure than a treatment for an active infection, anyway. Only used it on plants in vegetative stage.

We had a member who was an expat living in Nam who did all sort of natural stuff. His handle was Vnsmkr. His old thread was Rooftop Grow in SE Asia, or something like that. Lots of good info on there.

 

[Aeroknow]

For what it's worth, I've been checking the weather sites for the past couple nights and it appears that the humidity has been spiking way up overnight here the past couple of days

Yeah, that sucks when that happens.

Did you have budrot problems during
your stay in Salinas? Because the fog can get that RH spiking bad around there. I grew indoors there for 10 yrs and that was always a problem.

I had a pretty remote outdoor spot in nearby Prunetucky back many moons ago too. Everything was looking killer and then morning fog rolled in for like a couple weeks straight, right when buds were fattening up every strain i had out was more of an indica than sativa. My bad.

 

[ltecato]

Yeah, that sucks when that happens.

Did you have budrot problems during
your stay in Salinas? Because the fog can get that RH spiking bad around there. I grew indoors there for 10 yrs and that was always a problem.

I had a pretty remote outdoor spot in nearby Prunetucky back many moons ago too. Everything was looking killer and then morning fog rolled in for like a couple weeks straight, right when buds were fattening up every strain i had out was more of an indica than sativa. My bad.

Well, when I moved to Salinas from Canoga Park the first thing I heard from a Monterey County grower was that the mold was a bitch and I should probably stick to sativa. But by then I was already growing Godfather, which is about as indica as you can get (GDP X LA Confidential). And I was growing it inside, but it still got some bud rot. Not too bad, just hit maybe 10 percent of my flowers. And then later I was SCROG-ing a crop of Fire and GDP and I fell down and broke my stupid arm and could barely keep up with watering the plants in my closet and just then powdery mildew hit. I was going to throw out the entire crop but my wife stepped in and helped me save most of it.

The strain I'm growing now is Godfather Purps, Godfather x Mendo Purps, so I'm beginning to suspect that something connected to the Godfather genes is weak when it comes to resisting botrytis. And I don't think it's GDP, so that makes LA Confidential the prime suspect. I happen to have some LA Confidential beans right now, so maybe I should got ahead and run them and see how they perform.