I feel strongly that it is not thrip poop, or an other bug product. I chopped that plant last night and gave the rest of the girls another good look over. I would think if it was some sort of pest there would be some other signs. I have seen no creepy crawlies on the plants or in the pots. I would also really think my inert media and use of steralizing agents would make it hard for them to hide in the pots. I'll look them over again real good this afternoon when the lights come on. From the size of a few of the spots I would be inclined to think if it was bugs they would have to be huge. There were also only a few droplets. Now you guys have me worried though. I looked the plants over pretty well, but I wasn't "looking" for bugs specifically so maybe I missed something.
Edit: I am feeling a bit better I just remembered, that when I was snipping the buds off the stems to trim them, the stems were slightly oozing this same liquid which I felt reafirmed my beliefs on it. Another thought was that if this was "bug juice" then those bugs must be filled with sugar, cus when I heated this liquid it reacted just like a simple syrup solution.
I know the temps have been swinging more then they should with the lights out with it being so cold. I turned my heater up yesterday so hopfully the lights out temp won't drop as much. Then it was in the teens the lights out temp was only dropping about 7-10 degrees. I'm afraid since its been below -10 the last 2 days temps have been swinging more. I'm actually gonna go down now and check the temp and see how it looks. But what I was thinking is perhaps the "sap" had "flowed" because of the temp swings. I know in maple and evergreen trees that the temperatures strongly impact the sap flow through the plants. The sap simply being the sugar rich life juice of the tree....that being said this might be some really nice sweet bud if its got so much spare sugar it can ooze it out
. But seriously it was some of the nicest looking critical jack yet. It had turned a bit purple (prolly from low temps), and the CJ stink was just pouring off it. I'll see if the wife uploaded the pics she took. Yep here ya go. A couple pics of the Critical jack from last night which has the sap on it, and the sap its self.
heres that sap. I wish it was some nice qwiso that looked like this instead
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