Two healthy colas and two weird ones?

Hey all,

I’ve recently noticed that two of the main colas on my plant are relatively dense and have healthy leaves, while the other two main colas are much more open in structure, with clawed and curled sugar leaves and lots of stems.


My outdoor bag seed grow is around day 43 of flower by my estimate. It is in a 20gal smartpot with a mix of FFOF and Happy Frog at about 4:1 OF:HF. It was planted on May 30 and transplanted to the fabric Jun 27, having grown barely at all before then.

I’ve fed it aloe flakes, silica, and occasional Fox Farm Big Bloom since then, and it’s been top dressed with 1/4c alfalfa and kelp meal once, 1/4c kelp and neem meal once, and 2tbsp ground malted barley twice, with the meals going in at the end of July/August and the barley midway through each month.

It lives on my porch, around a corner from the porch lights and in total darkness, but there have been times it’s been left where they can shine on it from ~30ft away. But, if the plant had re-vegged, wouldn’t the changes be systemic? I don’t understand why some colas are developing entirely differently from the others.

Good colas:



Weird colas:

You need a hobby so you stop staring at your plants

You have webbing on 3rd and 4th pics so hope it is a garden spider and not mites

Looks like too much N on the last 2, these are the same plant but different buds?

Spidermites

lime73 said:

Spidermites

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It would explain the stress and bud stretching. I always see spaced out buds in plants that have powdery mildew or mites, I think the plant does it to stop bud on bud contact and slow the growth of the pest/disease.

Edit: too much N could do the same thing, and it doesn't look like severe mite bites.

Herb & Suds said:

You need a hobby so you stop staring at your plants

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Listen man I picked up this and the saxophone during quarantine to avoid going insane. It didn’t work, I’m fully insane now and I just play the sax for my plants. Seriously though am I just being a worrier? The colas just look so intensely different that it definitely has me concerned.

spliffendz said:

You have webbing on 3rd and 4th pics so hope it is a garden spider and not mites

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I have tons of little spiders all over the plant, I haven’t seen any of the denser type of webs that usually indicate spider mites. The weird buds and leaves do seem like they could be pest-related though. I have pure neem which I know I shouldn’t put on the buds, but I also have some Mammoth Canna-Control which is corn and thyme oil primarily. Would you recommend a foliar of that stuff?

The Gram Reaper said:

Looks like too much N on the last 2, these are the same plant but different buds?

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Same plant. Of the four main stalks it has coming from the two nodes at the bottom, one cola from each node is regular and one is weird.

Sounds like too much N, the dominant colas took the brunt of it I am guessing.

The Gram Reaper said:

It would explain the stress and bud stretching. I always see spaced out buds in plants that have powdery mildew or mites, I think the plant does it to stop bud on bud contact and slow the growth of the pest/disease.

Edit: too much N could do the same thing, and it doesn't look like severe mite bites.

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It is worth mentioning that I did fight PM on this plant for a couple weeks last month, but I haven’t seen any since.

Edit: I’ll just keep giving her plain water and see what happens. Since this plant went into the pot late in the season and isn’t nearly big enough to take advantage of all that soil, maybe my top dresses have been overzealous and now the plant has veg amounts of N during mid-late flower. Thanks for brainstorming with me here