Hey buckshot your plants look great...love the colours in the last pics
Glad your teepee held up...it was super windy and rainy last night here too
I have not grown outside so I have no experience with bud rot on ganja but I have treated hundreds of spruce trees for botrytis (the exact same strain of the fungal disease that affects certain species of spruce is the same strain that affects marijuana). I am against the use of fungicides, so what I have found after studying the disease and working with infected plants for over 20 years is this:
Botrytis fungal spores live in dead plant matter (leaves, stems) ...the spores are most commonly transferred to the plant by rain splashing the spores up onto the plant from the ground...the fungus enters the plant through injuries (pruning cuts, broken branches,insect feeding injury ect)...the fungus thrives in a cool damp environment with poor air circulation
I have found the best methods of non chemical control are:
-removal of dead leaves, thinning of plant for increased air circulation (the pruning must be done before the cool weather arrives...if possible... so the plant has time to compartmentalize the pruning injury before the fungal spores are abundant)
-removal of any plant debri under or around the plants (including nearby leaf, brush, compost piles)
-plants are located in an area with adequate air circulation
This is probably information you all ready know but if anything I shared helps it would make me happy
Beautiful plants...congratulations on your recent harvests
Good weed to you buckshot