The Hexapus's Garden

Heya weaseley,, good Tuesday to ya,, i have an issue was wondering if you know anything about,,

Mold,, aargh,,

I have come across this fungal fiasco a couple of times very recently,, kindof annoying,, to say the least,,

This is where you come in,, i ran into the mold issue two times recently,, from indoor plants,, i can understand a bit getting mold on outside plants,, inside,,?? Aargh

However,, the two plants I have found mold on,, both of them were BLUEBERRIES.

Is this just a coincidence, ya figure? Or is there more to this story? Dunna ask me what more, no idea,, just curious if you have come across mold being more susceptible in some strains than others.

Obviously, I guess, bud density has something to do with it, moisture? Who knows whatelse


Thanks friend,, curious for your thots is all,, cheers fer now
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Hey Nivek. I'm a few posts behind in the the journal as I've been working a lot. A bit of workahol does help seem to help keep the demons of November about one and a half pitchfork lengths away, on a good day.
Yes- mold resistance varies very much by strain. Most breeders will list it along the strain details. I used to think that it was all related to bud density. There seems to be more at work though as some of my plants like the Malawi and Cheese and Golden Tiger have quite dense buds and haven't ever had any mold yet despite being in very dangerous situations (confined, untended in a corner with little or no air flow).
The Mama Thai is surprisingly fairly prone to mold. It gets large fluffy buds which get very wet and juicy inside when they get ripe. If I let the MT buds get big, and harvest late, there is a very high risk of bud rot starting to fester hidden in the center of the buds. Pineapple Chunk is another one that likes to get moldy.
The Blueberry was one of my more resistant strains though. It had large and medium-dense buds on it. But I only once had a tiny bit of mold of one BB plant.
When I have plants in the ripening stage- fans blasting air around are the main defence. I also have the dehumidifier which knocks the RH back a little.
I wonder if there isn't a connection here with your failed hempies which you mentioned in the post I haven't had time to reply to yet. I've never had anything rot in perlite- except I guess a couple clone cuttings that failed. But all cuttings rot when they fail. Or is it that they all fail when they rot?
Do you have a little digital doodad that monitors your RH and shows min/max? I would think your climate would be pretty dry right now though. :hmmmm: Sometimes during lights off- RH can get surprisingly high.
 
a thanks for the reply weaseley,, good stuff,, indeed.

humidity has never been an issue for me,, high humidity that is,, i struggle to get into the 40's,, though i have upped my humidity lately,, from the thirties to into the forties,, i dunno if rh is my problem,,iffin i even have one,, is some mold almost normal sometimes? hope not.

i did kick up both my flower fans a notch, maybe that will help,, certainly not an issue i am accustomed to, at all,, mold is yuk,, me no like. all moldy and stuff,, i will surely be trimming my buds a bit smaller for a bit,, i guess mold is an issue when the buds are a bit bigger, so, i guess that means me buds be bigger these days,, which is the case

cheers weaseley,, thanks agin friend
 
Hmmm yeah- I've never had low RH so don't know what to say except I think you probably shouldn't be getting mold. Maybe just a freak outbreak. Yes bigger buds are much more prone.
The stuff does like to grow and spread given a chance. Proactive measures should be able to stop its chances in your nice dry climate. Like I said already- good airflow works wonders.
 
nivek, where do these two plants that developed mold sit in your grow space? Could it be you have a dead air space there that simply needs a fan redirected? If they're close to harvest you can clip off the moldy parts (which you should have done anyway) and wash them with the addition of peroxide to the first bucket. That'll kill the mold so the cannabis isn't a waste. I'd probably add the peroxide to my next wash out of that space anyway. Those spores are tiny little things and very opportunistic.

Good luck with getting it under control. :battingeyelashes:
 
For some reason I decided to take a look at the grow tonight (5:30 am may be morning for you but its night for me) and I discovered this -

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The light on the left side is out. Traced it back to the ballast on that side. Nothing I do will make it turn on.
'Tomorrow' I will dig around and see what I have. I have several old magnetic ballasts. They're very scary. Maybe I can get one to work though while I order another ballast.
Funny story about this ballast. I got it about 7 years ago or more in one of my mail orders from an outfit I used to get most of my stuff from. The stoners in the warehouse mixed up my order almost every single time, over several years. I blamed it on 'stoners in the warehouse', because I couldn't think of a better explanation. The funny thing was it was usually to my advantage, but still generally annoying.

I wrote to them eventually and pointed out that possibly their warehouse guys were smoking a little bit too much of the good stuff because I kept getting all sorts of things I wasn't ordering. In my next order immediately after that, I got this 1000w Lumatek ballast.

I had not ordered a ballast- what I ordered was a 600w Lumatek bulb (which I never got). At that time the ballast was about $450, cause digital switchable/dimmable ballasts were hot new stuff. And the Lumatek bulb I'd ordered was $60. So you can imagine my uneasy surprise when I found it in the box. Was this a joke? Was I going to have to pay for this thing somehow? Was this a gift from the stoners?

I had to order the bulb again, considered returning the ballast but decided to keep it as compensation for all my troubles. Thanks stoners! :thanks:
Anyway- So it's dead I guess. :rip: I'll take it apart but don't expect to be able to fix anything.
I don't need a 1000w ballast anyway. I'm pretty sure I don't have the available wattage. I only ever set that one to 600w
 
Damn I could do with a warehouse like that Weasel. 7 years is a good run though even if it was paid for, the fact that it was cheap is the icing on the cake. Maybe the extra dark time might bring some interesting results. When I had that work going on a couple of grows ago the plants had to spend 3 days in black plastic bags and to be fair they grew some of the best sized bud I had, maybe it will give them an extra push :thumb:
 
Yeah those guys were funny. I was trying to remember some of their screw ups- but I'm too tired and stoned myself to recall most of them. Good thing I'm not working at a warehouse.
We will manage somehow. At least if I don't electrocute myself.
If I can't get an old ballast working- hmmmm.... I dont know. I'll be lucky to get a new one before Christmas.
 
I wish I could send you one of mine over mate but shipping would kill my family's Christmas. I've got 5 in storage although I'm tempted to try the 1600w again alongside the others for the extra resin these COB's don't seem to produce. I gave one away to someone on here that got broken into and needed help starting back up again but they were only in the same country, otherwise I'd have them on their way. Can't rig up a teleporter with all those parts you have lying around can you? :rofl:
 
No they're still in business and they've upgraded their website. Maybe upgraded their stoners too I'm not sure. I've been spreading the money elsewhere though.
 
Any signs of life with your chopped clones? I figure they are still stalled out but thought i would check
 
The completely stripped one is still exactly the same. The one with tiny leaves- maybe growing slightly??
I'll take a second look tonight and compare to my photo. The plant has only those teeny leaves to bring energy in, so it's bound to be a slow start, and there's always the danger of the root system rotting out while it is trying (I'm guessing). As for the bare stem, I get the impression that cannabis isn't like some other plants which will sprout up from a bare stump.


I took my ballast apart. Not much to work with here since everything inside has been covered in a layer of thick black goo. Everything looked fine to me, as far as I could tell looking at a bunch of black goo. I poked and prodded it a bit, plugged it back in, and it started up fine ;).

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Naturally I can't trust it, but I've put it back in the flowering room to see what happens and I'll try and scrape up money for another ballast.
 
Yeah it's where it touched. Yeah Tead I found no sign of any overheating at all or anything else suspicious. It looked quite pristine.
I'll go check it now and see if it's going....
 
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Everything is fine. Felt every possible connection and nothing overly warm or anything.
One of the two breakers on the ballast was tripped yesterday when I found the light off. Up to this point I hadn't really tuned into the breakers because they never tripped before ever since I've been using this brand of ballast, and I have three of them. I pushed the button back in but obviously the ballast still didn't work. I couldn't tell if the breaker is working properly
Not sure why there are two breakers on the ballast :hmmmm:

Anyway- wild stoned theory of the moment- maybe the breaker tripped for some 'random reason' and then after a lifetime of sitting there, wasn't functioning properly and failed to un-trip, until I jiggled things around????
Or something?
Never mind.... :lot-o-toke:

Short answer is, I fixed it, goddamnit. I'll send myself a bill in the morning.
 
I'll harvest that mangy Thai Stick as soon as I get a chance. I think it's done.

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Here is a picture of the leafier of the two stump regrowth experiments. The other one (with no leaves) looks the same as it did.



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Ten days ago when I started.


Shitty pictures for comparison, but I think that, if it's grown, it's been pretty microscopic. Just as healthy looking though.
 
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