*HELP IDENTIFY POWDER MILDEW*
I just harvested, dried, and are in the process of trimming. As a medical patient for asthma, I am conserned with mold and mildew.
*Reasons to believe infection of Powder mildew*
I noticed when I break the bud from the main branch to trim, there is a fine puff of white powder that whisps off. This also occurs when I pull bigger feeder leaves off the bud, and break open bigger buds. It's very fine, and lighter than trichomes. The powder doesn't fall to the tray, but gets whisped into the air. When handling the branches to trim off the buds, my hands feel powdery after time - not sticky like normal. The secondary branches with buds attached have a fine light brown hue to them, almost as if the branch was dropped and got a little dust on them. And, to boot - after trimming for a couple days, 10 hours a day, I developed a horrible chest cold, and experienced the worst asthma attack I've ever had - I'm 27 and have had asthma since the 3rd grade - in which my albuterol inhaler did not help, which has never happened either. Everyone trimming ended up with some kind of conjestion, although the host of the house was sick two weeks before we started trimming.
Our grow was outdoors, and in a region with a relatively wet fall season. The plants in question were chopped while it was raining and taken straight into a shop to hang. Plants were still wet, and no dehumidifier was used, but oscillating fans were used. It rained for almost 2 weeks, and the tempature didn't get above 50F the majority of the time, making dry time 2 weeks+.
One plant did get cut before the heavy rains, hung by itself in a large shop for the majority of the time, and doesn't seem to be affected.
*Reasons to believe no mold is present*
The shop used to dry wasn't cleaned to a T - some say the stuff on the branches could be dust. The buds look just fine when trimmed up - no crumbling, no discoloration of the inner stem (that I know of), no spiderweb-looking stuff on the bottom of buds. It smells nice, even after being jarred and properly ventilated. Leaves did not have signs of powder mildew. As said earlier, my cold, as well as everyone else's, could have been contributed to the host's recent cold bug. There was very little grey mold we had to cut off while still growing, and little obvious mold to trim off while trimming.
I immediatly stopped trimming after the night of the horrible asthma attack, and noticed the puff of powder the next day after looking closer under a brighter light. Friends are still adament about my "paranoia", and I really don't want to have to turn my whole crop into bubble hash.
Can anyone help? Also, if it is powder mildew, what else can I do with the buds, besides bubble(water) hash?
Thank you!
I just harvested, dried, and are in the process of trimming. As a medical patient for asthma, I am conserned with mold and mildew.
*Reasons to believe infection of Powder mildew*
I noticed when I break the bud from the main branch to trim, there is a fine puff of white powder that whisps off. This also occurs when I pull bigger feeder leaves off the bud, and break open bigger buds. It's very fine, and lighter than trichomes. The powder doesn't fall to the tray, but gets whisped into the air. When handling the branches to trim off the buds, my hands feel powdery after time - not sticky like normal. The secondary branches with buds attached have a fine light brown hue to them, almost as if the branch was dropped and got a little dust on them. And, to boot - after trimming for a couple days, 10 hours a day, I developed a horrible chest cold, and experienced the worst asthma attack I've ever had - I'm 27 and have had asthma since the 3rd grade - in which my albuterol inhaler did not help, which has never happened either. Everyone trimming ended up with some kind of conjestion, although the host of the house was sick two weeks before we started trimming.
Our grow was outdoors, and in a region with a relatively wet fall season. The plants in question were chopped while it was raining and taken straight into a shop to hang. Plants were still wet, and no dehumidifier was used, but oscillating fans were used. It rained for almost 2 weeks, and the tempature didn't get above 50F the majority of the time, making dry time 2 weeks+.
One plant did get cut before the heavy rains, hung by itself in a large shop for the majority of the time, and doesn't seem to be affected.
*Reasons to believe no mold is present*
The shop used to dry wasn't cleaned to a T - some say the stuff on the branches could be dust. The buds look just fine when trimmed up - no crumbling, no discoloration of the inner stem (that I know of), no spiderweb-looking stuff on the bottom of buds. It smells nice, even after being jarred and properly ventilated. Leaves did not have signs of powder mildew. As said earlier, my cold, as well as everyone else's, could have been contributed to the host's recent cold bug. There was very little grey mold we had to cut off while still growing, and little obvious mold to trim off while trimming.
I immediatly stopped trimming after the night of the horrible asthma attack, and noticed the puff of powder the next day after looking closer under a brighter light. Friends are still adament about my "paranoia", and I really don't want to have to turn my whole crop into bubble hash.
Can anyone help? Also, if it is powder mildew, what else can I do with the buds, besides bubble(water) hash?
Thank you!
That can never be a good thing.
