Cleaning a plant in flower?

[TheMetal1]

Yeah... this dipshit I know :stoned: went to transplant on day 28 of flower and got soil/perlite ALL over the buds on one lady.

Any suggestions other than picking it all out? Tried using a new paint brush... but it's just tooooooo sticky :stoned: I'm not sure if spraying water would do it, but mold sucks so if that's the option... looks like dirty birdy for me :hippy:

How easy is it to have mold take over? Conditions are:
Day = 75-77f
Night = 60-65f (getting cooler fast though, could reach 55f)
RH = min. 30%/max. 60%

Thanks :rasta:

[Rusty Trichome]

Bummer. Doubtful that perlite is good to smoke.

Maybe wait till it is harvested and dried?
Maybe a hair drier and a small paint brush? (not the sponge type)
Maybe a light spray with ph'd water as you are gently brushing chunks away? (trichomes are not water soluable, so they should be fine...)

Perhaps a can of Red Bull, and a pair of tweaker-tongs? (tweezers)

[TheMetal1]

Perhaps a can of Red Bull, and a pair of tweaker-tongs? (tweezers)

Hahahaha that gave me my first laugh of the morning. Thanks :jointsmile:

Yeah... I think I'm kinda ass out here. I tried blowing air at it... fingers... paint brush... all of which mostly just jammed it deeper into the buds. Haha. I'm thinking of maybe using a vacuum.... DELICATELY. Not sure if that will pull some glands off though. Probably going to try some water in a spray bottle too. It's not so bad that it's going to be noticeable. I'm sure it's not the worst thing that's ever happened to a plant. Also, even if I am not able to get the perlite out... it should be easy enough to separate when breaking up the buds. Perlite is volcanic material too, so I wonder if it would be that bad to have little bits in there whereas it is pretty heat tolerant. Ahh well... I'll find a way :rasta:

Thanks again Rusty... I'm going to have to put you on retainer :hippy:
- p.s. The lady in "Another yellow fever scare," looks GRRRRRREAT!! I'm thinking low pH which led to Nitrogen lockout. Either way... looks like she's going to make it the distance.

- p.s.s. I'm the dipshit that I know :stoned:

[FlyGuyOU]

honestly i dont think perilite would be harmful, its just expanded lava rock, so i really doubt it would be affected by any flame put to your final product...

if it happened to me i would try not to mess with it too much until harvest time, then as you're trimming leaves and whatnot you can try and pick out the chunks. that or wait until it dries

[FlyGuyOU]

- p.s.s. I'm the dipshit that I know :stoned:
haha bump

[daihashi]

how dirty is it?

have you tried to vacuum it? Believe it or not it actually works.. make sure you use a hose attachment and try to be as gentle as possible.

I would not spray the buds with water, I think that would just make the situation worse. but then again Weed get's rained on out in the wild and it seems to do ok. shrug...

try the vacuum or dustbuster technique.

[TheMetal1]

Thanks FlyGuy and Dai :rasta:

Yeah... I tried the vacuum with an attachment. Just tooooo daggum sticky. Not going to bother with water. I'm not too concerned with it being "dirty." It's really like a few grains of soil/perlite on the bottoms of bud sites.

Quick question: Do calyxes open up and show a small green pod/growth before forming new pistils? These babies are swelling up everyday but I just noticed some calyxes opening up. Just looked again... think I got a fucking herm. Stupid Beaster bag beans.

[daihashi]

Thanks FlyGuy and Dai :rasta:

Yeah... I tried the vacuum with an attachment. Just tooooo daggum sticky. Not going to bother with water. I'm not too concerned with it being "dirty." It's really like a few grains of soil/perlite on the bottoms of bud sites.

Quick question: Do calyxes open up and show a small green pod/growth before forming new pistils? These babies are swelling up everyday but I just noticed some calyxes opening up. Just looked again... think I got a fucking herm. Stupid Beaster bag beans.

sometimes the pistils are too fine/small to see.. so yes, sometimes you will see calyxes form before you see the new pistils.

If that pod extends and drops (like a nutsack.. lol) over the next few days then yes you have a hermie. Just watch and wait for now :thumbsup:

[TheMetal1]

If that pod extends and drops (like a nutsack.. lol) over the next few days then yes you have a hermie. Just watch and wait for now :thumbsup:

Nice... thanks for that wording. It made it click to me. It's not like I'm going to get up to get a drink and come back to pollinated plants. I was seriously going to hack it up to save the others. Any general time frame from when they start forming... to when they are dangling nugget pouches?

I'll see if my phone can focus in on some of them. They seriously just showed up overnight. Possible pic in a minute.

Edit: hahaha yeah... I'm :stoned: You already wrote to be on the lookout in the next few days.

[daihashi]

Nice... thanks for that wording. It made it click to me. It's not like I'm going to get up to get a drink and come back to pollinated plants. I was seriously going to hack it up to save the others. Any general time frame from when they start forming... to when they are dangling nugget pouches?

I'll see if my phone can focus in on some of them. They seriously just showed up overnight. Possible pic in a minute.

Edit: hahaha yeah... I'm :stoned: You already wrote to be on the lookout in the next few days.

To be more precise, monitor it very closely over the next 1-3 days and if you want to be even safer I would suggest to you that you remove it from your grow environment all together, put it under an array of CFL lighting (I like to use 6 23 watt bulbs on a power strip) and isolate it from all the other plants.

This makes it much safer for you to just let it do it's own thing. If it funks up and a pollen sack breaks then no harm no foul.. as opposed to if you left it in your grow room then that bad boy would have busted a nut all over your ladies :hippy:

[TheMetal1]

Eh... no picture. Too small. I did cut a small section off for further examination. I notice that there are tiny green pod things all up in that biiiatch. Again, these may be the beginnings of protruding nanners... but could they be undeveloped seeds? I don't see how pollination could have happened, because I have been spending hours with them everyday and noticed nothing strange until now.

Either way... this was my "school of hard knocks." Not too concerned if I have to chop and start over. Got a Homebox on the way anyway, and this has been a stressful "nothing was set up at the beginning, space is wayyy too small, and it's been a constant money pit/frantic rush to find supplies" type of grow :rasta:

Side note: That piece I cut to inspect got quick dried and smoked. Trichs are just starting to get cloudy on the ladies... so I wasn't expecting to be floored... but the feeling of lighting some bud that has been nowhere else on Earth besides with you.... is a reeeeeaaaaaally good feeling. Fuck... maybe I am high. :stoned: Woah, yup... that's a 10-4. Holy head sizzle. I can tell when it's heady because my face starts to itch. Same thing happens when I get the drip drip pain meds in the hospital.

[daihashi]

Eh... no picture. Too small. I did cut a small section off for further examination. I notice that there are tiny green pod things all up in that biiiatch. Again, these may be the beginnings of protruding nanners... but could they be undeveloped seeds? I don't see how pollination could have happened, because I have been spending hours with them everyday and noticed nothing strange until now.

Either way... this was my "school of hard knocks." Not too concerned if I have to chop and start over. Got a Homebox on the way anyway, and this has been a stressful "nothing was set up at the beginning, space is wayyy too small, and it's been a constant money pit/frantic rush to find supplies" type of grow :rasta:

Side note: That piece I cut to inspect got quick dried and smoked. Trichs are just starting to get cloudy on the ladies... so I wasn't expecting to be floored... but the feeling of lighting some bud that has been nowhere else on Earth besides with you.... is a reeeeeaaaaaally good feeling. Fuck... maybe I am high. :stoned: Woah, yup... that's a 10-4. Holy head sizzle. I can tell when it's heady because my face starts to itch. Same thing happens when I get the drip drip pain meds in the hospital.

Could be nanners.. could be undeveloped seeds. It's not unusual for a pollen sack to get hidden among the calyxes and basically get swallowed by them so they are near invisible to you.. even if you spend everyday you could pass one of these suckers up.

A pollen sack will break and usually limit pollinaton to that one cola or bud site, however if you have good circulation in your room then it's possible for the pollen to travel.

Remember 1 grain of pollen = 1 seed

I say quarantine this plant and keep a close Eye on it.

I mean it will still give you bud, it might be seedy, but some bud is better than no bud.

I say keep it, but seperate it from all your other plants. :hippy:

[stinkyattic]

Dust Buster ftw! I use mine in the garden ALL the time!

(Cheap Black and DEcker battery-operated hand vacuum, $25 at Wal Mart, also effective against mite infestation)

[TheMetal1]

Thanks people's :hippy:

Now that I have you here... do calyxes open up to let the pistils come out? And just before this happens, does it look like a small green pod inside the split calyx?

I'm just asking because I was SURE there were potential nanners... but after a few days that same growth is just a calyx with pistils.

I guess I just imagined that the pistils came out, then the calyx would develop... is this backwards?

But yeah... definitely no nanners at the moment :rasta:

[daihashi]

Thanks people's :hippy:

Now that I have you here... do calyxes open up to let the pistils come out? And just before this happens, does it look like a small green pod inside the split calyx?

I'm just asking because I was SURE there were potential nanners... but after a few days that same growth is just a calyx with pistils.

I guess I just imagined that the pistils came out, then the calyx would develop... is this backwards?

But yeah... definitely no nanners at the moment :rasta:

The pistils are usually always there.. just sometimes too small to see. That's why you want to give them a few days.

Developing Nads and Calyxes look very similar until it extends from the stalk... then you know it's a male part.