Help! Is this meldew or crystallized trichomes or something?

Jappie1999 · August 20, 2021, 1:41pm

PurpNGold74 · August 20, 2021, 1:53pm

Sucks to say. Sorry but that looks like WPM.

I Believe a budwash can help with that. Jorge made it popular but my friend @Arrow tweaked the recipe a tad. Let me see if I can find/link the post

Arrow's labour of love

Yes … You do wash some thrichs of, and yes, that would be the sticky stuff on the side of the bucket …I’ll get to this in a moment …

I’ll handle the items from the top, some are not in screen…

The first bucket you’ll see me add the 3% h2o2 to the water at 250ml /19 l of water…this water is slightly less than Luke warm …

Behind my back, out of pic, is a 10 l bucket, filled half way with a slightly soapy water, a metal grid, and a big sponge …this water is as hot as I can handle …

Bucket 3, you’ll see has an orange colour to it …that is 10 l of luke warm water, mixed in is 125 ml pure lemon juice and 125 ml bicarbonate of soda …( when you mix this, add either one in the water first and add a little at a time, of the other, while stirring, this mix will fizz )…

The middle white bucket has 10 l luke warm water…

The last white bucket has 10 l cold water …

The watering container I used to get the water to all the stations …

The sieve you use to collect plant matter ( trimmed leaves and pistils ) that come loose in the washing process …

Here goes … Cut branches and insert into station 1 ( h2o2 station ) slightly agitate, moving back and fro …use the metal grid to trap all the branches under the water, DO NOT take them out, you can leave them there for up to 5 min …Take the big sponge and skim the surface layer of the water, constantly rinsing in the warm soapy water…I call this the mould stage, that is why you don’t take the branches out immediately, cause the mould will just settle back on your buds …and please don’t anybody tell me you don’t have mould, we ALL have mould, it is omnipresent …after properly skimming the surface of that station, can you remove to the lemon station, slightly agitate the branches again, and then to the rinse stations, taking care to do a proper job along the way …shake of excess water and hang to dry as per your norm …

Trichs WILL come off in the wash, but it is of no concern…to understand this, you need to understand the different thrichs and the structure of the bud …

1 – Bulbous
This trichome type is the tiniest of the three at just 10-15 microns. For the record, the width of human hair is approximately 40 microns. Bulbous trichomes appear on the surface of the whole plant.

2 – Capitate Sessile
These trichomes are slightly larger than their bulbous counterpart, and there are far more of them on the plant. Capitate sessile trichomes consist of a head and a stalk.

3 – Capitate Stalked
These trichomes are the largest and most abundant of the trio. Some of them achieve a size of up to 100 microns. This means it isn’t difficult to see them with the naked eye. Its waxy gland head is the main location for terpene and cannabinoid synthesis."

In your wash you will lose some old, amber and bulb heads …but the majority of the trichs are internal to the bud, so your surface wash will mostly have no effect on potency …take note however that hash plants are specifically bred to have more bulbous thrichs, obviously, so you will lose more in the wash …

You will be hard pressed to find all this in one place…so I hope somebody learns something …

Flipdawg08 · August 20, 2021, 1:55pm

I agree with @PurpNGold74 that looks like WPM

Jappie1999 · August 20, 2021, 2:10pm

It is only on the buds tho, and nothing on the leaves. I dont know if that matters but I’ve read somewhere that it starts at the leaves

PurpNGold74 · August 20, 2021, 2:14pm

Nope. Mildews and molds start in dadk humid places. The spores may land on leaves first but we dont notice spores. To… propagate (sorry no better word) they need dark and humid. And guess what the inside of a bud is…. To test the theory. Rip open one of the buds u clipped for pics. Itll be contaminated as well.

A Thorough bud wash will remove the WPM problem. But just make sure u hang in front of a fan and dry properly

Arrow · August 21, 2021, 7:37am

sorry…thats pm…i, personally would terminate the grow and start afresh…but thats me…

kellydans · August 21, 2021, 9:37am

Welcome to the community !

Dforce · August 21, 2021, 11:43am

Yes welcome, and sorry to say it’s mildew, and I would never wash anything like that, Not worth the risk, research mildew. just my opinion. Been down that road before and have disposed of plenty in the burn barrel, an start over.

Lacewing · August 21, 2021, 12:48pm

Am I the only person who thought there was pictures of planet earth mixed in on accident ? Lol

Those pics from the loupe at first glance

PurpNGold74 · August 21, 2021, 4:42pm

So the wash doesnt fix WPM?

Arrow · August 21, 2021, 6:55pm

it will remove/kill pm on the surface of the plant/bud…everything that is in contact with your solution/s …pm that is internal to the bud will still be there, that is why its recommended to leave the bud for up to 5 min in the solution, to ensure the best possible penetration of said solution/s…the only way to “fix” pm is to not let it get a foothold on your plant, by maintaining a high alkaline surface on the plant…

WesternMass420 · August 31, 2021, 11:20pm

I’d throw it in the trash.