@doober That’s just new growth nothing to worry about my friend happy growing looking good
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theres a ton if branch tops in there i hope it flowers well, i got a second net today in hopes the buds will be big enough to need the support 
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Poked around and found some mold development on the fan leaves under the trellis, I removed the leaves as best as I could see and am working to get my humidity down to 45-50% should I treat the plants over this
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I don’t really have much experience with mold. One of the benafits to growing in the desert. I would definitely make sure you have good air flow through the canopy. I like having a fan above and below to keep the air moving through the whole plant. More than that I can’t really say.
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@Gl1tch hit it on the nose good airflow @doober that will get rid of mold you may have to trim underneath your girls to get good air flow happy growing my friend
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That’s basically what I did I smoked a good joint and thought on it for a while, the mold was my fault,
I moved one clip on fan down low to blow under the canopy, double checked the settings, all my circulation was going off with the lights so I fixed that. Shaved their legs a bit for some better airflow and went through the canopy and plucked any fan leaves that were clogging up the air or touching and over lapping, so my airflow has gone up 10 fold, and circulation runs 24/7 like I thought it was, and dropping the king room to 40% keeps my tent in the 50-52% range.
I got a bottle of fungicide/insecticide from the hydro supply store if that white moldy devil shows back up I’m gonna treat them for it but I feel good about it. Nothing odd this morning on them, they were bone dry and I fed them again, it’s weird having to water so much more to get a little run off it was also odd to defoliate I think they’re a little stressed from it but fairly happy overall
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That will work @doober you can use peroxide and milk to get rid of to but I’ve never tried it myself good airflow should take care of the issue my friend happy growing
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I’m with @Reed71 I try to make fungicides/ and pesticides the absolute last resort. Most of the time issues can be solved with simple changes rather than chemical bandaids. (Which usually kill good stuff to) There are some times when you just have to go nuclear and start again though It looks like you did a good job of restraining yourself while pruning. It can be easy to go crazy pruning. It looks like you went hard but not crazy, they will take off again after a day so.
That’s the glory and curse of soilless media. I used to water my coco grows up to 6 times a day. The growth rate is pretty cool though.
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Yeah I’m gonna save the nuclear option for my absolute last resort and try to make it so inhospitable for mold it just doesn’t come back😂
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I’d say you could dial up your humidity some, but Idk in your environment. Like I said, mold just doesn’t really exist out here. I get can get away with veg at 75% and flowering at 60% without much issue. I don’t think I’ve ever had mold or rot.
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i may let it bump up a little bit and keep a watch on things, maybe let it climb back up slowly and watch it close
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I’m still finding spots here and there of WPM but this morning I found a tiny spot above the canopy so there’s probably more I just am not seeing, I’m going to try the flying skull products to try and wipe it out I read that if I’m having WPM issues then bud rot is waiting for me further into flower getting a little worried 
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You could probably bend some of those branches toward the outside to open up the middle a little it does look like it’s getting a little crowded. Heck at this point you could even super crop if you wanted to since your still in veg. It’s gotta be an airflow issue if your still keeping RH down. Don’t forget to hit your tent and equipment with fungicide also. Spores get everywhere.
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well today is the 7th day of 12/12 I could reveg until I get it under control, and defoliate the canopy more too, but I’m struggling to keep the humidity under 60-62% the dehumidifier in the room is a smaller 30 pint dehuey I may look into getting a 50 pint, I’m running the smaller one 24/7 down to 35% and the room is staying in the low to mid 40 RH but my tent is 55-65 with the 6 inch exhaust fan wide open and all my vent flaps open, I have my clip on fans spread out to one under that canopy and one blowing up top both wide open, its almost hurricane winds in there but I have a tall slender tower fan I can add that would blow through the whole tent, down low, middle and up high.
I don’t know how to proceed honestly. I don’t know if its a humidity issue since I can barely manage 60% or less RH or if its gone systemic somehow or how to clean the tent since the plants are pretty tangled in the net pretty good, when the lights go out tonight I’m going to use this fungicide/insecticide combo and see how it goes, if y’all think a more powerful dehuey is the answer or worth investing in I can upgrade to one that can pull more water from the air, I appreciate the help so much but drying the room out more and controlling it with the environment just isn’t keeping it at bay, the lung room is clean but I live in the humid south east and everything molds down here
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I have yet to find a dehumidifier that keeps up with a room full of plants. I’m not saying it doesn’t exist I’ just haven’t found one yet. It may be time to consider sacrificing a plant or two and or removing/cutting net to make space. If you can’t keep the mold at bay now, then there probably isn’t much hope for flower. Risk gets higher due to dense buds, the plants will get more crowded, and transpire more.
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I could cut the net and space them out, add a third fan and treat with fungicide I mean I honestly never ever expected to make it this far but y’all got me here tell me how you’d do it if this was in your house my man I’m totally lost unfortunately
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I think I’d pull the net(cut it if necessary). Then keep the best 2 and play with the other 2 as house plants in a window maybe do an experiment on them or just toss them. Hopefully that would give you enough room to do a little LST and open the plants up a little. Maybe omit the net for now so you can pull them out for inspection and further treatment if needed.
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That’s a solid plan and I probably will do that, just on the off chance I could keep all 4 I did another defoliation and I went pretty hard, hopefully not too much I really just got all the big older darker ones and any that were touching or over lapping, I found a few that were and there was wetness between them so there’s the problem I bet, the leaves have been sweating like crazy and it wasn’t getting blown around in the fans, maybe I have my fans setup all wrong but I added the tall fan into the tent and tinkered with my whole setup and I guess it was the bigger fan, it dropped my humidity down 12-15% enough to close off a vent entirely, I’m running at 78-80 and 51% humidity but I was also able to set my dehuey at 50% and it’s been kicked off for almost an hour and it never shuts off, I think the canopy was transpiring so much moisture it was throwing off my readings, or maybe the third fan and defoliation was the ticket or maybe the clip on fans aren’t strong enough idk.
I’m going to treat them with fungicide at lights off and if they stay healthy great, if they don’t I’ll cull two and keep two, here we are after the haircut
I cut a lot back and found a little mold/mildew in there but the combo of haircut and a much better fan sorted out some of the issue I think.
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Keep an eye on it. You can defoliate but the stress is additive if you do it too often and you are limiting the plant’s ability to take in light energy and transpire(Huge part of how a plant gets water and nutes from the roots to the canopy. less water out=less water in). You also have a few weeks of serious growth left so the leaves will grow back and fill in quickly, too quickly to control with a healthy pruning schedule. You would probably end up with better quality and possibly quantity with 2 good plants than 4 over stressed or worse moldy plants.
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