Hi All,
I grow outdoors in my back yard and always have the issue of Botrytis in my plants due to growing by the ocean (Los Angeles) and the humidity is high. I will be harvesting early for my strain due to this and wanted to get your opinion on whether you thought a flush is really necessary or if I should just go ahead and harvest a day after feeding with nutrients. I have been cutting the bud rot out pretty successfully and plan on doing a wash after i have cut all that i can find out prior to drying.
On that note, i also wanted to see if you had to “pre-dry” the branches after you wash them and before they go in the drying tent or if i could just hang them right after i wash them in my dry tent and start the drying process. Any tips or advise for washing is great! It will be my first grow with a wash so i want to make sure i dont ruin what i have left after trimming the bud rot out.
Thanks!!!
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Welcome! You should always flush if possible. For you, I don’t think it is. If you already have bud rot, I don’t think you have 2-3 weeks to flush. That stuff spreads like wildfire. I’d chop it immediately. I have no experience with washing, so others will be able to assist you with that and may have a different opinion and other options to help that I am unaware of. Best of luck. Keep growing! 
Yea I am in the same school of thought for harvesting early. All of the trichs are milky so that is at least good. I am growing dutch treat (indica dominant hybrid), do you think it will be bad to not let some of them get amber? Or just cut my losses as is and chop her down?
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When I wash my buds I let them drip dry before I put them in my drying shed. I need to be able to regulate the temps and humidity in the shed. Putting wet weed in there could affect temps and humidity and affect the weed I already have drying in there.
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If you’re all milky, I would harvest before the rot spreads. At least they are all milky so what you save should still be pretty good.