Hello,
This is a Bruce Banner autoflower at wk 10. I harvested most of the plant and was expirmenting with leaving a few colas on longer for identification of amber trichomes. I was shocked to find this large white cloud sitting on a cola. What is this and what should be my next steps?
Hard to tell anything in those pics, partner. First one’s pretty clear but far away. Looks to be a couple kernels of popcorn stuck in the bud from that angle. But it could be a form of fungus or mold, looks to be some light powdery mildew below the larger “kernel” but can’t tell. I don’t have much experience with mold in late flower. Good luck. 
If you can get clearer close ups that would help for sure.
You know what? I got brave and touched the material and I think it’s perlite that might have popped onto the bud. Interestingly, this bud didn’t smell too good. I looked at it under the scope and noticed even that the trichomes looked different on this branch compared to all other branches. I will try to upload these images later today, but got the scientist in me curious. I’m still drying it and flagging it from the others.
Just make sure it is not mold. I’ve had that happen. It was deep in the cola for me but only visible only in a small spot like that.
HA! Popcorn!.. 
…I was close!!!
I’d be interested in hearing the findings on that, …curious.
When did you find this? Before or after harvest?
Thanks for this reminder. I don’t want that to spread so removing it from my drying closet now.
Here are some pics of the trichomes. Does it look okay to you? This has been in the dry closet for 1 day. Looks desiccated but I guess this should happen during the drying phase. (First time grower here.)
I could be wrong but it looks like bud rott. Some beautiful bud though
I normally err on the side of caution. I would cut the bud in half right above where the white part is and take a close look inside the bud. If it’s a mold or fungus, get rid of it. It’s just not worth jeopardizing your health over it. Be sure to check both sides. Even if the upper side that you cut doesn’t have any traces, I would still cut another inch or two up just to be sure that there is no cross contamination. On my last grow, I had so much on this one plant that I would just get rid of an entire bud, just to be sure. Don’t worry, ILGM has more seeds…lol. Best of luck, the bud looks beautiful otherwise.
I should clarify… I had so much BUD on this plant that when I found a mold spot, I would just chuck the whole bud. Not that there was so much MOLD on the plant. It was only one bud, but it was a big one. I’ll see if I can find a picture. Sad, but not worth taking the chance.
Here was the whole plant and the bud I discovered the mold on. I tore the bud apart into several sections just to see how deep it went. You can see that it was pretty bad. Chucked the whole bud even though it was just that one section of it.
THanks. Compared to the look of trichomes on my other buds, this one stood out. I’m going to throw it out and not take any risks.
Nice tree, what strain?
So wait a minute. The pics of the trichomes are the same bud as had the perlite stuck to it? I’m a bit confused, maybe I’m wrong but I thought @TrichromeTay was talking about @Darran bud having bud rot.
I could be wrong here because I’m always learning new stuff but I haven’t read or heard where the conditions of trichomes is affected by bud rot or that someone can determine a bud has internal rot by the condition of trichomes. Your pics are a bit blurry but I see nothing wrong with the trichomes in those pics except that I’m seeing mostly cloudy with very little amber for having been harvested (but that’s good if you don’t like couch lock) and that I’m looking at trichomes on sugar leaves and can’t make out the calyxes where you really need to be looking.
Not sure what you’re meaning by this. Trichomes will deteriorate to some degree throughout the drying and curing process depending on environmental conditions and such. If the buds dry too fast, the trichs will also - deteriorate quicker. But I’m not sure that’s what you were talking about.
Did you inspect the bud further to see if there was any mold or rot?
Hi NoddyKitty1, thanks for asking. This particular one was kind of a mystery to me too, to be honest. I had been given a plastic shopping bag of some weed that came from a grower in San Fernando Valley through a friend. It had been pollinated and was just chock full of seeds. Sat down one day and cleaned the whole bag and ended up with about a half cup of seeds. I planted about 10 total, in different ways, to see what would happen. Some in the ground (as in the picture), some in a Kratky 5-gallon hydroponic setup, some in plastic pots. I lost 6 to being male so I pulled and chucked those early on. Lost another 2 to environmental conditions (bad winds). So, I ended with one Kratky and then that huge one. I ended up calling it Valley Weed Giant. I ended up getting almost 2 pounds dry off of it and had to throw about another 1/3rd of the plant away as I literally could not process it fast enough before it started going bad. Put it into the compost for future love in the garden. People that smoked it said that it felt Sativa like- kinda light and happy. Not a heavy stone, but a pleasant daytime can still get stuff done kind of stone. I gave most of it away but still have 11-12 ounces left of it. Vacuum sealed in a second refrigerator. I now take a small amount of those seeds with me whenever I go golfing, or trail walking and just spread them in what seems to be a discreet place wherever I can. Call me Johnny Marijuana seed!
Yes, and apologies for the confusion. The pics are trichomes from the bud with the perlite piece. I wasn’t sure if the perlite or whatever it is could impact trichomes in any way. I asked this as the trichomes looked a bit different compared to my other branches of buds drying. I have quarantined this branch with the perlite piece for further investigation. As a first time grower, I’m intrigued to learn more about what happened here and how it could impact the final product. I saw no other signs of mold on the plant. All in all, I don’t know what happened here.
No apologies needed, the confusion was totally on me.
