This is an Animal Cookies bag seed grown in Ocean Forest soil (and my first grow ever). Her leaves started really dying off in week 8 (possibly coincidentally?) after I started using the California Lightworks UVB (worked gradually up to 40 minutes every other day from 3' above the canopy). I started seeing leaves that looked and felt burnt. I stopped using the UVB light after 2 1/2 weeks but the leaves continued falling off. In week 9 the buds were very frosty...but 90%+ clear with basically no milky trichomes. Now in week 12 they look the same… but the sugar leaves are black and dry to the point of falling out or crumbling when touched. I feel like something bad could happen as the sugar leaves die “inside” of the buds, even at the current 38% RH with plenty of ventilation. So far only the leaves have been affected, the calyxes are still green.
Grown in a Vivosun tent under a Mars-Hydro SP3000 @ 20" above the canopy. Plenty of fans. Low Humidity through flower (average 40% ambient). Nutrients have been Earth Dust Boost with the addition of some Gaia Green 2-8-4 (for a phosphorus deficiency). I did also use Bushdoctor Cal-Mag, Recharge, Mammoth P, and Black Strap Molasses. My 2nd plant (almost a month behind) is looking very ready and I think I should harvest them at the same time but I don’t know what I don’t know. Thanks in advance for any incite yall can give about how bad this is. I’m most confused about the lack of ripening in the trichomes. I’ve read that this strain (clone only…) typically finishes in 9-10 weeks.
P.S. The plant has started smelling like hay in the last few weeks but anything with trichomes (including the black/brown leaves) smell like straight citrus when you smell it up close.
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I harvested 2 weeks ago and everything appears to be going well. I do wish I had harvested earlier and ignored the trichomes on the surface because the buds are much more mature on the inside. Thanks again yall!