Hey @Pedro_Bann I am sorry to see all the moldā¦ Such a bummer. Better something than nothing tho! Have you noticed any other plants around your cannabis that may be the source of the spores? I feel like sometimes we might be accidentally infecting our plants either by stepping on something moldy or touching/ribbing against something. Have you tried green cure type products? Idk what they have available down there tho. Iāve always been told to spray g.c as the buds were first developing so once they are more dense there will be a little inner protection from the mold. Just a thought maybe could help hopefully. The plants all look damn good tho man super good job 
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Thats a classic case of boitritus. There is no preventative measures against it. Big nugs and wet climate paired with hybrids and cultivars not aclimated or suited for such climates. Im sure @Pedro_Bann expected this. Im also sure hes already pulled a descent amount of good bud down and will pull more good bud down. This could be a good informational study for us though. Its good data to help make selections for outdoor growing in humid climates. Good job @Pedro_Bann. The effort and devotion is astounding.
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The Gospers Mountain fire was the largest recorded fire in historyā¦ by some estimates close to a million hectares burnt in this one fire alone. In total this year 18,736,070 hectares have bunt! As a comparison the 2018 California fires burnt āonlyā 800,000 hectaresā¦
Yepā¦Always a problem in this part of the worldā¦ best bet are strains that are only starting to flower in feb when itās at it wettest and then are ready for harvest April/May so that the period when they are most at risk is normally a lot drier.
Some plants within a bunch will sometimes show a greater tolerance (but not resistance) to boitritus, and selection and acclimatization for this is doableā¦ itās just a long project lolā¦ There is also this biofungicide that may be worth a lookā¦
https://www.crop.bayer.com.au/find-crop-solutions/by-product/bayer-biologics/serenade-opti
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Wow, thatās insane. The bad thing is it may be normal from now on. I was living in Montana during the Yellowstone National Park fire. It burned for 6 months I believe. I forget the total but it was big.
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hi sorry to see you get hammered like that im still hangging in there but the rain we are getting right now is a concern
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Still raining grrrrr
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Pedro, @cobia66 is an old mate of mine, we been hatching beans and bonging on now for something like 25 years! Heās currently running the same strains as you from the same batch of seedsā¦ So some Tut/GG and GG/SS. There is some Channel+/Truthband in there somewhere also which looks the biz, so long as the rot stays awayā¦ 
Heās a little bit further south of us and up to this point hasnāt been hammered by big Feb fallsā¦ until now! @cobia66 Soon as it dries out a bit, get those fans out bro! 
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Ahh nice. Well those plants look like they are alot more out in the open too and should catch lots of breeze which will help out keeping that mould away @cobia66. I will check mine again in the next few days.
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hope your going to get a nice surprise
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Those are some awful pretty outdoor plants @cobia66. It looks like it rains a lot by looking at the surrounding area. It reminds me of where I grew up.
Looking forward to your pics of going back in @Pedro_Bann. Be safe. With all of the rain you got, you had maybe better wear a mosquito net around your headā¦ or body. Enjoy!
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By the end of the week we would have had half a metre of rain since Christmas, whatever plants last through this will be number one on the list for next season and will be worth breeding with for further development in this climate.
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The fires are natural. Manās intervention is what makes the seasons with huge fires. They never get to burn out naturally so the dead fall and undergrowth accumulate until you get the really big fires.
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Exactly. The massive Yellowstone Fire was allowed to burn itself out naturally. Thatās why it took it 6 months or whatever it was. Since it was in the National Park that was the policy at the time. It was actually started by the forest service when they were trying to perform a scheduled and controlled burn. The winds were ferocious that day and it quickly got away from them. It was an interesting phenomenon and an interesting human component throughout.
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The biggest problem with our recent fire season, as Iām led to believe,
Is that the fire fighters want to back burn but have to apply through a government department. The permission is given for a specific date only, so if the conditions arenāt suitable they donāt do it. This then leaves them having to do another application and again a wait to be able to do it again.
They need to be able to do it when conditions suit, not when they are told to do it.
Cheers Johnny
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Sounds like the way California has taken care of its forest overgrowth these last 30 years. The fires we get in our mountains burn for much longer than they should because of all the dry fuel available.
Controlled burns are a good idea.
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As well as harvesting standing dead trees and dead fall, but the tree hugger idiots in Cali wonāt allow it. Everyone said trump wss an idiot for saying they needed to rake the forest. He was right, cleaning out the dead underbrush would have kept those fires from getting so big. Guess the leftists thought he meant with regular garden rakes and not a loader with a root rake on it lol
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we have, like, goats, dude. 
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Yeah, really big hungry goats 
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Back at the patch again today with an elusive break in the rain and looks like thereās lots of work to be done, thereās still lots of mould appearing and the larger sativa girls have all fallen over.
Come on mother nature gimme a fuckinā break!
Gimme sunlight and breeze!
Iām going to tie up the bigguns and cut down the rest and take the good bits home.
All I have is some yarn that I stole from my boys craft kitā¦ Hope it works.
The Gorilla Glue X Super Skunk is still impressive when I stoodd her back up.
The Dragons Blood Hash Plant is looking a bit worse for wear though, she will recover.
It feels like thereās 135% relative humidity in the bush today.
The creek has risen by a couple metres, if it wasnāt flowing so fast I would dive in off the bank.
The irrigation system has been turned off completely for the first time, I should have done it on last visit instead of just turning it down.
I had best get to work. Tie up plants then cut out mould then cut and bag up anything worth taking homeā¦ Thereās not going to be much left.
If it were easy every mofo would be doing it eh!
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