Hello
I was curing this K.O by Black Tuna and noticed some tripe of bubble crystallization on several buds after a week of curing. A friend of mine told me it was called guttation.
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That doesn’t look like any guttation I’ve ever seen. It is usually dark in color and appears mostly on leaves and stems. I’d like to see that under a scope.
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The guttation I’ve seen before is usually amber colored but it’s hard to say from the pic if that’s what it is. Mine has also normally in a sphere shape like a globe. How was the humidity/moisture in the buds when you started curing?
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I freeze dried them right after harvest
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Grown outdoor?
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I’ve never had the chance to freeze dry mine so I don’t know if that’s possibly a result of the fast freeze or not. Hopefully someone with experience using them can chime in.
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This can’t be guttation in my honest opinion. Guttation only occurs from osmotic pressure. Once a stem is severed the pressure is released, whether stomata are closed or not. I’d be cautious and send in a sample for testing, or look under a scope for fungal patterns or insect secretions.
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Could have been on there before it was chopped and then expanded out like freeze dried candy? I have no clue, just spit balling
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Could be I suppose, though usually a reddish color. Interesting if that is the case. Looks like my dog slobbered on it 
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Yea, I’m just thinking of freeze dried candies and that kind of looks like what they do.
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It’s definitely a possibility. But one can never know unless they look closer (or get an expert to). I’d treat it as toxic until then.
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Always better to stay on the side of caution even when it hurts, some things in life don’t give us mulligan.
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That’s what I thought
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If it were me I’d be getting that under a microscope. Let’s be honest I would taste it first lmfao. The guttation I showed I the pictures above was very sweet and weedy like a weed maple syrup and full of terps and sweeteness. What you showed looks like a piece of sugar that fell off a frosted flake lol
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