It looks like something scraped the bark away, and it got a weird mold type of infection. Only branch in the plant. Can anyone identify what this is? I cut off closer to stem.
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I’m afraid it’s bothritis… 
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Say it ain’t so man. It’s so close
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Wish I could 
, wait for other opinions anyway, @Gpaw is a conaisseur … 
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To add … The inside of the stem looked nice and white. Nothing on any of the buds…which is where I thought botritis hits. This is just in the notch of the branch. I’ve been seeing a bird fly out every day and I’m wondering if he’s cleaning his beak in there and exposed that spot to mold
I think you might be right.
Sadly I must say “Kill it with fire”.
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It’s supposed to rain for 3 days on Friday. Since it’s not on any buds or anywhere else, maybe I can bring it 3 more days
Normally is dark brown over green, here as the stem is dark that fools me and maybe you’re right and it’s only a 
work, just keep an eye on it to see if it expands …
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I don’t think I can fool myself here haha… I’ll give it a couple days and chop it
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That’s nasty…
Check those buds closely as you do not want to be smoking/vaping that.
Cheers
G
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Yeah I’m gonna look em all over again. I’m already thinking of tossing it. It has a few weeks left and I don’t want anything premature
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If the buds are clean and developed enough maybe a quick wash for a tincture?
Cheers
G
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You know …I just saw someone freezing some rally leafy shit and shaking it through some sort of bag for kief. I’d do that, but I have no idea where to get a screen like that. I’m gonna have to Google around
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A mix of hydrogen peroxide of 1 part hydrogen peroxide, 4 parts water ratio sprayed on the area will kill the spores and give you some time to get it chopped.
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Yeah man. I’m.on it. Easy to spray that one spot without hitting everything too 
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Unfortunately in my experience, by the time you can actually see it, botrytis has done a good deal of work in the places you can’t see, i.e. the inside of buds. Usually you can tell on the flower because a sugar leaf will start to turn yellow and it will also easily pull out of the flower itself. Good luck!
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You see the hole in the bottom of the branch where it meets the stem, you have a boring bug that has burrowed up the branch stem, they excrete what they eat as they go up inside the branch and their shit creates a mold.
Edit. So long as there is no mold on the bud it and the rest of the plant should be OK.
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Mostly all of my indoors has hollow stems too, so I’m not sure that’s it. I’m looking it over now 
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It has nothing to do with hollow stems.
The Aisian boring bug lays and egg and it hatches into a large fat maggot larvae, they chew a hole into the branch, at the branch stem connection with the main trunk. Then eat their way up the inside of the branch killing off the bark and creating mold. If you split that cut-off branch down the middle you will probably find it, if it’s not gone higher up than at your cut point.
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Stem Botritis. Scratch it off with your fingernail, Spray the stem with some peroxide. Get a fan on it if possible and uv light ( sun) helps too( maybe only because it dries the area out, but it helps.). It’s going to feel slimy when you scratch it off. Keep scratching at it until it doesn’t feel slimy. Of course you can use a knife but that can’t feel the slime.
I was just reading the part about hollow stems. You’ll need to support the plant because you need to take out almost half of that stem. I’m curious to see if it is a boring insect that started this. I’ve seen it just a few times, but have one plant that was in a similar condition 6 weeks ago. It’s still going. All I did was remove the slime. No peroxide. A little bit of the fuzz tried to return once and I scratched it off again, and since then it has been through about six inches of rain with no trouble. If the rot girdles the stem, she’s a goner not long after. The plant will keep on going but eventually it tips over and withers.
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