This is northern lights started from seed. It started to flower inside, and re-vegged when outdoors. It actually did pretty well overall, and is the largest plant that I started from seed.
We're starting to get frost warnings and there was already some bud rot so I decided to do a very rough trim to look for rot and any insects (found a lot of eggs 🤮) and then bring it in to dry.
Off the plant and into a bowl:
Bud rot:
Some nice buds
Not too shabby
Rot totally fucking sucks bro but the stuff you saved looks really good! Do you wash your buds post harvest, to get rid of mold spores and eggs?
I didn't wash these ones (or harvests from previous years), but I did wash another plant recently to compare. Very little came off, but I suppose mold spores are not visible.
The eggs were very visible on the leaves so i got those off pretty easily in trimming.
Eta: we haven't had any mold show up in our previous harvests after drying and curing, and we end up storing for maybe 18 months at most before we use it all? So I think we do a pretty good job removing a large amount of bud around the mold (mildew?) and avoiding contamination.