Rain: Yay or Nai?

[Bernie]

Hello outdoor fellas

As the tittle indicates, what are your thoughts about rain? I've been reading quite a lot by now and seems that there's little fixation on the matter... Some some to cover the plants, others to let them get wet, others to shake them after they get wet... Then you have the ones that says that thricomes are washed off, the ones that says that the ones that said that are talking nonsense, the ones that talk about white mould saying that shit is toxic, the ones that say that when mould gets burnt its no longer toxic, the ones that say that you gotta shake the baby after rain, the ones that go running to blow-dry them... (true story!)

A bit of a mess in my opinion!

I think it would be great to know what you guys think about the matter and what you know from your experiences with outdoors autos.

PS: It's also handy for me as I'm in day 52 and just rained outside, so I'm wondering what the heck to do....

Polls open!

Happy smoke

B

 

[Uro]

May want to protect them from wind and flying debris but I don't rain it self being a problem.

 

[jingo]

Some stains are very prone to mold or take a very long time to finish. People will treat them different than hardy short cycle plants. A shake when it's 70f outside may work fine, and be worthless at 45f. So lots of changes depending on condition. I wouldn't keep any mold plants, not worth it to me. But I'm a medical grower, not a cash cropper.

 

[Bernie]

Nice input @Uro, will take that advice for sure

 

[Bernie]

Some stains are very prone to mold or take a very long time to finish. People will treat them different than hardy short cycle plants. A shake when it's 70f outside may work fine, and be worthless at 45f. So lots of changes depending on condition. I wouldn't keep any mold plants, not worth it to me. But I'm a medical grower, not a cash cropper.

Thanks @jingo , nicely put together. I'm growing for self-consumption so keeping mould its completely out of the way... Will keep an eye on them!

 

[fryge]

you can just cut out mold.
the culprit of budrot is botrytis cinerae, which is a necrotrophic fungus. meaning it lives on dead tissue. so it infects the plant somewhere, starts killing some plant matter, feeds on that, kills more around it, etc. but that also means if you cut out the molded part, it's gone, the fungus doesn't spread trough the living plant.

if the weather is right you will keep getting new infections though. but one rain is not instantly going to cause budrot. constant high humidity can though, but also depends a lot how resistant your plants are, there's a big variation between strains how well they handle such conditions.