Well I think I kill one of my plants last night. My biggest one. I topped of the bubbler with water that I had sitting on my top shelf which is what I think killed it. The water would have been room temp and that could have been as high as 80-85 degrees. It hadn't really been warm here till the other night and didn't even thing about the temp of the room. I have 2 plants in that bubbler and only the one that got the water poured right on it's stock is sick looking. The other plant is looking just fine. To be safe I flushed and ran just straight water for the day. When I checked tonight it didn't look any better. I almost cried when I saw it every leaf on the plant was just hanging there. I cut off as much of the really dead looking stuff as I could leaving all the buds. I reflushed and cleaned the bucket then readded the nutes. Hell I even used ph ajusted water tonight. (something I never worry about) It's strange that the other plant isn't effected at all. Piss me off it was going so well with only like 4 more weeks till they were finished. I really hope that it doesn't die altogether as it was the plant that was filling 75% of my screen. If it lives I would think that this will set back the time that it would finish as it has to do some healing now. I've added a bit of super thrive to the water now in hopes that it will help bring it back to the living. The buds are all looking pretty sorry as they've all been knocked while trimming off the dead stuff. This hurts so much for 3 months these girls have been doing great and one stupid not thinking mistake and all that work could be down the drain. Makes me want to cry. So I've gone from an overgrown scrog to a charlie brown christmas tree scrog. for the whining but I just had to vent somewhere. Maybe I will be able to add a happy note to this later in the week if they perk up a bit.
That sucks Toad. I am not so sure the water is what did it though. 80-85 degrees is not all that hot. Maybe Useless can help out here as I have never grown hydro.
85 degree water directly on the roots can hurt them. But, they shouldn't be that bad. It all in the ratio of temp in the air to the root zone. Root zone temps should be about 10 degrees cooler than the air. That means, if your air temp is 85, your nutrient solution should be 75. 75 in the air, 65 in the water. What you shouldn't have done is add the nutes right away. IF your plant shows signs of stress, flush with no nutes for two days, then add nutes at 50% strength until you see signs of new growth. Should recover within a week. It might not ever recover or take longer though, because you cut off leaves too, stressing the plant even more. Take your nutes out, run fresh ph balanced water for two days. If don't look worse, add the nutes. If they get even worse, just keep the flush going for a couple more days and then yank her, shes done. Then reapply nutes for your other girl and focus on her. Best I can do for you, .
Well I'm pretty sure it's not the nutes that caused it as the other plant in the same pot is find and as a matter a fact it didn't droop at all or anything. The water would have gone over it's roots as well. Both plants are in a reg. 4" pot with extra holes drilled in it. I did dump the bucket the first night and then just ran plain water for the day, I pretty much had to cut off the leaves as they were already starting to dry up. Well after looking at them tonight it starting to look like maybe 2 or 3 bud sites maybe recovering but that is out of 30 bud sites. So instead of a 3-4 oz yield it will be more like a 1/2 - 3/4oz which is better than nothing and I also learned another lesson in growing. It's just so heart breaking to see something that you've worked so hard on looking so sad. It went from a mini sea of green to something that looks like a deforestation project. Now on the bright side of the coin, I've got an ounce of stuff coming tomorrow and they also have some more seeds for me. Not sure what the seeds are from but they always sell good stuff, and hell the seeds are free anyway. it's the ounce that will cost me $190.00
yes very sad. I have had the same kind of problem. once i did a resivoir change and the next day one of the bigger plants had died i mean completly. it was right in the middle of the system and nothing else showed any kind of stress or disease. I have never had this problem since. maybe it was just the plants time. i have found that the more you plant the less devestating it is when one dies.
