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Help!!! I don’t know what happened!

Trying2Grow Apr 12, 2025 6 Replies 654 Views
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Trying2Grow

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My plant went from the first photo, vibrant and sturdy minus a little light burn from dialing things in, to the second photo in less than 24 hours!!!

It flopped over at the soil line. The stem seems to thin at the base slightly and looks like it pulls a 90 degree angle right under the soil which probably wasn’t ideal development to start with..

Am I cooked???
 

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Your stem appears to be completely white. Prop it up with a paper clip and add additional soil. Unless it has damping-off disease (which would be fairly obvious with a dark stem at the soil line) it will be fine.
 
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If I can suggest a different method of watering your seedling.... use an eye dropper and put the water in at a distance from the stem that's approximate to the length of the leaves around it. Add enough so the moisture wickers inward to the stem instead if making it wet at the base. This promotes root growth and helps prevent damping off, which eats away at the wall structure of the stem until it gives out and collapses.
 
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mancorn said:
Your stem appears to be completely white. Prop it up with a paper clip and add additional soil. Unless it has damping-off disease (which would be fairly obvious with a dark stem at the soil line) it will be fine.
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It’s a little purplish at the soil line, hard to see in the photo, but the whole stem was purple its first week of life and that has been fading, so it’s hard for me to attribute to damping-off >.<
 
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Ninjadogma said:
If I can suggest a different method of watering your seedling.... use an eye dropper and put the water in at a distance from the stem that's approximate to the length of the leaves around it. Add enough so the moisture wickers inward to the stem instead if making it wet at the base. This promotes root growth and helps prevent damping off, which eats away at the wall structure of the stem until it gives out and collapses.
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So you do think this is damping-off?

I actually have been doing that.. Not with an eye dropper, but a spray bottle, I’ve been watering in sort of dotted circle a couple inches away from the plant. I only just gave it its first real saturation yesterday, and I still thought I was giving it too little compared to how I’ve seen others water their plants.
 
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Not sure it's damping off, but could be a week stem from overwatering, or just a side observation, I see outdoor plantings of all kinds do this from time to time and not just cannabis... they are fine, they are hydraded and then around middle of the afternoon they poop out. And my best guess (just a guess) is that the sunlight evaporates the water out of the stem at a rate faster than the baby roots can replenish it and it just gives out. They can recover if you get them out of the light and let them recover. If it's Pythium they don't usually recover because the cell walls are damaged.
 
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Ninjadogma said:
Not sure it's damping off, but could be a week stem from overwatering, or just a side observation, I see outdoor plantings of all kinds do this from time to time and not just cannabis... they are fine, they are hydraded and then around middle of the afternoon they poop out. And my best guess (just a guess) is that the sunlight evaporates the water out of the stem at a rate faster than the baby roots can replenish it and it just gives out. They can recover if you get them out of the light and let them recover. If it's Pythium they don't usually recover because the cell walls are damaged.
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Ninjadogma said:
Not sure it's damping off, but could be a week stem from overwatering, or just a side observation, I see outdoor plantings of all kinds do this from time to time and not just cannabis... they are fine, they are hydraded and then around middle of the afternoon they poop out. And my best guess (just a guess) is that the sunlight evaporates the water out of the stem at a rate faster than the baby roots can replenish it and it just gives out. They can recover if you get them out of the light and let them recover. If it's Pythium they don't usually recover because the cell walls are damaged.
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I guess I’ll just prop it up, dry it out and hope for the best… I can’t imagine my grow light is drying the soil out faster than the roots can drink. Not blessed with a warm/sunny climate, so I can’t blame the sun on this one unfortunately. I think one way or the other this is my fault

If I managed to cause damping off, what do you suggest for sterilizing my tent?
 
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