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Hello folks I think this might be my first post here!
I'm suspecting a possible root rot issue but it does seem somewhat strange how it occurred.
I've been growing for about a year now, this is my 3rd grow, my first time growing in a somewhat sealed grow room with a 12k btu minisplit for cooling. My first two grows were in a 4x8 gorilla grow tent. 60 percent canna coco/40 percent perlite media. 11x10 grow room with 4 HLG 600's, 13 plants in the room at the moment, in 5 gallon floraflex plastic pots with the floraflex drain system for runoff.
I'm running several different strains in the room, and 5 of the plants I'm running are Exotic Genetix Cookies n Cream IX3 from seed, which I'm currently pheno-hunting for the best ones. I'm in the middle of week 7 flower, and the problem that I'm having is one of the Cookies n Cream phenos are all of a sudden showing signs of heavy wilting on all the fan leaves, and most of them look wilted and dying at the moment. I'm suspecting it's a root rot issue from overfeeding it, but not entirely sure yet.
In flower 12/12, the first two weeks I was feeding twice a day. Week 3 and on I started to feed 3 times a day. I test the runoff EC every few days to make sure the salt buildup ppm (hanna) or EC isn't too high from the nutrient solution that I feed it. I try to keep the runoff ec/ppm no more than 300ish ppm higher than what I initially feed. If the runoff EC/ppm gets too high from what I feed it, I will usually either flush with a half strength nute solution and up the volume of nutrient solution if runoff EC is way too high, or I'll just feed it a higher volume of nutrient solution at the same nutrient solution PPM if the runoff EC isn't too high, like for minor corrections.
So this one pheno that has the problem right now, lets call it CNC #2, around week 5 and a half flower or so, I started to notice that the plant was drinking nutrient solution like really really slow compared to the rest of the plants. I was thinking it could've been really rootbound or so because I did let all my plants grow for a lot longer than normal in veg due to me building a new grow room from a tent which took a couple weeks and just let the plants that we're ready for flower stay in veg for a few weeks longer than normal. This was the only plant that was drinking very slow though, and when i fed it, the nutrient solution would kind of sit on the top of the pot and slowly go thru the media, and the runoff that was coming out was very very slow. So that was probably not an ideal situation. Initially, I thought that it was needing more nutrient solution since it drank so slow, so I upped the amt of feeding to that plant. So the rest of the cookies n cremes were getting about 4000ml 3 times a day, that one was getting 5500ml-6000ml 3 times a day.
Then I stuck a stake in the media around week 6 and a half to hold some colas up (not using any trellis, using stakes in the open grow room instead), and the plant started to drink somewhat faster now. Maybe I created some drainage with the stake. Runoff was coming out quicker now too, tested the runoff, and EC was close to what I was feeding it, PH was normal. So I kept the media solution around 5500-6000ml 3 times a day, and fast forward to week 7, now the plant looks terrible. This is the only plant that this happened to, the rest of my garden looks fine.
So I was feeding it about 3000-4000ml more compared to the rest of my CNC phenos per day, and this is the only plant that this has happened to. Mind you I was also using fabric pots for first two grows until now, and never had any root problems until now.
Here is a video of the wilted plant currently. Rest of garden looks fine. https://streamable.com/t3o200 (plants got way too tall this round unfortunately as well lol)
Probably root rot? Anything I can do to recover this plant, or is it a goner at this point? And what can I do to prevent this from happening again? Could it have been also possibly... a bad pheno? Because this didn't happen to my other cookies n creams, but I did feed this specific one more than the other phenos. Also, from the situation I was in, can you recommend any other tips? Still pretty much a newbie but my first two grows were pretty successful for a beginner somehow.
I'm suspecting a possible root rot issue but it does seem somewhat strange how it occurred.
I've been growing for about a year now, this is my 3rd grow, my first time growing in a somewhat sealed grow room with a 12k btu minisplit for cooling. My first two grows were in a 4x8 gorilla grow tent. 60 percent canna coco/40 percent perlite media. 11x10 grow room with 4 HLG 600's, 13 plants in the room at the moment, in 5 gallon floraflex plastic pots with the floraflex drain system for runoff.
I'm running several different strains in the room, and 5 of the plants I'm running are Exotic Genetix Cookies n Cream IX3 from seed, which I'm currently pheno-hunting for the best ones. I'm in the middle of week 7 flower, and the problem that I'm having is one of the Cookies n Cream phenos are all of a sudden showing signs of heavy wilting on all the fan leaves, and most of them look wilted and dying at the moment. I'm suspecting it's a root rot issue from overfeeding it, but not entirely sure yet.
In flower 12/12, the first two weeks I was feeding twice a day. Week 3 and on I started to feed 3 times a day. I test the runoff EC every few days to make sure the salt buildup ppm (hanna) or EC isn't too high from the nutrient solution that I feed it. I try to keep the runoff ec/ppm no more than 300ish ppm higher than what I initially feed. If the runoff EC/ppm gets too high from what I feed it, I will usually either flush with a half strength nute solution and up the volume of nutrient solution if runoff EC is way too high, or I'll just feed it a higher volume of nutrient solution at the same nutrient solution PPM if the runoff EC isn't too high, like for minor corrections.
So this one pheno that has the problem right now, lets call it CNC #2, around week 5 and a half flower or so, I started to notice that the plant was drinking nutrient solution like really really slow compared to the rest of the plants. I was thinking it could've been really rootbound or so because I did let all my plants grow for a lot longer than normal in veg due to me building a new grow room from a tent which took a couple weeks and just let the plants that we're ready for flower stay in veg for a few weeks longer than normal. This was the only plant that was drinking very slow though, and when i fed it, the nutrient solution would kind of sit on the top of the pot and slowly go thru the media, and the runoff that was coming out was very very slow. So that was probably not an ideal situation. Initially, I thought that it was needing more nutrient solution since it drank so slow, so I upped the amt of feeding to that plant. So the rest of the cookies n cremes were getting about 4000ml 3 times a day, that one was getting 5500ml-6000ml 3 times a day.
Then I stuck a stake in the media around week 6 and a half to hold some colas up (not using any trellis, using stakes in the open grow room instead), and the plant started to drink somewhat faster now. Maybe I created some drainage with the stake. Runoff was coming out quicker now too, tested the runoff, and EC was close to what I was feeding it, PH was normal. So I kept the media solution around 5500-6000ml 3 times a day, and fast forward to week 7, now the plant looks terrible. This is the only plant that this happened to, the rest of my garden looks fine.
So I was feeding it about 3000-4000ml more compared to the rest of my CNC phenos per day, and this is the only plant that this has happened to. Mind you I was also using fabric pots for first two grows until now, and never had any root problems until now.
Here is a video of the wilted plant currently. Rest of garden looks fine. https://streamable.com/t3o200 (plants got way too tall this round unfortunately as well lol)
Probably root rot? Anything I can do to recover this plant, or is it a goner at this point? And what can I do to prevent this from happening again? Could it have been also possibly... a bad pheno? Because this didn't happen to my other cookies n creams, but I did feed this specific one more than the other phenos. Also, from the situation I was in, can you recommend any other tips? Still pretty much a newbie but my first two grows were pretty successful for a beginner somehow.
