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I am running a modified version of the 8 bucket water farm system and I've had 2 crops go down due to a wilting problem(possibly fussarium). Both crops have been the forum cut of GSC. One crop vegged fine and started wilting in flower, the second one did it in veg. It always happens one plant at a time and my roots look healthy, fish boned, and white. every plant has its own air stone too. I keep my systems propogated with benificial microbes as well.
I sterilized all my hydro equipment with physan 20 before both runs. I am now just wondering how I get over this? How can I start another crop and have it not destroy it? My water temps were a little warm I must say (75-80), but after I saw a plant wilt on the second crop I transferred the system into an air conditioned room. That didn't stop other plants from wilting though.
I've also had the problem outdoor as well this year and it has taken down half my crop(luckily I have a tiny outdoor grow...)
If you have dealt with this before please chime in. I can't afford to lose another crop. Oh, and should I be worried about my moms getting sick in coco/soil?
This is the first thing to fix. After you can keep your water 68 ish and your PH stable then move on from there.
One of the Hydro pros can chime in to maybe save your grow, but for right now get the temps down. Freeze water bottles to chill the rez if you cant run out and get a chiller or what ever you need to do... but start now.
Definitely sound like a lack of oxygen, are you running rockwool cubes by chance?I've always grown with warmish (75 degree) water, and I've managed to keep most diseases algae away with strong microbial support/brews. I basically have just kept my water so colonized with good that nothing bad can establish. So if this is a fungal problem would overly colonizing beneficial fungus and spraying with ogbiowar help as a preventative from the start?
with my vegging crop that is wilting right now I have only been giving them 150ppm cal mag, 150-200ppm base (sensi grow a/b), and microbes.
and I would post pics, but unfortunately you can't even do basic stuff like that from a windows phone... They basically all of the sudden look like they are thirsty though. The leaves droop and eventually the top falls limp.
I would be running a water chiller, but my systems don't circulate fast enough to effectively use one I don't think.. How fast does water flow through a chiller?
thanks for the input everyone!
Definitely sound like a lack of oxygen, are you running rockwool cubes by chance?
Sounds like a fungus check your root crown an the rip a part you lower stalk an 150× microscope an if you see any black string looking stuff at your root crown or in your stalk then you definitely have a fungus. @nightmarecreature an I just got done dealing with a similar issue!
Yeah @stickyfing3rs I would have thought that but he said he was having the same problems outside as well! Unless I read it wrong
Yeah you wouldn't be able to see it with 100× 160 or strong is needed an you definitely want to rip apart the stalk to see it was your stalk getting soft?
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