Hi @beacher. Thanks - and I agree that all I can do is wait, and to not water again until she’s thirsty. But I might raise the light to relieve any stress it might be causing.
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lol, @Grohio - is it possible to overwater if I only watered her once when I planted her into soil?
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Could be fungus. Check the roots. Are they brown and slimy?
Do you have a suggestion on how I can check the roots?
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Might be risky business since the soil looks still wet and heavy. Are the roots visibly coming out of the bottom?
I don’t think it’s overwatering. That mix looks light, plenty of visible perlite in it.
Is this a clone or a seed plant?
@vernal, yes, the soil IS wet and heavy because I literally took the photos moments before flushing it and immediately after flushing it.
At this point, all my plants are clones. If you want to see a better idea of the life of this plant before I put her in soil, you should read this post:
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That might be the problem.
Sometimes when you take a cut, the interior pith doesn’t callus over. This can trap pathogens inside the plant tissue (the hollow part). It does occasionally happen with cuts, even ones that have been growing for a while.
It is especially likely when you notice that all the other identical plants are growing well and there’s no pests in the garden.
When you cull the plant, cut into the base of the stem. You may notice brown rot inside.
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You also stated you flushed it with another two gallons of water. Im still saying it looks overwatered. And yes, its possible to overwater just once. Especially when up planting to bigger pots. Believe me, Im guilty of this quite often.
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Are you referring to the stem of this plant when it was first taken as a clone? If so, it was a solid stem - no hollow end. The roots were big and white when I transplanted them.
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It can still happen even with non-hollow stem varieties.
Check the roots for rot when the pot dries out if you can.
If everything else is in order, and all the other plants are thriving, and I can’t figure the problem out, it is often likely fungal or viral infection. I typically toss plants with obvious “failure to thrive”. I’ve had a perfectly rooted, healthy, growing clone melt seemingly for no reason.
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I’m with Grohio, I think it is having some shock from the transplant and flushing.
It’s sister is a tough ol’ weed, this one is “sensitive”…
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But @Grohio, I took the photos of the sick plant today - 11 days after I transplanted and watered it the first and only time. Today is when I flushed her, then took the last pics. And I moved her from a hydro environment, not a smaller pot.
Is it possible that my theory of packing the soil too tightly on the day I moved her to soil is the “root” of the troubles?
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here is a plant i overwatered about 5 or 6 days after transplant. It was almost 14 days before it perked back up. Not saying im 100 percent certain that is what is going on for you. But, i definitely believe it is quite possible. And for what its worth the soil im using is really light and drains well.
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So @vernal, you don’t agree with my first thought that I packed the soil too tightly when I moved her to soil could be the reason it’s not thriving?
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If it was watered 11 days ago and the pot was still heavy befor the flush then yes overwatered : )
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Doubt it. It was growing fine, everything else is growing fine. Cannabis roots in desert clay, I doubt you packed that light appearing soil mix too tight.
If the soil was overpacked this won’t have helped either with the overwatering , the defol will have stressed the plant further and also reduced the plants ability to remove the excess from the pot too
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But I just flushed it TODAY, and the photos of the sick plant are from before and after the flush. The only other time it was watered is the day I transplanted it on March 23.
As I stated, I think I packed the soil too tightly when I planted her into soil. On the same day I moved her to soil, I happened to post an update to another thread of mine that described what I had done, and that I planned to give them a week or so to get over their shock before I moved them to my flowering room. I think the tight soil caused more shock than normal (poor aeration, damaged roots, etc.) which is why it’s failing.
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Sounds like you got it figured out. Good luck…
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Hmmm…so when I started the flushing process, the water sat on top of the soil and barely soaked in. It took forever for just a few ounces to be absorbed. That’s why I aerated it, and there was a lot of resistance to me pushing the skewer through the soil.
@vernal, I appreciate your confidence that I didn’t pack the soil too tightly, but I still suspect that’s where I screwed up. Now that the soil is aerated and the water drains at a normal rate, we’ll see.
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