I usually end up with a decent harvest because I tend to over plan and grow lots of plants. My best runs were on auto-watering, and I have actually had similar issues as shown above when hand watering, too.
It’s probably just the plants getting overwatered and ec building up in the media locking them out. But the whole recirculating part makes things worse as theres always organic stuff being washed back into the reservoir and festering between waterings.
Gotta find a way to keep this from happening in the future or I’m going to lose my mind. I think DTW is a good step in the right direction but I’m sure it will bring with it additional challenges.
Theres nothing organic (or hydro, technically) in my setup.
Coco, with drip lines watering them from the top multiple times a day with MegaCrop nutrients, which I guess have organic stuff in it but you get what I mean.
I started seeing some patches of botrytis here and there so I got a little discouraged. But I picked it off and proceeded to wash it in the triple bath.
I got the first branch washed and started looking through the bud and started finding LOADS of corn borer worms. Tried to wash again but the slimy bastards just wont let go.
Checked a few more branches and they were also infested with not only spider mites but now these corn borers which were leaving all this gross soot on everything.
And I plan on just tossing some fuel on it and lighting it up when they lift the burn restrictions in my area. God help whoever’s downwind haha.
It’s sad but also I’m happy to be moving on from it. I pretty much had lost hope back in July when the mite problem really started to take hold. I should never have accepted those mite infested clones, even into an outdoor garden. I’m sure the soil is probably littered with them and they will even come back next year.
Felt a huge weight lift off my shoulders as I walked away from it today, followed by an outdoor strip and spray down and put all my clothes in a bag and focused on not cross contaminating anything.
Even though I have a greenhouse for next season I am very discouraged to continue the outdoor growing, just same issues year after year and I’m lucky if I get anything out of all my work.
I still have like 4lbs of the new V3 MegaCrop that I just bought I would hate to have to toss it and buy more shit lol. I still have 2 full bottles of GH micro and bloom, calimagic, pails of organic dry amendments, kelp fertilizers etc from previous nutrient troubleshooting. Gotta stop blindly throwing money at a problem hoping changing nutes will fix it. Besides, I think the new MegaCrop is better than the previous stuff. Mixes and remains at 6.1-6.2 and EC stays stable. The funkiness was likely due to having all the nastiness running back into my res. Also admittedly I’m sure neither of my reservoirs are lightproof and that isnt helping things.
I keep a 10gal “master” reservoir to pull from to fill my small reservoirs in the tent, and it never gets funky unless I accidentally leave the lid off, just a bit of kelp sediment.
Yeah alot of my reasoning behind wanting to switch to DTW is seeing the success people like you and @KingGhidora have without running into the same issues that a recirc system can bring.
Next step is finding a way to handle the waste water and sizing reservoir(s) that can service both tents.
My basement drain is about 25 feet away from my tents but it’s at the exact opposite corner of the basement and would have to snake around my chimney and furnace to get to the drain. I have about 14-16" of vertical drop from my drain port on my trays to the basement floor so maybe gravity drain is still an option.
I would need at least a 10gal res for each tent, or a single 45gal drum but then I think I’d need bigger pumps with more lift.
And also yeah I have to dump my dehuey every day it sucks and its only like 12 feet from the drain
If you look closely you can see some tiny interveinal stippling (not the rusting and other spotting). Also the edges of some leaves were curling in strange ways. It caught my eye when I opened the tent.
Alas, I checked all the above leaves front and back with my loupe and macro lens and no sign of pests.
But I still wanted to quarantine this plant just in case.
As for next round I’m trying to get things reset and cleaned so I can start some more. Local hydro shop has been out of basically all media since covid hit so I’m going to have to use my reclaimed stuff from previous grows.
I hope you are clean man, when I saw those leaves I thought oh fuck poor Trev has them in his tent now. It sure does look similar.
My Orange Goji had mites again the other week, it went straight in the fire pit. Cant see any problems elsewhere on the GDP that was next to it so I think there must have been an egg somewhere that didn’t get killed off.
I hope the re claimed goes all right, the grow op shop was out of stuff for a while, but they were back up to full stock when I went in 3 weeks ago.
Your heart gets beating a mile a minute and makes it even harder to inspect.
But I’ve stripped off a dozen of the worst looking leaves, ones that based on my experience should be crawling with the borg, and inspected them even under my Carson brite and I dont see anything.
Tent is getting a good sanitizing when this round is done anyways.
I suspect these are people that ask you for weed on a regular basis. I’m with @Foreigner. Fuck em and feed them oatmeal! I get grief occasionally for not letting my plants ripen enough. Aside from the fact that I suffer from premature chopulation, they’re my plants, I grew them and I’ll do whatever I want with them.
Peace & Love…
Someone on here just had to scrap a grow due to some freaky plant virus that travels from plant to plant. @argo945 had some kind of root bugs that infested everything he grew or tried to grow. I’ll confirm who it was and send it to you. Might be the answer.
shit. from here to there things have been fucked 
up. all around. me say market prices forecast to jump in '21. damnit.
