Have you seen this before?

[Fitzera]

So I was just looking under the canopy, checking soil moisture and such...and I noticed what looked like quite a bit of moisture on the base of one of the Gorilla zkittlez.
The soil around it is dry, I have yet to fully readjust the blumats after I fed them ewc tea, and that side is dry for about an inch.
So I reached in to touch it and its sticky. Smelling it it reminds me of fish hydrolysate, that kind of deep richness behind the fish smell. I havent fed them any fish in these 5gal pots.
So, is the stalk secreting this? Is it something else? Pathogen related? You can see what look like nodes trying to become roots.

 

[aridbud]

Perhaps. Thinking insect burrowing at the base.

 

[Creeperpark]

You need to expose the root flairs to better transpire the gases. Remove a little of the soil on top the roots. Your plant is planted too deep.