Ok gang. Not really my style, but I need the community on this one. Haven't pulled a harvest in 6 months now due to a severe something or other.
Timeline: Oct, 2015, 8 Blue Dream cuttings went into 5 gallon pots (way too big, I know, I was smoking at work again) from an Ez Cloner. Clones were already on the struggle bus with cyano/brown/bullshit something. Downward leaf curl was already pronounced before transplanting. Potted in reused coco on it's 3rd or 4th cycle (yeah, I know.) Using weekly Dynagro Grow at 1 oz/5 gallon (this is now my prime suspect.)
Roots on the girls are absolute shit. Brown, dessicated, brittle. Hypoaspis mites have been observed preying on smaller wood mites in some pots, no correlation between the decomposers and health has been observed. Initially suspected nitrate problems from the bugs, but have elliminated that possibility by removing bugs in a test pot to no avail. The mite-free soil is doing no better. BDs have been treated with imidacloprid and abamectin, no change, no evidence of any bugs above ground with a 40x loupe, not all plants are affected, leading me to rule out arthropod infestation.
SM-90 helped a bit, and began to turn the roots around for a few weeks, but BAM, back to shit in less than a month. Going through the same story with actinovate right now. Initial applications slowed symptoms, and resulted in a root explosion, but continued application is no longer slowing root decay. The roots themselves turn tan, then they deglove like a skinned squirrel. The outside of the roots easily break and slide off the internal "pith" of the root, leaving useless little threads. Even the actinovate-assisted roots are currently turning tan again.
Aspirin was used between 100-325 mg gallon. This helps perhaps the most, but very temporarily. Leaves may attempt to uncurl for perhaps a day or two, and then slam right back down.
GROWTH IS SOOOOOO SLOW. It has taken me 6 months to fill my photolayer, and we are still looking like crap.
S. Lydicus is clearly established in the soil, based on a pervasive odor of geosmin in the entire house.
Now, in late November I dropped 45 new beans of Afghani 1, Medicine Man, NL5xHaze, Green Love Potion, Delicious Cheese Candy, and Samsara's Holy Grail 69.
MANY of these beans damped off. Like, perhaps half.
They went into new soil and perked up, exploded like they were supposed to. A few weeks in though, just stopped again. Havent budged in a month. Now, some of the NL5xH ladies are curling down SO hard, as in, creating complete circles with their leaf blades, as are the original blue dream, and a few of the other individuals are showing run-of-the-mill tip-clawing from nitro tox, some are yellowing from the bottom, but no brown spots or tips, just bright yellowing, maintaining *some* green patches, with no browning until total abscission.
I have recently read that Dynagro needs to be run at about 1/4 of the bottle rate, but I need somebody to confirm what this symptom set is related to. Could it be salt build-up? The BD's were drinking virtually NO water until the actinovate went in. Theyd go a week or two without drying out. Actinovate has brought that down to about 5 days, but we are still mushy and curled. Can't bud like this. Please please help. Temps are 60-80 humidity is 35-60 (cant do much about that in the winter) running dyna grow, cal-mag, and sulfuric acid ph down in tap water filtered through a big blue catalytic (Centaur), phd to 6 ish. I've begun flushing the 5 gallons with 10 gallons of water/each, no observable change in 48 hrs. Will post pics this afternoon. Mad respect to anybody who can wave their wand at this one.
-fshs
Timeline: Oct, 2015, 8 Blue Dream cuttings went into 5 gallon pots (way too big, I know, I was smoking at work again) from an Ez Cloner. Clones were already on the struggle bus with cyano/brown/bullshit something. Downward leaf curl was already pronounced before transplanting. Potted in reused coco on it's 3rd or 4th cycle (yeah, I know.) Using weekly Dynagro Grow at 1 oz/5 gallon (this is now my prime suspect.)
Roots on the girls are absolute shit. Brown, dessicated, brittle. Hypoaspis mites have been observed preying on smaller wood mites in some pots, no correlation between the decomposers and health has been observed. Initially suspected nitrate problems from the bugs, but have elliminated that possibility by removing bugs in a test pot to no avail. The mite-free soil is doing no better. BDs have been treated with imidacloprid and abamectin, no change, no evidence of any bugs above ground with a 40x loupe, not all plants are affected, leading me to rule out arthropod infestation.
SM-90 helped a bit, and began to turn the roots around for a few weeks, but BAM, back to shit in less than a month. Going through the same story with actinovate right now. Initial applications slowed symptoms, and resulted in a root explosion, but continued application is no longer slowing root decay. The roots themselves turn tan, then they deglove like a skinned squirrel. The outside of the roots easily break and slide off the internal "pith" of the root, leaving useless little threads. Even the actinovate-assisted roots are currently turning tan again.
Aspirin was used between 100-325 mg gallon. This helps perhaps the most, but very temporarily. Leaves may attempt to uncurl for perhaps a day or two, and then slam right back down.
GROWTH IS SOOOOOO SLOW. It has taken me 6 months to fill my photolayer, and we are still looking like crap.
S. Lydicus is clearly established in the soil, based on a pervasive odor of geosmin in the entire house.
Now, in late November I dropped 45 new beans of Afghani 1, Medicine Man, NL5xHaze, Green Love Potion, Delicious Cheese Candy, and Samsara's Holy Grail 69.
MANY of these beans damped off. Like, perhaps half.
They went into new soil and perked up, exploded like they were supposed to. A few weeks in though, just stopped again. Havent budged in a month. Now, some of the NL5xH ladies are curling down SO hard, as in, creating complete circles with their leaf blades, as are the original blue dream, and a few of the other individuals are showing run-of-the-mill tip-clawing from nitro tox, some are yellowing from the bottom, but no brown spots or tips, just bright yellowing, maintaining *some* green patches, with no browning until total abscission.
I have recently read that Dynagro needs to be run at about 1/4 of the bottle rate, but I need somebody to confirm what this symptom set is related to. Could it be salt build-up? The BD's were drinking virtually NO water until the actinovate went in. Theyd go a week or two without drying out. Actinovate has brought that down to about 5 days, but we are still mushy and curled. Can't bud like this. Please please help. Temps are 60-80 humidity is 35-60 (cant do much about that in the winter) running dyna grow, cal-mag, and sulfuric acid ph down in tap water filtered through a big blue catalytic (Centaur), phd to 6 ish. I've begun flushing the 5 gallons with 10 gallons of water/each, no observable change in 48 hrs. Will post pics this afternoon. Mad respect to anybody who can wave their wand at this one.
-fshs
