outdoor root rot?

[mudballs]

Off the subject question. Beautiful land you have.Any deer in the area. I have 23 acres but a bunch of deer and wasn’t sure if deer would demolish my crops.

yes i have a local population of deer, and i can honestly say they dont mess with them, ever. out here it's very wild so my guess is they have their diet, their pathways, and they don't wander off that much as deer in more densely populated areas

 

[bam0813]

My findings exactly that and they know I love venison

 

[natureboygrower]

Same. Heavy woods here as well. The local teen blackbears give me more problems than deer.

@mudballs I'm with thumper, looks like borer symptons. But if you dont see the sawdust/frass, it leaves me stumped. Gl

 

[marcospartida]

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Look what i woke up to
I've never seen this before in an outdoor above ground. Must be root rot? Thinking about doing an H2O2 soil drench to try and rescue it. Anybody got any other input? She's a goner i fear. was going fine than blam-o

All that land i would have a farm ..but this happened to me gophers and termites did this to me..

 

[mudballs]

All that land i would have a farm ..but this happened to me gophers and termites did this to me..

im in a state that still hates people like us, so i gotta be smart and scale up slowly. right now i wouldn't get in any real trouble with just these 5 plants...the local leo's are kinda friendly towards me and would just tell me to chop them down...the more my state softens up ill enlarge the grows over time.

 

[mudballs]

99% sure this is what i did to the plant without knowing it. should anyone experience a similar issue
Water stress-further reading
humble enough to admit my faults, so that next time im the wiser
edit:friggin hate math, even more so the higher college level crap

 

[mudballs]

Holy shit...it was termites...update coming...

 

[mudballs]

so friend came over, we walked out there.after a while we decided we should pull it up and inspect, he said he'd make butter from the trics already on it and i wanted to see what was up. so he yanked it up. i had no real signs of this impending doom, maybe thursday or friday...2 days before sudden death...just a couple yellow leaves, it was a fast death.
Lessons learned so far 1) i had dirt too far up stalk.no bueno. 2) my watering may be right as i thought and i went through anxiety for nothing while i tried double checking myself.
When we first yanked it, damage readily visible.

close up of termite entry hole

made a video of us busting it open, it was his idea. I prefer just regular mother nature at the wheel so i wont go out and buy 4lbs of Seven insecticide....just gotta keep dirt off stalk is what im taking away from this.

 

[natureboygrower]

That is wild. Termites INSIDE your plant I thought those bastards liked wet wood?

 

[mudballs]

That is wild. Termites INSIDE your plant I thought those bastards liked wet wood?

yep gutted the plant, every branch a termite could fit into

 

[Greenpitking]

You have to treat the ground around your plants.

 

[mudballs]

You have to treat the ground around your plants.

do you have a favorite anti-termite treatment or any recommendations? i think it was just having dirt too far up the stalk, giving them the chance to bore in, but i don't mind hearing some treatment?preventative measure ideas

 

[Southernontariogrower]

Wouldnt let me see pic but if rotted above look for those pill bugs, they were eating around stalks on a few plants.

 

[mudballs]

Wouldnt let me see pic but if rotted above look for those pill bugs, they were eating around stalks on a few plants.

it was defo termites, i got a clear pic of them eventually

 

[Southernontariogrower]

it was defo termites, i got a clear pic of them eventually

Yes l read further and saw that. I didnt think woodlouse or termites bothered cannabis, learn something new.

 

[mudballs]

Check the stems for bore holes there will be a pile of sawdust at the entrance they like to bore in just below where a leaf grows off the stalk.

thumper wins with the borer call....there was no sawdust i could see due to the entry being sub surface...i feel dumb, but happy to have resolved it

 

[mudballs]

All that land i would have a farm ..but this happened to me gophers and termites did this to me..

fellow termite survivors club local chapter #570

 

[Southernontariogrower]

Think all healthy plants are getting de around stalks today if rain lets up, spraying for pm too, as soon as day breaks. Train through though nights in veg. And only spray when sun not up. Fucken tired before flowering ever comes. But do they ever love it. Awesome post Mudballs, thanks.

 

[thumper60]

thumper wins with the borer call....there was no sawdust i could see due to the entry being sub surface...i feel dumb, but happy to have resolved it

I thought that looked like borer damage BT or spinosad works great at killing the worm before it bores in.

 

[bam0813]

Thats exactly what it was. Termites don't eat living plants or trees. I didnt see any termites on or in it. Usually will be dirt/mud in termite galleries