Salt build up! Fucked my plant!

[jpeg666]

So I knew my plant was bad, but under the HPS light it didn't look as bad as it really was....When I switched off the HPS and the floros on I almost cried...

I flushed my plants and all the damage has hopefully stopped....it hasn't seemed to be getting worse.

but here you go....



The top colas are just fucked beyond belief....... Burnt every single tip burnt on all the flowers.... All growth has stopped, how can I get the plant to recover and jump start it growing again?

I already flushed the cubes 2 times in 2 days. Let me make this very clear....I did not make the nutes too strong, It was salt build up in the rockwool and I did not know.

So....I think all the damage has stopped and the ppm in the cubes are back down to the hundreds....they were in the 4-5k when I flushed them.......

Can the plant recover? If not do I just water it until harvest? Or can I jump start growth again?

 

[imchucky666]

WOW, WTF dude?!?!?!
You were doing so good....
I read in a thread last week that salt buildup is accentuated by letting the medium get overly dry for longer than usual, but other than that, I got nothin'.
Don't feel bad, but I'm gonna use you for experience, and stick to soil.

 

[jpeg666]

Yea dude! I was doing perfect absolutely nothing wrong! Then all of the sudden they just stopped growing....I didn't know what was wrong no bad signs...just stopped. then a couple days later bottome leaves started yellowing...then tips started going, then I flushed but it was so strong already and in the plant it did some damage I could not prevent by the time I saw it.

 

[jpeg666]

The damn rockwool........It is my own fault for not checking to see if rockwool needed to be flushed often...I guess I didn't read anything about it because all I read about rockwool was Hydro stuff. I was hand watering so it wasn't getting water through it constantly. I even watered with just plain water but that still wasn't enough...

 

[imchucky666]

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[jpeg666]

sooooo.....anyone going to give me advice or tips on how to recover from this? Please and thanks?

 

[bigbudahluva]

U did a flush already, so all i could suggest is get a chemical flush as itl clean the plant out. Water for 2 weeks then half nutes and build up. I avoid this by regularly flushing. Flower for extra 2 weeks also. peace bro i feel gutted as u were doing great for first grow. Message me if u want any advice bro.

 

[jpeg666]

Yea...luckily it was just one plant, the other plant seems to be doing just fine...other than not being able to support itself...lol buds got it top heavy and since I LST'ed it, the stems arn't sturdy enough lol here is a picture



This plant is still doing great, flushed it when I flushed the other one and no signs of burning

 

[jpeg666]

The plant that got burnt to hell is now sucking up water like a mad man.....Since I flushed her, now I water every other day because the cube gets light. I believe this is a good sign that she is recovering, starting to drink more again which maybe means that she is also trying to get some food too? what do you think?

 

[Jeffdogg]

First flush the plant with about 4-5 gallons of water. Then transplant so the root tips can get away from that mess and get ion some newer soil.

How much water did you use to flush? Marijuana plants are very resilient, It might be trying to get better but id still suggest the transplant for sure and if when you water it and the runoff is dark you didnt flush well enough you want almost clear. Flush first then transplant . It'll be fine sucks its in flowering though its gonna have quite an impact on it cause its gonna take a couple weeks for it to get better and get out of the shock. you might even get a few seeds out of it too. Female plants produce seeds under stress its a survival trait.

 

[jpeg666]

First flush the plant with about 4-5 gallons of water. Then transplant so the root tips can get away from that mess and get ion some newer soil.

They are in nothing but rockwool cubes unfortunately

 

[Jeffdogg]

Yikes!! Well if the plant starts doing worse then possibly try to tear the rockwool from the roots (yeah i said it) and when i say tear i mean little bits at a time just shread pieces off till you get to the roots and carefully place the rootball/plant into soil and let it finish there. That would be my only other suggestion

 

[jpeg666]

Yikes!! Well if the plant starts doing worse then possibly try to tear the rockwool from the roots (yeah i said it) and when i say tear i mean little bits at a time just shread pieces off till you get to the roots and carefully place the rootball/plant into soil and let it finish there. That would be my only other suggestion

I flushed a gallon through it one day and the run off was in the 4-5k's !!! then the next day I ran another gallon through then the run off was about 300-500, now I have been watering it every other day.

It seems to be settling down but now the tops of the flowers are yellowing, do you think it is just from hen trauma or do you think she is starving now?

 

[Jeffdogg]

Well when it comes to salt buildup you usually will end up with nutrient lockout, thats why i kept suggesting the transplant cause thats usually the fastest remedy. She is prob getting hungry for some nutes, the "burnt" looking leaves can be from a nute deficiency (I believe potassium) Unfortunately if you give it nutes theres a chance you can make it worse or it will have little to no effect.

All you can do is keep giving it water for now, once you start seeing growth going back to normal then start giving it some nutrients (cut the does in half and gradually work your way up to the normal dose)

 

[jpeg666]

Here she is as of today, The top colas took the brunt of the burn damage....They look bad.. Here are the top colas

Here is the rest of the girl.




The lower flowers seemed to be unaffected, and all the leaves for the most part still look healthy.

It was the just biggest top flowers that took the damage, considering that is where all the massive amounts of nuted were being pumped too

 

[WattSaver]

I have to ask,, What ph have you had your feed water at????

To me it looks like you've had a ph lockout of mag and most likely cal also.

Recovery,,,,, Everything that is burnt will remain burnt, it will not heal. But if corrections are made then new growth will all be good.
You've flushed (with tap I read) so now you have a big rockwool cube that has a ph of around 7.0 would be my guess. That cube needs to be at a ph of 5.5. So once it's dried out a bit, hit it with full nutes ph'ed to 5.5

 

[jpeg666]

I have to ask,, What ph have you had your feed water at????

To me it looks like you've had a ph lockout of mag and most likely cal also.

Recovery,,,,, Everything that is burnt will remain burnt, it will not heal. But if corrections are made then new growth will all be good.
You've flushed (with tap I read) so now you have a big rockwool cube that has a ph of around 7.0 would be my guess. That cube needs to be at a ph of 5.5. So once it's dried out a bit, hit it with full nutes ph'ed to 5.5

Where did you read that I flushed with TAP? I have an R/O system. Also I always feed with a ph of 5.5-6.0.

 

[jpeg666]

I have to ask,, What ph have you had your feed water at????

To me it looks like you've had a ph lockout of mag and most likely cal also.

Recovery,,,,, Everything that is burnt will remain burnt, it will not heal. But if corrections are made then new growth will all be good.
You've flushed (with tap I read) so now you have a big rockwool cube that has a ph of around 7.0 would be my guess. That cube needs to be at a ph of 5.5. So once it's dried out a bit, hit it with full nutes ph'ed to 5.5

Also if you read everything it is not from PH lock out of mag....The freakin build up was up to 5000ppm it was burnt badly....

 

[jpeg666]

I will continue feeding with ph'ed water though until I see some improvement, then start feeding slowly thanks for the suggestions

 

[WattSaver]

The damn rockwool........It is my own fault for not checking to see if rockwool needed to be flushed often...I guess I didn't read anything about it because all I read about rockwool was Hydro stuff. I was hand watering so it wasn't getting water through it constantly. I even watered with just plain water but that still wasn't enough...

I took plain water to mean straight tap water.