Ok, as I've mentioned, I've been having problems almost from the get go with my Vanilla Kush. I'm almost to the point where I think she was just not meant to be.
It started from the beginning:
- I dropped the seed on the floor and had to try and quickly find it before the cat (who saw it fall...) got it.
- The seed germinated upside down in the rockwool cube and had to flip before growing (cuz I was afraid to touch it)
- I tore some of her roots when changing my system from a multiport Bubbleponics to 5 gal DWC
Despite it all, she was really trying, and I tried to help her, but today when I lifted up the lid to look at her roots, they were all brown and when I lifted it, I got a huge "snot ball" (sorry
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I
am after all newbie and I think it's a rule that I gotta kill something before I am fully accepted in the club, but I'm still trying not to let my Vanilla Kush be the sacrifice.
I made one last ditch effort to save her. For all her troubles, she is only 6" tall with no large fan leaves left and no side branching...just a lot of tight growth along the central stem. So I decided to treat the entire plant like a clone. I chopped her off even with the hydroton, trimmed off all but the top couple of clusters, angle cut her, dipped her in Clonex and stuck her in a newly soaked rockwool cube. My current clone success rate is 93% (13 rooted out of 14 attempts) so I figured I've got nothing to lose that I'm probably not going to lose anyway.
What do you think? Did I do the right thing?
