not growing, start over?

let me begin by saying I'm going to give you the short version of this truly long tale,

I have many nirvana snow whites that aren't much of anything anymore. They should be going into flower next week but only 6" tall lmao...

what I did realize was I had a bad pH meter, bought new I thought it was calibrated, no no no, big mistake!

by the time I figured it out 2.5 weeks ago, I was devastated. The actual pH was 13. being new to the world of growing I didn't realize my tap water was about 7 and I should have been using a small amount of down I was adding up.

anyways you live in learn definitely took something away from experience now it seems like they're still stuck, its been 2 weeks since I fix them and they look exactly the same, and they started out great vigorous growth nice little bushes now it's literally a stem with a patch of tiny leaves on top, it's a very sad display.

anyways I just begin to germinate a bunch of other seeds for round two now my question is, should I just cut these off at the root ball and make them clones? Or throw them out, give them a bit longer?

I've never heard of such a thing but it seems like their growth has been permanently stunted...

all my numbers are perfect I checked and rechecked did it all over again about 10 times. I can find no other flaws besides the pH meter which has been corrected in failsafe put in place just in case. so definitely learning but what do I do about what's left of them?

I hate to tell somebody to just cut their plants down especially with out pics, but there's not much point in flowering a 6" plant, especially if it already hasn't been growing.
If it's not getting any bigger and you have extra seeds/money, I'd say chop.

Well there only 6" so no scissors nessecary lol.

I didn't add a picture because it would just make you tell me to take them down lol

Im fine with that but I kind of wanted to try the strain.

you know I could always flower them, I might get a few grams lol

Or even use some silver nitrate spray I got on then to get more seeds.

but seriously wood turning them into clones possibly jump-start them?

Ive seen much stranger things

How big is the pot?? I had this happen to me before. Check for rootbound. If you're rootbound just transplant into a 5 gallon bucket man. Give it 4 days and you should start seeing growth. I vegged a plant for like 5 or 6 months ones because I got rootbound and didnt notice Until it was too late But I was determined to not let it go to waste so I grow it out. Good luck dude... post a pic

Not rootbound, its in a tote, dwc

Here's a before pic

Here's an after pic

Yes it is same girl, I was getting ready to start a DWC setup and as soon as I noticed the pH was that off I figured there was no point in Flushing the soilso I just went ahead and transferred, by the time I transferred it was already badly damaged

have a good sense of what I'm doing here, I just didn't think the pH lockout would act this way, I assumed they would either dialer for rebound not stay like this for this long

jonjon777 said:

Yes it is same girl, I was getting ready to start a DWC setup and as soon as I noticed the pH was that off I figured there was no point in Flushing the soilso I just went ahead and transferred, by the time I transferred it was already badly damaged

have a good sense of what I'm doing here, I just didn't think the pH lockout would act this way, I assumed they would either dialer for rebound not stay like this for this long

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Whats the water level? It Looks like its almost sitting in water or water is almost touching the netpot.
Do you have bubbles in your bucket?
Are you using rockwool ?
Is it hot inside the tote?

It could take weeks from transplant from soil to dwc in optimal conditions. I think you should drop water level. Make sure water is bubbling and clean . If not maybe add a little h202 and drop temps around the tote.

67 degrees, water level is below netpot, no rockwool, only hydroton, peroxide present

that was an old pic, the first day I set it up, I removed Rock will the next day n put hydroton in place of it.

What else?

Its been two weeks plus, they were very dark green, the color has improved for sure, if there is no new through honestly I'm very surprised any of them live through this it is a very resilient strain but I was told it would take 7 to 10 days to rebound, now you mentioned weeks?
what's your experience with this?

Ah you transferred from soil to dwc, it's a lot of stress on the plant and root zone, hard recovery for a plant.
I think cloning would work as long as they root.

also another reason I switch to this setup was I didn't have any more soil on hand only peat moss vermiculite and perlite, I figured trying to flush a pH 13 part was a waste of time, no I do have some ocean forest on hand, I have another handful of seeds germinating at the moment. I'm going to do half and bubble bucketsin the other half inin soil, just in case haha lol

pH levels have finally stabilized they were going from 6 to 7. 2, I now have been locked in between 5.9 to 6.1.