Plant looks diseased

Vasdef · Jan 12, 2022

Hi all. I have a Wedding Cake plant thats struggling.
To my untrained eye it looks like a Calcium deficiency. Its about 10 weeks old.
I changed the water the other day, I got a 3.1 EC reading. Next day it was at 3.5. Water level appears the same, im assuming the plants on lockdown, not taking any nutes. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
(I snipped a bunch of leaves off the plant, so the pics don't look as bad.

lusidghost · Jan 12, 2022

It looks like lockout to me as well. I've never grown in DWC, but I'd imagine dropping the EC low until it burns off the excess in its system would be a good move.

NanoGadget · Jan 12, 2022

Why are you feeding over 3 EC? I ran dwc and rdwc for a couple years and I don't think I was ever over 2 EC and that was with large plants in full flower.

thenasty1 · Jan 12, 2022

yeah youre frying that thing. overfeeding which is causing various lockouts
make up a new res around 2 ec and see what she thinks about it. generally more light=higher ec tolerance, but youre clearly past that on this plant

Herb & Suds · Jan 12, 2022

NanoGadget said:
Why are you feeding over 3 EC? I ran dwc and rdwc for a couple years and I don't think I was ever over 2 EC and that was with large plants in full flower.

It’s all the rage on YouTube :wall:

NanoGadget · Jan 12, 2022

Herb & Suds said:
It’s all the rage on YouTube

from what I've seen of most of these YouTube growers plants I'm not sure why anyone would look to them for guidance. it's basically shitty, fried plants and commercials for garbage lights and snake oil nutrients.

xtsho · Jan 12, 2022

You're frying your plants with too high of EC.

Herb & Suds said:
It’s all the rage on YouTube

Youtube sucks for cannabis growing information. Now there's a whole new crop of growers that think that canuck hack's crispy fried plants look good and they speak of him with admiration when they should be shaking their heads in disgust.

NanoGadget said:
from what I've seen of most of these YouTube growers plants I'm not sure why anyone would look to them for guidance. it's basically shitty, fried plants and commercials for garbage lights and snake oil nutrients.

Makes absolutely no sense. Many toss in some meaningless comment about video editing skills. How in the hell do video editing skills have anything to do with growing a cannabis plant. And from what I've seen most are just crappy drag and drop videos and nothing that requires any skill.

rkymtnman · Jan 12, 2022

like others have said, too high EC. not as much tip burn as i would expect though.

how about the roots? are they healthy? no rot?

ideally you want to see water level dropping alot each day and EC dropping slightly

Billy the Mountain · Jan 12, 2022

rkymtnman said:
like others have said, too high EC. not as much tip burn as i would expect though.

how about the roots? are they healthy? no rot?

ideally you want to see water level dropping alot each day and EC dropping slightly

^^^^
The key to dwc in a single sentence

Budley Doright · Jan 12, 2022

Yes check the roots

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farmerfischer · Jan 12, 2022

What's your PH at?

Vasdef · Jan 13, 2022

NanoGadget said:
Why are you feeding over 3 EC? I ran dwc and rdwc for a couple years and I don't think I was ever over 2 EC and that was with large plants in full flower.

I'm using tap water.

Budley Doright · Jan 13, 2022

Post a pic of the roots and check in the mass as that suffers the most when issues arise.

Vasdef · Jan 14, 2022

70's natureboy · Jan 14, 2022

That's a tough plant, it's taking the abuse pretty well actually.

Vasdef · Jan 14, 2022

Hehe, yeah. Its 10 weeks, only about 13 inches tall.
My guess is a potassium or calcium deficiency, I dont know...

Vasdef · Jan 14, 2022

NanoGadget said:
Why are you feeding over 3 EC? I ran dwc and rdwc for a couple years and I don't think I was ever over 2 EC and that was with large plants in full flower.

The water straight out of my tap is .5 EC. After adding nutes it 3.something.

Vasdef · Jan 14, 2022

farmerfischer said:
What's your PH at?

5.8

potpimp · Jan 17, 2022

That plant is definitely going to die. I give it about 14 more weeks to live.

Vasdef · Jan 19, 2022

potpimp said:
That plant is definitely going to die. I give it about 14 more weeks to live.

Actually, my garbage man took her the other day. Fresh start.

Plant looks diseased

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