Tons of rain

So I’m doing this outdoor with a tidy cats bucket and before I did too much research about soils and not to use clay I threw some gravel in the bottom of bucket to help water but it had red clay and I think all the heavy rain has joined the potting soil and clay into a mush in the bottom

I believe it’s root rot because I got up yesterday was good and then after lunch I look back out and I start seeing all these bad leaves and I mean fast



So I was thinking here’s my idea for a fix hopefully
So dig a hole Maybe 2 to 3ft.²
Line the hole with black liner?(lmk should I or not?)
Fill with 50% to 60% potting soil
15% to 25% composted cow manure
then some perlite for the rest and mix it all
After all is mixed have a hole in center a few inches deeper so I can put new soil Completly around old root and dirt structure
cut container bottom down the side so I don’t touch root system and put in to hole and remove cut plastic trying to shock as little as possible

then should I water to break old dirt to join new dirt or just let dry do it own thing

Any other ideas, please help!!!

So basically balmy question is
Should I repot or leave alone and cover during rain so soil dries out a good bit

what are you feeding your plants?

I just noticed it’s not the rain I put a dish behind my fan and had vinegar dripping into it I changed it out and got what left of the baking soda I could a just ouloured some vinegar in the container it fizzed like hell but I forgot to take out of drain do you think the left over sodium acetate did this to plant cause it rained and made that dish over flow into drip pan

I read on another post that also co2 poisoning kinda looks like that also with super wilt and spotting on ends of the fans

So I reduced it down to fungus gnats, root rot, both or bottom of container taking in the sodium acetate I’ll see in a few days

If this all happened very quickly, then yes there was likely some sort of toxicity that caused this. Were you trying to make your own CO2?

Usually gnats or root rot dontshow symptoms within a matter of hours but a toxic reaction can show symptoms quickly. You may want to run some extra water to leach that out and then give a light feeding.

So I should just flush with about 10 to 12 gallons of water then refeed?

I have a new fire pit outside it black it has a bunch of algae in it and blended with some bloom booster and ever since I have had dark dark runoff Do you think this ya anything to do with it it’s been almost two weeks and I still get that dark runoff so maybe the flush is a good idea

So I flushed and added some more perlite but it rain Ed again last night and it’s still going lightly now I think I’m going to put into a bigger tub with some potting mix and perlite 50/50 so the mush in the bottom will spread out and finally dry out

Edit: leaves still look like shit no where near as green as it was And 2 questions

1: I just hit week 5 of flower please help!
Will the bigger pot transplant help? cause in the beginning All the through pre flower clay that was around gravel didn’t effect but I’ve had like 3 weeks of hard rain and now I have a feelin it is mush around the bottom cause I can see red and grey clay sediment that comes out when watering but clay is probably bottom 15-20% with some gravel so that’s why I’ve been wondering about transplanting, just feel safer asking first

2: if a plant is stunted in flower will I just need be left out for a few more weeks to finish as normal or will harvest same time and just be reduced completely around