@THT , you can add 'drought resistant' to the menu.
Jewels messed up big time.
My son called me up to help him with a roofing job, and I was still driving Skip, with my wife, on the night shift.
I managed to stay up late enough to turn the lights off/ on in the flower room. I however, neglected to make it downstairs into the veg room,,, on the second and third night.
These were in the 1G up pots, I photo'd last week.
Look on the lower right,,,there is a white bucket.
Regard the lower left,,,there is a yellow bag.
What do you see in between?
The hydro triple is looking mostly dead on the top left. Top right looks slightly worse.
The third plant is actually in the centre of the photo !
'F'Nflatlined.
Friday 5:30 pm
Are you familiar with that gut wrenching feeling of dropping your grinder on the floor ? Or watching your cell phone fall down concrete steps?
I love my plants. I make jokes about tip toeing to the flower room, and I giggle while I mix up delicious imbibements for them.
My door was sealed tight for odour control.
It was 30 C ( 80ish? F ) at the ceiling.
I first glanced at my cuttings on the right and they looked just fine. In the centre of the room my rooted clones all looked happy enough. Glancing left,my guts got hot and dropped right through my bunghole.
There is a plant in the front-centre of that photo.
I realized that I was pacing and that is my cue to triage.
Airway, breathing, circulation
I stood there, with my hands in my pockets, and struggled to come up with a plan.
I didnt have any Bronto (it's got what plants crave) , so I knew it was up to me to concoct the ultimate Elixir, that would bring sad, soif, sac back to life.
If anyone is interested here is the recipe :
I took a rectal probe and found the soil to be 24C. I match the water temperature exactly.
I recalled in that moment, that severe droughts can cause a massive pH upswing. I didn't want two swings in one day, so I aimed a little high @ 6.6 pH.
I utilized non-ammonicaly sourced nitrogen with 30% RO to further reduce Ph down-trend.
I added a carbo-boost, vitamin-b and a squeeze of humics to initiate uptake.
I have pussy-footed around healthy plants before and I always seem to regret it. I usually have been feeding these at 500 parts per million. I was slightly apprehensive - but I knew there was some magical osmotical imbalance that had to be to be tipped. As such, I mixed up the resuscitative juice at 350 parts per million.
It felt strong to me , however I believed that something had to push the juice in.
I took a pencil and drove it to the bottom of the pot, at least half a dozen times.
I proceeded to pour 2 gallons into each pot ,until it bled across the floor.
I continued to run the lights 24/7, however I did move the 400 watt MH from 14", back to 30 inches from the canopy.
At no time did I touch the plants, and when I left the room ,the door remained slightly ajar to slowly cool the room down.
I managed to return to the veg room about 17 hours later.
Sometimes I get lucky.
This.
To this.
Hey, where did the plant in the middle come from?
The lowest leaves are slightly butthurt, although the rest of the plant is no worse for wear.