DWC sudden wilt!

[Southerncough]

Greetings all, i was having issues with pests in my coco so in an effort to save my genetics moves some clones to dwc buckets...and they were doing AWESOME! Last night i came home to find my healthiest girl shriveled up and dying!! She was doing great the day before.
I do struggle with very high temperatures (air and water) but have managed to stay ahead of root rot with beneficial microbes and water changes and her roots are white and vigorous. Not helping that my air pump is pushing the water temps up either.
Running kc brains mango in DWC
Dyna Gro nutes, ph 5.5, around 1000ppm +/-
Thoughts??
Pic of the healthy plant is her sister who I'm afraid will look like this when i get home

 

[Nunyabiz]

I dunno squat about DWC but sounds like you could benefit from a chiller or maybe 02 emitters instead of air pump to keep water temps down.

 

[Southerncough]

Thanks! Both on my wishlist...both $$$ LOL

 

[Southerncough]

Well...came home tonight to find my other girl equally messed up. Checked the roots and brown slime appeared.
Sigh...
RIP for this run and i guess DWC aint for me.
Fortunately i have some clones rooting but sucks that I'm losing 3 months before next harvest

 

[Southerncough]

So...as a last ditch attempt i pulled both plants from the bloom room and set them in buckets with just a tad of water mixed with a few oz of 3% peroxide kratky style. Doused the leaves with optic foliar spray, Shut down EVERYTHING
in the bloom room and left the girls on the garage floor... Wondering if maybe the new pump i bought at petsmart was heating the water too much. Maybe they'll bounce back? Maybe they're gone? Maybe i can keep them alive enough for a reduced harvest? Fingers crossed!

 

[BeanTownFan420]

You overfed them they are burnt and dying.

 

[BeanTownFan420]

Greetings all, i was having issues with pests in my coco so in an effort to save my genetics moves some clones to dwc buckets...and they were doing AWESOME! Last night i came home to find my healthiest girl shriveled up and dying!! She was doing great the day before.
I do struggle with very high temperatures (air and water) but have managed to stay ahead of root rot with beneficial microbes and water changes and her roots are white and vigorous. Not helping that my air pump is pushing the water temps up either.
Running kc brains mango in DWC
Dyna Gro nutes, ph 5.5, around 1000ppm +/-
Thoughts??
Pic of the healthy plant is her sister who I'm afraid will look like this when i get home

Overfeeding causes that blotchy dead areas and leaf tip burn and curl they are toasted good.

 

[Southerncough]

Thanks! Wonder if switching to plain water for a few days might revive them? Or at least keep alive long enough to grow new fan leaves?

 

[Northern Hydro]

Whoa ..so little info...big prob!
Personally , I'd change their soup...and restart on seed,ING nutes after a serious prune...

 

[Northern Hydro]

Seedling nutes. That was suppose to read ...

 

[Northern Hydro]

Purple stems are also signs of Cali mag / potassium deficiency ..get your shit together !
You can do this !
Good luck!

 

[Southerncough]

Thanks! Now that you mention it i waited 2 weeks to feed them after flipping to 12/12 and went full strength nutes using dyna gro bloom & mag pro with some bloom booster, mammoth P and zyme...last feeding was around 1000ppm...but dammit i should've let them tell me when they were hungry! My plant in veg looks awesome and she's living on an ounce of clonex clone nute and nothing else, so your diagnosis is very plausible. I was totally going down the wrong ave chasing heat issues (which still need to be addressed) but i still have healthy roots. The slime i thought i had found turned out to be stain from dumping extra zyme in there. Heavy pruning to come. May lose a lot of bud sites but maybe i can still salvage the girls and get a little bit of meds. Hoping to carve out enough time this weekend to get my AC running again. Had to shut it down in june because of electrical issues. One power strip got smoked and mrs cough got SCARED. Then the decision to either invest $$$ in proper equipment to maintain a healthy DWC in my tropical climate or go back to coco...hmmm...seriously it's gonna be 90° today and it's November

 

[BeanTownFan420]

Purple stems are also signs of Cali mag / potassium deficiency ..get your shit together !
You can do this !
Good luck!

Lets see your plants.

 

[Northern Hydro]

Taking a winter break. Just one baby chillen. Journal in sig

 

[Southerncough]

Hey guys,
So i checked tonight and one plant had some lower fan leaves that are in fair shape. The other girl's fan leaves were pretty much all shot BUT...hope resides in some small green shoots peaking out around the buds! So i pulled off most of the crispy leaves and put them back in the bloom room under a small LED i had laying around to keep the stress down until they're ready to take on the 315 again. Fingers crossed they'll bush out some new leaves over the next few days. Gonna swap out the fresh water daily see if i can flush out the overdose of nutes.

 

[Southerncough]

Greetings all, well it's been a few days and i think the first mango lady is 95% gone. BUT the second mango lady is still hanging in there. Pretty much all of her big fan leaves have dropped but I found a sample of dyna gro flush on my shelf and gave it a try with water changes every other day, battling to keep the roots clean with peroxide but she still have some small green fan leaves. May not bounce back...or will she? Meanwhile her little sister back in veg is hanging in there. Her leaves are starting to show some stress but she's still pretty alive. Have some cuts i took off her a few weeks back that are starting to root. May take some more in case she takes a turn for the worst.

 

[Southerncough]

Greetings all, so it's been a few more days and mango 1 is 100% gone so i chopped her down. Mango 2 is showing tiny bits of green poking through...not much to look at but I'm still rooting for her. Continuing to swap out buckets of clean water with enzyme and flush solution every other day.

 

[Northern Hydro]

Roots look good to me ? Personally i'd stop flushing , give a half strength nutes, make sure temp , ph, and humidity are good and leave her alone for a week or until she showed me she was hungry ..good luck !

 

[Southerncough]

The roots look pretty good....except there's a grayish mushy patch on part of the roots. Last night i added 2 oz of 3% peroxide and 1oz of clonex clone food to see if they'll take to a little baby food...will see how they look this weekend

 

[Southerncough]

So, turns out my roots are not doing so well. Finding a clearish slime (couldnt get a decent pic of it) on them which after research looks to be a very challenging bacteria colony to rid and Apparently adding h2o2 only makes is happier? Wtf??? So, as another hail mary to save this plant i switched to clean water with a splash of bleach and added an extra air stone. Gonna let it marinate for 24 hours, then pulling her out of the soup, removing the effed up roots and transplanting to coco with lots of chunky perlite and hitting her hard with microbes (earthworm castings, recharge, and mycos) fingers crossed. I normally would've given up already, but mrs cough is running low on meds so I'm trying really hard for at least a small harvest