Will they Make It? (Check out the Picts)

[simondetroit]

Well I fucked my back up on Saturday afternoon. Sunday was the first day I have never checked on the plants. Anyways, I went to check on them this morning (Mon.) and found out I must have unplugged the cord going to the timer for the pumps when I tripped on it leaving the room (this happened because my back was so fu#ked up lAST time I was checking on them). Both racks of plants are only 3 days into flowering although one rack is much older than the other. So the plants actually went through one 12 hour light cycle without any water and only one fan. One rack (the one with the bigger plants) is under a 600 HPS, The other is under an 8 bulb t-5. Both sets of plants seem to be equally damaged leading me to believe that the are sick more from lack of water than fried from the lights? I sprayed the shit out of the foilage with PHed water and ran the water pumps non stop for 15 minutes to give them some water. Do they have a chance? I'm also assuming that if they do make it, this is the kind of stress that creates Hermies?

 

[Steve McStoferson]

Those are some pretty stressed out plants.. I've had a plant dug up by my cat and left for dead in the dark for 2 weeks without soil or water come back, So I'm sure with some TLC those things will come back.. It turned male, but who knows if it would have been a male anyway. I've seen some heavily stressed plants end up producing a lot of bud in the end, so you should be fine

 

[simondetroit]

I've backed the fans off quite a bit to prevent any further drying out. Would it make sense to keep the light off for 24 hours to prevent any further damage? Or would it be beneficial to bring them back to the veg stage? The lights are not due to turn o for another 10 hours. I can turn my ballast down to 400 HPS to give them a break? I know it will delay things a bit, but I just want to keep these things alive.

 

[Weed420]

I would just put them back on schedule and see if they perk up. They look like they still might make it.

 

[Greenthumb422]

I think they'll come back bro!!! What is that system your using? Nft, aero or ebb?

 

[simondetroit]

I think they'll come back bro!!! What is that system your using? Nft, aero or ebb?

Ya, I'm using an aero/nft (stinkbuddies) system. The plants are really starting to look better. I had 4 other plants that were in veg so I replaced them with 4 of the smaller plants that looked pretty bad. As for he bigger plants.... They look rough, but a he'll o alot better than they did. It would really be a shame if. Had to lose them. Ill take some Picts in a few hours. Hopefully I can get some opinions as far as if they can be saved or not. Thanks for taking the time to respond guys. I'll post the Picts in a litle bit.

 

[DEAN420]

Hydro so unforgiving!

Lets see these pictures brother and raise the humidity as much as possible...

 

[simondetroit]

Hydro so unforgiving!

Lets see these pictures brother and raise the humidity as much as possible...

https://www.420magazine.com/gallery/data/500/better4.jpg

You can see the little guys are making a better comeback than the big ones. but if you look at the before picts in the post above you can see that they are standing up allot more. I'll wait till morning I guess and make a decision?

 

[DEAN420]

looking better. Back the light off the one still looking sad, as direct light is not going to benefit them at the moment

 

[ledtester]

I've backed the fans off quite a bit to prevent any further drying out. Would it make sense to keep the light off for 24 hours to prevent any further damage? Or would it be beneficial to bring them back to the veg stage? The lights are not due to turn o for another 10 hours. I can turn my ballast down to 400 HPS to give them a break? I know it will delay things a bit, but I just want to keep these things alive.

Some will come back for you! It's always something you dread doing but it could be worse!

 

[simondetroit]

YHERE GONNA MAKE IT!!! I flushed for 24 hrs, trimmed the shit out of the lower branches,cut out the dried shit, raised the humidity and backed off the lights. Heres some before shots:

Well I wanted to say thanks to the words of encouragement. They seemed to help. A special thanks to everyone that gave me some tips. It was really sad chopping off all of the dead bud sites. I had a few that Iwould just sit and dream about what they would look like in a couple months. But at least all of the hard work and $$ didnt go to waste. Thanks again

 

[Steve McStoferson]

good to see them recover bro

 

[Caddie]

Good lord. Those were some messed up plants. Great to see they made a comeback. I wouldn't have predicted that.

Good work!

 

[Ms.Fox]

Hydro so unforgiving!

Isn't that the truth.

 

[DEAN420]

Isn't that the truth.

hiya foxy, welcome back