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This will be the oddest problem you'll see all day

Discussion in 'Sick Plants and Problems' started by Growing_green, Aug 10, 2021.

  1. #1 Growing_green, Aug 10, 2021
    The story starts a couple of months ago when I noticed some odd stem growths. If you look through the pics you'll see some almost phallic looking growths. They would cleanly snap with pressure. This continued and stranger stem growth started as my plants started to show a range of symptoms from yellowing and twisting leaves to tacoing and turning N toxicity green. The stems started to grow in odd directions and would widen in strange spots. It slowly spread to all of my plants and I ended up killing everything I had. I cleaned everything, threw out all my media, and got some clones. A couple days after, several of the clones are now showing the same symptoms. I've been busy and haven't watered or fed them yet. Please help!


    Info:
    Using Rainbow mix pro with nectar #4 for medium. Using Mars Hydro Ts2000 lights (LED) 300w for veg 450 for veg. Growing in fabric pots and ph is mid 6's, lights are about 24+ inches or so above the plants. Grow room stays in the mid 70's and 50ish humidity. Light cycle is 12/12 for flower and 18/6 for veg. I've had problems with thrips in the past but have gotten them under control, still dealing with some fungus gnats but I don't see how either of those could do this. Once a week or so I make a compost tea (worm castings, kelp, bat guano, recharge, and some top soil/compost. I have introduced lady bugs, predatory mites, and beneficial nematodes.

    You'll see a myriad of problems in the picture, most of those came after the oddities I'm stem growth.
     

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  2. #2 theepopeofdope, Aug 10, 2021
    Not odd at all. When you have root rot, fungus, it spreads. If you use any of your equipment from prior grows that was not fully sterilized with an antifungal you will again get diseased plants.

    You said you cleaned everything but you missed something.
     
  3. #3 Growing_green, Aug 10, 2021
    Have you seen this type of stem deformation before? It's got to be something other then my tools and pots. The new plants are still sitting in the containers they arrived in. I've added little but water. Haven't touched them with the shears or anything else. I'm wondering about it being carried by insects? Haven't noticed any besides gnats, but that doesn't mean they aren't there.
     
  4. #4 HardDrive, Aug 11, 2021
    What is all that shit you are putting in the dirt?
    You are killing them with something you are doing, looks like you are burning the shit out of em'.
    You got a couple good plants it looks like, the others are shit, pull em' and shit can em'.

    You should have 30% perlite in the dirt, a PH of 6.5--7.0 and a run off PPM of around 400 at the stage of those decent looking plants.
    Make sure you got plenty of drain holes in there.
    Looking for bugs, you take a jewlers loupe of at least 8x and inspect the underside of the leaves, they will be very small, and look for webbing around the stems.
     
  5. #5 Growing_green, Aug 11, 2021
    Using nectar for the gods #4 for medium. Those "decent looking" plants in the pic only have one or two stems that are like that, the rest is a grave yard.
     
  6. #6 420JoeBlow, Aug 11, 2021
    Either some sort of disease or genetic mutant.
     
  7. #7 Growing_green, Aug 11, 2021
    I'm guessing that means kill everything, bleach the hell out of everything, and start over?
     
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