Still having unknown plant problemsa

[darbolah]

Thanks guys, soz for the little rage im trying to stop smoking on weekdays so im a bit crabby :P As for the ppm i dont have a metre so its fairly hard.

Would it be possible to bring the lights back to veg and maybe just take a few clones from these plants and restart my grow in soil ? Say if i took 8 clones, do any of them have a chance of surviving ?

Thanks guys

[Weedhound]

Darbolah put them in a bigger container.....if you want add some soil to it. Those plants aren't gone by any means....they just need some tweaking.

I like the idea of repotting them into soil.....just move everything into a larger container with quality soil in it. Hopefully that will solve your problem.

Good luck.

[darbolah]

Well i had another plant in another pot and i repotted it into soil and it died because the perlite doesnt encourage a good rootball, rather scattered roots and it was to hard to salvage every last root. I just want to finish this grow and maybe get something to smoke. My next grow i am going to use soil with some perlite but for the moment i just want to help these plants make it through the next 7 weeks and then i will ditch the hempy bucket. Iv put the pot back into the resevoir so the roots wont be so dry. I actually think it was underwatering or undernute but i will soon see.

Also since you seem to know alot about growing, what sort of soil would be simple and easy to grow in with minimal repotting and minimal water testing as i dont have ppm metre ?

Thanks for the help WH

[Weedhound]

Well there has to be another answer here because I've seen some nice finished stuff in hempy buckets.....never GROWN in one mind you, but seen some nice results.

I like Fox Farms Oceans Forest or Happy Frog. My thought is that if you add some soil it will help with a couple things.....add some good nutes and buffer your ph at the same time.

Worth a try before you dump them. They look like they were growing happily for awhile so I think your issue is fixable.....it's just figuring out exactly what the fix is.

[darbolah]

thanks weedhound, im gonna try my best to sort the problem even if it just means keeping it alive for a few weeks. I dont know how soil would go as the bottom 2 inches of the pot is filled with water so i probs cant put soil near the bottom but i could try and mix some through the top i spose. If i was to use organic soil and add about 30% soil where abouts would i want my nutes and ph ?

Thanks mate

[Weedhound]

FREEZE MISTER!!!! :wtf: What did you say???? The last two inches have water in them??? Constantly??? Are those roots sitting in water young man?!?! Because if they are without areation (sp?) there's your problem right there......your roots are drowing. Get rid of the sitting water and I bet your problem will go away. What kind of drainage do you have go on there?

[Weedhound]

thanks weedhound, im gonna try my best to sort the problem even if it just means keeping it alive for a few weeks. I dont know how soil would go as the bottom 2 inches of the pot is filled with water so i probs cant put soil near the bottom but i could try and mix some through the top i spose. If i was to use organic soil and add about 30% soil where abouts would i want my nutes and ph ?

Thanks mate

Stinky!! Soil questions!! Help!!
(this always works for me. )

[darbolah]

we, to answer your question the plants are sitting in 2' of water but the level changes due to the pump system. The aim of the hempy bucket is to have 2-3' of water present at all times at the bottom and the roots "accommodate" themselves around the water accordingly. The tread i read about them it doesnt need airstones cause the water isnt living in the roots its just touching enough to revieve moisture.

If iv got this wrong please let me know but i did have the plants out of the water as i thought it was the problem when stinky told me the water was no good. Then after reading some threads about hempy buckets iv decided to just adjust my ph, nutes and waterlevels to what they suggest is good.

Let me know what you think

[Weedhound]

Well I can't speak for that but I'd certainly get rid of the water, establish good drainage and transplant the perlite and everything you can into a larger container ALSO with good drainage and quality soil. Then I'd water with plain ph correct tap water until I was sure it was doing better and THEN reconsider nutes.

The whole water in the bottom thing just sounds wrong to me.

Good luck whichever way you choose to treat it. Keep us updated.

[darbolah]

any hint or tip on transplanting to soil as the last time i did it i killed the plant. Also because the roots might be tangled together, any comments ?