Help Save my plants

[MdmPele]

Hello birdboy,

Thought I'd drop by since you read my message on the other thread. One of the harshest things that can happen to plant in hydro is overnute....your plants are literally burned up. The damaged portions will not recover I'm afraid, although if the plants produce new growth it should NOT look burned if you have repaired the problem.

You have quite the uphilll battle ahead of you but as I said I personally feel you are in the right hands with Mdm P. Her advice is exactly the same I would give except to say that make sure your ph stays between 5.6-6.0
Check it as often as you need to to make that happen. .

best of luck

garsh, thanx. I am a dirt grower, not hydro -- maybe I stuck my foot in my mouth?


what I ment by flush in your hydro is to change out the water completely, balance the PH in the new water, which you did, but don't add any nutes, only Hydrogen Peroxide at a rate of 1tblspoon per gallon.

(use the 3% hydrogen peroxide solution you get at a store or pharmacy, otherwise mix your H2O2 to 3% solution, then add 1tblsp per gallon)

Allow this water-only to cycle through your plants for one 24 hour period, then start your nutes at quarter strength.

The flushiing helps get the chemicals out of the plants roots and allows the plant to just rinse itself out. the plant, if viable, will do the rest.

You will not see the damaged leaves renew.. as weedhound said. you should begin to see new growth w/in two to four days.


you're alternate solution is to start over -- I know... weeks wasted. and I don't think these plants are that bad... but always a consideration. toughest thing I've ever had to do was throw out a sick plant that I couldn't bring back.

MdmPele Reviewed by MdmPele on 03-30-2009. Help Save my plants I made a new growers mistake and NUKED my plants in the 2 week stage. I have changed my water and dropped PPms to 250 will my plants come back or are they too far gone? Please advise....:( Rating: 5

[birdboy]

Thank you both ... I hope i have not wasted weeks and time ..i guess its a mistake that iwill never repeat.
I have flushed my plants and found the plain water to go up in nut so i am assuming that the plant roots themselves carried way to much nutes in them
I will wait and see
hopefully didnt kill completely
thanks again for your expert advise
youve been helpful

[Weedhound]

Plus if you can bring the girls back it will be an excellent notch in your growing belt. That's how I've learned everything I know.....by doing it wrong and having to fix it.

[MdmPele]

Plus if you can bring the girls back it will be an excellent notch in your growing belt. That's how I've learned everything I know.....by doing it wrong and having to fix it.

What Weedhound said! :thumbsup:

[MdmPele]

Thank you both ... I hope i have not wasted weeks and time ..i guess its a mistake that iwill never repeat.
I have flushed my plants and found the plain water to go up in nut so i am assuming that the plant roots themselves carried way to much nutes in them
I will wait and see
hopefully didnt kill completely
thanks again for your expert advise
youve been helpful

wow. kewl.

if you think you need to, it wouldn't hurt to run another flush on them in a couple days if you continue to see the ppm's rise. especially if the ppms are too high!

shampoo, rinse, repeat...
*giggle*

(nevermind)

[birdboy]

thank you
i can tell you they are starting to look like they are coming back
we did notice the PPMS kept rising se we rinsed again just to make sure we had nutes out. we also added some B-1 to help. thanks for your advice i will postpics when babies are looking better.
thanks doctors...lol

[Weedhound]

If they seem to be coming back that's GREAT! and props to you for good nursing.

[birdboy]

o the plants are not coming back as well as we thought the nutes are stillrsin . we have done what mdmpele sugests and rinse and repeat. OUR NEW question is .......
should or could we transplant these sickly girls into soil.....
save the hassle. or are they going to go more into shock...
right now they are turning from the DARK grean to a light green and the brown patches still are carring up the leaves. \we thought maybe we could transplant into soil and stop trying to be professional hydro and start over as a DIRT FARMER
is this possible??

[Weedhound]

I've nevert tried it. Mdm P? Got any updated pics birdboy?

[birdboy]

I dont have updated pics just yet. will post soon.
heres the scoop.
I pulled one Feminized seeded baby, I found to be a male, from the pack I put him seperate away from the rest under floressant light vs the 1000 w hps where all the other sick girls are at.
I am assuming the male became Male due to the stress I put her under . BUT now under florressant light and away from pack he is growning 2 plus inches and looking great, still has leaves with nuke burn but got NEW GROWTH
I am WONDERING now if I have issues more ... such as enough oxygen supply to room there all in? I have humidifer, heater to control heat at 72 for night, a box air conditioner to control cool, I am noticiing a a white flim on my mylar on the walls. My venting is coming and going from the attic, 6".Ny room is a 7 ft by 7 ft by 10 feet tall lights are 3.5 ft above plants ,so not to burn . the tempature stays 76-80 at all times under light, at night doesnt drop below 72
I ma thinking of taking the girls out of the hydro am am way too confused.
What do you think ?