something else and i can't believe i didn't consider/remember this before:

as seedlings, i almost lost one of my kids to damping off. it looked beat with the brown ring just at the soil line. i nursed it through because it was one of the only two purple g seeds i had left and didn't want to bin it. slowly, it grew into a young lady and was one of the first to give me cuttings (all of which are dead and gone) and be flowered. i marked the purple g with a blue paper clip. the plant i mentioned before with the oh-so-not-white roots has a blue paper clip.

so the little shit had a form of root rot when it was a seedling, right? and that doesn't just go away, right?!

it also makes sense that my plants are becoming symptomatic as i introduce them to my flowering room as that is where lady g has been since i threw the lights, i think.

fungus, fungus, fungus.......

in the future, i'll use rapid rooters instead of peat pellets and light warrior for seedlings/clones instead of ocean forest. happy frog is loaded with beneficial, too, i think.

since no damp has been pulled, does anyone have a suggestion of a good drench for killing root rot spores??