Quote Originally Posted by prettygirlsmokes420
Here goes again guys, another silly question...
The stems on the damaged plants are hollow (not that I've looked at the nondamaged ones closely like that yet, as I've not yet had to take them down) but its not like its a tiny hole. I could make canna-straws with my stems! I managed to carefully take a pic, but it doesn't show the real problem. The stem is cracking from the inside-out. The hole all the way through the heart of the stem, is very bad in some places. Only on a couple plants does it look as if they are drying out com the inside. All my techniques and lights, ect. Are all good, this is the result of continuing my grow of the sick plants I mentioned in another thread awhile back. I wanted to wait and see what they would do (hopefully recover) but I'm not that lucky.
Can somebody tell me what I did wrong??
Shoulda took em out when they first started goin all funny, but curiosity killed the cat!
I wanna learn from whatever I did wrong...





PGS420
I've said this before.. No Question is stupid if you don't know,right?

That hole in the stalk is the plant water way. That is the first place the water is sucked up and distributed amongst all the hungry,vegetation. That seems to be the main stalk/top. Is it? That's the one that takes alot more care when taking it as a cutting. You gotta be fast when you take that part of the plant as a cutting to be a clone. Harder to root,too! Lots of risk for an embolisim or air bubble to present itself and kill the cutting. I've taken cuttings from all parts of the plant and the lower to middle branches do best. Just the fact that they have more plant matter in the stems versus the hollow ones.

I'm not really sure what has gone wrong.. I hope that some of what I posted is a help to ya!

Ga.
GaGrown Reviewed by GaGrown on . hollowed stems? Here goes again guys, another silly question... The stems on the damaged plants are hollow (not that I've looked at the nondamaged ones closely like that yet, as I've not yet had to take them down) but its not like its a tiny hole. I could make canna-straws with my stems! I managed to carefully take a pic, but it doesn't show the real problem. The stem is cracking from the inside-out. The hole all the way through the heart of the stem, is very bad in some places. Only on a couple plants does Rating: 5