Quote Originally Posted by budbro28
this sucks...so bad...they looked soo good...now they are all crispy its weird...like half the plant is perky and the other half is wilted and has dried brown spots...
Yikes! The new growth is not healthy.

Looks like a high PH lockout now.
But the dry and crumbly combined with the clawing of the new growth says Itty bitty broad mites.
They are less than a millimeter in size.
Impossible to see without magnification.
Get a >100x 'scope and have a look.

If not, that oily film is a clue.

"Some rainbow water came out the bottom and then started to get clear towards the end."

How does it smell?

Aloha,
Weeze