Quote Originally Posted by HARDDON
No Roots = BIG PROBLEMS

Rock wool isnt the best but it does work and shoundn't have anything to do with your ongoing problems.

Review your thread.

Seems to me trouble started when you applied the neem oil to PREVENT pests, which doesn't work that way.

Perhaps you over did it with the neem oil. Neem can be very very very hard on new growth but even devestating on new roots. There is a chance that some neem got in the stem / root structure and did some permanent damage that the plants couold not recover from.

Regardless, this is a good thread, yet, the final product appears to be a light weight harvest, small buds, and stringy stemmy growth.

Seems a SOG grow is the only way to go with these boxes to fill that grow chamber up. Also, you (in the future) may want to try and top each plant a couple of times to get some horizontal growth.

Veg longer...you went to flower pretty quick.

Anyhow, you are learning, teaching, sharing and discovering all on your own.

And that my friend translates to: SUCCESS....regardless of your harvest.

Thanks for the presentation...I hope it works out.
Harddon,

Thanks for the reply. It definitely is a root problem. Now I must determine the best I can, what caused the stunted roots & root rot. I think you are most likely correct in thinking that the neem is the problem.

My question is, what do you think of this article:

http://growfaq.marijuana.com/growfaq/1667.htm

I followed it word for word thinking that it would be best to apply neem as preventive maintenance. You on the other hand directly contradict this. Do you think this artice is teaching me bad practices?

Also some important facts to note are:

1. My water is always about 86 degrees fahrenheit. I have read that this is too high for DWC, what do you think?

2. The drip system only waters for 5 minutes twice a day. So I doubt that the rockwool is the problem.

I have seen someone successfully do a SGROG with the BloomBox and I am thinking about doing something like this next cycle, due to the fact that I can grow less plants (which is a bonus do to the laws in my city/state).

I never topped my plants because I am a newbie and the general thought of cutting the main grow shoot scares me. But I guess this is something I will just have to get used to.

The reason I went to flower so quick was because I was scared that I was going to grow the plants to tall and burn them. I would imagine if I hadn't of fucked up my roots they would all have been much larger by now.

Man....it is so much cooler learning by doing something CORRECTLY as opposed to learning from my mistakes . But as you stated I am learning. Thanks again for taking time to help a newbie out. I very much appreciate it.

GrowerXLT