WTF... overwatering?

petert

petert

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Thanks for chiming in everyone. I might try on last ditch effort of watering in a solution of H2o2 for the roots tomorrow.. if that doesn't help I chop her down.. ditch the soil in the fabric pot and put one of my reserve plants I have for sale in that spot.
Too bad.. it is/was a beautiful Agent Orange plant.
 
slow drawl

slow drawl

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Looks like wilting to me @petert. A couple grows back I had a plant act similar to this, I would water it till run off but still needed water before the rest did. I finally sat down with my watering can and slowly saturated it with about 10+ gal of water over probably half hour of time. After harvest I dumped my pots and found quite a few dry areas in all of them. Last year I set up a gravity feed drip system from my rain barrels (game changer for sure) My 100 gal pots take about 10 gal per watering each time the only thing that changes is the frequency as the plants get bigger or the weather is dry and hot. I don't think 4 gal is enough water to maintain good moisture levels for 100 gallon pots.
 
getawaymountain

getawaymountain

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slow drawl said:
Looks like wilting to me @petert. A couple grows back I had a plant act similar to this, I would water it till run off but still needed water before the rest did. I finally sat down with my watering can and slowly saturated it with about 10+ gal of water over probably half hour of time. After harvest I dumped my pots and found quite a few dry areas in all of them. Last year I set up a gravity feed drip system from my rain barrels (game changer for sure) My 100 gal pots take about 10 gal per watering each time the only thing that changes is the frequency as the plants get bigger or the weather is dry and hot. I don't think 4 gal is enough water to maintain good moisture levels for 100 gallon pots.
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we hand feed and water ours about every 10 days now in a 30 gallon grow bag and use a moisture meter on every plant and when we do water them they get 10gallons at least each
 
petert

petert

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getawaymountain said:
we hand feed and water ours about every 10 days now in a 30 gallon grow bag and use a moisture meter on every plant and when we do water them they get 10gallons at least each
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My moisture/pH meter is in my hand every watering and I test different areas of each pot.
It's been thoroughly saturated and I've ruled out both over and under watering.
It happened so fast is what baffles me.. if it gets hot and things dry out in the greenhouse ( I'm in there several times a day) and I start to see a plant wilt it pops back within 30 minutes after watering.
With this plant literally 1/2 of the plant was wilting.. I watered good and within an hour the rest of the plant wilted.
Were talking about a good 4 1/2 to 5 foot plant that's as big around as the 100 gallon pot.
I'm leaning towards a soil borne fungal infection... but I'm not seeing all the symptoms in that either.
She getting yanked this AM. And soil dumped too.
 
petert

petert

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slow drawl said:
Looks like wilting to me @petert. A couple grows back I had a plant act similar to this, I would water it till run off but still needed water before the rest did. I finally sat down with my watering can and slowly saturated it with about 10+ gal of water over probably half hour of time. After harvest I dumped my pots and found quite a few dry areas in all of them. Last year I set up a gravity feed drip system from my rain barrels (game changer for sure) My 100 gal pots take about 10 gal per watering each time the only thing that changes is the frequency as the plants get bigger or the weather is dry and hot. I don't think 4 gal is enough water to maintain good moisture levels for 100 gallon pots.
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I've probed the shit out of the soil with my meter.. its moist everywhere.
 
slow drawl

slow drawl

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petert said:
My moisture/pH meter is in my hand every watering and I test different areas of each pot.
It's been thoroughly saturated and I've ruled out both over and under watering.
It happened so fast is what baffles me.. if it gets hot and things dry out in the greenhouse ( I'm in there several times a day) and I start to see a plant wilt it pops back within 30 minutes after watering.
With this plant literally 1/2 of the plant was wilting.. I watered good and within an hour the rest of the plant wilted.
Were talking about a good 4 1/2 to 5 foot plant that's as big around as the 100 gallon pot.
I'm leaning towards a soil borne fungal infection... but I'm not seeing all the symptoms in that either.
She getting yanked this AM. And soil dumped too.
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That's some crazy shit right there, new one on me. I'm sure interested as to what this is in case I ever encounter the
same issues. Good luck man.
 
petert

petert

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Nothing solved and she's gone!

I cut her down, dug out all the soil and inspected the roots..they were white or whiteish..and it's amazing how a 45 days ago I transplanted from a 5 gallon pot to a 100 gallon pot and there were roots everywhere!
Nothing dug up from under the weed barrier to eat the roots.
The roots appeared healthy.
There were no bugs on the leaves.

But it died in one day!
 
MjMama

MjMama

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Now that she is down you could cut the stem in half and see if you see any infections inside the stalk.
 
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