Dead plants?

As a first time indoor grower, I've had my fair share of problems with my plants over the course of the last three seasons. They seemed to be growing fine, albeit rather slowly, until recently. It would take me too long to type out the entirety of events, so I'll just jot things down as I remember them.

Basic overview of room conditions, routine details, observations, etc.
-11 plants: 4 males, 7 females; each roughly 3.5 ft tall and 10+ months old
-Room temp varies from 70-80 °F
-Filled 80% of nine 2 gallon nursery pots with earthgro fill dirt - all of which were mixed with a 3:1 dirt-to-perlite absorbent ratio. (Same with three other 3 gal. containers)
-Exposed to 2-3 hours of direct sunlight each day. No artificial light or hydroponic system
-Feed approx. 240 ml filtered water to plants once a week when the containers feel light, mix 1/2 teaspoon of dyna-gro bloom plant food with water in the three 'more established' plant containers
-Suspected root rot from over watering about four months in; transplanted into new pots
-Females began flowering after 8+ months of growing; males are pollinating all over
-Moved pots three times in different areas of house. They seemed to grow fastest in moderate sunlight
-Started having problems shortly after finding fungus gnats in growing environment; inserted sticky stakes insect traps in each pot
-All plants are now having trouble standing up on their own
-Leaves are crinkled and clawed in appearance

If I'm missing any info, I'll be sure to post that as well. I read up on forums occasionally, but it can get overwhelming when there's so much to learn. Right now I'm under the assumption that my babies are long past any salvageable stage, but it'd be nice to read some tips from advanced growers for next time. I feel like I've done basic things that would normally seem to solve these problems, to no avail. Any help would be appreciated -- Thanks!
Also, before anyone says to just research everything online, let me point out that 1. I don't have the time right now, and won't for a while.. And 2. I do plan to eventually, but I'd like to be able to solve these issues quickly in the meantime.

gahiven said:

-Exposed to 2-3 hours of direct sunlight each day. No artificial light or hydroponic system

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Sounds like not enough light.

-Exposed to 2-3 hours of direct sunlight each day. No artificial light 10+ months old
that's not going to work as you can tell

I'm impressed that any are still alive at all after that treatment. The standard flowering interval is twelve hours of light alternated with twelve uninterrupted hours of complete darkness- and repeat for 8-10 weeks.

do you have 4 males in with 7 females? if so, why? not that its going to matter much but I find that peculiar

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az2000 said:

Sounds like not enough light.

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Terry385 said:

-Exposed to 2-3 hours of direct sunlight each day. No artificial light 10+ months old
that's not going to work as you can tell

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ttystikk said:

I'm impressed that any are still alive at all after that treatment. The standard flowering interval is twelve hours of light alternated with twelve uninterrupted hours of complete darkness- and repeat for 8-10 weeks.

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LetsGetCritical said:

do you have 4 males in with 7 females? if so, why? not that its going to matter much but I find that peculiar

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As my first post back after holiday, I feel that this thread deserves it...

I defo agree with all the above. sounds like they have had an unfair lifestyle.

IMHO - throw them out and start again, even for producing seeds these plants are 'knackered' them buds wont produce anything substantial and if you where to use the seeds produced (if they are fully developed and mature) they are most likely to give you poor results for your time.

I think it would be fair to say you should of used cfls in a blacked out room as im guessing you don't have the budget for a complete set up...

One other thing. You mentioned that they are over 10 months old but you only have them in 2 and 3 gallon pots. They should at minimum be in 5 gallon pots. So surely they are rootbound as well.

I agree put those poor plants out of their misery. Next time buy clones so that you know that they are all female, males are trash unless you are breeding and I don't think you are quite there yet, neither am I for that matter. If you are going to grow indoors you are going to need an artificial light source CFLs are cheap and they work well if done right. I promise you did not over water those plants by giving them a little over a half a soda can of nutes a week. I have plenty of plants in both two and three gallon buckets they get fed three times a week usually depending their age and needs, although they have a real light and are able to use all that food.

You don't want to look around so ill give you a real quick list of the basics if you want to grow real bud.


1. Get a grow tent or make a light tight room somewhere in your home.
2. Buy or make a grow light the windowsill will not work.
3. Buy clones or feminized seeds you don't want males.
4. Make some sort of ventilation system for the before mentioned room.
5. Feed your plants, when you feed you want the water to freely run from the drain holes in your bucket before you are done, this will require much more than 250ml of water.

Every thing that I mentioned above can be obtained at either Home Depot or Walmart for fairly cheap. That being said by the time you are done you will have spent a few hundred bucks.

If that price doesn't work for you I say you buy some auto flower seeds and throw um down in your back yard.

Lastly and most importantly I would suggest that you find time to learn about this plant and what it needs to grow. If you don't have time to do that you don't really have time to grow cannabis. I mean think about it you just wasted what sounds to be about 8 months growing tumble weeds. If you spend spent just an hour a day for a few weeks reading on this subject your next grow will take three months and at the end you will have weed you can smoke.

Good Luck

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every thing said here is correct,but i also noticed that you have a bug issue on some of those leaves,maybe if you dont want to koll them plant them outside after you cut all dead leafs off ,they have to have more air movement,bigger pots,and feed,these plant are bad off,in 10 months you could have harvested twice at the least,study up on it girl you can do it ,it only takes about a hour a day to grow some awesome medicine