SupremeBudDrongo
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No smell however I cut a hole on the side of the pot carefully to see what was going on and it looks like last 1/4inch is brown (or there aren't much roots in the bottom 1/4 inch which is odd because in the drain holes there were brown roots peaking out) but rest of the pot is white. Ordered some Hydrogen peroxide 3% to sterilise the medium just incase. The Plant is HUGE one of the biggest autoflowers ive ever grown. Im talking it filled up an entire 2x2 tent in less than 6 weeks. Would be a shame if it was root rot!If you're talking about lifting the rootball out of the pot and all the roots at the bottom of the ball are dead looking and maybe stinky? then that's a different story.
That could very well be root rot which is usually caused by overwatering, (which is different than soaking the pot good when you water), by watering too often because it's dry two knuckles deep at the top. As you are in that coco/perlite mix it should be wet all the time as opposed to peat that works best with a wet/dry cycle but not bone dry so the plants droop.
If it has a dead stuff smell to it then I'd use a bread knife and cut the bottom third of teh root ball of and put it in a clean pot the same if you have it with fresh medium on the bottom to keep it at the right height. Water it good so the new stuff ready for new roots. Good time to use a myco product like DynoMyco sprinkled liberally all over the top of the new medium in the out and sprayed to moisten it. I spray the bottom of the rootball too and will even sprinkle some myco on that.
Don't have to use stuff like that but it inoculates the roots so bad bacteria can't take hold and cause more rot.
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