I'm using a 3 foot hydroponic grow box. I'm in the process of moving to a new apartment and while moving the box, the plants that are now a little over a month old are now stuck leaning to the side a bit and I noticed a few small plant roots that float in the water had got stuck to the side of the tub and ripped off. However, the root system is very big and I'd say just a very very small fraction of the roots got ripped off. If the root system had lets say 200 little separate roots, I saw 4 roots get detached. Also, once the plant gets re-acclimated to the light, it should straighten out again right? And will the small loss of roots hurt my plant enough to kill it?
What happens if a few small little roots get ripped off?
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VinnyOcean
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no you should be good i nicked a few of my roots during transplant from soil and they did just fine
Lucky Luke
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little side roots etc are no problem, some people actually cut them back when transplanting. Plants dont like to lose their tap root though.
Update:
So the plants ended up looking fine since that minor incident. Although I have a myriad of concerns now that I'm on week 7 since planting the seeds. I have several questions to which I probably know the answer to already unfortunately but I really need some help. I'm going to list a couple questions below and if anyone can help me with them, I'd greatly appreciate it.
First Situation: While moving apartments, it was necessary that I open the grow box during the night cycle in order to remove the water from the basin that the roots were sitting in otherwise I would have splashed water all over the inside while driving. I understand that this most likely would have ruined the plants flowering stage and would have slowed down the development of buds on the plants. However, it is now week 7 (week 3 of flower) and I'm hardly seeing any signs of flowering. I might be seeing a few tiny pistils developing and the very top of the plant has a some bulging where it looks like it may be starting to flower but nothing definite. I realize that there are many different factors that go into causing a plant to flower or not flower, but I've checked and my lights are giving off the right spectrum, the ph of the water is perfect every week, I've slightly cut down on the nutrients just to see if the plant will feed off the sugars from the fan leaves to form buds, and all of the environmental conditions are ideal for budding (it's in a grow box anyway, outside conditions don't really affect it that much). Also, I know for a fact that they're female. So my question is, maybe my set up just isn't sufficient to produce marijuana buds, but is there anything I can do other than to just wait and see?
Second situation:
This morning I was doing my routine of checking the plants to see how they were doing like always and I made a huge mistake. A HUGE mistake. I fucked up and I'll just have to live with the consequences. While trying to get a closer look at the plants, I accidentally bumped the grow box that plants are in and a spray bottle that had been sitting just on top of it.... fell..... hit my head..... and hit one of my plants....
The bad news is..... the spray bottle clipped off the fan leaves on the bottom two layers of the plant on one side. By layers, I mean that when the plant grows it has it's first set of fan leaves and then you go up the stem and it has it's second set of fan leaves. So the first two sets are missing fan leaves on one side. I'm very heartbroken about this.
The good news is, I think it could've been much worse. There's literally no damage to any other part of the plant.
Basically what I'm asking is, what can I expect from here on out? This is my first grow. I've obviously made mistakes, but I'm doing my best. I have a deep love and appreciation for marijuana as I'm sure others on these forums do and I'm trying to learn as much as possible. I'm hoping my girls will still be able to grow for me since the bigger fan leaves are still attached and unharmed.
What do you guys think? Please try and be as helpful as you can. It's really discouraging when I check replies here and all I get is snarky comments about how stupid I am and how I should read more.
Thank you for those who are willing to help! I'll check back in a little while for replies.
So the plants ended up looking fine since that minor incident. Although I have a myriad of concerns now that I'm on week 7 since planting the seeds. I have several questions to which I probably know the answer to already unfortunately but I really need some help. I'm going to list a couple questions below and if anyone can help me with them, I'd greatly appreciate it.
First Situation: While moving apartments, it was necessary that I open the grow box during the night cycle in order to remove the water from the basin that the roots were sitting in otherwise I would have splashed water all over the inside while driving. I understand that this most likely would have ruined the plants flowering stage and would have slowed down the development of buds on the plants. However, it is now week 7 (week 3 of flower) and I'm hardly seeing any signs of flowering. I might be seeing a few tiny pistils developing and the very top of the plant has a some bulging where it looks like it may be starting to flower but nothing definite. I realize that there are many different factors that go into causing a plant to flower or not flower, but I've checked and my lights are giving off the right spectrum, the ph of the water is perfect every week, I've slightly cut down on the nutrients just to see if the plant will feed off the sugars from the fan leaves to form buds, and all of the environmental conditions are ideal for budding (it's in a grow box anyway, outside conditions don't really affect it that much). Also, I know for a fact that they're female. So my question is, maybe my set up just isn't sufficient to produce marijuana buds, but is there anything I can do other than to just wait and see?
Second situation:
This morning I was doing my routine of checking the plants to see how they were doing like always and I made a huge mistake. A HUGE mistake. I fucked up and I'll just have to live with the consequences. While trying to get a closer look at the plants, I accidentally bumped the grow box that plants are in and a spray bottle that had been sitting just on top of it.... fell..... hit my head..... and hit one of my plants....
The bad news is..... the spray bottle clipped off the fan leaves on the bottom two layers of the plant on one side. By layers, I mean that when the plant grows it has it's first set of fan leaves and then you go up the stem and it has it's second set of fan leaves. So the first two sets are missing fan leaves on one side. I'm very heartbroken about this.
The good news is, I think it could've been much worse. There's literally no damage to any other part of the plant.
Basically what I'm asking is, what can I expect from here on out? This is my first grow. I've obviously made mistakes, but I'm doing my best. I have a deep love and appreciation for marijuana as I'm sure others on these forums do and I'm trying to learn as much as possible. I'm hoping my girls will still be able to grow for me since the bigger fan leaves are still attached and unharmed.
What do you guys think? Please try and be as helpful as you can. It's really discouraging when I check replies here and all I get is snarky comments about how stupid I am and how I should read more.
Thank you for those who are willing to help! I'll check back in a little while for replies.
OrganicGorilla
Well-Known Member
First. Plants don't flower as soon as you flip the lights to 12/12. You start counting weeks after you see pistils forming. Second. Don't worry about those leaves. Your plant will be just fine.