What could cause plants to go from very healthy to dead in 48 hours?

[VagPuncher]

Hi everybody,

So, I was over at a friends house today and his plants were completely fried. Dead. Toast. Shrivelled up, leaves drooping. Dead. Brown leaves.

Now, the mysterious part is that when I was there on Friday, they were all very, very, very healthy. No deficiencies. No mold. No PM. No bugs. Nothing. Dark green, healthy. Leaves the size of my face, pointing to the sky.

What, if anything could cause plants in soil to go from amazing, grade A plants to completely dead in 48 hours?

No bugs could do it. No mildew could do it. I'm talking viruses.

No gas leak. Nothing. The house has been grown in for years with no problems.

 

[HighDesertJoe]

RADIATION oh NO it's Coming.

 

[VagPuncher]

Thanks for that.

 

[Chimera]

Did you check the roots?

 

[W.Less Monk]

What could cause plants to go from very healthy to dead in 48 hours?

A Police raid ? Poison ? Zombies ?

What about the roots ? Did they turn brown ?

 

[dasher65]

Nute burn???

 

[paladin420]

Hi everybody,

So, I was over at a friends house today and his plants were completely fried. Dead. Toast. Shrivelled up, leaves drooping. Dead. Brown leaves.

Now, the mysterious part is that when I was there on Friday, they were all very, very, very healthy. No deficiencies. No mold. No PM. No bugs. Nothing. Dark green, healthy. Leaves the size of my face, pointing to the sky.

What, if anything could cause plants in soil to go from amazing, grade A plants to completely dead in 48 hours?

No bugs could do it. No mildew could do it. I'm talking viruses.

No gas leak. Nothing. The house has been grown in for years with no problems.

Was he just starting flower about, 2 weeks in maybe. Check your roots for fungus gnat larve. They can be a sneaky little %$@*&^% leading to TRD (total room death). Any way check the root ball over very good. Thats most likely where the problem was. Go all C.S.I. Good Luck

 

[VagPuncher]

Did you check the roots?

No, we didn't get the chance. We had to go meet some dude.

What should I be looking for?

 

[purple_man]

most likely the grow partner, used to much ph- and fried the plants with a too high water/media acidity... my 2nd thought was overfeeding extremly, ... but then the leaves would go nearly white and not brown.... or he let the plants dry out completly... but then the leaves should not become brown/get necrotical spots widespread, etc...

blessss
ps.: bitch slap that "dude" and tell us what happened

 

[VagPuncher]

Was he just starting flower about, 2 weeks in maybe. Check your roots for fungus gnat larve. They can be a sneaky little %$@*&^% leading to TRD (total room death). Any way check the root ball over very good. Thats most likely where the problem was. Go all C.S.I. Good Luck

Yes!

Exactly 2 weeks in. The leaves started getting rusty interveinal chlorosis and boom, dead over night.

 

[VagPuncher]

I'll take pictures tmrw.

 

[VagPuncher]

most likely the grow partner, used to much ph- and fried the plants with a too high water/media acidity... my 2nd thought was overfeeding extremly, ... but then the leaves would go nearly white and not brown.... or he let the plants dry out completly... but then the leaves should not become brown/get necrotical spots widespread, etc...

blessss
ps.: bitch slap that "dude" and tell us what happened

All he watered with was water and 100ppm of B1 on Friday.

 

[Noobian]

Some kind of extremely harsh chemical introduced to the soil would likely kill them like that. Like maybe if someone accidentally spilled bleach or some other strong stuff like that on them I'd wager they would be dead within a day or two. I'd check the soil pH see what that is and if that's not it, check on the water supply.

 

[jd4083]

Just had this same thing happen to a brand new grower buddy of mine I've helped out...beautiful 3 footers before the weekend, he leaves town for two days, comes home to dead plants. Exactly @ 2 weeks flowering like the OP's friend...I checked the pH on the res and it was at nearly 8.5...he apparently went crazy with the pH up & down and didn't understand how they should be used...but I couldn't quite put my finger on the original cause for concern that made him bust out the U&D to begin with. Gonna check for gnats later today when I go visit and check on his new babies...thanks for the tip...

and I swear, this is the last damn batch of clones you're getting if you're reading this, sucka.... you're killing off all my stock...

 

[Centrum]

Bad water + bad Medium = no oxygen = Struggle to death
Just one possibility. There are many, good luck next round

 

[VagPuncher]

I'm gonna go dig around the rootball tmrw.

 

[Kcar]

Root rot, or lack of O2 to the roots. Like Centrum said.

But as for there being many possibilities, I don't think so. Unless you go
with really out there stuff like pouring a gallon of ammonia in your res...

 

[VagPuncher]

Sabotage from ex employees is one of the chances.

 

[Kcar]

I see. Bummer.

 

[Lone Wolf]

ive seen HEAT fuck some plants up realllll quick......


and ive also seen people fuck their plants up big time when they unplug their hydro systems and forget to plug back in...