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Let's see and hear about your sick plants!!

Gypsy Nirvana

Recalcitrant Reprobate -
Administrator
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...Every grower at one time or another has to face the stark reality of seeing their best plants growing sick and perhaps dying...

...On this forum we will record and investigate various plant ailments in the worthwhile persuit of hopefully helping to eradicate or at least control various pest problems that you or I may encounter today or tommorrow...

...So please....if you have a sick plant....maybe we can help?.....photograph it and give us a report about your trials and tribulations concerning the infestation or mould or unknown plant sickness that you are having to cope with......

Accurate reports should contain as much information as possible in regards to the growing conditions, variety and location of the plant and what you are doing to try and combat the problems you face....
 
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Guest

oh i just love solving plant probs , so if anyone wants help ,i'll gladly help,,

after all thats what we are here for to how help each other,

come to Dr Hazy's surgery ,its free lol
 

Bramski

Member
Great new forum Gypsy, I've got a little something to get the ball rolling, it's not exactly a sick plant, more of an injured one :)


Here's an example of what can often be a growers worst enemy, procrastination. Procrastination, aka, I'll do it later, aka, I'm stoned and I can't be arsed, aka I'm busy doing nothing, is what caused this.





I knew that the plant needing tyeing up but I put it off, because I was watching EastEnders or the Simpsons or something, then after that I got stoned and ended up going to bed. I woke up about 8am and I thought that my better half was up making me some Tea and Toast for breakfast because I could smell a toasty smell, like burnt toast or something ( not that she's a crap cook or anything :) ) I turned to get out of bed and I noticed that my better half was still there much to my dismay because if she wasn't making the toasty smell then what the hell was LOL

Anyway, I immediately ran into the growroom and noticed that the plant that I had failed to secure was now involved in a passionate liason with a 1000w HPS, I'm not kidding this thing was just hugging the bulb, smoldering away, thank god it was covered in resin otherwise it might have caught fire LOL


Anyway, the moral of that story is this, there's a lot of things that you can do in your growroom to prevent illnesses and accidents, so make sure you do them at the first opportunity, don't put things off, especially safety issues.


I've got another story about a ballast that exploded but I'll leave that for another day :D





Word to the wise, always have an electrical fire extinguisher near your growroom and have smoke alarms fitted.
 

tokinjoe

Active member
WOW Bramski, it's a wonder the smell didn't wake you!! That bud is COOKED! Glad to hear there was no fire as well bro.
 

Bramski

Member
I just cut round the cooked parts and let her finish joe, she was still healthy on the other side :)




Hazy, I'm up North mate ;)
 
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Guest

I am glad you started this forum. I had a problem last week and figured it was my old friend nute lockout. Curling leaves in both directions, along with nute burning.

Thanks again.
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guest3854

Yeep , we needed this forum , plenty a ppl to help solve probs. Sweet pics Bramski!
 

Joemutt1978

Member
Great Forum!!

I am getting these little fruit fly's flying out of my soil when agitated, don't seem to be hurting anything, but I want to get rid of them just the same. My "No Pest-Strip" is over a year old now and has quit working, I will get another today, they work really well.

I have a link I would like to put up that tells you the PH of all the different bottled waters, for newbies or anyone having PH problems, knowing exactly is a must, and is a cheap alternative to the expensive PH pen.
 

BushyOldGrower

Bubblegum Specialist
Veteran
I use the strips too but they only work for about 3 months and cover only a limited space so use them liberally is my advice.

Yeah leaf curling usually means ph problems.
 

packn2puff

IC Official Assistant to the Insistent
Veteran
Looks like I may just have to kick this forum off. My BLOG plant grow thread, seems to get a good number visitors but only a few posts. I recently had a bad ordeal I think was caused by pH dropping very low and salt build up. But I will go start the thread, sort of a cross-thread but not really, because I just want the opinions of what happened and what I did wrong to get there. I have theories, but I'm not sure. :wave:
 

MynameStitch

Dr. Doolittle
Mentor
Veteran
Well the guide has been posted!
hope you all enjoy the long hours it took me lol
either way it was well worth the effort!

packnpuff i seen the thread you made i will read it all tonight as its a long post.....
i can most likley help you out with your problem.....
but ill get to that tonight :)
 

mIu4ea

New member
Leaf Holes

Leaf Holes

:confused: Here's one I haven't seen before---I'm growing in soil, under 400W HPS, just went to flower and noticed these clean-cut holes, but only on a few leaves with no pests seen anywhere. Any ideas on what it might be ??? Any help appreciated !!
 

MynameStitch

Dr. Doolittle
Mentor
Veteran
are the holes right through the plant?

do you have a pet or something as well?

and did you look in the soil and on the plants leaves underside with a magnifying glass?
some of them are very small........ but with holes like that your more than likley to see the bugs if there is a pest problem......

did you have your plants outside as well?
 

mIu4ea

New member
Unknown strain---INDICA bagseed ??

Unknown strain---INDICA bagseed ??

Hey MynameStitch, the holes are all the way thru---I don't have any pets---the plants have never been outside---I just looked using a 30X loupe, and there is a brown lining around each hole, like a burn residue---no insects here--mIu4ea
I did spray the plants with distilled water (the nutes I tried foliar-feeding with were leaving a white crust ), but I didn't think I had it too close to the light--the leaves above it are OK ??
 
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mIu4ea

New member
Yellow on new leaves

Yellow on new leaves

Well, I'm back again; this time it's a yellowing on the new growth of that same plant with the holes in the leaves. It's possible I got it too near the light, but I think it's something else. Anyone seen this before ??---mIu4ea
 

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