Should I cut down this stressed clone?de

lvlone

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I have it in a grow box with a fan on it powered low, 4 clf bulbs with a full 6400k spectrum 26watts, and a 65watt flood over that. I feed it fox farm veg, and watter wen dry. I planted it when it was well rooted in a cube, but was destressed on planting it in soil. I posted up the top when I potted it, and they sat up on their own now. However I think they are dry and dead. Should I just trim it down to this one that looks like it lived or will that fuck up the plant?
 
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teamdinero

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Probably won't survive, if it does will take forever to grow. Could prolly re root and grow a clone to that size in the same amount of time that one would turn around, even if it did turn around, but that baby looks fried!
 
Diabolical666

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Its almost too crispy to save. If you transplant clones and they start to droop right away...put a humidity dome over it. You could try that now to see if it will save it, but it looks pretty toasty. That soil looks crappy, what is it?
 
lvlone

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Diabolical666 said:
Its almost too crispy to save. If you transplant clones and they start to droop right away...put a humidity dome over it. You could try that now to see if it will save it, but it looks pretty toasty. That soil looks crappy, what is it?
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Some organic stuff I don't remember the brand. It was just wet in the pic. So I should cut it? The plant had a fat root ball and is a phantom king Klone so I wanted to try and save it to add to to others in the grow.
 
lvlone

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teamdinero said:
Probably won't survive, if it does will take forever to grow. Could prolly re root and grow a clone to that size in the same amount of time that one would turn around, even if it did turn around, but that baby looks fried!
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So cut and hope it makes it?
 
tstick

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That soil looks like a solid clod of clay, man!

My advice would be to get it into some light, fluffy, "soft" soil. The water should run right through it with hardly any delay. If the water pools at the top, then it's not draining properly and likely setting up a doomsday scenario for your clone.

And I'd also get it out of that terra cotta pot and into a plastic garden container with ample drainage holes. Start out with a 1 gallon….move to a 2 gallon…move to a 3 gallon and move to a 5 gallon…7 gallon…10 gallon…infinity! :) The idea is to get the water to act like a piston and pull oxygen through the open soil.

Once you get the proper materials in order, then weigh the unwatered container and soil.

Water the clone in and then weigh the container again.

Wait a number of days until the soil is completely dry and matches the unwatered weight again.

When you do water, make sure you get a run-off through your drainage holes. It's extremely important….especially in a confined grow space where the air movement, temperature and humidity are likely not ideal. Do not allow the bottom of the container to sit in a puddle of water.

Hope this helps.

Good luck.
 
tstick

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My guess is that your lighting got too hot and fried that clone while the soil was like cement shoes. It might come back….I mean…mmmmmaybe.
 
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tstick said:
That soil looks like a solid clod of clay, man!

My advice would be to get it into some light, fluffy, "soft" soil. The water should run right through it with hardly any delay. If the water pools at the top, then it's not draining properly and likely setting up a doomsday scenario for your clone.

And I'd also get it out of that terra cotta pot and into a plastic garden container with ample drainage holes. Start out with a 1 gallon….move to a 2 gallon…move to a 3 gallon and move to a 5 gallon…7 gallon…10 gallon…infinity! :) The idea is to get the water to act like a piston and pull oxygen through the open soil.

Once you get the proper materials in order, then weigh the unwatered container and soil.

Water the clone in and then weigh the container again.

Wait a number of days until the soil is completely dry and matches the unwatered weight again.

When you do water, make sure you get a run-off through your drainage holes. It's extremely important….especially in a confined grow space where the air movement, temperature and humidity are likely not ideal. Do not allow the bottom of the container to sit in a puddle of water.

Hope this helps.

Good luck.
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Good advice! Only thing I say is there is no need to go from a 1 gallon to a 2 gallon to a 3 gallon to a 5 gallon or whatever. I get my plants about 20 to 24 inches in the 1 gallon pots and transplant straight to 15 gallon pots with a minor hick up.
 
tstick

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And I can agree with that! :) I was just mentioning it in relationship to the size of his space. For example: If he's growing in something really small (he just said "Grow Box"), then he should make the size-jump incrementally….or, to infinity-size if he's got infinite space. :) But, yeah, once the root system is reestablished, then he could make large jumps in size.
 
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lvlone said:
The top died so I was going to top it and then replant it in a larger pot
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I see what you're saying I still think topping or making any cuts on that plant will put it to rest. But as stated before your soil does not look good maybe try transplanting into the same size pot better soil. I would use coco and perlite 50/50 or loose fill grodan.
 
Cold$moke

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I think deniros got you covered id only say to put.it under non intense light like a floro with some distance and spray with clean water and yes do like deniro said and get.more aeration
 
lvlone

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teamdinero said:
I see what you're saying I still think topping or making any cuts on that plant will put it to rest. But as stated before your soil does not look good maybe try transplanting into the same size pot better soil. I would use coco and perlite 50/50 or loose fill grodan.
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I changed the pot, got a new soil mix and I put a dome on it. I made some cuts though, the top died and the bottom started to grow.
 
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