What is your temp and humidity at? What kind of soil are you running? I see the humidifier in the one picture. You'd think in decent conditions a pot would be so bone dry in 16 days the plant would be dead as hell lol. Also have you tried fabric pots?
I used to use fabric pots but stopped because they were a bitch to clean. The three plants that I’ve had issues with are in plastic pots and I think that’s partially what threw me off. I typically water the plants a certain amount and it was always ok with fabrics due to their breathability….but clearly this is too much for plastic pots and I’m not used to how they hold water this early in veg. I have a few other runs staggered behind this one and I’ve been watering much more delicately and so far they’re doing great. So it seems like it’s more a matter of watering less in the beginning - hence my supposition that this is an issue of overwatering.
Temps are in the mid 70s
Rh is in the mid 60s
Soil is Fox Farm Happy Frog amended with
- 20% perlite
- 20% EWC
- Down To Earth 4-4-4 and dolomite lime (2Tbsp per gallon)
- and some DynoMyco
It’s kind of crazy to me that the soil remained moist enough for 2 whole weeks, but the fact that the plant didn’t die and just kept on growing tells me that the roots just weren’t mature enough to handle a fully saturated medium yet and slowly made use of the excess water.
SO, here I am attempting to help the roots bounce back and drying them out doesn’t seem to have helped yet (maybe I need to give her more time to see a change?). All the online advice I find says to dry out the medium and slowly reintroduce water, but I’m curious if anyone has experience with or used Silica personally in a situation like this to successfully repair overwatered roots?
