Dying plant please help

Have 6 legal plants in mass. I took my buddys mother plant in my garden. And everything looks great except for his plant. Slowly getting worse by the day. Ph in soil was too alkaline but all other plants didnt really seem to care. We just added the carrots to mix in some more acid water to level soil out. my biggest concert could be root rot and as we have some deep clay. Maybe other plants didnt gett affected because they dont have deep roots.

Citylimits said:

Have 6 legal plants in mass. I took my buddys mother plant in my garden. And everything looks great except for his plant. Slowly getting worse by the day. Ph in soil was too alkaline but all other plants didnt really seem to care. We just added the carrots to mix in some more acid water to level soil out.View attachment 4196213 my biggest concert could be root rot and as we have some deep clay. Maybe other plants didnt gett affected because they dont have deep roots.

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Looks like something got to the roots..

Is that beast in a bucket , because it looks root locked ?

No it is in the ground dig a 4x4 hole and added same soil I added to all my other plants. This one was just that much bigger. I'm guessing it hit bad soil way below the hole I dug. But what would cause my change in PH in the soil. Went from a 6 to a mid 7. I'm guessing right at time of problems. Have plants on either side with no problems. All on same feeding/water schedual.

Citylimits said:

No it is in the ground dig a 4x4 hole and added same soil I added to all my other plants. This one was just that much bigger. I'm guessing it hit bad soil way below the hole I dug. But what would cause my change in PH in the soil. Went from a 6 to a mid 7. I'm guessing right at time of problems. Have plants on either side with no problems. All on same feeding/water schedual.

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I'm not sure but it might be fungal
I have never needed to check ground soil

Citylimits said:

No it is in the ground dig a 4x4 hole and added same soil I added to all my other plants. This one was just that much bigger. I'm guessing it hit bad soil way below the hole I dug. But what would cause my change in PH in the soil. Went from a 6 to a mid 7. I'm guessing right at time of problems. Have plants on either side with no problems. All on same feeding/water schedual.

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Thanks what i am saying, you might have a gopher or a squirrel in the ground eating the tap root. I don't think it is a patch of bad dirt..

Dmannn said:

Thanks what i am saying, you might have a gopher or a squirrel in the ground eating the tap root. I don't think it is a patch of bad dirt..

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That's exactly what one of my plants looked like last year, a gopher dug under and ate the roots out. She wasn't a big girl, but the best plant I had going.

Next year line all of the holes with chicken-wire fencing first - top and sides too.. Gophers can't eat through it.

Think it is too far gone? If we some how kill rodent?

One of two things going on here, imo. Either over-watered as the clay-content soil won't percolate water and the plants are wilting from it, or, you planted from seed and yes, the gophers bit into the tap root(s), in which case these plants will most likely not recover. Killing the rodents is too late to fix the problem. Stop watering for 3-days and see if the plants perk back up, or chalk it up as a loss, BUT, after the confirmed plant deaths, do a complete forensic investigation. First, pull up gently on the stalk, if a gopher ate the tap root(s), then the plant should lift up out of the soil quite easily. If the plant doesn't lift, then dig it up and see it there isn't gobs of water sitting on top of that expansive, clay-content soil.
If you do use chicken wire next season, dig a deeper hole and line it with overlapping chicken wire, bottom, sides, and top too.

Citylimits said:

Think it is too far gone? If we some how kill rodent?

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You could set out some traps in hoes, bomb them and try driving steaks in the ground around the root balls.

Smart pots are a good option as well. I haven't had a rodent burrow up or into a smart pot.

Subu said:

Look closer at the image. It is in a small pot.

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It looks like a slightly raised bed to me.

Dmannn said:

It looks like a slightly raised bed to me.

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Nevermind I confused some tubing as the outline of a plant pot

I got 4 plants doing the same shit and dieing,I have tried every thing I know and 4-5 others has looked at them and nun of us have a clue to what is wrong.cut one of them today.