Hydro Bubbler saved her life!

I think its official.

If anyone has ben keepin tabs on my threads- I've had this one single plant growing for a week or so. It was beautiful until one day, it fried. And fast. In 5 hours, half the real fan leaves burnt to black and twisted. In my desperation, I finally put the plant out of soil and into a bubbler with clean distilled water and constant light, with roots hanging well into the bubbling resevoir.

Now, the plant's leaves are growing (yes- the half dead ones are growing larger, letting just the shriveled dead part hang on), and the plant is fairly taller, with roots that are elongating quickly into the oxygen rich water. The plant is stretching a bit, but this is good for me right now, so that I can have more of the plant gain root and plant itself, as I dont have any real medium but a styrofoam cup to brace the plant stalk.

Yay Hydroponic bubbler. Lets hope my plant pulls through for a full recovery... Lets hope I dont overdo the nutes. Again. I overdid it in soil, lets hope I dont do the same for the bubbler.

Congrats. I hope she will pull through to the end for you.

did you use any hydroponic fertilizers? and are you going to keep it in there or move it back to dirt?

fallensk8er said:

did you use any hydroponic fertilizers? and are you going to keep it in there or move it back to dirt?

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For about 2 or 3 days I kept it in pure bubbling water, changed it once.

I figured that was enough time to let it run clean and wash out from whatever almost killed the plant just a day earlier. So I went and grabbed water-soluble (I dont ahve hydroponics special stuff) 30 10 10 fertilizer and added like half a tsp to a bottle of distilled spring water, shook, it, and added like 2 tbsp to it this morning. I see no signs of death or damage- and it looks like new leaves are coming out of the middle now. I also sprayed the roots with liquified worm compost, just for a tiny nitrogen boost directly on roots, then I placed the thing back into its container under its light.

I plan to keep it hydroponic for a very long time, if not until the end of its life (whether I decide to harvest this one or clone it, we'll see).

As it strengthens, Ill add more of the 30 10 10 to some bottled water, and probably keep increasing this for the next 2 weeks or so (estimating). Then, create mixtures of 10 20 10 or some P-focused nutrient in water and have this be its main fertilizer for the remaining of its vegging cycle until its a height that I like. From then, of course, change it to blooming. But this is a distance in the future.

I also was very lucky that the water soluble stuff had many of the micronutrients needed- I was worried Id only get macro and block off any chance of micro.