Woke up and plant was dead... wtf?

anomolies

anomolies

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It was really healthy and bushy the day before. I woke up and it looked like a skeleton. The leaves all shriveled up.

It's outdoors, in a 3 gallon pot, 2 foot plant, just begun flowering. The soil is still moist so I don't know wtf happened. It was just a bagseed but I thought I'd ask cus I don't want something like this to happen again.

Don't think it got too cold cus I've got other plants in the same kind of pots right next to it and they were fine.

Over-watered maybe? or Root-bound? (doesn't look really root-bound)
 
anomolies

anomolies

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I doubt a cat would climb onto my 2 ft tall pot and piss in it.. there's no room to stand in, we're talkin about a bush here, lol. My plant was a runt in veg but it had 4 main colas and it had the closest node spacing I've ever seen, 1/2-1 inch. Would have made killer buds. R.I.P.

Don't know what sorta pest could do that to the entire plant overnight, but I'll check to make sure if it wasn't.

man.. I really wanna figure this out. Anyone experience this before?
 
anomolies

anomolies

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yea I'm thinking may be root-rot, I have been watering more often, but only cus it's really hot outside.

but I've never gotten rootrot before so I don't know what it looks like. The roots look normal to me...

and it's weird it didn't happen to my 3 other soil plants right next to it.

Actually, probably right. I was searching for pics and came across this description:

Root Rot
What causes root rot? Low Oxygen levels. (DO) Desolved Oxigen. Temp's are the main reason for root rot, Low temps will lower the DO levels and high temps will cause low DO levels. Keeping temps between 65 to 82 will allow MAX DO levels or max o2 for roots. (Thank you so much for the information syko2! has provided above!)
Over watering also causes root rot, Root Rot infects parts of the roots, which then spread infecting the whole roots causing death, Root Rot can be caused by to high of temps in hydro as well as over watering. Not enough drainage in your soil can cause Root Rot, even signs of it looking over watered, because the soil holds moisture to long for the roots to dry out. So these 3 things are all connected together. The main one that causes everything is over watering. Once you find out you have root rot, depending on how bad the problem is, you can add H202( Hydrogen Peroxide) with your water or hydro setup to kill the bacteria caused from root rot. If the plant is severely taken over by it, there are only a few things you can do, cut off the roots affected by it depending on if its hair roots or tap roots, add H202, or just chop the plant. To prevent Root Rot, adding product's like Thrive Alive B-1, See Weed, Super thrive will help protect your plant's from root rot and will help cure root problems. ( Again ty so much for giving me the info syko2!!!)
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I'm guess high/low temps combined with moist soil caused it? Was like 95F-100F during the day and like 60F at night.
 
Serapis

Serapis

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smell the plant and soil real good. If it was cat piss, you would probably already know, but just to make sure. I had a fucking male cat piss on my begonias and it killed them quicker than shit.
 
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