So I had to leave for a week and left my plants in the care of someone else. The plants are on a autopot system so all they have to do is watching the temperature and add a few frozen water bottles to lower it. Gave them a list of "if you notice this call me" and never got a call, so I figured everything was going good.... boy was I wrong.... So when I checked on them the lights were off and the water pumps in the tanks were running. By my calculations both tanks should have had enough to last tell the day after I got home. I could hear the pump in the 50L tank for the 2x4 auto tent splashing because it was almost empty but nothing from the 100L tank for the 2x3 and 4x4 feminized tents, but the pump was running. I opened it up amd the water was only a few inches below were I had left it.... at first I thought the filter was clogged but then I noticed the valve was closed.... why the fuck is the valve closed!!!!! I quickly opened it and went to check on the plant....
The 4x4 tent here got hit the worst probably because out of all the tents it runs the hottest. Been a challenge and a half keeping the temperature below 30c on hot days and the last week in my area has been hot amd is still going to be hot for another few days....
The zombie kush plant didn't grow at all and had a lot of dead leaves and branches in the lower section. 80% of the leaves were limp with only a few not so slumped over. The amout of yellowish leaves was small surprisingly and I didn't see many buds. 24 hours later and the plant had done a 180. The look so much better now. The autopot systems with the coco helped it to bounc back fast.
The kmintz looked somewhat better but not by much. The amout of dead leaves and branches was about the same but only the bottom 3/4 had limp leaves but no yellowish ones. Just like the zombie kush the plant rebounded quick.
(Side note: the morning rose plant at the back got it the worst by far, lots of dead leaves, lots of dried up branches, fair amout of yellowish leaves and every single leaf was limp.)
The pictures are 24 hours after I had turned on the autopot system and I have to say the plants have bounced back nicely. Bit still need some much need TLC. Definitely going to set my harvest back about a week because of this and might effect my end yeild.
It could have been a lot worse and I consider myself lucky that this was all the damage that was done and that the plants all bounced back from it.
Well that's all so happy growing everyone!!!
Look up nemaglobes on Amazon for the aphids. There magic with gnats, thrips and aphids, they kill all the larva so the bugs can't reproduce. I had the same issue a few grows back. Trick to making the nematodes in the globe work is remove them from the little white sacks they come in and spread around the soil then water. Cheers