Help with dying plants??

ok so i grew 2 plants....one was a hash plant and the other was an unknown outta my stash... it would stay green right up untill i rip em outa the ground. i water every couple of days and during the flowering stages i used "liquid karma". Ph is normal and i fertilize every couple of weeks. they were indoors and the only other problem i had with the HP was mould and i took care of that. i checked regularly for mites and never had them. The leaves just start wilting and it looks like over water so i dry it out and it continues dying. the other was perfect in the sense that it had perfect watering, fertilizing, never had mites or mould yet had the same problem. ??? both got into flowering stage but both begain to wither and die. I cut off the tops of the plants and they were both hollow and im not sure if this is normal...can any1 help?

 

you rip em out of the ground?!?

 

I kinda wondered what that meant too!!!

 

all that meant was that they stay green untill there so wilted and weak that i take pitty on 'em and get rid of them

 

I used Liquid Karma and had really good results with it, although I used it as a supplement and not as the main fertilizer. I used it along side of Earth Juice fertilizers, switching off between the two every two or three waters. It sounded like you said that you only fertilize when your plants start blooming, this is bad you want to fertilize from the beginning. This will help maintain the nutrients in your soil for longer, and also your plants may not have been ready for a big dose of fertilizer if they had never had it before. There is a really good set of video's at This weed growing site the third video is probably the one you would want to watch. Hope that helps...and good luck!

 

Under how much of what kind of light?

 

few questions here:
1) ranger already asked about the light
2) how long were they in 12/12 before you ripped them outta the ground?
3) how big were these plants?
4) have you ever grown before?
5) how did they wither and die? Fowering plants will naturally loose alot of their leaves starting at the bottom becuase they are draining the nutrients from those leaves to use makin bud.

I'm betting the answer to these questions will be the prognosis of what went wrong.

-Dash

 

they were in 12/12 for almost a month and the lighting was one of the energy saving flroresents. the plants were fairly small but i had pinched the tops at about a foot so i expected them to be around 2' in the end which they were. I personally havnt grown before and am starting a couple of new ones so im kinda hoping to figure this out but i have friends who have grown before and had the same problems. when they begain to wither it was the entire plant at once...i know that the bottom leave wither and that its normal. So Doc what do i got?

 

one energy saving floresent? are you talking about a CFL or what? Do you know the wattage of it? The Lumens? I'm betting they're just not getting enough lumens, or it could also be that they aren't getting the right spectrum. If you don't know the wattage or the lumens, where did you get the light, and do you know th name of it?

 

well the actuall wattage is about 11 but its built to replicate 40w which is why i chose it. I actually dont know the spectrum but as i said i do have a friend that had the same problem under excelent growing conditions...im talking top of the line everything. which is y im so confused:\

 

Thats not even close to enough light. If you had decent lighting and the whole plant went at once I would say you either let it go without water to long or way over fertilized.

 

Ok, so like Haid said, not even close to enough light. But take it as a learning experience, and here's some info for using CFL's, even tho I would sugest getting an HPS for flowering, but you can do it with CFL's. So the 2 spectrums you want are blue and red, the "cool white" or "bright white" light is more in the blue spectrum, and the "warm white" light is more of the red. You will want atleast 300 watts not actual watts but what the CFL is likened to. The CFL's that are like a 150w light give off about 2600 Lumens. Since flo's light disipates quickly you want it to be as close to the plant as possible without touching, within an inch or 2. Good luck with your next crop. And as with your friend that had the same thing happen, I can't say what happened with theirs without knowing more about their setup.

--Dash