Dying Flowering Plant ReVeg?

[mattdestruction]

For one reason or another, a foot high White Widow plant was treated very badly, and set to flower. Three weeks into flowering it was thrown into a bathtub under only the three regular halogen bulbs in the room and given only hard tap water.

 

It's pretty dried up with the older leaves turning brown/black on the ends and getting dried up, however the newer leaves towards the buds are decent. I took cuttings from several of these healthy looking buds and set them in the cloner under one 40w CFL spritzed with RO like I usually do. I took the rest of the plant and threw it back into the hydro setup with plain RO water to flush it.

 

It's an Ebb & Flow system that's maybe a 1m by .5m flood table and I've got 360w of CFLs (40w/each) around the plant with only 3 directly pointing at it, 3 that are standing vertically but inches from the plant, and 3 that are within a foot and a half of the plant.

 

I'm switching the lights back to 24/0 because the terrible shit in the fourth week of flowering (in the bathtub under reg halogen lights) won't produce any good buds and this is the last living plant of this particular strain of White Widow that produces the best weed I've ever had (EVER... but I may be biased... bitches) so I feel the need to save the strain in this plant so that I can at least turn it into something I can clone succesfully. It's sooo fuckin good.

 

Anyhow... yeah I'm high off that shit now so this message might not make sense. But what do you guys think of the situation... am I doing the right thing?

 

Now... White Castle? Qdoba Taqueria? Wendy's? I got the munchies....

[WantDaChronic]

sounds like you are doing the right thing to me, but only time will tell

[Frazz]

Yea youre doing good thing with that poor orphaned widow,... charity starts @ home

 

[SukonmiSkunk]

if shes been flowering for a few weeks it might pay to prune it back... like cut the flowers out... and cut the tops of the flowers that are left... this way it will start the reveg process a little faster... just dont cut to much off.. and leave as many leaves on as possible... its the leaves that store the energy to grow the plant...

[mattdestruction]

I took clones from the tips so that essentially pruned the plant. I don't want to cut any more off since so much in the middle has withered and died... this fucker needs some energy stores still usable.

 

Should I add some really light nutes tho? Maybe 200ppm? Widow don't like lots of nutes to begin with (at least these don't) so I'm not sure.

 

I also turned 2 40w indirect CFLs off because they seemed too far to be effective, too hot, and the plant seemed to be in slightly worse condition (more dehydrated) than yesterday.

 

The clones look good tho... well as far as not wilting or looking overwatered. The single 40w CFL above the cloner might be too much tho...

 

Peace and Thanks for the advice

[Stoney]

hey there matt

 

sounds like ya doing the right thing they will take longer to root and will take abit to reveg but once they start veging it will be smooth sailing

 

good luck

 

cheerz :Dj:

[mattdestruction]

The plant and cuttings have only been getting worse since going into this new (and usual) setup. I cut the lighting down to just 3 40w CFLs (which is what I usually use for an average veg). It seems like only 25% of the plant is still alive, however I will remain optimistic. 3 of 8 clones may survive, but the rest have turned brown and slightly mushy.

 

I am thinking about adding light nutes to the plant's res to see if it will improve. Some yellowing along with curled crunchy tips has developed on the leaves that are still alive.