To all the dr's out there

[thatswho]

Hi All you oz stoner doctors.

 

Can I please have a diagnosis on my baby. I thought I lost her a little while ago. A snail decided to have a munch. Anyway I thought about putting her out of her misery but thought no, I couldnt do that.

Shes growing, but shes looking awfully droopy. What could be wrong with her.

 

Heres a pic, Any comments welcome

[Closet Grower]

How often are you watering ? It could be drowning .

[thatswho]

well that could be true, because we have had an awful lot of rain.

[Indycar]

hmm, it does look as if it's been over watered, plus maybe lacking some decent light recently?

[Taipan]

If a plant is wilting, but the soil or growing medium is not dry, then it is usually 1 of 2 things.

 

As the other people have said, it could be overwatered, usually resulting in sick roots which will make it wilt. If this is the case I'd give it a dose of fongarid and reduce watering until absolutely necessary for a while.

 

The second thing is over fertilising. If it has been heavily fertilised, then reverse osmosis can occur which will cause the water movement to reverse and it will be sucked out of the plant. This is pretty rare though, it would need to be a lot of fertiliser for this to happen. If this is a possibility you would need to give it a good flush, and then wait until its health has returned and it has grown a fair bit before fertilising it again.

Edited December 11, 2006 by Taipan

[nitram]

Hi thatswho,

 

More than likely the pot being as big as it looks holds alot of water - let it dry right out and hope it gets lenty of light and it should talke right off pretty soon.

[pipeman]

yeah its easy to overwater small plants in big pots. Also make sure the pot has good drainage.

[Budman2012]

G'day Thatswho ,

I agree with what has been said already ... It actually looks quite o.k. tho .. If It's been rainy and dull then It's probly just overwatered and underlighted

Should come good as soon as the weather improves ...

But If you got your pots out in the rain for a few days that will ofcourse flush alot of the nutrient out of the medium so watch out for that .. once the soil dries out a bit and with some decent weather you can easily replace those nutes

Sorry if that was too obvious

But good luck with it anyway

 

Budman

[Roadblock]

When you are in a water logged situation the best thing you can do is get rid of the excess water and replace it with oxygen and you need to do it fast because root diesease can get in very quickly in a water logged pot in summer .

 

How can you get rid of the water that gravity wont move and how can you supercharge the pot with oxygen ...

 

Get a 20 litre bucket with a lid ,, cut a hole in the lid that the bottom 3 inch or so of the pot will fit in neat ,, then cut another hole in the lid about an inch or so ,,, now put the pot in the big hole and poke the nozzel of your vacumme cleaner in the small hole and turn it on , 20 seconds later a oxygen supercharged pot with excess water in the bottom the bucket .

 

Rod