Tropical Storm Fay made landfall some time last night and all day, even though I had been thinking about moving/protecting my plant, I didn't get around to making the trip out there.

We've gotten about 8-10inches of rain in this pretty short period, and a lot of 40-60mph winds over the last couple of hours. I don't bring water out to my plant, I just let it rain and once a week or so I add some bone meal tea and molassas+epsom salt solution.

How much excess water would it take for the roots to rot? Over-watering is not just a one-time thing, it's watering the plant too much over a period of time, correct?

How worried should I be about my little girl being out in the woods during a storm like this?

(i just remembered that since she's tied down (LST), I hope the winds don't tear her apart )

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I'm scared to go check on her tomorrow.

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in the WOODS??? branches might fall on her alot of shit man but dont think of that ya know??? think of the best for ur bitches n they will be ight i pray for yas maryjane man and depending on the way the WIND is blowin ur plant might be safe and were ur plants budding??

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what part of fla. you at!!!!

To answer your question: you shouldn't be worried at all. There is nothing you can do at this point. Just go check as soon as possible and see if things are alright. You'll be surprised how tough these plants are.

You shouldn't have to worry about root rot as long as the plant is in the ground or in a pot with good drainage. Just let the storm pass.

If it is of any comfort, I lost 6 of 8 plants to a flash flood (when I had them in pots, before putting them in the ground), and I found the two survivors *two full days* later. They were wrapped around the bottom of a thorn bush, were soaking wet, and had lost half their soil. I just put them back in the sun and added more soil. They looked like hell for a while, but came back full strength.

So don't worry... just go check soon so you can help them if anything happened to them.

I think you will be good. The year of Hurricane Katrina I had an outdoor grow. Mine were in the woods in 5 gallon buckets. When Katrina rolled in she blew a good bit of leaves off the plants, knocked a tree over and knocked a foot off the top of one of the plants, and gave them a wind shaken look. When I got back and saw them I never thought they would pull through. Sure enough a few weeks later they started to flower. They all recovered from losing a bunch of leaves and the one that got topped by a tree gave me 2 huge colas.

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Thanks for that reassurance guys.
I'm just a bit north of WPB, and yes, it is flowering.
I know there isn't anything that I can do now, but I'm really glad that she is on some higher ground because we had some SERIOUS flooding all around town. I'm pretty sure that the soil drains well enough. If the chickenwire enclosure around the pot gets knocked over, though, she's likely fucked...she's tied (LST'd) to the chicken wire enclosure.

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bur,
In 2004 I had a problem with the multiple hurricanes that hit us. Of the nine plants I had in the woods all got bud rot from the excess moisture, on top of that they lost alot of their leafs. I hope it doesn't turn out for you as it did for me. Good luck!

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Okay, I just came back from checking on her and I'm both glad and disappointed. She's still alive, nothing landed on her, and the strings didn't snap her main stem anywhere, so that's all good... but she's noticeably yellower than she was before (many more yellowing leaves). It's been about a week since I checked on her last and, at that point, she was doing great (very green, buds getting bigger, starting to smell). I want to add some of this fish emulsion (^N) and bone meal tea (^P) and epsom salt solution (Mg) because I'm sure that all of the rain has flushed everything out of the soil, but the soil is pretty wet already and I'd rather not add any more moisture.

*sigh*...
I guess only time will tell.
If she dies despite my efforts, I'm going to pick those small buds, smoke them and eat the plant.

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yellow of leafs during flower is normal man and i woulnt give it that N boost because of all the N that is in the rain water

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