600w HPS Home made Ebb Flow Grow - Sad plants

Plants:

• Original owner ripped them out by their roots and gave them to me
• Plants went into immediate shock
• I've had them in veg state for over 3 months
• AC went out and i walked into a 100 degree room with the plants drooping over the side of the bucket
• AC is still broken and room temp varies from 84-90 degrees daily
• Over fertilized them because i thought tsp stood for tablespoon (i've never cooked in my life and im an idiot)
• Use vinagre as a ph down instead of a legit ph down
• Did not have air pumps getting oxygen to the roots till yesterday
• Humidity in the room is a constant 20%, i've been spraying them daily with water from the reservoir
• There' is only one inline fan in the room bringing fresh air from outside and cooling the 600w HPS hood
• Various strains, none of the plants are marked. Iraqi, White Widow and Bubba Kush
• Did not know that you are not to expose roots to direct light. I checked the root system weekly.
• Did not know roots in buckets needed oxygen, installed a air pump system for each bucket yesterday

Todo

• New AC or swamp cooler to for humidity control
• Add air stones to bucket oxygen system
• Construct a room exhaust system
• Purchase a legit PH down solution
• Paint the orange painters buckets black to prevent light reaching the roots

You can actually see the timeline of events on the plant itself. Bottom is temp burn (leaves fell off). Mid is nute burn. Top is new growth which i hope to clone off of.



32gal Reservoir:



Master brain bucket (Control Bucket) with home made floater relay black box:



Inside the Master brain bucket, floaters, water pump:



Air pumps for root system in buckets:



Fresh air coming in from outside:

Any input or tips are welcomed

They're shocked to the point you might want to just start over. In a proper DWC you can get 10x the canopy you have now within 14days from clones... The roots seem un-salvageable and even if they do come back, whatever potency/quality the strain once had will be lost.

novatoker said:

They're shocked to the point you might want to just start over. In a proper DWC you can get 10x the canopy you have now within 14days from clones... The roots seem un-salvageable and even if they do come back, whatever potency/quality the strain once had will be lost.

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Yeah i completely understand that, i'm getting absolutely nothing but clones (if that!) off these. The new growth is really healthy and perfectly colored with fan leaves that look happy. I've givin them 1/2 strength grow formula for the past week and plan on bumping it up to full strength this week. Get some of those nodes going so i can clone successfully.

I also really need to address my heating issue as well as room exhaust. Fresh air from outside is only half the battle.

Just an update. I've fixed my AC and the room is a constant 80 degrees.