HELP !!! ... Looks like someone set fire to one of my babies

[Yozhik]

Yeah true that man ,one thing is though you may want to consider throwing up some chicken wire perhaps just as a precaution, they like coming back to the same spots after all and i would make sure the others are covered around too in case the little bastard go's to them because it cant go in that one.

I just had another eureka moment i must have had enough joints to think straight..After reading @Grim Reefer 's post about heat damage..And i had a flash back to some plants i had growing in the Aussie bush ,and a car window reflected light at my girls. i noticed and quickly rectified the problem before it became one . is this a wild possibility at all? light reflection??

I can't think how.
They're in an open field.

 

[IndicaIVoz]

ok well lets go with piss..Urea reacts with water to form ammonium ions and carbonate ions. Indeed alkaline- so test the run off tomorrow and you will have your answer to that high Ph you know its urea.

Reference https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/urea-ph-level-of-it.80386/

 

[Yozhik]

ok well lets go with piss..Urea reacts with water to form ammonium ions and carbonate ions. Indeed alkaline- so test the run off tomorrow and you will have your answer to that high Ph you know its urea.

Reference https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/urea-ph-level-of-it.80386/

The neighbour's dog HAS been running across the land - no fences - and he has been sniffing the plants occasionally and visiting me during those early morning feedings, so if it only required him peeing into the pot itself, and not directly onto the upper leaves, then it is - I guess - a possibility.

What a pisser!
[bad pun intended]

I'm sure I'll know more tomorrow morning when I throw some water in the pot.
Water has a nasty habit of reactivating the pungent aroma of animal piss on contact.

 

[IndicaIVoz]

Yeah because when urea hits water it becomes some elements become "NH3" and that's highly odorous. NH3 is a chemistry slang word for ammonia.

 

[Yozhik]

So whether a random canine pissing contest, or a salt buildup from nutes + intense sun - a good flushing is the 'no downside' solution, for all 16 plants - affected and non-affected?

Would that be the gist of the situation and recommendation?

 

[IndicaIVoz]

Flush away brother It's just important to know the root cause so to speak so it dosnt happen again
Dont see why you would flush the un-effected ones though no need to waist expensive AN nutes but up to you bro

 

[Yozhik]

Yeah because when urea hits water it becomes some elements become "NH3" and that's highly odorous. NH3 is a chemistry slang word for ammonia.

I don't rely on the science - I rely on my personal experience and olfactory arsenal, when washing windows and external sills, from the invasion of stray cats that seem to be attracted to our property all the fucking time.



Might have something to do with the 7 cats that reside here ...

 

[IndicaIVoz]

I don't rely on the science - I rely on my personal experience and olfactory arsenal, when washing windows and external sills, from the invasion of stray cats that seem to be attracted to our property all the fucking time.



Might have something to do with the 7 cats that reside here ...

7 cats!? I'm feeling more and more confident all the time.

 

[jingo]

ok well lets go with piss..Urea reacts with water to form ammonium ions and carbonate ions. Indeed alkaline- so test the run off tomorrow and you will have your answer to that high Ph you know its urea.

Reference https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/urea-ph-level-of-it.80386/

That's funny I pee into my plants pots all the time if I need to specially if I don't have a pot full of runoff water around.

 

[Yozhik]

I guess the only thing that's bugging me with this urea/dog piss theory - which definitely has its merits - is that the adjacent HBSS plant shows signs of the exact same issue - but to a MUCH lesser extent. [i.e. One or two leaves]

Which is also why I'm leaning towards just doing a complete flushing detox over the entire garden and giving them a colonic irrigation to within an inch of their dankalicious lives.