About 3 weeks ago, I had to go away for a few days and I topped up the nutrient in the bucket for this habanero plant pretty good before I left. This thing was producing like crazy, so it used up all of the liquid by the time I got home and dropped all of the leaves. I added new liquid right away when I saw it. The roots still seem ok, though not quite as white. The main stem is still moist just doing a scratch test, bigger branches are still green and I trimmed off quite a few smaller ones that turned brown but I haven’t seen any new growth. I’m just wondering if it’s worth the effort. If not, I’ll just transfer a different plant in a smaller bucket into this one.
by Apart_Olive_3539
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That looks pretty bad, but i would wait a few weeks. You might have to trim dead roots to keep the water clean. Good luck
No leaves and dried tips generally mean he’s a goner. However, I’ve had plants like this survive a ton if dried tips as long as it still had 20% of its leaves
At first I thought this was a post-harvest cannabis shitpost. My condolences to your plant. The roots can continue to act as sieves long after the plant has given up, and that’ll keep the stems nice, green, and moist. If branches are turning brown, thats not a great sign. If this were a cannabis plant, I would expect bigger stems to start rotting out slowly with zero chance of recovery.
Careful about re-filling the bucket fully. With the plant shocked like this, it needs significantly less water. Filling the bucket back to normal levels can cause things to start to stagnate and rot. I have straight up killed an attempted re-vegetated cannabis plant by filling the reservoir a bit too much, which overwhelmed the plant – roots were fine, but the shoots and stems began to die off and rot.
Curious to see what others with more experience directly with peppers would say. Unless any leading shoots are living, Im not sure it can pull through, though.