Yellow Leaves 4-5 week old plant

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highbeing

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Hi
My babies are about 4-5 weeks old
Past 2 days few leaves have started to turn yellow around the leaf corner.
The other plant has yellow spots.

What might be the problem..?

I'm growing 2 plants in a 3 gallon pot. Growing outdoors. Good sunlight, only getting 11-13 hours of light around the year.
Using only organics, using vermicompost. The soil is red, but it is pretty fertile, it has earthworm in them.. I have been watering them every day, the water is not hard & it is clean..
I do not know too much about growing. So please bear with me.

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a senile fungus

a senile fungus

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Looks to be over watered to me... Is your medium 100% vermicompost? My compost doesn't drain well unless I add something to it for better drainage/aeration.

Try watering less often. Good rule is to pick up the pot and feel how heavy it is after you water it, and again when it is dry. Let it have wet/dry cycles, don't keep the soil wet constantly.
 
slyone

slyone

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Looks to me like you could probably start upping the food levels as she looks like she could be feeding from her leaves as there is no food left in the soil due to how big she is or could possibly need a bigger pot due to root mass.... ? If you do give her a bigger pot mix your soil with perlite as 50/50 mix for good drainage & aeration for the roots...
 
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highbeing

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a senile fungus said:
Looks to be over watered to me... Is your medium 100% vermicompost? My compost doesn't drain well unless I add something to it for better drainage/aeration.

Try watering less often. Good rule is to pick up the pot and feel how heavy it is after you water it, and again when it is dry. Let it have wet/dry cycles, don't keep the soil wet constantly.
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10% vermicompost, 90% regular garden soil..

Any suggestions for plant food.
 
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highbeing

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slyone said:
Looks to me like you could probably start upping the food levels as she looks like she could be feeding from her leaves as there is no food left in the soil due to how big she is or could possibly need a bigger pot due to root mass.... ? If you do give her a bigger pot mix your soil with perlite as 50/50 mix for good drainage & aeration for the roots...
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I'll get her a bigger pot, how many gallons do you suggest for 2 plants..
 
slyone

slyone

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As big as you can afford with some depth as I noticed you have only filled your pot halfway up with soil. I find a deeper pot works wonders as the roots can have more room as well as width to grow. Any balanced 1:1:1 feed should see you right through if on a budget...
 
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highbeing

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slyone said:
As big as you can afford with some depth as I noticed you have only filled your pot halfway up with soil. I find a deeper pot works wonders as the roots can have more room as well as width to grow. Any balanced 1:1:1 feed should see you right through if on a budget...
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Thanks for the tip
 
DesertGrow89

DesertGrow89

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Senile is right you need better aeration and drainage. Add 50 percent perlite or anything that increases aeration. Roots NEED air in order to thrive, if one doesn't have a strong root system and healthy leaves the plant won't produce in flower. Begin fertilizing at 1/4 strength, then 1/2 strength and so on up to full strength but if you burn the plant back off. Fertilize three days before transplant, this adds salts into the soil, when you place the rootball into new soil roots will spread outwards away from the salts in search of water. Transplanting ASAP into a better medium would be ideal, bury the stem up to the first leafset. If the plant is pot bound trim the roots back an inch or two.

A 1:1:1 fert is fine for all purpose but imo 3:1:2 is ideal for the vegetative stage as that is a closer ratio to the composition of plant tissue and one is less likely to experience nutrient deficiency and lockout.

Recommend dyna-gro 9-3-6
 
DesertGrow89

DesertGrow89

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highbeing said:
I have goat manure, will it work.

I will transplant them soon..
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Chicken manure if possible because it is one of the most N heavy manures available, it also has a good supply of P.

Goat manure may provide some aeration but it's kind of a gamble.
 
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