Are These Young Plants Okay?
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TommyDuhCat
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Yeah with a small root mass, and an equally small plant for it to support, ease into the nutrients. Looks like they could use some more. Not exactly sure what's causing your little bit of leaf necrosis, but I suspect it's just nutrient deficient. I'd just make sure the water is the right PH after mixing in nutrients, and definitely get some cal mag. My plants have needed a lot of cal mag thru my first grow.
Do you keep any records of nutrients and notes on the plant?
Do you keep any records of nutrients and notes on the plant?
TJ baba
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@TommyDuhCat I'm going to order some cal-mag and bump up the nutrients. Im really good with remembering how much I give them and I just try to adjust accordingly. So I have been adding about 4 tablespoons of floragro per gallon of water. But in these pics they were only getting 1 tablespoon per gallon. And they look a lot better and greener after giving them more nutes. So hopefully that will keep them happy enough until I get the cal-mag
Alienwidow
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Those things are starving. Feed them. Just dont kill them with food. Ease them into about 300 ppm or a third of a dose of whetever easy 2 part grow line of nutrients you choose. In a couple weeks when they start to look better start adding small amounts of calmag. And as corso is saying, only add the water it takes to keep them wet for a day or two. Small doses of water makes for a better wet dry and a wet-dry root zone is essential for good growth.
Corso312
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They are starving because the roots are drowning... That moisture control retains water way longer than normal soil.. A little water goes a longgg way... Its better for outdoor plants in dry environment.. If you are going to use that stuff..let it get bone dry before watering again..there's enough food in that soil to have those little plants dark green.. The roots are drowning and can't absorb any of it..more foid- water will only compound the problem.
Alienwidow
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Very true. Thats why i told him to ease his way into 300 ppm slowly. Ive heard and seen so many bad grows from that moisture control crap. The good thing is that once the plant starts feeding and growing faster the plant usually snaps right out of it.
TJ baba
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@Alienwidow @Corso312 thanks, I'm not gonna use it anymore. I just ran out of that moisture advantage soil. I'm thinking about switching to Fox farms ocean forest or 100% perlite next time i order.
Crab Pot
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If I were you, I would get rid of those bottles and build a water only organic soil that you can use from start to finish. Either a super soil or a living organic soil that can be used over and over again. I'm into the living soil, it just needs periodic top dressing with amendments such as kelp meal, neem seed meal, worm castings... The simplest, cheapest, most natural way to grow with the best quality meds, period.
