Help. My plants are dying

[smoketastic]

I have some outdoor plants, planted guerilla style in fabric pots. I've been busy this past week and haven't had a chance to go check on them, but we got two nice rains, so I thought they would be okay. Today when I got to my plot to water them, I noticed almost all of them have severe yellowing of the leaves down low, with some brown spots. Some plants were hit worse than others. Any idea what this is, and what I can do to prevent it from spreading further? I pulled all the disease or damaged leaves off and discarded them. The plants have all started preflowering this week.

 

[ganga gurl420]

Hit them with some calmag

 

[BionicΩChronic]

Classic Nitrogen deficiency imo. Plant is using nitrogen from lower leaves to gain height and make more leaves and nodes.
maybe rootbound aswell. I'd deff up pot or put them in ground now so they can un-rootbound themselves before flower. Otherwise you'll have larfy underdeveloped buds (if root bound)
Those are 5gal fabric pots right? Mine get rootbound at about that bug in those

 

[hotrodharley]

Cal mag usually has nitrogen in it.

 

[neved]

I have some outdoor plants, planted guerilla style in fabric pots. I've been busy this past week and haven't had a chance to go check on them, but we got two nice rains, so I thought they would be okay. Today when I got to my plot to water them, I noticed almost all of them have severe yellowing of the leaves down low, with some brown spots. Some plants were hit worse than others. Any idea what this is, and what I can do to prevent it from spreading further? I pulled all the disease or damaged leaves off and discarded them. The plants have all started preflowering this week.View attachment 4160934 View attachment 4160935 View attachment 4160936 View attachment 4160937 View attachment 4160937 View attachment 4160936 View attachment 4160935 View attachment 4160934 View attachment 4160934 View attachment 4160935 View attachment 4160936 View attachment 4160937

Absolutely rootbound , you should top the plant and going wide except going tree with small pot.
Root wanna grow vertically because of the height of the plant(supperting )....

 

[ganga gurl420]

Even tho I support the idea of going with bigger pots...it is technically really hard to get root bound in a fabric pot. That is another selling point of theirs. Roots can not wrap around and strangle itself.
And yes Calmag has nitrogen in it and the brown spots can be a tell tale sign of a Cal problem.

 

[smoketastic]

Thanks for all the advice. I went to five different local gardening stores today looking for some calmag, but didn't have any luck. So I ended up ordering some off Amazon, but it won't be here until Wednesday or Thursday of next week so I'm looking at another week before I can treat them.
I'm not sure potting up is an option considering the guerilla nature of the grow. Getting more soil to the location would be a PITA, but if I don't see improvements with the CalMag, I may have to.
These are 7 gallon pots. I did pull a male last week. It wasn't rootbound, and the roots looked pretty healthy.

 

[hotrodharley]

Thanks for all the advice. I went to five different local gardening stores today looking for some calmag, but didn't have any luck. So I ended up ordering some off Amazon, but it won't be here until Wednesday or Thursday of next week so I'm looking at another week before I can treat them.
I'm not sure potting up is an option considering the guerilla nature of the grow. Getting more soil to the location would be a PITA, but if I don't see improvements with the CalMag, I may have to.
These are 7 gallon pots. I did pull a male last week. It wasn't rootbound, and the roots looked pretty healthy.

I have used Tums in a blender with water in an emergency.

 

[smoketastic]

I have used Tums in a blender with water in an emergency.

Thanks for the idea. I'll probably try that tomorrow. Maybe it'll do some good while I'm waiting on the CalMag to get here . Any guesses on concentration? How many Tums tablets per gallon?

 

[charface]

Those bags dry out very fast outside.
I wouldn't go a week without visiting.
Rootbound is not likely
I use those bags constantly for those two reasons

 

[too larry]

You can sink the bags a few inches in the ground. Will help with water retention. But planting in the ground is the way to go if you can't be there with lots of TLC.

 

[minniehaha]

They arent dying. Take a box cutter and gently take away the bottom of your pot. Turn over the ground underneath, water well if you are able, then replace plant on to turned soil. The plant will root into the ground, which will be full of nutrients, and she will also be able to find damp in very dry weather by sending down long roots. You will be able to keep the height then and not lose existing bud.
I am a newbie weed grower, but a very experienced gardener. This technique works well with tomatoes in grow bags, especially for those, like me, that are lazy waterers, or like you guerilla growing.

 

[ganga gurl420]

They arent dying. Take a box cutter and gently take away the bottom of your pot. Turn over the ground underneath, water well if you are able, then replace plant on to turned soil. The plant will root into the ground, which will be full of nutrients, and she will also be able to find damp in very dry weather by sending down long roots. You will be able to keep the height then and not lose existing bud.
I am a newbie weed grower, but a very experienced gardener. This technique works well with tomatoes in grow bags, especially for those, like me, that are lazy waterers, or like you guerilla growing.

Using fabric pots...The roots have already grown into the ground if he hasn't moved them frequently. Another one of the winning reasons why fabric pots are good.

 

[thumper60]

Those bags dry out very fast outside.
I wouldn't go a week without visiting.
Rootbound is not likely
I use those bags constantly for those two reasons

I agree heat an lack of water!

Thanks for the idea. I'll probably try that tomorrow. Maybe it'll do some good while I'm waiting on the CalMag to get here . Any guesses on concentration? How many Tums tablets per gallon?

please don't dump tums on the plants cal mag not the problem,heat an lack of water is the problem