Are my plants too hot or did I fail a transplant?

Jacob_

Jacob_

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Hey guys, 2nd season grower here so I’m still pretty new when it comes to outdoor growing. I live in Redding CA and for the past 2 weeks it’s been getting 100+ here on consecutive days, 107 today even. That said, i transplanted these guys from smaller black buckets (3 gallon) 6 weeks ago, and noticed very few yellow leaves after a week, but still yellow leaves were there.

The transplant went pretty smooth IMHO. No torn roots. Followed all the rules. So 6 weeks post transplant, do these leaves look more like heat exhaustion given the heat, or just a bad transplant? Thanks in advance for any help! Knowing what to do from here would be great
 

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Maybe im just lucky so far (touch wood) but ive never once experienced ‘transplant shock’.
I think you would have to fuck something uo pretty good to ‘shock’ the plant.

Doesnt look like heat stress (leaves usually curl up from heat stress)

Probably one of a few things
A) nutrient deficiency
B) excess nutrients blockinng other nutes
C) ph issue
 
I moved them into the shade after posting, so yay on that front. I transplanted directly into nutrient filled happy frog soil, then fed with tiger bloom 2x a week so I don’t think it’s nutrient deficiency? Or could it still be? They do seem to look better today than before, in regards to pH, I’ve watered religiously with 6.0 distilled water before and since the TP. we’re at 105 Fahrenheit today :( . Thanks for the responses guys, it helps a noobie out a ton.
 
A little later in the day, took a a few of the mostly dead fan leaves off of each of the 3 plants
 

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Jacob_ said:
Hey guys, 2nd season grower here so I’m still pretty new when it comes to outdoor growing. I live in Redding CA and for the past 2 weeks it’s been getting 100+ here on consecutive days, 107 today even. That said, i transplanted these guys from smaller black buckets (3 gallon) 6 weeks ago, and noticed very few yellow leaves after a week, but still yellow leaves were there.

The transplant went pretty smooth IMHO. No torn roots. Followed all the rules. So 6 weeks post transplant, do these leaves look more like heat exhaustion given the heat, or just a bad transplant? Thanks in advance for any help! Knowing what to do from here would be great
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Are you feeding or just water?
 
Try insulating your buckets by setting inside a larger bucket or using reflective insulated bubble wrap.
 
Jacob_ said:
Yep, and no bugs. 105 today though?
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A lot of bugs you can't see with the naked eye. I see signs of bugs in the pics.

Also have you been feeding any Grow formula, or just the Tiger Bloom? Tiger Bloom has a lot of P in it, and not much N. I'm not a fan of it myself, but I stopped using all chemicals awhile ago.
 
Jacob_ said:
Hey guys, 2nd season grower here so I’m still pretty new when it comes to outdoor growing. I live in Redding CA and for the past 2 weeks it’s been getting 100+ here on consecutive days, 107 today even. That said, i transplanted these guys from smaller black buckets (3 gallon) 6 weeks ago, and noticed very few yellow leaves after a week, but still yellow leaves were there.

The transplant went pretty smooth IMHO. No torn roots. Followed all the rules. So 6 weeks post transplant, do these leaves look more like heat exhaustion given the heat, or just a bad transplant? Thanks in advance for any help! Knowing what to do from here would be great
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Im down in red bluff and i had to put a shade tarp from costco over them. too damn hot. At least this week will be nice for us!
 
When you use destiled water for watering you must use calmag otherwise the pH of the water tends to go down according to the time exposed to the air. I have never seen distiled more than 6,0 untill its measured immediatelly after opening the bottle or being mixed with nuts and pH stabilized. Also calmag tends to rise soil’s pH lightly. You wrote you feed twice a week, so than your problem is probably salt built up which kicks soil pH out of range for uptake the nuts so your problem appears as deficiency but its actually a lockout issue. Also systematic watering with pH 6,0 is calling for troubles. Go plain water pHed to 7,0 and watch your runoff values, when you drop below 5,9 and EC will be higher than 2,1 than you know you are locked.
 
Bukvičák said:
When you use destiled water for watering you must use calmag otherwise the pH of the water tends to go down according to the time exposed to the air. I have never seen distiled more than 6,0 untill its measured immediatelly after opening the bottle or being mixed with nuts and pH stabilized. Also calmag tends to rise soil’s pH lightly. You wrote you feed twice a week, so than your problem is probably salt built up which kicks soil pH out of range for uptake the nuts so your problem appears as deficiency but its actually a lockout issue. Also systematic watering with pH 6,0 is calling for troubles. Go plain water pHed to 7,0 and watch your runoff values, when you drop below 5,9 and EC will be higher than 2,1 than you know you are locked.
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thank you, much appreciated. Combo of the heat and what you wrote above I’ve concluded, my pal 30 miles down in Red Bluff CA has the same issue. one of the 3 plants I took pics of was at 5.5, the others right 6.8, 6.9. Were luckily FINALLY cooling down over here. Mid 80’s are a welcome site. Thanks to everyone for your help!
 
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