At what point does an overwatered plant become unsaveable?

I would estimate I have lost about 25% of my lower leaves to overwatering. She's a few weeks into flower. Am I fucked?

I drilled a bunch of holes into the side of the pot. I have this weird issue where I can water a 4-5 gallon container with 1 gallon of water and have runoff. I've read that you should use about 1/2 water for the size of the container, but that would leave me with so much runoff it's pointless.

My potting medium blows and I know that now. It seems like the bottom and middle were retaining moisture while the top was dry, so hence the holes. Next time I'll be adding perlite (trying to make my own soil mix on the cheap).

jfarrismu said:

I would estimate I have lost about 25% of my lower leaves to overwatering. She's a few weeks into flower. Am I fucked?

I drilled a bunch of holes into the side of the pot. I have this weird issue where I can water a 4-5 gallon container with 1 gallon of water and have runoff. I've read that you should use about 1/2 water for the size of the container, but that would leave me with so much runoff it's pointless.

My potting medium blows and I know that now. It seems like the bottom and middle were retaining moisture while the top was dry, so hence the holes. Next time I'll be adding perlite (trying to make my own soil mix on the cheap).

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That bit of info is completely wrong.

The only thing you can do is stop watering and don't water again until the pot feels light

If your medium is like mud when wet you may indeed be fucked

Billy the Mountain said:

That bit of info is completely wrong.

The only thing you can do is stop watering and don't water again until the pot feels light

If your medium is like mud when wet you may indeed be fucked

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Yeah I realized that the pot was still heavy even with the top 1-2 inches of soil being dry, so I think I have an aeration and drainage issue. The holes are to help with that, but without any perlite I have indeed gotten myself into a sticky situation

Yeah I've lost about 50% of my leaves now. And another 10-20% are yellowing. She is rapidly dying and I'm several weeks into flower. Def need a better potting mix and to be more judicious about watering. Sadness

jfarrismu said:

Next time I'll be adding perlite (trying to make my own soil mix on the cheap).

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Mixing your own “soil” is for experienced growers and for people who have knowledges (plant nutrition, amendments, watering…) And even those people sometimes mix it too hot or run into issues… KISS

If your getting runoff right away that’s usually because surface is dry and slightly hydrophobic so it just runs down inside of pot. Try watering slower and or use a drop of dish soap or some yucca etc in your water. Sounds like your roots are suffering at this point though