I am an idiot, and didn't listen when people said miracle grow was bad, it was my first grow, and I bought 2-3 bags of miracle grow potting soil [this was a bit before last summer]. I use CFL's as well, theres plenty of light, trust me, light is one thing I am sure is not the issue.
The entire first grow was very unstable, I had some plants die off, and plants would seem to look good, and then start drooping, and a week later they are almost completely dead... even though the conditions were exactly the same the entire time, consistent watering schedule every 3 days or so, and I did not use any nutes at all, I don't own any, and no plant food either, I don't have any. The water I used was the same old tap water left out for 2 days that I always use to water with.
Temperatures get to about 68-70 when lights are off, and they can peak at 87-89.9, it never ever hits 90. Lights are on 18:6. I have one fan blowing over the plants, all the leaves on all the plants constantly moving, but not violently or anything, this grow is in my closet, which is pretty decent sized, and my closet door gets opened at least 4 times a day.
I am on my second grow... but both grows I used miracle grow, and I am having serious problems... I don't even know if I can blame the soil, I have heard miracle grow is bad... but doable, whereas me, every single plant I have droops at around 20 days in, and then dies, my first grow made it 2 months my first grow was doing pretty well, had some problems, and all the bottom leaves dead, but the top half was doing well, then I tried to flower on 12/12 and a month later, nothing happened but the plant got really sick, drooped, yellowed and died. Plant growth seemed to have stopped, the only daily change was it was more yellow and the leaves were getting smaller and smaller every day.
I had those plants in a pot that the entire bottom was filled with miracle grow, and the top half was dollar general soil, 2 plants made it a lil over 2 months in a mix of bottom half miracle grow, top half dollar general (the bucket was about 1 1/2 feet tall, and about a lil over a foot wide.)
This current grow I am using the miracle grow still leftover from my first grow, they start out fine... not growing as fast as other CFL grows I have seen, but then out of nowhere they start yellowing, drooping and dying. I have had one of my one month old plants die already, and another of the better looking ones is about to die, a week ago it was fine. I transplanted the other month old plant into a bigger container and I used dollar general soil to fill all the gaps, it isn't looking as bad as it was... but its not really growing either.
So pretty much all my plants just seem to start dying out of nowhere, out of all the different sprouts I have planted every one of them starts looking like shit out of nowhere, not to mention they are growing slow as fuck... not just slow, seriously abnormally slow, I had one of my month old plants still growing its second fucking set of leaves when it died, that is not fucking right at all.
I am getting so ticked, I have invested well over $300 into this, mostly on the CFL's and sockets, and nothing will fucking work... one of the things in common with every plant that dies is the miracle.
help would be greatly appreciated.
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