Hello friends, stunted growth. Ph from runoff good. Pictures.

Hi friends. I’m growing my first indoor. Soil - 5gal fabric. 6 parts organic medium with all the kelp and bone meals. One part worm castings. 1.5 parts coco coir. 1 part perlite. 2 parts agriculture lime feminized aculpulco gold sativa seeds. 5/5 germ and one runt of bunch.
Lost one plant from good seed early.
Looked like first picture. Soil ph 7.0
Fed 1/4 strength 6.5ph refertilizer 20-5-10 at 20 days from germinate. Now getting dark stomata and veins but light leaves. Fed straight water and mild recovery. What’s up with leaves. Now fed with week one (although week two) nutes and now getting stomata darkening and light leaves. Pic 2/3/4 what’s up with leaves?

Maybe bugs?

Really looks like broad mite damage.

Was this soil mix allowed time to cook?Then you added 20-5-10? Youve got a severe imbalance going on i think.

myke said:

Was this soil mix allowed time to cook?Then you added 20-5-10? Youve got a severe imbalance going on i think.

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Cooked for three days. And rinsed . I realize this wasn’t long. Do you think I should flush the potting containers?

PizzaMan5000 said:

Really looks like broad mite damage.

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Are ladybugs effective against broad mites? Neem oil?

I assume you’ve scoped for bugs?
I would just straight water for awhile. When you get too much compost and dry nutes that haven’t broken down yet you get that shrivelled look.

I have found small flies. I realize you can’t see mites with the naked eye. I have stickies set up from the beginning and they catch quite a few tiny flies. I put the fan on high and tried to keep the top soil dry. They have went away.
I will also say that it has been hot here. 100.5f. 40 degrees c. Soil temps 26-28c. Lights are spydsrfarmer 1000d x3 at 14” above canopy. Could this be heat stroke?
I’ll lay off the nutes and give straight h20 for the next feed. Thanks for your reply.

Rooknononsense said:

Are ladybugs effective against broad mites? Neem oil?

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Neem about killed my plants last time, I use sevin dust.

I have really good luck using neem preventatively but I only use 100% neem oil that I buy at the natural food store, then I mix 2 tablespoons with one gallon warm water and 1/2 tsp dawn dish soap. I only spray in the evening right before sunset. I shake the mix very thoroughly and also every few sprays and I just mist the plants lightly underneath the leaves and all over including the stems and the top of the leaves. I don't like to spray during flowering but sometimes I have to so then I wash the buds at harvest using the triple wash method I saw on you tube. It has worked for me doing it that way. I also use spinosad from Monterey products and that works well too. The main thing I learned was that you don't need to drench the plants, especially during flower because that caused mold and bud rot, but the very fine misting worked very well