Cl@rksville, you mention how you don't know anything about fox farm ocean forest, so why are you saying all this stuff about testing and adding ferts? Fox Farm's ocean forest and happy frog soils, which the grower says he's using, are both loaded with fert at the factory. What's going on with this grow is over fert, badly. I'd flush that potting soil with water until about one half gallon runs out the bottom, then wait and see if it survives. It might not, and certainly won't if people continue to say feed it this, feed it that. If you don't understand the soil and apparently have missed that the grower states they are giving even more fert, which is a mistake, then please avoid posting if you don't know the soil or what you're talking about with insistence that pH needs testing, blah, blah, blah. And while we're at it, what the hell does this mean -- "Fuck the oooh it ain't gonna look pretty jockstraps?" I've seen a lot of crap on web forums on how to grow this plant; a lot of misinformation, but this thread might take the gold star for stupidity and completely misleading a confused grower on what their problem is.
Oh yes, one thing... 1000 ppm is a hydroponic grow fert level. not soil. These soils probably came from the factory with at least that much in them, maybe more.
"And believe me this could be ph, rootbound, pythium, viral, fungus, cal, mag, soil fault at source, man it could be a lot of things but a soup soak extraction is needed here to move on to maximise this crop." Spoken like someone that has no clue. People are going to think I'm a real dick for this post, but it's time people stop the age-old b.s. on pH this, calcium that. In these good soils you don't have much to worry about. Entire grows can be had just on these soils alone, without adding anything else. Just because you can add ferts doesn't mean you should. Soup soak extraction, huh? More crazy lingo. Crazy, mate, seriously, stop it, you're hurting me....