Nectar for the gods #4 soil, seedlings looking burnt

I am a newbie and this is my second grow. I am using nectar #4 soil, I have not use no nutes yet but my babies are looking pretty messed up ( nutes burn i think) I don’t know what i’m doing wrong bc all of em burnt. Is it because de soil too hot? Temp and humidity levels are good. I water them with PH water around 5.8 and 6.2

maybe you got an extra hot batch? dont look like your light is too close because your stretching pretty hard.

RynoGrow said:

maybe you got an extra hot batch? dont look like your light is too close because your stretching pretty hard.

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I didn’t really get it and my light is like 36” from the plants. They been like this for a long time now.

I've used plenty of #4 maybe 50 bags or so and never seen anything like this. It is an amended soil but not a hot soil like FFOF, how often were you watering them?

Soil seems to be to hot for seedlings try a seed starting soil.
Ph seems to be low try more on the 6.5-6.8 range
By the stage the plants are in it seems like you're watering on the heavy side , they are still young try giving less water at that stage

soulben said:

I didn’t really get it and my light is like 36” from the plants. They been like this for a long time now.

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thats why they are stretching and all stem. your light is too far away and they are stretching to reach the light. lower the light atleast 12 to 18 inches.

I have started every cannabis seed I have grown and numerous vegetable seeds in #4 soil without issue.

Not saying there couldn't be an anomaly.

tell us and show us your pHing methods. I would not be pHing at this time. 1 drop of acid could be too much.

What is the temp and humidity like?

Flatrate said:

I've used plenty of #4 maybe 50 bags or so and never seen anything like this. It is an amended soil but not a hot soil like FFOF, how often were you watering them?

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Everytime they feel dry. I flushed the ones in the red cups thats why the soil look like that. But i might be watering them too much

SnidleyBluntash said:

tell us and show us your pHing methods. I would not be pHing at this time. 1 drop of acid could be too much.

What is the temp and humidity like?

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this is what i use and the regular down and up solutions i got from the grow store. But you might be right because i do put a lot of drops when i ph my water. So what type of water should i use so i dont have to worry about the ph?

Mr.SoloDolo420 said:

Soil seems to be to hot for seedlings try a seed starting soil.
Ph seems to be low try more on the 6.5-6.8 range
By the stage the plants are in it seems like you're watering on the heavy side , they are still young try giving less water at that stage

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What do you suggest ?

You don’t have to worry about pH to have a ‘fine’ living plant. If you didn’t worry about pH you would be fine. If you wanted to take it from ‘fine’ to ‘super’ then you would begin to play with some pH. Every time I see someone in soil messing with pH they have problems. So I think you should check the pH of your regular tap water. Flush your plants with plain water. Check the pH off the run off. And hope for recovery.

Looks overwatered.

SnidleyBluntash said:

You don’t have to worry about pH to have a ‘fine’ living plant. If you didn’t worry about pH you would be fine. If you wanted to take it from ‘fine’ to ‘super’ then you would begin to play with some pH. Every time I see someone in soil messing with pH they have problems. So I think you should check the pH of your regular tap water. Flush your plants with plain water. Check the pH off the run off. And hope for recovery.

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Thank you so much and I thinking about it YOU ARE SO RIGHT!! I have 4 sundae drivers that are doing really fine and I didnt pH them when they were seedlings

They are growing in nectar #4 right now and they love it, I was about to get rid of the bag lol but I’m def going to keep it. Thank you guys I’ll update very soon

soulben said:

this is what i use and the regular down and up solutions i got from the grow store. But you might be right because i do put a lot of drops when i ph my water. So what type of water should i use so i dont have to worry about the ph?
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If you flushed your soil, you will definitely need to keep phing from 6.2-6.7, unless you top dress some fresh worm castings to get the biology going again or something similar that will automatically buffer the ph for you.

By flushing your soil, you removed many of the nutrients and microorganisms that help buffer your soil pH, so you will either need to start pHing or just re-inoculate your soil with beneficials & top dress some EWC Then no need to pH. FYI, I personally like rootwise or Recharge for inoculations on top of fresh worm castings. Preferably both at the same time. It’s all about diversity

You can use regular water or distilled mixed with a bit of regular water if your water Is super hard (over 0.5EC). Not only is pure Distilled water not good for the soil, it’s a bitch to pH (if your going that route), so mixing distilled with regular tap water takes care of that

soulben said:

Everytime they feel dry. I flushed the ones in the red cups thats why the soil look like that. But i might be watering them too much

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More than once a day? If your soil is still in acceptable ranges don't ph(at least not yet) again, and what are the lights you're using? Whatever the light source is drop it much closer than 36 inches.

Marq1340 said:

More than once a day? If your soil is still in acceptable ranges don't ph(at least not yet) again, and what are the lights you're using? Whatever the light source is drop it much closer than 36 inches.

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I dont water them everyday, they looked like this because i flushed them not that pong ago and waiting on the soil to dry. But i flushed them with pHed water lol. I’m going to pop some more seeds and not mess with the ph and see whats going to happen. I’m using Parfactwork Led 1000 and 2000

soulben said:

I dont water them everyday, they looked like this because i flushed them not that pong ago and waiting on the soil to dry. But i flushed them with pHed water lol. I’m going to pop some more seeds and not mess with the ph and see whats going to happen. I’m using Parfactwork Led 1000 and 2000

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Sounds good. Good luck.

Just buy some damn Black Gold if you can get it where you're at. Better than that overpriced NFTG stuff. I wouldn't use their nutrients either.