Nute Burn Or Over Watered?

Well, I put 1/8th ts of super grow 20 20 20 (It recommends 1Tbs) in a gallon of water and that might be whats wrong? Look at this picture and tell me if its nute burn or over watered.

No more nutes for a while. Does that cup have drainage holes?

Nute burn, give it a flush. And make sure you have drainage holes in the bottom of that dixie.

Picasso345 said:

No more nutes for a while. Does that cup have drainage holes?

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brasmith said:

Nute burn, give it a flush. And make sure you have drainage holes in the bottom of that dixie.

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Ditto Picasso

Yes the cup has hole in the bottom and thanks for the advice.

I just had to give her a flush. I used about 200mL of water (7.0pH) to flush. Good or Bad? Her yellow and light green spots were turning brown, that's what forced me to flush.

Like said before, that plant is way too small to be starting nutes. Other than the slight burn it looks like a nice little plant. For future references, overwatering usually makes the leaves curl and wilt and most "burning" to the plants is caused by nutes.

Forgot to add a picture of what she was looking like.

brianc01088 said:

Forgot to add a picture of what she was looking like.

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You added that picture in your first post.

Nevermind it looked very similar. It looks almost identical to what it was like in the first picture.

The edges where it was browning had spread maybe a mm or 2 inward. I flushed just to be on the safe side. Was that to much water or just enough?

When you flush you usually use more than you use to water, which should be until the water starts dripping out of the drainage holes. So you can judge that by how much you watered them.

I watered them with about the same amount I used that last time and it was dripping out the bottom both times.

Whats a good amount to water with normally for a 16oz. dixie cup any ways?

It really depends on what kind of soil you use and how much the plant takes up. I usually just water enough to let it drip out of the bottom. If you do use that amount of plain water every time the soil dries up (don't overwater!) then your new leaves will grow out green and healthy.

Well I let it pour into the bowl that it sits in... so I'm guessing It was over watered to. Thanks for the help though... I gotta catch some Maybe you should follow my grow just to keep me in line. Haha! +rep!

brianc01088 said:

Well I let it pour into the bowl that it sits in... so I'm guessing It was over watered to. Thanks for the help though... I gotta catch some Maybe you should follow my grow just to keep me in line. Haha! +rep!

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Overwatering is not necessarily how much you water it with when you do water it (the drainage holes will take care of excess water) but how OFTEN you water. My rule (and many others) is to wait until the soil is completely dry up to two inches down to water again.

your drowing it and burning it , ..........sit back a bit, let it do its thing , it dosent need all this lovin , your smothering it .
let the soil dry out a bit and then water lightly and try to keep to this routine , you will soon notice the new growth is clean and healthy , i wouldnt reccomend flushing a seedling that small.
to give you an idea of how much water they need at this stage , i have a couple of seedling allmost exactly the same size as yours , today will be the fourth day they have had nothing ,not even a drop , i will check them later and they will get a light watering , it will probally be 3 or 4 days before i need to give them any more again .
sometimes you will find the lights dry out the top crust of soil , that dosent worry me to much , sometimes i mist the top slightly , or you can use pebbles or cut out a cardboard shield or something to block the light .