pH? Ferts? What's wrong with this plant?

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pokesmotallday1

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• Oct 11, 2010

• #1

2 week old seedling. I didnt know any better so in the first day or so of life i gave it ferts and then immediately flushed for the rest of the time. its grown big grotesque leaves and looks all wrinkled and the leaves feel weirdly textured

 

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VICTORYGARDENSHYDRO

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• Oct 11, 2010

• #2

it's starving, feed it something

 

Fascist Botany enthusiast

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• Oct 12, 2010

• #3

WOW, this looks similar to the problem I just posted, only worse? That was growing in soil though with bag seed... Would really like to see what happens with this. Keep updating, ty.

 

indipow82

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• Oct 12, 2010

• #4

Feed it some good old fashioned PH balanced water and get it on a light feeding schedule after it recoups. Looks slightly neglected...

 

Brimi

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• Oct 12, 2010

• #5

indipow82 said:

Feed it some good old fashioned PH balanced water and get it on a light feeding schedule after it recoups. Looks slightly neglected...

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Agree - check the ph-value. Looks like it's off causing a micro nute def.

 

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pokesmotallday1

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• Oct 17, 2010

• #6

heres the same plant today

 

volcanoOFhistory

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• Oct 19, 2010

• #7

It needs some nutes

 

Brimi

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• Oct 19, 2010

• #8

Did you check the ph-value yet?

 

jawbrodt

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• Oct 19, 2010

• #9

^Agreed, looks like PH twist, to me, from the PH being too high. It also looks like magnesium is the most dominant deficiency, which makes sense, because it gets locked out at lower PH, than most other nutrients. Check your PH, I bet it's too high.

 

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pokesmotallday1

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• Oct 20, 2010

• #10

thanks, yeah i have a digital pH checker which tells me theyre all between 5.5 - 6.5.

im giving that plant right now - 25 mL AN grow, 25 mL micro, 5 mL bloom, 30 mL hydrozyme, and 30 mL AquaShield.

I almost always check pH once a day and keep it stable, could it be that i didnt soak the rockwool long enough before i put the germinated seed in?

 

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pokesmotallday1

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• Oct 23, 2010

• #11

Here she is today, looking kinda weird with giant leaves:

 

Brimi

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• Oct 24, 2010

• #12

Yeah - you probably want the ph a bit down. For hydro with my plants they like ph 5.5-6.0 best. At 6.5 they start looking like that. I'm ready to bet here ;O))
And yessss. Rockwool is pressy high ph so you want to soak it - not just a tale.

 

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pokesmotallday1

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• Oct 24, 2010

• #13

I've been religiously checking pH for the past 2-3 weeks at least once a day since I finally got a digital pH meter. Before it sucked testing pH with the color indicator stuff and I never could get an accurate reading that way.

I keep the pH between 5.5 and 6.5 all the time. In fact I prefer it to be around 5.8-5.9 just so it's in the middle and because the pH steadily rises I like to start it off a bit on the acidic side.

But even if the res pH is okay, will the rockwool and hydroton that touches the roots still mess things up?