its been getting really yellow on the bottom with dry spots and it looks kinda droopy i dont know what it is... i had a problem before and suggestions said it was nut. burn so I switched to a less potent fertilizer (.14 - .09 - .02) anybody know whats causing this? please help
Should I say RIP?
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UserFriendly
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the leaves are yellow from overwatering. the "less potent" fertilizer is organic and will take time to break down into usable ions. you will not burn your plants with that but they may yellow a bit more until the microherd does its thing. they look fine though. just stop watering so much.
SMOKENBUDDHA
SWEET JANE
man, people over nute shit, i dont even use nutes anymore cuz i always ran into problems i just grow with purified water and my plants are fucking beautiful
UserFriendly
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don't listen to this guy.
DND
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I say it is nute burn, you shouldn't be feeding it anything except water until at least it reaches it's 3rd node. Even then it should be diluted to make sure things aren't over done. Then gradually increased to see how your plants react.
I would flush the plant with 3x the size of your pot with water. Meaning if you have a 4 quart pot, flush it with 12 quarts water. Stick it under 24 hours of light and hope for the best. Do not water until the top 2" of your soil is dry.
I would flush the plant with 3x the size of your pot with water. Meaning if you have a 4 quart pot, flush it with 12 quarts water. Stick it under 24 hours of light and hope for the best. Do not water until the top 2" of your soil is dry.
i had a deal similiar to what you are going through, and of course it was all error on my part during the last transplant to bigger pots.
Instead of moistening the soil b4 i transplanted, i ended up using the mix dry, putting the plants in the soil, then completley drowned em with water..... haha my bad cuz my plants really started turning yellow, and of course i mistook this for low nitrogen. so i watered them some more with some fox farms grow big, and big bloom. My problem got worse, and the reason for this is that i am drowning my poor plants, the roots cannot get the air they need.
So what i did that completley cured my problem.
I removed my plants from the super wet soil, grabbed the bag of new dry soil, and re-transplanted them, i took the wet soil out, removed half the contents into a bag, and mixed in dry soil with the half of container of wet soil... mixed well it was nice and moist... just perfect for my plants. Then i just gave them a blast of big bloom in a foliar spray.
this seemed to snap my plants right out of their pale and yellow look, new shoots are nice and green, with green not purple or red stems.
i dont know if this will help you at all, but i figured since it workded for me, id spread the love here, and hopefully help a few others.
for sure one of the biggest mistakes newer people make is overwatering.
these plants were around 24 inches when they started turning yellow. I was planning on putting them into flower on xmas, but thats the day i noticed things going pale, so needless to say that didnt happen. I for sure want to go into flower with healthy plants not sickly ones.
I love this flippin site!!!!
~BBA
Instead of moistening the soil b4 i transplanted, i ended up using the mix dry, putting the plants in the soil, then completley drowned em with water..... haha my bad cuz my plants really started turning yellow, and of course i mistook this for low nitrogen. so i watered them some more with some fox farms grow big, and big bloom. My problem got worse, and the reason for this is that i am drowning my poor plants, the roots cannot get the air they need.
So what i did that completley cured my problem.
I removed my plants from the super wet soil, grabbed the bag of new dry soil, and re-transplanted them, i took the wet soil out, removed half the contents into a bag, and mixed in dry soil with the half of container of wet soil... mixed well it was nice and moist... just perfect for my plants. Then i just gave them a blast of big bloom in a foliar spray.
this seemed to snap my plants right out of their pale and yellow look, new shoots are nice and green, with green not purple or red stems.
i dont know if this will help you at all, but i figured since it workded for me, id spread the love here, and hopefully help a few others.
for sure one of the biggest mistakes newer people make is overwatering.
these plants were around 24 inches when they started turning yellow. I was planning on putting them into flower on xmas, but thats the day i noticed things going pale, so needless to say that didnt happen. I for sure want to go into flower with healthy plants not sickly ones.
I love this flippin site!!!!
~BBA
000420
terpenophenolic
dude, don't flush your plant is not burned or over ferted, if it was this the top leaves would be burned, not the lower leaves yellow....deficiencies start at the bottom, the plant needs nitrogen and it's using the mobile nitrogen from the lower leaves.........normally at such a young age in good soil a deficiency won't accure, but your soil is full of bark mulch, bark mulch is a nitrogen robber, and is not letting your plant get it's nitrogen uptake.......feed that bitch with something organic and mild but stronger than what you using, like some Alaska fish emulsion at 5-1-1.that plant is hungry...
ok i switched it to a new pot with fresh fert (the same brand no water) to see if it was the over watering it turns out i woke up this morning and the plant looks worst the bottom leaves look dryer and they're crumbling no so im using bba's idea now see what happens i mixed half and half (1/2 wet 1/2 dry) and applied 000420's idea into it half was the old soil with low nutrients and the other half has higher content of nutrient (21 7 14) hopefully it shows improvement by tomorrow