uppidycowgirl
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Ok let me give you a little history... my plants have been outside in 3 gal black containers.. they are about 2 ft high and have very small buds on them... until this weekend I had them positioned so that they got early morning to early afternoon sun and then were shaded by mid afternoon until early evening then they would get the late sun til it set... I live in central Cali and it was 108 the day this happened... I keep them watered as needed.. only water when the pot gets light... I had been using only molasses about every 3rd watering... they WERE doing great..... until.... 1st off my boyfriend said his friend (long time grower) said to use fish emulsion along with the molasses....(this is the 1st time I have grown anything and they know way more then me) so I started adding fish to my watering schedule, not too strong a mixture since I really didnt think they needed it and the molasses was doing good for me so far.... so Saturday I watered them with the molasses and fish mixture... wet them down good since it was going to be 108 or so that day.... then my ever so smart boyfriend said that his expert friend said that they should be in the sun all day long.. that they didnt need shade... (so against my better judgement, they went out in the sun) for that one day.... well sunday morning I get up to go check the girls and low and behold, some of them look like they about to die... 1st I feel the soil... its moist, so I am assuming that they had enough water.. then I notice that the plants that were affected where the ones on the outside of the group and their leaves on the half of the plant that would have been exposed to the sun were burnt to a crisp!!!! then I had one tall one, not sure of the stain that totally turned black and wilted .... so do you think it was the sun that was too hot on them or the fish mixture or both.... and what do I do know, I watered them really good just in case the mixture of fish and molasses was too strong (highly unlikely but ?) Should I snip of the dead brown leaves and just pray that they get better or leave them on the plant... the stem is still green, just the leaves are burnt.... I will post some pics when I get home, but this is really bugging me..... they were doing sooooo good ... what is the best thing, if anything to do now? I already put them back in the shade for now.. with just a little morning sun... and late evening sun... help!!