What am I doing wrong with my clones?

NorthernOregonAdventures

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About 9 days ago I potted these 4 well rooted clones into 1 gal pots of Black Gold organic potting soil, with the addition of some extra perlite. The new growth on some of the clones is rather yellow as well as I have some curling on different leaves. They all have the exact same medium so I don't understand why some are doing better than others. I've fed them a half strength solution of biobizz root juice and bio-heaven and temps in the room range from 64-79 degrees Fahrenheit. If anybody here knows what I'm doing wrong or has any suggestions, please let me know. All shared knowledge is appreciated.
 

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Olive Drab Green

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They just get overwatered sometimes. That's all. You have to keep the soil wet for it to root right, so it's kind of just part of it. But the plant's showing overwatering. It's also a little hot. And specifically, it looks like overwatering causing mag def.
 
Indacouch

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Olive Drab Green said:
I would use epsom salt or dolomite before calmag, but mostly because I'm organic, and I feel like CalMag, being more concentrated, would potentially create more issues.
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Yeah I've been running into issues with mag def the last few grows with ffof soil .....I'm actually doing a little bit of both this year one because I wana use my syn nutes I have left and two because I'm new to trying the full organic route ......so far so good ....I'm used to using organics to an extent ammending my top soil at key points with certain goodies but I've never went full organic until a few plants this year ....there doing good....Im sick of buying soil when I have several yards of recycled ffof sitting in a pile outback from my grows ......so will see what happends at flower with my full organic plants .........but I'm enjoying learning something new after years of doing things the same way ......now that I'm doing some organic I cringe everytime I pour my syn nutes into my other girls knowing I'm killing all sorts of goodies in my living soil .......lol But no mag def on my organics at all .....so will see
 
*BUDS

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NorthernOregonAdventures said:
Sweet. I'll let them dry out for a couple days then hit em with some cal-mag. Thanks for your help
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No he's not saying that ,just wait until the clones take hold in the soil and dont feed them or water them (unless dry) . You cant just start adding shit for a quick fix, the soil would have easily enough nutes for now as the clones haven't eaten yet.
 
NorthernOregonAdventures

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*BUDS said:
No he's not saying that ,just wait until the clones take hold in the soil and dont feed them or water them (unless dry) . You cant just start adding shit for a quick fix, the soil would have easily enough nutes for now as the clones haven't eaten yet.
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How long would you suggest I wait until feeding them then? When I put them in the 1 gal pots a little over a week ago the roots looked like this image.jpeg
 
NorthernOregonAdventures

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johnp410 said:
What's ph of your water, and pH of your run off?
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I feed them with tap water that's ph adjusted to about 6. I've been using the General hydroponics oh adjustment kit so it's probably not exactly the same each time but definitely in the range of 6-6.5.
Haven't had a chance to test the runoff yet but I'll do that on the next watering.
What's your 2 cents on my situation ?
 
Olive Drab Green

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NorthernOregonAdventures said:
I feed them with tap water that's ph adjusted to about 6. I've been using the General hydroponics oh adjustment kit so it's probably not exactly the same each time but definitely in the range of 6-6.5.
Haven't had a chance to test the runoff yet but I'll do that on the next watering.
What's your 2 cents on my situation ?
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That's on the low side for soil, but still fine. Six, I mean.
 
johnp410

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NorthernOregonAdventures said:
I feed them with tap water that's ph adjusted to about 6. I've been using the General hydroponics oh adjustment kit so it's probably not exactly the same each time but definitely in the range of 6-6.5.
Haven't had a chance to test the runoff yet but I'll do that on the next watering.
What's your 2 cents on my situation ?
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PH was my 2 cents lol I can only assume you pH your water after adding nutes? I ask because sometimes we overlook things, and biobizz bio-heaven has a pH of 4.1, I think their other products are on the low side pH wise. OliveDrabGreen said over watering seems to be the culprit, I agree. That with lower pH, if it is, could be the problem. I'd let her dry up some and check pH on your runoff when your able to water again. You could put a little more air on her to help dry out quicker.
 
NorthernOregonAdventures

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Thanks for all the awesome information guys. They're fairly dry now so I'll let em sit through another light cycle overnight then water/feed tomorrow morning & test the ph of the runoff as well.
 
johnp410

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Cool deal, lower pH and over watering, can can both look like a mag deficiency alone. Compounded I imagine it would be worse. I Dont know it all, none of us does. Its like life u learn as you grow, I'm sure you've heard that before. Lol personally I try to keep my pH no lower than 6.5 and no higher than 7.2. That's my personal preference. I use pro mix bx (black bag).
 
NorthernOregonAdventures

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image.jpeg So today I fed them a half strength solution of bio-grow, bio-heaven, and root juice. I collected some run off and tested it. Heres the results. It looks like it's between 6.5 & 7 to me. What do you guys think?
 
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