Hey guys, unfortunately I am incredibly new to this and all I really have are pictures. I'm using 4 cold flourescent lights that helped my plants grow quite a bit and look very healthy, but suddenly (it seems) my leaves are falling off and fading in color. New leaves are growing in their place. This was before topping. I water once a day only when the soil about an inch and half is dry. Please look at these and let me know if anybody has any ideas, maybe I need to add some nutrients. Unfortunately I don't have any PH testing abilities at the moment. Thanks for your time everybody!!
your soil looks like dirt...it has to be light so that air can travel to your roots..they prob cant breath...need more light for them to flower.....and some nutes...and if you ph isnt correct..everything else will just start to fail....its all good..first time...whats ur set up? what kinda soil is that?
Actually it is the same soil I took from the garden in which I started growing them. I've added little to nutes, it does seem like it happened directly after the one and only time I put Veg stage Miracle Grow in there, and since then i've stayed away from it but it seems the problem has persisted. Is there a particular soil that you guys reccomend that I could just buy maybe a bag of in a store? How dangerous do you think it would be to transplant them to entirely new soil around the roots at this stage? Thanks so much guys, i'm totally willing to work with your suggestions here! nate
if you have a hydro shop around or a garden store..not home depot..=) pick up some fox farm ocean forest soil..best soil you can get..and it has all the nutrients in it for a month..if you cant get a hold of that, just get the top of line bag of soil they got..anything's better than miracle grow..even tho i have seen people accomplish there grow with it, they usally have many problems from burning because of the time release nutes....and you can still transplant them no problem....u put them in some high quality soil they will grow like crazy!
Well it seems the closest place that sells this is about 2 hours away. Can you guys maybe think of something that might be more locally available? And when you said LC mix, what exactly did you mean? I just wonder if maybe I could go to a garden shop and find something rather similar with the right nutes to not kill my beautiful plants hehe Thanks again everybody!!
You need a quick mix that's easy to get? 2 parts mushroom compost and 1 part perlite. That should get you through in a pinch. NO FERTS for at least two weeks. Just fill a big pot with it, dig out a hole and drop your plant into it. If the compost is already moist...don't water for a few days. I'm sure it will pull out of it. It needs some aeration...it needs oxygen around the roots. Your dirt looks like clay...clay BAD...
Hey thanks so much for your advice. I went out and found some mushroom soil, and mixed it 2 to 1 (to the best of my abilities) with perilite. And they actually did way better than the last time I tried to transplant. However, today I'm noticing a lot of droopage, in the leaves. I transplanted them on Friday, and this is today. I've watered them once since and they're is a good deal of moisture about 2 inches down, so i've been holding off on water. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks again to everybody!! Nathan
You shouldn't have watered it...why did you do that? Mushroom compost is usually pretty moist right out of the bag. Your plant was drowning...the whole idea was to have a nice fairly dry place with lots of oxygen for the new roots to grow into. You shouldn't have watered it...now you're in the same situation you WERE in. Got any left so you can repot again? Do it...and DON'T water it. Don't feed it. Until your new dirt is completely dry down to an inch.
Well I suppose the obvious reason for watering it is because I didn't know better, nor did I know that over watering it was the cause of the previous problem. Regardless, I'll repot these and thanks for your help.