Hi guys, This plant was doing just fine untill yesterday. I water every 2 to 3 days with the General Organics line of nutes. I also give it just plain water. I use rainwater as i have 2 barrels in the back of the home that catches the rainwatter from the gutter. So water is fine. Whenever i have to water, I water her in the morning, when I wake up, at like 6 to 6:30 am just before the sun comes fully up. 3 days ago, I got the brilliant idea to scoop like 3 cups of my compost in water with some molases to make a compost tea..ive done it numerous times with my other vegetables. I stir it like 3 times a day and it does its job good...however this time it was too strong, i did not mix it with water afterwards, like half gallong tea mixed with half gallon water... I just went straight 1 gallon of compost tea...i fed her..went to work and later in the afternoon when i came back home, i found 3 of the colas with all the leaves down, as if its dead..and yet the other colas are good. So I immediately gave it 3 galons of plain water to flush her since it was just fine before the compost tea, and now it turned like that, so my logic and common sense told me to flush her! Here is how she looked...will they straighten up back or did i screw this plant up? Btw, this plant got naturally topped...in her veg stage, the main cola got bitten up by iguana's ...and thats why all the extra colas Any help would be highly appreciated on what to do. Or if i should just wait and see because i already flushed. Here are the pictures...and you can see like 3 of the colas with the really sad leaves! Thanks guys. http://imageshack.us/a/img191/2631/3mtx.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img837/5025/ocmm.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img18/6661/exng.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img827/797/1xec.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img196/9422/4ejx.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img577/9731/kpke.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img404/6494/yu30.jpg God bless you all my people.
Ok, off what you did when you posted, but please don't do it again. It's like: E V E R Y L E T T E R H A S I T S O W N P A R A G R A P H . Plant looks highly over watered. How much water did you flush with?
ok, im sorry! I posted on different forums and the copy/paste mechanism failed. I fixed it well it was like that before i flushed, then yesterday afternoon i flushed, and this morning i took the pictures. before i watered with the compost tea yesterday morning they were just fine...it was 1 galon of compost tea, i did not dillute it..it was full strenght and in the afternoon when I got back home i saw the leaves like that..then I water it with 3 galons of plain rain water and let it run off real wel... it is 1 plant...3 colas went to that sleep mode and the others are fine...will they come back to life you think?
Ok. It's prolly over fed. When flushing you want to go 3x pot volume. So, your pot looks like a 5gallon bucket so you would want to use 15 gallons of water. Your are filtering your rain water right? Are your in the middle of no where? If not your gonna need to check ph levels. Any kind of factory or heavy car usage can cause issues with ph. (Acid rain)
oh, 3x the pot volume... yesterday i gave it 3 galons of water...can i continue later today when I get home or am i going to make things worse if i do it today "the day after" ... wouldnt it be even more over watering? what do you think? or just go ahead and give her 15 gallons of water later today?
Why do you have rubber bands choking the stalk? Maybe that center cola is not getting any water to it.