well i am about a week and a half into my grow. (2 plants) one plant is about 3 inches tall and is on its 3ed set of leafs... but all the leafs are a bright yellow on one plant. the other plant is perfectly healthy. i am growing under four 26watt cfl's, the grow room is my walk in closet sectioned off to about (3ftx3ftx3ft) i have a small occelateing fan, mylar on the wallsand i just started feeding my yellow plant nutes about 4 days ago... i only used a half a tea spoon for the gallon.... did i start giving nutes to early????? if anyone can give me a few tips i would really appriciate it.
Without photos it's hard to give perfect advice but *usually* your soil comes with enough nutrients to feed them for a month. If the plant you didn't feed is still green and the only variable was the feeding then you have a case of nutrient burn. Best thing to do is flush your soil. Meaning you run water 3 times the size of the pot. If you have them in a 12 oz cup for example, you'd flush them with 3 cups of water. 1 gallon container = 3 gallons of water and so on. Not flushing excess nutrients will continue to cause problems and cause the soil to retain high levels of acidity. Also when starting plants on nutes you typically feed them 1/4 to 1/2 the recommended doseage. I usually do 1/4, less *is* better. Having to reverse an overdose of nutes just slows down the growing process. After flushing your plant should improve within the week. After the soil has dried for the second watering you could try a light doseage of nutes if she needs it. Nutes are best given when the plant shows that she needs them and not as preventative medicine (Exception being soilless mixes or inert mediums that come with no nutrition) . Hope this helps. Peace.
well thx alot... im gonna flush my plant.... and ya i believe thats the only thing that i have done diff with the 2 plants. so thx for the advice.
i would suggest flushing also... your plants would droop because of the over-watering, but will bounce back up later that day. You should really post up pics