Hey everyone. I've got 3 large cuttings vegging under a 6 bulb t5 ballast (24 hours of light, no darkness). They're all in 3 gallon smart pots filled with cocoa fibre growing medium. They all looked great a week or so ago but were growing kind of slow, so I bought some FloraGro Grow nutrients and watered them once with the nutes, then again with regular water 2 days after that. That was about 5 days ago and now they're all turning completely yellow and the stems have began to turn purple. The leaves are also curling in on themselves and seem to be lined with a purple tint. I gave them another batch of nutrients today, and I'm afraid that was a stupid idea, but we'll see how they look tomorrow or the day after. This is my first time using fluid nutrients so I could be fucking up with that. Anyway I've posted pics of all 3 plants before and after along with the strain names. Any advice would be much appreciated, I'm not too sure what to do from here. Skunk II: Before: After: Passion: Before: After: White Widow: Before: After: And here's a pic of 2 Superman OG cuttings I got recently, they haven't grown at all since I transplanted them a little over a week ago so I'm getting worried. They had all kinds of healthy roots popping out of the rockwool cube before I moved them into the cocoa fibre 3 gal pots so IDK. Are they stunted and just fucked? Or....? Superman OG: Anyway, here's a pic of the "Veg" corner of my grow room (before nutrients) so you can get an idea of how things are set up.
Anyone have any idea what's happening to them? I don't need a detailed analysis just a little help would be nice. Really don't want my girls to die
Get the light closer, they are tall! Need a bigger fan, or maybe 2 more of those. What water are you using? If it's RO you need to add back Mag and Cal.
I'm thinking they got too much of something, I just don't know what. I thought they would love the FloraGro Grow nutrients. I think I'm just gonna have to flush them and hope they come back. I'm working on getting another fan in there to circulate, I've got a big 4" inline fan blowing fresh air into the room aimed directly at them, but it turns on and off to save electricity. As for the lights being closer-- I don't really wanna burn them. I've always figured if it's warm on the back of my hand then it's good, if it's hot then it's too close. I've just been using regular tap water, but I'm going to get some pH test strips and some pH up & down so I can give them water with the best pH possible. And what do you mean by "RO"?
the ones you transplanted into straight coco fibre needs to be fed nutes being there is none in coco fibre, feed very lightly at first and PH to 5.8 and the other ones look like the leaves are yellowing towards the bottom of the plant i think it was a Nit deficiency and after you fed it looked like the PH locked it out/nute burn. kinda looked like my first plants i put in coco, i PHed to 5.8 used a very light feeding of Veg nutes (use either nutes for Hydroponics or specifically for coco) and they perked right back up edit: i read it wrong you said their all in fibre, if you dont have a PH pen you need to get one so you can PH to right around 5.8 and feed nutes with every watering in coco. i give a light feed everyday unless its a really small plant in a big pot.
Yeah I had my buddy from the indoor garden shop I go to take a look at them and he said the problem is my plants aren't absorbing calcium & magnesium, because it's been locked out by the shitty water I've been using to feed them. He then gave me a bottle of this MAGiCAL cal/mag supplement and told me to flush my plants with RO water, or bottled water-- which I did. In a week I'm gonna be moving my grow to a different part of town with a different water supply which will be perfect for my plants, no more shitty water, and I'm going to give them the cal/mag in about 5 days. They should perk up and get hungry again a week or 2 after that, then I may slowly give them more nutrients.. not sure yet. I also have some spider mites... which is fucking bullshit, I worked so hard to seal that grow room.... oh well, I've always heard it's impossible to prevent pests, only to control them, and that has been made painfully obvious. I got some Liquid Ladybug and sprayed them down today, gonna go for a spray every 3 days until they're completely gone, then just stay cautious, & spray when necessary.
As a grower...you should....and what do we do little boy when we don't know something? ..we use this helpful site called google. It's like, better than a library...or u coulda just asked me, seeing as we're on a site where people help people grow....but instead u lashed out for no reason...so u and ur shitty little plant can go fuck yourselves
[quote name='"lildeej90"'] As a grower...you should....and what do we do little boy when we don't know something? ..we use this helpful site called google. It's like, better than a library...or u coulda just asked me, seeing as we're on a site where people help people grow....but instead u lashed out for no reason...so u and ur shitty little plant can go fuck yourselves[/quote] Are you having a bad da
Its a nitrogen defeciency! Flush it out with water and buy a nutrient nigrogen additive such as bcuzz grow stimulator or soul synthetics nitrogen or just mix more of the n of what you are already using!
Do you check your PH? If not you're locking out everything and no matter how much nutrients you add, it's not going to do a thing unless you're within the correct ph range for the plant to absorb nutrients. You either need to feed more, correct your ph, or you're over watering like crazy, but doesn't look like it. Trust me, I've had clones like this when i was noob and every fucker on here was telling me it's over nuting oh because fox farm is so rich and shit blah fuck that. In the end I just made them worse by flushing, and one guy told me to feed them, so i did and they bounced back after a week or so. Example: When I buy clones, I water them right away with 400-600ppm of ro water and a liquid karma mix into fox farm soil or what I do now...hempy buckets. But only clones not seedlings. You always have to check your ph. At your next watering, get some of the run off water, but only what comes ou right when it starts draining. Check the ph and if it's way off then there's your problem. If it's within the range, you need to feed more.
Haha damn chill out bro, don't get so butt hurt over it, I'm just sayin' I've never heard that term before in my life, except from your uppity ass, so excuuuse me for not knowing what the fuck it means Yeah turns out the water I was feeding them sucks humongous donkey cock, so the nutrients I fed them gave them a fucked up balance of different nutes, and thus shocked & stunted them. Plus growing in my grandma's garage allowed spider mites to get to them, so I took some clones, got the mites off them, and brought them to my place. Then chopped down my failed plants I've got better water here so hopefully the clones will be ok, a couple of them have rooted, one died.. oh well. Live and learn. I need to get a pH tester badly. I definitely don't have a green thumb haha