Hello all! So I'm looking for some advice as to what could be going wrong with my plants. They are planted in a soil (recipe below), watered with filtered tap water and have only been fertilized twice (Brown's Trout Sterff). It appears to be some type of deficiency, but I believed all my bases to be covered by my soil mix. You should also know that the mix was not cooked enough (only 1.5 weeks before I transplanted). Only two of the seven plants in the room are exhibiting these symptoms. The plants that are affected seem to grow dramatically slower and seem stunted. 3 Cu Ft. Fox Farms Ocean Forest 1 Cu Ft. Sphagnum Peat Moss (Looking for input) 1 Cu Ft. Perlite (Looking for input) 4 Cups kelp meal 1 1/2 cups bone meal 1 1/2 cups blood meal 2 1/2 cups alfalfa meal 1 cup Hi-cal Lime (ph buffering and contains magnesium) 3 cups azomite 5 cups vermiculite 20 lbs earthworm castings (awesome local stuff) (should I add more to balance this mix?) 2tbsps epsom salts (looking for input, not sure how to balance with magnesium input from Hi-Cal lime)
they look burned to me.. gotta let that soil cycle for at least 4 weeks.. especially w/ that alfalfa in there. also you added fertilizer on top of that which is completely unnecessary and counter productive to what you're doing with mixing your own soil.