Had a pH issue which caused nutrient lockout which plagued my plant for longer than I would have liked. In that time I was using kelp/alfalfa tea with molasses as a fertilizer which I am thinking saturated my soil but didn't get absorbed. After I fixed the nutrient lockout everything looks great except I am beginning to notice tell tale signs of nute burn....burnt tips and whatnot. Is this because I was unknowingly loading my soil up with these natural ferts that are just now breaking down all at once? Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk
Hey man, sux to hear bout your grow. Think I'm having the same issue but not 100% sure coz I'm pretty new to this. What sort of medium are you using? I know certain mediums can hold on to minerals/salt and cause build ups, but that can usually be flushed out pretty easily. GC is the place to get the answer thoí ½í±í ¼í¿» I'm interested to hear the diagnosis.
Well its not as bad as it may sound and definitely a learning experience! I am using Nature's Care Organic soil combined with some compost that mainly derived from mulch from a tree I had cut down a couple of years ago. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk
Sure. And I have learned my lesson with this as well btw. I will never do it again but yeah. I found I was beginning to get root bound and had no more organic at the time when my plant was maybe a month old. So I went in my backyard and found the old mulch pile I had from a tree coming down was covered in ivy. I ripped up the ivy and used that broken down matter which I figured would be similar to compost. I have since transplanted a few more times and never used the mulch stuff again. But it has formed a bit of a harder "clump" which has effected drainage but not to the point where it has SEEMED like an issue..... Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk
Who's the pretty girl then ey.. how long has it been since you corrected the PH? Have the effects gotten worse since or stayed the same? I dream of the day I can have my first outdoor garden. She looks happy tho.
let me rephrase - it's certainly nothing that I'd worry about or try and correct, especially this late in the season. I personally learned a long time ago that unless there's something drastic going on, which is definitely not the case here, that way too often "fixes" can have adverse reactions and I've learned to just LITFA and let nature take its course. This mentality has worked well for me so far... Then again maybe I'm just not as picky as some gardeners, but if I saw something that I thought was going to affect your plants I'd say so. Good luck - J
It has been about 5 days since I corrected the pH. I actually didn't have this issue before correcting. It was after correcting it that this happened. And the yellowing has seemed to get worse but only at the bottom the plant. Here is a pic before the pH fix. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk
Tell me, how did you go about the "pH fix"? Edit: I should have asked this before but didn't. I did not take this into consideration and am curious as to how you checked the pH initially and how you corrected it. Thanks J
25 gallons of tap water I let sit out over night and flushed my plant with it. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk
pH of soil is at 6.7 as we speak btw. Not sure what it was before flush. Got pH meter afterwards Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk
I deemed a pH problem due to the twisted leaves,stunted growth and how close together and tangled my flowering leaves were getting. Only thing I could come up with after spending some time doing the research was nutrient lockout. Realized I had been using tap water that I didn't let sit out at all and had no clue what my water pH was. Even though my soil is organic and supposedly shouldn't have a pH problem, by using that old broken down mulch with mixed in bits of old ivy leaves and roots and whatever else unknowns were there, I had potential for issues there. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk
I don't believe that flushing a plant will fix a pH issue but if I were you I'd just let it do its thing now - IMO, of course. J
That is exactly what I read on how to fix pH. But yeah i am just gonna let her grow. Sent from my SPH-L710 using Tapatalk