soil grow, stunted plants and yellowing leaves!!!

Mac-daddy

Member
Strains I'm useing are
1x delicious cotton candy feminized
2x Hawaiian skunk haze regular
2x strawberry blue feminized.

A friend sent them, they came free with his herbies order.

My set up is a 250w 16/8 MH

I have all my plants in 5 L pots with MG herb and vegtable potting mix, have mixed in one third coco coir for drainage, water retention and airation and all that good stuff.

These plants are 24 days from sprout.

I feel like they are quite stunted due to some over watering

1. Now looking the most promising although a small brown spot appeared on one of the leaves like the larger two, number 2 and number 5.

2. New growth looks healthy. No new spots, Bottom 2 leaves dying off and some other leaves drooping (over or under watering) need some advise on this one.

3. My little genetic mutation, must stress little tho. Hasn't shown any signs of stress at all, just seems like a bit of a runt.

4. Runt of the litter, hasn't shown any signs of stress. Looks healthy and sprouting new leaves. Tiny compared to the others.

5. Largest of my plants.
Was first to show over watering and nute burn signs, guessing because it has a larger root system. Bottom leaves seem to of stopped getting worse although a new brow spot emerged on one of the leaves in the new growth.

I haven't watered in 5 days. The leaves seem less droopy especially on number 5, (number 2 still drooping tho).downloadfile.jpegdownloadfile-1.jpeg downloadfile-2.jpeg downloadfile-3.jpeg downloadfile-4.jpeg downloadfile-5.jpeg downloadfile-7.jpeg downloadfile-6.jpeg
 

st0wandgrow

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My guess is that you're over watering them. The roots are starving for oxygen. They are kind of young to be fiddling with a transplant, but for the time being I would get a fan on them (gentle breeze) and let that soil dry out a bit. Cut back on your watering (no nutes required btw) and see if they bounce back.

Get a feel for how heavy the container is when you water them, and how much lighter it is when the soil dries out. From that you will learn to determine when the plant needs watered just from lifting the container.

Once they develop a few node sets I would transplant them in to a soil that you have amended a bit. Add some aeration bits (rice hulls, perlite, etc) at roughly 20% by volume to the soil you're using. More oxygen to the root zone will = a healthier plant, and better harvest.

Good luck
 

rob333

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i leave mine in them pots the whole grow i can get max about 6 ounces per plant in pots that size
 

Mac-daddy

Member
st0wandgrow, post: 10710375, member: 405310"]My guess is that you're over watering them. The roots are starving for oxygen. They are kind of young to be fiddling with a transplant, but for the time being I would get a fan on them (gentle breeze) and let that soil dry out a bit. Cut back on your watering (no nutes required btw) and see if they bounce back.

Get a feel for how heavy the container is when you water them, and how much lighter it is when the soil dries out. From that you will learn to determine when the plant needs watered just from lifting the container.

Once they develop a few node sets I would transplant them in to a soil that you have amended a bit. Add some aeration bits (rice hulls, perlite, etc) at roughly 20% by volume to the soil you're using. More oxygen to the root zone will = a healthier plant, and better harvest.

Good luck[/QUOTE]
Yeah I haven't watered them for 5 days now and starting to think I should add a few shot glasses of water around the plant.

Since not watering I have seen them perk up a bit but still am having more brown spots poping up on more leaves.

On my thread growing up, my first grow I have some one saying to start putting some nuts in cause they are hungry.

Yeah i
 
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