brown spots and had high PH! :(

[c4rb1ne]

I've noticed a couple of brown spots on my little plants and I checked my PH in the water I had prepared and it was way high. even though I watered this morning I corrected the PH to around 6 (hopeing it will help correct the problem) and watered them again.
http://i526.photobucket.com/albums/cc343/c4rb1ne420/ph-1.jpg
http://i526.photobucket.com/albums/cc343/c4rb1ne420/ph-2.jpg

Someone PLEASE!! tell me if I just screwed my plants or if i'm in the clear

 

[GrowSpecialist]

As long as you corrected the PH problem, your plants should be ok.

 

[c4rb1ne]

YAY, thanks.

 

[bonz]

mg for soil?

 

[c4rb1ne]

The soil is jiffy seed starting mix and 1/4 perlite, I'm probly gonna transplant into bigger pots with FoxFarm OF when I get 5 sets of leaves.

 

[bonz]

ph of feeding should be between 6.3 and 6.8. i like 6.7 or 8 myself.
any nutes?
make sure they dry up real good before watering, they do better on the dry side.

 

[c4rb1ne]

I havn't started nutes yet, I was gonna wait till closer to 3 weeks (their 14 days)
I do allready have Foxfarm big bloom, tigerbloom, and growbig left over from my 1st attempt at a grow with hydro.......Trainwreck

 

[bonz]

also if you transplant you wont need them again for 3 weeks or so.
there will be enough in the new soil.

 

[c4rb1ne]

Ok, i'll just transplant when its time to start nutes and wait 3 weeks or so unless this will cause too much stress.

 

[Twistyman]

ph of feeding should be between 6.3 and 6.8. i like 6.7 or 8 myself.
any nutes?
make sure they dry up real good before watering, they do better on the dry side.

also if you transplant you wont need them again for 3 weeks or so.
there will be enough in the new soil.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^ luck..

 

[bonz]

do your transplant and give it a good watering, no nutes. put some landscaping stones or some sort of crushed rocks in the bottom to help with drainage.
let it dry up good. re water. after a 3 weeks or so you can add start 1/4 nutes again.
it wont stress it to bad, about 1 week and it should be back to normal.

 

[c4rb1ne]

Cool thnx, I feel a little bit better bout this now transplant time was stressing me a litle

 

[c4rb1ne]

Day 16, today i'll water a 2nd time with properly PH'ed water but my brown spots hae gotten a little worse and I noticed a little color loss (I don't know if this is normal) and the 1st set of leaves have turned yellowish. I have noticed growth but I imagined it would be a little faster.

Please someone tell me if this is normal or if I have a problem, its making me a little nervouse cause I havn't grown a plant this far yet.

 

[NotMine]

hey just keep the PH right that should take care of your problem,I have had the same problem just recently (guessing) it's hard to tell cause there so small, mine was lock out PH way to high caused potasium def and minor copper/mg def so I had brown spots curling up of leave tips on older fans, and yellowing of new growth. adjusted PH watered and plants recovered within a week without feeding see what some other people say but I think your in the clear at least you caught water problem now instead of later I found mine a week before flowerin my case the affected leaves died after PH corrected they dried and fell off a few days later

 

[bonz]

you watered when you transplanted right? and again what 1 or 2 days later, to me that is to much

 

[c4rb1ne]

I decided to wait on transplanting till this weekend or beginning of next week cause I was gonna put them in foxfarm OF and i heard it has nutes and would burn (Next wensday will be 3 weeks)

 

[bonz]

it will continue to get worse till you transplant. every watering is causing more problems.
fox farmhas nutes, yes and so does every other soil on the market. what you want to stay away from is the slow release nute, like in mg or other cheepo soils.

 

[c4rb1ne]

Thanks Bonz, You have helped me alot and I very much appreciate it. I transplanted but not into Foxfarm , I used Timberland organic soil 1/4 perlite and Lime into 12" (around 3 gal.) pots. I'll see how this goes but tomorrow I have to supply more air because I had to take my fan out of the bottom of my grow box due to pot size and my 4" fan and filter STILL havn't shipper from HTGSupply.com (9 days ago) so I have a cheap fan blowing out my 4" hole at the top.

Wish me luck, everythink seems to be causing me a problem in 1 way or another!

 

[bonz]

as long as you learn from your mustakes you will get better every crop.
how much lime did you put in

 

[c4rb1ne]

I put a good handful of lime and filled the pots not to the top due to the size constraints and put in a 4 3/4" DC 85CFM fan from Radio Shack ($40 for the fan & adaptor) a bit noisy but my temps were in the 90's and am waiting to see the temp diffrence