dieing sproutling

Hey guys, a couple days ago I transplanted my 1 week old sproutling due to poor drainage with the soil. I put it in an all organic soil, which the rest of my babies are in. I noticed the leaves started to wilt and had read that taking it out of direct light after transplanting would be best;the leaves started to lift back up the next day, so I put it back under the lights and a few days later it looks like its starting to die the tips of its leaves are very dry and it seems like it keeps spreading down the leaves View attachment 2410194View attachment 2410196 how can I help my baby?

Your new growth looks good man so you should be ok. Could you provide more info on soil, your ph, if and what you have fed them etc

The ph of the soil is 7 . The type of soil I use is Just an all organic soil I had, it contains sphagnum peat moss,composted bark fines and a natural fertilizer, according to the package. It has a .1 -.05-.05 npk value .I've been giving them plain tap water ,and the ph of the water is in the low 6s. There under 2 200w equivalent cfls and I have a small 75w heat lamp on em, as well as a fan going. I due plan on changing the soil, most likely fox farms

too much water.

Well you need to ph correct your water/nutrient solution between 6.5 and 7. You don't really want to drop below 6.5 or above 7. That will be your problem. Again you should try and pick up a soil that's got a ph of 6.5 (go to a hydro shop for your soil) . Just continue with your correctly ph'd water and don't give up on it. It's far from dead. Good luck

joe9000 said:

too much water.

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Dont reckon so man

Thank you! I definatley will keep her growing.I did read on this site that baking soda and vinegar can be used as ph up/down, but exactly how much would one need to add per gallon of water to change the ph,and by how much? Ex., 1 tsp baking soda per gallon of water will increase ph by 1.

lord ganja said:

Thank you! I definatley will keep her growing.I did read on this site that baking soda and vinegar can be used as ph up/down, but exactly how much would one need to add per gallon of water to change the ph,and by how much? Ex., 1 tsp baking soda per gallon of water will increase ph by 1.

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If somebody could calculate this to per gallon we'll have our answer, I'm just too high right now...

I wanna know this too.

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For example, if your pool holds 10,000 gallons of water and you need to raise the alkalinity to 10 ppm (parts per million), you need to mix in one and a half pounds of powder.===

EDIT: That's ppm, I'll try to find something else better to go off of or hopefully just get the answer, I'll be back...

Okay, so I also found this: http://gyazo.com/6bd363b8583cc94a14b71de16b62e36b
This site may help: http://www.watersedge.com/greenwater.html

Me thinks if you are going to screw around with ph you will need a good meter. If you buy some good soil and add some dolomite lime you won't need to ph anything . If you can collect rain water use that maybe your tap water is fine. If you're new to this keep it simple until you get a couple of grows done. There will be plenty of time to fine tune. I think your plants will survive if you don't love them to death. You can get pretty good yields without all the snake oils.

Guys, guys! Dont bother using vinegar or whatever to lower your ph. You CAN use these things but only if you need to. Go to the hydro shop and buy some liquid ph up and down. Use a tiny bit. It takes 3ml of that stuff to drop my 20 gal res down too 5.6 or so with nutes added.

I have a meter, I just don't know how accurate it is. I decided I would just leave the ph if it increases/decreases drasticallythen I will just spend some money on the ph up n down.Itd be nice know how much baking soda /vinegar per gallon is needed, just to know incase its an emergency and its all i have

What is the importance of ppm? I'm a little confused on how that works. What exactly is it? Is it a different way of measuring ph?

ppm stands for parts per million. You will need a nutrient truncheon to measure this (look on ebay for one). Its basically the amount of dissolved salts (nutrients) in your water. Don't quote me on that, im not a scientist lol. As you add more nutes to your water the ppm value will rise, henceforth a stronger nutrient solution. You will need to learn what the appropriate ppm level is right for your plants . For a smaller plant it's lower, say 300 ppm and for a bigger plant in late veg it will be higher e.g 1000 ppm. Simple as that. It would be a more gradual increase as your plants get bigger obviously. Hope that helps.

Further to that i wouldn't say it's essential for soil grower's. It's more for the hydro guys who need to know exactly whats in there mix because there is less room for error with a hydro nute solution due to a greater uptake by the plants. Just start at a quarter strength on your first feed with your soil. As they grow move to half and then too full if necessary.