First grow going horribly wrong...

As the title states.

Growing Hollister Kush. Plants are about 9 days old and first and second set of leaves are yellow and drooping and one leaf actually fell off. Heres what I have.

Lights: 6) 23watt 5k cfl

Soil: MG potting soil with .07, .01, .03. I was very impatient and should have bought better soil but this was all that was local. Just picked up organ start mix with no nutes that contains sphagnum peat moss, vermiculite, and perlite. Will be transplanting them today.

ph: No idea. Just bought a meter and calibration fluid along with ph+/-

Water: Definitely was over watering the first 4-5 days. In the last 4 days they were watered twice when the soil was dry.

Air: I leave the doors semi open to allow new air to come in. I have a 4" exhaust fan to pull the air out. Temperature in box is 73.

Additonal notes: I have green peppers and tomatoes that I am started out in same box for a few weeks until I transplant them outsite.

Is there any hope saving these? Or should I just start over? I have a feeling the nutes and no knowledge of ph is killing these.

paramountads said:

As the title states.

Growing Hollister Kush. Plants are about 9 days old and first and second set of leaves are yellow and drooping and one leaf actually fell off. Heres what I have.

Lights: 6) 23watt 5k cfl

Soil: MG potting soil with .07, .01, .03. I was very impatient and should have bought better soil but this was all that was local. Just picked up organ start mix with no nutes that contains sphagnum peat moss, vermiculite, and perlite. Will be transplanting them today.

ph: No idea. Just bought a meter and calibration fluid along with ph+/-

Water: Definitely was over watering the first 4-5 days. In the last 4 days they were watered twice when the soil was dry.

Air: I leave the doors semi open to allow new air to come in. I have a 4" exhaust fan to pull the air out. Temperature in box is 73.

Additonal notes: I have green peppers and tomatoes that I am started out in same box for a few weeks until I transplant them outsite.

Is there any hope saving these? Or should I just start over? I have a feeling the nutes and no knowledge of ph is killing these.


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cooked those poor little girls. Soil was to hot for that small of a girl. You may be able to save them if you carefully wash off the roots and transplant into better soil.

Thanks, thats what I figured. Friggin ADD wins again!

Yes start over they are fucked, burnt. Don't use mg soil at any stage, its too hot and its not for cannabis. Use a professional coco mix, when they are 2 weeks old feed them hydro veg nutes in the coco every watering. This is a great way to feed and wont burn if you follow label directions. With this MG soil it could get a burst of nutes followed by salt build up.
I use this, no burn brilliant growth.

I burned the crap out of my Green Crack plants and they came back and are doing fine. I would transplant, as suggested, then read, read, read. These forums are very helpful

thanks everyone! Just replanted will hope for the best. Also will plant two more to be on the safe side.

Been reading for the last 4 days and have been learning a lot. I knew better but fucked it up anyway.

Story of my life

Things that are wrong;

1) MG soil.

2) not knowing the PH of your water. Also, what kind of water are you using? Tap or RO or a combo of the two?

3) not knowing the PH or the ppms/ec of your medium to find out just how hot it is in there.

4) Def. Overwatered as you mentioned.
when I water a new plant that i just transplanted into a bigger pot, i like to think of that entire pot as a big yard with nothing but a little tree planted in the middle of that yard. now, when the tree is freshly planted, it only needs to be watered in the middle of the yard, where the tree and roots are. Not the entire yard where there are no roots yet. does that make sense?
then once those roots dry out a little, they'll go reaching, stretching and searching for water all over the yard. then you can water more and more of the yard as the roots continue to grow. but if the roots aren't thirsty, they won't grow.

5) get some more air circulation in there. get an oscillating fan and move some of that air around and position it just above the canopy and not directly on the plants. that will dry them out even worse.

6) Are those peppers and tomatoes bought from a store or were they grown by YOU from Seed? If they are from somewhere else then get them Out of the grow area as they could potentially have pests that could contaminate your grow.

If these were mine, I'd either start over… OR if that isn't an option, then buy some better soil, and take these plants out of the containers and wash them off in the sink to remove all that MG soil crap off of them and re-transplant in Smaller containers with the better soil.

The longer they are left in those pots the more deficient they'll become.

What do the roots in there look like now?

If you're looking for a good soilless mix check out:

a) Promix HP
b) Sunshine mix no.4

P.S: his plants aren't deficient of anything, they are nute burned to hell.

@pisces

1. I know I know

2. Tap that is aired out. Will have a ph meter thursday

3. Same as above

4. Love the analogy!

5. Will do.

6. I planted them from seed with MG as well. Probably will transplant as well but they seem decent.

So many mj plants killed with love...

Start seeds in seed starter. MG is a brand name not the specific type which by the way 1000s of us have grown in fine for years. Just like you cant start seeds in super soil or FFOF don't start in the mg potting mix but it WILL work just fine later once you understand how things work. MG gets its bad name because of threads like this not because you cant grow in it