CrookedBerry
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Hey everyone, thanks for reading this and hopefully knowing what is wrong with my plants!
So I'm growing 5 hybrids, ordered off seedsman (good reviews so I don't think the problem comes from the plants themselves) labelled as suited to outdoors growing and easy for beginners.
I don't use any artificial nutrient booster or any chemical product: only put some nettle manure (dunno if you know what that is, basically fermented nettles, very good for natural nutrients, we use it for other plants in my garden and it's fine; I also made sure not to put too much.) I water when the soil feels dry, basically once a day or so. I move them around to make sure they get at least 11 hours of direct sunlight, and get them home since the nights are still a bit fresh.
That's how I do at the moment but prior to that I know I've done many mistakes that altered them, but since I stopped them and some problems stay the same, I'm at a loss.
My soil is now 80% regular garden dirt (other plants grow well in it so no problem there) and 20% compost (for the nutes) but 2 weeks ago it was only compost, which prevented my plants from getting water (water didn't stay at all in the soil), but as I said I changed that, now soil is fine to me.
Also, I used to put them in a small closed greenhouse, which meant they didn't get much ventilation: I stopped that and put them in the open now, it's been 2 days (I know it's dumb but I forgot the vent part, I thought giving them 2 hours outside the greenhouse was enough).
I also burnt the leaves of one (or two, not sure for the other) because I used to put them under a LED at night after reading how much light was needed (turns out it was wrong, and especially to put them under LED at close distance) so I stopped that, 2 weeks ago as well.
And last thing, which I realised yesterday, when getting them home I'd put them in my bedroom near the window (for the first light of the day to reach them since I wake up at 8-9 am) but I smoke (tobacco, not more than 10 a day) inside said room and I thought it might be bad.
So right now I've stopped all those possibly negative stuff: but my plants still look unhealthy to me.
Mind you, they're growing all right, every week I see great changes, but their problems bother me and I don't want them to grow worse.
So by looking at 2 sets of pictures, one from last week and one from today, so you can see both the plants' growth and their health issues, if you could tell me what you think is wrong.. that'd be awesome.
Sorry for the long read! On the left are the old photos, on the right the recent ones.
So I'm growing 5 hybrids, ordered off seedsman (good reviews so I don't think the problem comes from the plants themselves) labelled as suited to outdoors growing and easy for beginners.
I don't use any artificial nutrient booster or any chemical product: only put some nettle manure (dunno if you know what that is, basically fermented nettles, very good for natural nutrients, we use it for other plants in my garden and it's fine; I also made sure not to put too much.) I water when the soil feels dry, basically once a day or so. I move them around to make sure they get at least 11 hours of direct sunlight, and get them home since the nights are still a bit fresh.
That's how I do at the moment but prior to that I know I've done many mistakes that altered them, but since I stopped them and some problems stay the same, I'm at a loss.
My soil is now 80% regular garden dirt (other plants grow well in it so no problem there) and 20% compost (for the nutes) but 2 weeks ago it was only compost, which prevented my plants from getting water (water didn't stay at all in the soil), but as I said I changed that, now soil is fine to me.
Also, I used to put them in a small closed greenhouse, which meant they didn't get much ventilation: I stopped that and put them in the open now, it's been 2 days (I know it's dumb but I forgot the vent part, I thought giving them 2 hours outside the greenhouse was enough).
I also burnt the leaves of one (or two, not sure for the other) because I used to put them under a LED at night after reading how much light was needed (turns out it was wrong, and especially to put them under LED at close distance) so I stopped that, 2 weeks ago as well.
And last thing, which I realised yesterday, when getting them home I'd put them in my bedroom near the window (for the first light of the day to reach them since I wake up at 8-9 am) but I smoke (tobacco, not more than 10 a day) inside said room and I thought it might be bad.
So right now I've stopped all those possibly negative stuff: but my plants still look unhealthy to me.
Mind you, they're growing all right, every week I see great changes, but their problems bother me and I don't want them to grow worse.
So by looking at 2 sets of pictures, one from last week and one from today, so you can see both the plants' growth and their health issues, if you could tell me what you think is wrong.. that'd be awesome.
Sorry for the long read! On the left are the old photos, on the right the recent ones.