First time grower using coco

mared juwan

mared juwan

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Should I wait a couple days? If you read all my panicked posts, I flushed some of them out of desperation today and all were just watered a regular feeding yesterday. Should I wait for the coco to dry again?

Apparently I have to "spread out" my rep points some more. Let me find ten pictures to say "Nice bud, +rep," to and I'll be back to give you yours
 
bkstylz

bkstylz

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one of my plants is hurting bad....The whole first and second set of leaves are a shriveled up and yellow on the ends with the third set of leaves still looking green. It is also really short.

I have another plant that has one leaf sort of curled with a yellow tip and I have another plant with a couple of brown spots. They are 3 weeks old (from germination) and are currently getting l.5 tbps / gallon of Botanicare PBP about every 2-3 days.

When I did some research, it turns out anything could be the problem (over/ underwatering, too much light, drastic climate changes, too much nutes, not enough nutes).

I have a 400w MH that is roughly 18inches above the plants. The indoor temp stays around 86 with the light on and 72 with the light off.

My pics are shitty but these are the best I can do right now....Any help would be appreciated.
 
TetraHyC

TetraHyC

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mared juwan said:
Should I wait a couple days? If you read all my panicked posts, I flushed some of them out of desperation today and all were just watered a regular feeding yesterday. Should I wait for the coco to dry again?

Apparently I have to "spread out" my rep points some more. Let me find ten pictures to say "Nice bud, +rep," to and I'll be back to give you yours
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If its too soggy too long you'll get problems.wait, its not too bad.

Before too long you'll be throwing them away if they ever look at you sideways.
 
TetraHyC

TetraHyC

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bkstylz said:
one of my plants is hurting bad....The whole first and second set of leaves are a shriveled up and yellow on the ends with the third set of leaves still looking green. It is also really short.

I have another plant that has one leaf sort of curled with a yellow tip and I have another plant with a couple of brown spots. They are 3 weeks old (from germination) and are currently getting l.5 tbps / gallon of Botanicare PBP about every 2-3 days.

When I did some research, it turns out anything could be the problem (over/ underwatering, too much light, drastic climate changes, too much nutes, not enough nutes).

I have a 400w MH that is roughly 18inches above the plants. The indoor temp stays around 86 with the light on and 72 with the light off.

My pics are shitty but these are the best I can do right now....Any help would be appreciated.
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Seems like a lot of nutes for those babies, I think its nute burn.

Make some nutes like 1/4 strength pour it through enough to flush it.
Thats what I would do.

I think your too hot on the nutes and mared is too cool.Better cool than hot.

You guys keep posting and we can see together.

User will be back I bet,see what he says.
 
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UserFriendly

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bkstylz said:
one of my plants is hurting bad....The whole first and second set of leaves are a shriveled up and yellow on the ends with the third set of leaves still looking green. It is also really short.

I have another plant that has one leaf sort of curled with a yellow tip and I have another plant with a couple of brown spots. They are 3 weeks old (from germination) and are currently getting l.5 tbps / gallon of Botanicare PBP about every 2-3 days.

When I did some research, it turns out anything could be the problem (over/ underwatering, too much light, drastic climate changes, too much nutes, not enough nutes).

I have a 400w MH that is roughly 18inches above the plants. The indoor temp stays around 86 with the light on and 72 with the light off.

My pics are shitty but these are the best I can do right now....Any help would be appreciated.
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Yeah man, that's a lot of PBP. you're feeding like 22ml per gallon when you need to be at like 7-10ml. You could flush, but those leaves are already mangled. Just do 5ml/gallon for a week then go up to 10ml/g. At least you know what nute burn looks like now. :mrgreen:

Also it's important to back off the light on a burnt plant. Put that thing 30 inches away for a week or two. Keep the humidity around 60-65%.
 
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Yo Mared Juwan....we need to learn you how to link. Do you have a journal going on or what? Just copy and paste into your sig if you do.
 
bkstylz

bkstylz

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Man that sucks......It is only my two plants in coc.....My two in soil are looking great and they are getting the same nutes. I can live with losing some plants the first time around as I think it gives me some valuable experience on what not to do......as long as a couple make it.

I flushed my four plants in coco. Haven't moved my light up yet as I have to wait until after work when I can get a buddy over to help me raise it.

Thanks UserFriendly and TetraHyC....you guys have been a big help.
 
mared juwan

mared juwan

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I think User and Tetra are right on both counts. I'm too light on nutes and Bk is too heavy. I do want to clarify that I was giving .5mL/L, not per gallon. This works out to 1.9 mL/gal. I'm following your advice and giving 1mL/L (~4mL/gal) right now and then giving them several days to dry out. The reason I know you guys are right is because the 3 plants I flushed look worse than the ones I left alone. User, I'm a lazy ass and have been using this thread as a journal, should I start one? I figure it just gives everyone somewhere else they have to look. Give me a sec and I'll post new pics.
 
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mared juwan said:
I think User and Tetra are right on both counts. I'm too light on nutes and Bk is too heavy. I do want to clarify that I was giving .5mL/L, not per gallon. This works out to 1.9 mL/gal. I'm following your advice and giving 1mL/L (~4mL/gal) right now and then giving them several days to dry out. The reason I know you guys are right is because the 3 plants I flushed look worse than the ones I left alone. User, I'm a lazy ass and have been using this thread as a journal, should I start one? I figure it just gives everyone somewhere else they have to look. Give me a sec and I'll post new pics.
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Start you a grow journal. Put the link in your sig. It will be easier to keep things organized. You won't have to start separate threads in the plant problems forum or wait days for help.
 
mared juwan

mared juwan

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Allright, I'll start on that right after I water my girls. I'm in the middle of setting up a better drainage system so I don't have to sponge the water out of the trays every time:roll:

Here are the pics, first two are the worst nute-deprived. Last is the best looking one of all the plants - of course one I left well alone.
 

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TetraHyC

TetraHyC

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If the growing tip is ok you'll be fine. Do start a journal mared, BK you too.

Whats up do you need a crane to lift your light,BK ?? Hooks and chain, move the hooks up the links of the chain, very adjustable.
 
bkstylz

bkstylz

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FUCK!!!!!

One of my plants got yanked......I checked his roots and he barely got out of the starter plug...Looks like once the roots hit the coco they just stopped growing...Coco felt moist though so I have no clue.

I have another one that is in some serious danger of getting yanked.

I am also noticing the stems are all splitting and showing green.....this can't be good.

all of my plants in coco are in trouble....The ones in soil are having a good ole time.
 
bkstylz

bkstylz

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TetraHyC said:
If the growing tip is ok you'll be fine. Do start a journal mared, BK you too.

Whats up do you need a crane to lift your light,BK ?? Hooks and chain, move the hooks up the links of the chain, very adjustable.
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I had this thread moved to the grow journal section a few days ago so this is my journal now....lol

yeah...I moved my light up by myself when I got home.
 
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