healthy clones transplanted - day 3 starting to wilt - too much nutes?

tilopa

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Bought some super healthy big clones from a nursery, never seen clones this healthy with many white roots. I transplanted them in 4.5 inch plastic pots with 1/2 recipe 420 1/2 salamander soil (coir and perlite) and about 10% bat guano. I packed the soil kind of tight and put down mykos (mycorrhizal) crystals, and put the roots right on them. Then I gave them a good dose of RO water. This was monday. Tuesday plants looked ok, but a little listless, wednesday even more so, now thursday they are looking wilted. The soil is still wet at the top so they have plenty of water.

The only thing I can think of is the soil is too hot (too much nutrients). But someone told me you really cannot burn plants with organic nutes, is that true. Anyway, I guess maybe I put a bit too much guano but being so healthy I figured they could handle it. What else could it be?
 

caveman117

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You can definitely burn plants with organics.. but it could be a lot of things, for instance it could be something as simple as them having a hard time getting used to the new environment (especially if your using a lot less light than the nursery).
When you said "big clones" what does that mean? Were they just big thick.cuts or had they been.growing for a while? Toss up some pics and describe your envirpnment more.
 

Chillin chillin

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In my experience when leaves are down its not enough food. When they are erect and deep green w burnt tips that's when it's to much.
Down leaves are sad leaves
 

tilopa

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In my experience when leaves are down its not enough food. When they are erect and deep green w burnt tips that's when it's to much.
Down leaves are sad leaves
That may be a good rule of thumb but in this case the plants are definitely nute burned, I'm convinced of that now as the leaves are showing classic signs of nute burn, like brown burnt edges, curled tips, brittle leaves (sorry for no pics), and yet they are also drooping over.
 

tilopa

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I went ahead and transplanted today into very light soil, mostly salamander with a little bit of potting soil. Surprisingly even the plants with burn and drooping leaves had good root development for only being 4 days in, long white roots to the bottom of the pot. And the soil was very moist. They probably would have bounced back in a week, but some of the plants were drooping real bad, forehead to the floor, so I was worried they would die.
 
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