leaves rotting plants dying

-Homegrow in closet
-250W CFL
-Vegging 3 wks old
-Soil grow, standard potting compost with added vermiculite, good driainage.
- watering every other day

Hi - my plants are really starting to take a tunr for the worse. It started 4 days ago, they are about 3 weeks old. I have just transplanted to larger pots.

They have black patches on the leaves and the new growth has black specks on the tips of the new leaves.

I tested the PH of my water yesterday and it was 8.5. I have now tried to adjust my ph to 6.5 and watered them yesterday but these black patches appeared overnight.

The leaves seem to be yellowing and droopy.

I am new to this but realise that I have to consider every variable.

Is this a PH related issue? can they recover?

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Thanks.

too much water ,water deep but not often let the soil get very dry in between watering

robert 14617 said:

too much water ,water deep but not often let the soil get very dry in between watering

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Thanks for the advice. I guess I will only water every 3 days now like twice a week or something. Hopefully They will come back healthy

Hello - Its been a week and a half with no water and the plants still seem to be dying. Here are some pics.

My question is, should I wait longer, the soil seem dry but the pots are quit big so im not sure


any help would be appreciated.

Similar thing happened to my seedlings. Think it was a cause of the HPS being too close, as well as over watering... Only a few of mine are showing new green growth now... Most of them are done..

this looks like it has some new growth coming on it also looks like it has some nute burn,the soil is too coarse the roots work too hard to get around the rocks and such. if it has large chunks of bark it will make your soil acidic