Hello i had germinated 5 seed, out of those only 3 germinated, so far its been a aproximetly 1 month and a half. My babies are beutiful but about a week ago i saw they were having difficulties. Their leaves started yellowing withering and falling off almost like drying i noticed that growth also stopped the bigger plant is 10 inches almost a foot the other ones are about 8 and 7 inches. The leaves show black spots and then curl away and fall out, also on top there are white spots on my leaves all over the plant itself is healthy its so green so are the leaves however there whas a fruit fly infestation or what it semmed to me. They where black little bugs so what i did is i repotted took all the nasty soil out (breeding ground of the bugs) then i repotted with miracle grow potting mix, I read online that too much fertilizer can damage plants so i took some off then i flushed with h20 right now they are doing fine exept the 2 smaller ones look like they are bending and dying altough the stem is pretty greeen the leaves just keep falling, it keeps building new leaves but they die! Here are some pics i have taken of the 1 week ago and now recently could u please give me some advice?
My 3 plants are dying!!!
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missnu
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Well sometimes transplanting makes plants look droopy and stop growing..growing them together in a small container won't work out, and flushing MG soil is the worst thing you could do...I mean water it, but not too much...what you do when you just flush a little is release more nutes than you wash out...for real. Also you don't have enough light to support the size the plant is.. So you need more light, less nutes, and more pots.
I have enough light i just took the pictures at my desk.. so flushing was a bad idea what do you recommend ?
DJ TEEREKS
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Hard to say for certain as there are a lot of factors involved recently.
First off I would tell you that you should never have more than one plant per pot. With that being said, you should also be filling your pots up to the top with soil. When they sit in that cavern you've created, they aren't getting any air flow which will lead to the stems staying very weak.
They are also very stretched, so you should be putting your light source much closer to the plants. What kind of light do you have?
Not sure what kind of soil they're in right now but I can tell you that they are over watered. It was a good call to stay away from the MG but you should be adding at least a 1/4 perlite to your soil mix to air out the soil and provide quicker drainnage.
I would suggest leaving them alone for a couple days with some good light on them, no more watering. They should bounce back a little, and when they do, you should transplant each plant into their own pot and fill it to the top with soil. You should also bury the stems a little deeper to stablize them (the buried stem will grow new roots). I would also buy a bag of perlite and mix in 1/4 - 1/3 with your soil.
Do you have any nutrients right now? Are you checkin the soil ph? The yellowing could be ph related, or a nitrogen dif.
First off I would tell you that you should never have more than one plant per pot. With that being said, you should also be filling your pots up to the top with soil. When they sit in that cavern you've created, they aren't getting any air flow which will lead to the stems staying very weak.
They are also very stretched, so you should be putting your light source much closer to the plants. What kind of light do you have?
Not sure what kind of soil they're in right now but I can tell you that they are over watered. It was a good call to stay away from the MG but you should be adding at least a 1/4 perlite to your soil mix to air out the soil and provide quicker drainnage.
I would suggest leaving them alone for a couple days with some good light on them, no more watering. They should bounce back a little, and when they do, you should transplant each plant into their own pot and fill it to the top with soil. You should also bury the stems a little deeper to stablize them (the buried stem will grow new roots). I would also buy a bag of perlite and mix in 1/4 - 1/3 with your soil.
Do you have any nutrients right now? Are you checkin the soil ph? The yellowing could be ph related, or a nitrogen dif.
You are right i had been overwatering because i tought it was a nitrogen deficiency so i flushed.. the plant just keeps building new leaves so fast and dropping them too but its always the bottom ones the dificiency never goes up it just affects the leaves till it drops hen it moves on to the next leaves etc.
Yes i took the soil out because i tought that the soil was killing the plant!. So i basically dumped off some of it. For the lights i am using a flourecent tube my other lights should be arriving by the time they flower because i will have to switch. Yes i am checking the ph and you are right the nitrogen i think thats it. Because the MG potting soil has all the nutrients in it and i am afraid if i should add more to it for the fear of my plants dying. The soil has N,P,MG, basically everything :O and ok i will take your advice i will switch them off when they come back to life how long do u think 1-2 days? I will try my best
DWhat do u mean replant stems how would u do that :O
SweetestCheeba
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Dude Click on it its a link and read the instructions
Here im taking a pic to show u my light. The light lights up the whole room looks like god is speaking to me.
I took it with flash hence the black room.. my other stronger lights should be arriving when flowering Metal H
YO sorry dude im a noob :O
SweetestCheeba
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Is that a single strip flourescent
missnu
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You just bury them
Its a flourecent the other one is underneath yes there are 2 u wnat me 2 take a pic of the other one?
Ok so just to make sure im doing this right im going to bury the stems, those stems that the leaves already fell off ?
SweetestCheeba
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plz and u should try to get bth of them directly over the top of the plant