need some help with my super soil

I've been having a little bit of an issue with my plants. As you can see from the pics there is some sort of problem. Maybe a big one, maybe not. I have considered it being some sort of pH issue but I'm not sure. I tested the run off and it was 5.8. I know, I know, pH doesn't matter in organics but I can't seem to figure out the problem. If someone has a solution I'd be more than happy to hear it. Thanks!

Plant 1 is the first two. Plant 2 is the second two. Tops look good I think, most of the damage is on the bottom.

roots are in too small of pot. root bound is happening transplant soon. check your roots.

It looks like he is in smart pots, if so it woild be hard to be root bound. It kind of looks like the "hot feet" . Some plants will get that when their roots get down into the super soil level.

Make sure your soil does not dry out to quick in those smart pots though. As the soil drys out you start to get nuterient lockout.

oh okay yes but look at the roots they will tell you what to do. i wasn't wrong just not familiar with the pots but i know signs of stress and those look like root stress. listen to endpro he knows your pots. i like air injection myself with soil. will know for sure after a harvest with it. to many nutes can cause roots to stop using nutes check your balance also if not root bound might need to flush it and let it rebalance out. when all fails flush with good water 3 too 5 times what the plant can hold when dry. good luck and happy growing, check out modularhydro.com videos about air injection you might like it. and you dont need to add nutes till the plant tells you it needs them aka growth slows then test soil and water for nutes then add usually every 14 days but if you 1/4 the amount every 3 days if the plant can use it all up.

You never add nutes with super soil. Thats why it is super.

What size pot is that ? when was the last time you transplanted ? Are you using RO water if so are you adding cal-mag ? Have you foliar feed or sprayed anything on them ?

5 gallon. transplanted about a month ago. i use distilled water from the store. pH-7. i haven't fed anything except water.

Why not using tap water? Are you flowering or vegging still?

in a 5 gallon I wouldn't veg longer than 3 weeks after transplant.

From experience if you veg longer you will need to top dress.

What is too high of PPM for tap. The water where I live is rather hard. Haven't gotten a PPM meter or find somewhere on the internet where it is posted. Is there such thing as too hard of water?

You might need to add Cal-Mag with the distilled water, I know you have to with Reverse Osmosis water so I would look in to that

super soil has lime in it. if you dont know what you are talking about please, please refrain from posting to noobs who NEED proper help...
if you want to add calcium dont add calmag, its a chemical i believe. get lime and put a teaspoon per gallon of water and water with that.
we dont "flush" in organics too... thats just stupid lol

dabumps said:

What is too high of PPM for tap. The water where I live is rather hard. Haven't gotten a PPM meter or find somewhere on the internet where it is posted. Is there such thing as too hard of water?

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Well hard water usually means you have minerals in it. Which wouldnt be bad for the soil. I would water a plant with tap water instead and see how it goes. I bet you cant tell a difference, but your wallet will

I'll try one and let the rest of the grow be a "control" group.

I hope you weren't talking to me if so you'd better check Subcools receipt again it calls for cal-mag if using Reverse Osmosis water

nova1992 said:

super soil has lime in it. if you dont know what you are talking about please, please refrain from posting to noobs who NEED proper help...
if you want to add calcium dont add calmag, its a chemical i believe. get lime and put a teaspoon per gallon of water and water with that.
we dont "flush" in organics too... thats just stupid lol

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I'm flowering. I figured the distilled water would be the cleanest. I can switch to tap though if that is recommended. I vegged it for about 2 weeks after I transplanted.

Tap water should be fine. 2 weeks veg in a 5 gallon pot after xplant sounds good.

Distilled and RO are clean just too clean that is why you need to add calmag I believe its just a drop or 2 per 5 gallon and it is GO liquid calmag or you could just try your tap water like you said

Hey Shawns, I've had that happen to some of my plants, couldn't figure it out till I watched a weed nerd a couple episodes ago. Turns out, (in my case), it was wind damage from my fan blasting on it. Lifted the fan and its no problem.
Tiger