Tips curling the new growth is wilting

Sharpskell

Member
7 gallon smart pots
Blue dream
It's about 1 month old
No nukes
Foxfarm ocean forest soil
44% to 66% humidity
66 to 79 degrees
600w LED light


The tips of the leaves are curling dramatically.
This is been going on for about a week.
Brown spots on the lower leaves.
New Growth is kind of wilting and small.

please help I'm planning on flushing with hammer from fox-farm tomorrow.
I think the soil is to hot for how young the plant is

i bought some cal mag and Ive added it once but it only got worst.

Thank you for any help
 

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morrisgreenberg

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thats called "the claw" and in my years i havent found one concrete reason for it, some say its over watering, some say its fucking abcd, but whats the PH YOU FEED WITH? my opinion of FF soil is they are wy too hot, anytime i used always burned my plants, your plants dont look bad i think your freaking out over a couple small specks, but def flush that bitch out with plain PHd water at no more than 6.5, as you flush, at the begining, test some of the runoff water, that will let you know your rootzone PH, and in my years of experience, and the relationships that i have forged with people who hold PHD's in Horticulture and botany, it usually comes down to rookie PH mistkes, thats all, nothing catastrphic, thats why this forum is here bro...heres a tip if you dont like your soil , run atleast 3 to 5 times the water, meaing if your in a 1 gllon pot run 3 to 5 gallons of plain water thru it, try to get out the nutrients in it, and this should give you a clean slate to work with, and dont get rambunxious when it comes to feeding, start out slow and easy and disregard what the bottle says, go no more than 25% at the labels dose at the early stages, heres another tip, fertilizer (NUKES) lol have dissolved salts in them, as you pour nutes in your pot, they will leave a salty residue behind in the rootzone, throwing off your PH causing crazy looking issues and will hve you coming here and all the experts telling you that you have a some crazy micro nutrient defficiency like "oh thats definitly a molybdnium Defficincy" lol good luck bro its all good
 

Aqua512

Active Member
I had this very same issue with my last plants. I was using straight peat moss, and going heavy on the nitro. My plants started curling at the tips, then the leaves started turning a really dark almost black. After that the leaves would dry up and fall off. Come to find out, I was feeding way too much nutes, too many times a week. Flush your soil, allow it to dry out, to the point, that the plant starts looking under watered. Then proceed to do what morrisgreenberg advised. You MUST remove ALL nutes, and then ALL moisture from the soil to correct the issue(Over feeding with nutes). Otherwise, you are just adding to the problem. Should take about 2 weeks to dry out (10 gallon + rate). When you flush, flush it till the water comes out of the bottom of the pot clear. No color in it at all. You will have leaves that turn yellow. Cut them off. Only when the entire leaf is yellow. This will help slow down the yellowing from a lack of nitro. Also if you can put them some where warm (75F-85F) This will speed up the drying process of the soil. After you have the soil dry to the touch(1 inch deep) then get the PH corrected, and feed 1/8 of the recommended dose on the bottle. Slowly increase to full strength over time(1/8 increase every 2 weeks) Only give nutes to soil planted plants every 2 weeks. 1 week nutes, 1 week only water. Do this until you reach full strength on the nutes. You will have a little bit longer of a veg time, but you will be glad in the end. This is how I cured my issue(Nitro Claw). Granted all that work for 2 males. I was so mad. Good luck. Hope you get it figured out, and fixed.
 

Sharpskell

Member
I've been using a cheap o pH meter and watering at a 6.3 ph. I drop that bitch in the water yesterday on accident and I got nicer meter that's was like $100 that had can read ppm & pH levels.

The more I think what went wrong is I gave it 3/4gal of water to get drain out of the bottom of a 7 gal. Pot and then I started to have problems. I think I should of went with a 5 gal pot for the finally pot.

That's to much water for a barely a foot tall plant correct?

I poke some holes in the soil and turned the heat up to dry out the soil and if it not looking any better I will flush it.

Thank you again for your feed back this is my first grow!!!
 

morrisgreenberg

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its not how much water you use, its how often, yes give water till water runs out the bottom, but remember how heavy th pot is after u water it? next time u water her, wait till the pot is lighter, let it dry out, dont mess with the heat either, it will stress the plant, just do less, i know u want to do so much and baby the plant, but try to back off, these plants are resilliant and dont need us to do too much
 
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