I'm a first time grower and have two plants early in the vegetative stage, however, they are showing signs of problems and I have trouble diagnosing what exactly is wrong with them and what to do to fix it. As you can see in the pictures, one of them (cheese) is drooping a lot and has some brown spots. I think it's overwatered because the pot is too large and the soil was too wet and takes too long to get dry enough for another watering. The other one (Dutch kush) is growing very slowly and has a light green colour, starting to droopp a bit too. The light is 600w hps, good airflow, temperatures and humidity, good ph and water quality, the medium is plagron royalmix (6 weeks prenuted) with clay pebbles in the bottom of the 5 gallon pots. I also have plagron alga bloom for when the medium runs out/low on nutes. The soil had to be flushed before use and I transplanted them into it immediately after the flush (Let the pots drip out before tho) so that's why I think they take so long to dry out. They've been in these pots for almost a month now. I would appreciate any advice greatly, thank you!
What can I do to fix this problem
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Ghost of Davy Jones
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Looks like Over watering and over feeding imo. If it were me I would flush real good and transplant into new pots with brand new pro-mix soil. If you do this I'm betting they will be thriving in 3-4 days. There still young enough so you can do this. after you transplant don't give any more nutes. for a while.
leather lungs
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I may be wrong but if it is over watered i would not flush. Feel the weight of pot now and when it feels a lot lighter then water till you get a decent runoff. When pot feels that light again repeat.
Dr.Nick Riviera
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they are starving to death, you need to brew up a tea if you want to stay organic, or water with some good veg nutes
vostok
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Soil is total crap made worse by the addition of nutes/fertilizer
extract the plants gentle from that soil
wash the roots gentle in air temp water 20c/70f is good
replant in a dilute soil mix such as
Fox Farm ocean forest with 30% perlite added
or if broke
use 30% of your shit soil to 60% clean river sand or perlite
you may add considerable nutes later once you are back on the grow
good luck
Thank you for the advice @vostok - but can you explain to me a little bit more about why soil isn't good for growing? Before starting my grow I talked with the guys at my local grow shop about how to go about growing weed for the first time and they had recommended doing it this way. Could you also explain a bit more about how exactly to extract the plants from the soil and place them into a new soil/perlite mixture, without doing any more damage to them? I'm a bit concerned about shocking them any further than they already have been...
Ghost of Davy Jones
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I could be wrong but i think what he meant was GENTLY dig them up and use a soft spray to wash away all the crappy soil away. As long as the roots are moist and you do it in a timely fission the plant should live and recover just fine. Your still in veg so its not as big of a deal. It will probably shock the plant a little but it should be better in a few days. Maybe wait until Vostok chimes back in to double check. I'm new to growing too.
vostok
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Plagron Royal Mix
Plagron Royal Mix is a mix of the finest, carefully selected types of peat. Royal Mix contains various types of fibre and perlite which results in a light airy high quality potting soil.
Plagron Royal mix contains a carefully selected combination of organic fertilizers which meet all the plant’s nutritional requirements throughout the complete cycle. These Plagron fertilizers are unique because they are only released exactly when the plant needs them. Plagron Royal mix is Plagron’s premium product.
Attention! Water well, allowing the water to seep through, before use. Do not add any fertilizer for the first 6 weeks.
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it does not say what percentages this peat, compost etc are
but the real tip is in the fact you need not fertilize your plant
for 6 weeks, you were not to know this ..?
ALWAYS A HASSLE GETTING GOOD SOIL IN THE UK
Find a tablespoon and gently scoop the plant and roots out,
gently wash in air temp soil then re plant
soft light for 24 hours water lightly
good luck
