What is the problem here?

I can't tell what's wrong with this plant. My other one is doing much better, except for a couple droopy leaves and one with a tiny bit of yellow, but this one was just transplanted a few days ago and now isn't looking very good.

Sick plant:


Healthier one:


Note: My camera just sucks with color, both plants are mostly the same healthy green shade.

overwatered & over-nuted my 2cents

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that looks like Miracle Gro soil too. MG is cool, but you need to add some perlite to the mix before you add plants to it, which it looks like you have done...

also I dunno how much this helps but what I do is saturate the soil in tap water for about 2-3 days while my seeds are germinating, then I start seedlings off in jiffy cubes until the roots are about 2"-3" sticking from the bottom, that way I know the seedlings are mature enough to handle the preferted soil, then I transplant them into the soil, water once more, then wait for the soil to completely dry out to water them again. I only watered two or three times my entire vegetative cycle. I've must've water at least seven times so far in my flowering cycle.

what you should do is give it a really good flush of pH adjusted water (6.0-7.0) and let the soil dry out for about 4 days, or until its dry about 1 1/2 inches down, then the next time you water, just water until about 30% of the water drains out of the bottom, let it dry out another 3 days and then do the process over again.

overwatered & over-nuted my 2cents

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Damnit, it's SO hard to keep from overwatering these things. About the nutes though, I havent put any in, except for the slow-release crap thats in the soil to begin with. What can I do about that?

i agree,, those leaves touching the soil are burnt from nutes in soil. what kind of lighting are you using?

Get a moisture meter from walmart for 5 bucks that will help alot.

Both plants have 90watts of CFL lighting on them and were started two weeks ago.

Questions:
1. What can I do about the nute burning since all the nutes came from the soil?
2. Is the one yellow leaf in the healthy plant burnt too?
3. Do these look like the same strain (cuz they're supposed to be) or is it too early to tell?

Thx.

The 2nd one seems to be toughing it out, but the 1st one is struggling a little bit. The 1st one still seems a little small to be getting nutes. Try transplanting the 1st one into Starting Soil (Jiffy's is what I use) for a few weeks. Only water when soil feels dry. After that try putting them into a 3 month slowly releasing nutrient soil. Lighting seems okay. Good luck!!

i use a rapidtest from ace hardware and water when the needle is in the no 1 area by then the top inch of the soil is completely dry

also get a ph tester if that soil came w/nutes its ph is prob. in the 5"s

Also remember for the future; no nutes for the 1st month. The plants will do fine in starting soil for 1st month.

Ok, thanks for the tips guys.

GreenEyes said:

Both plants have 90watts of CFL lighting on them and were started two weeks ago.

Questions:
1. What can I do about the nute burning since all the nutes came from the soil?
2. Is the one yellow leaf in the healthy plant burnt too?
3. Do these look like the same strain (cuz they're supposed to be) or is it too early to tell?

Thx.

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1.replant them to new soil that is free of time-released nutes, those are lil time-bombs in soil anyway after doing so you may still flush them a bit to get the last of them out and the salt build ups they cause sometimes

2. could be, could not- maybe it is just from a bit too much water but it could be burned by nutes too

3. telling strains is bit hard one, it is easy to tell if something as a indica or sativa domination in its gens. for that the grows of the plant and it leaves shape are the factors to judge by. yours look like indica
everything else could be determent in flower maybe, there are strains that got a got characteristic shape/look to them but some others are harder to keep apart