Major problems

[ajr1030]

So here it is.

autoflower plant in 3 gallon pots. Soil/perlite mix.

24/7 light cycle with 600w LED IN 4x4x7 grow tent.

Fox farms trio and CalMag nutes every other watering at 6.3 ph, give or take. Recommending amounts. I haven’t used the cal mag for the last few feedings but this started before I stopped using cal mag.
Wondering if this plant is just too far gone at this point. This is only my second grow so I don’t know how to identify and fix this problem. Any advice is appreciated.

 

[Calvados]

You probably have a couple of things going on, but first things first. What soil are you using?

In any case you need to flush your soil, which is to get rid of any nutrients or salts that have build up over time and start over. Your roots have locked out some or most of your nutrients, which causes all sorts of problems that end up looking like what you are experiencing.

The rule of thumb is 3 x water through your pots, so that’s 9 gallons of water through your pot. Do it slowly, so that you don’t develop gullies that will funnel the water out without soaking through all of the soil. You may end up chucking some more soil mix in to account for anything that might wash away. On your last soak mix your nutrients back in at 6.3 PH.

I asked about your soil, because it may already contain nutrients or nutrients that are time released. Other than that it looks like you are doing everything right.

Anyway. That is what I would do.

 

[ajr1030]

You probably have a couple of things going on, but first things first. What soil are you using?

In any case you need to flush your soil, which is to get rid of any nutrients or salts that have build up over time and start over. Your roots have locked out some or most of your nutrients, which causes all sorts of problems that end up looking like what you are experiencing.

The rule of thumb is 3 x water through your pots, so that’s 9 gallons of water through your pot. Do it slowly, so that you don’t develop gullies that will funnel the water out without soaking through all of the soil. You may end up chucking some more soil mix in to account for anything that might wash away. On your last soak mix your nutrients back in at 6.3 PH.

I asked about your soil, because it may already contain nutrients or nutrients that are time released. Other than that it looks like you are doing everything right.

Anyway. That is what I would do.

Im using miracle grow performance organics. I mixed it with half a small bag of perlite. It worked well on my first grow.
I just flushed out all of my plants like you said.

 

[ajr1030]

Curious to how it’ll react. If I don’t see any kind of improvement over the next few days should
I chuck this plant?

 

[ajr1030]

Dude how impossibly stupid could I be. I just realized this as I was putting my plants back in the tent. I left the freakin bottom caps on the pots this entire time. The roots shot out of the holes. What should I do?

 

[Calvados]

Lol. I don’t know. I’d probably just cut them off. Waddayagonnado. It should recover.

I used miracle gro for my first grow. It already had nutes that were time released, so unpredictable and in conflict with whatever nutes I was using. I’m not familiar with what you are using, but the flush should get rid of all the existing nutes. I use canna terra pro plus. It’s neutral, so I know what and how much I’m feeding the plant. I’d recommend something like that.