adudecalledjay
Well-Known Member
Something is up with my plants. Everything was fine until I moved them under new lights and up-potted them (put them under new lights first -- didn't have issues for 3+ days, so up-potted). When I transplanted I used the following mix:
800 ml coco coir
800 ml clay pebbles (only because it’s what I have on hand -- would have used perlite instead if I had some)
200 ml manure compost
200 ml mushroom compost
400 ml earthworm castings
1tbsp bat guano
2 tbsp Rock Phosphate (45 ml per 4000ml of soil - same as bone meal)
4 tbsp Green Sand (90 ml per 4000ml of soil )
26ml (~2 tbsp) Bone Meal (45ml per 4000ml of soil or 1:89)
10 ml (~2 tsp) Kelp Meal (14.8 ml per 3790 ml of soil or 1:256)
1 tbsp per plant mycorrhizae at roots during transplant
When I checked pH run-off I was just under 7, but my EC was a whopping 6.1!! From more reading it looks like I shouldn't check soil EC based on run-off, but rather take a soil sample to distilled water H20, then filter, wait 24 hours, then measure, so I wasn't sure how much to read into the 6.1 EC reading. I thought I'd leave it for a few days to see if things got worse. Oh, and my pH and EC were on a freshly calibrated bluelabs combo reader, so I'm confident in the measuring equipment.
After a few days it looked to me like there was clawing and yellowing of the tips on all leaves new and old. I think I misdiagnosed this as nutrient burn just based on the big EC numbers in the runoff. So here's a picture of the Purp plant 6 days ago:
So after 3 days I decided I'd better give it a flush and get the EC down. I flushed quite a bit and could only get it down to ~1.3. I also raised the lights a bit from 600 μmol/s/m2 -> ~450 μmol/s/m2.
After 6 days the plant is bigger for sure, but not really looking healthy. Before I flush more I thought I'd get some opinions. Could I have misdiagnosed? Is it possible I'm actually too low on potassium? Sorry, it's not really meant to be a soil question, but more a "what does this plant look like it's deficient in?" question
Here it is today:
Here's my moisture levels over the last week. I've tried to let it completely dry out and I've tried watering everyday -- doesn't seem to help with the droopiness. 56% moisture is about as high as it goes when the soil is fully saturated. At 30% the leaves are very droopy and in obvious need to water.
Here's the temperature and humidity of the tent. My humidity does occasionally drop as low as 38% when I have to refill the humidifier:
And finally here are my watering notes...you can disregard the right column -- that's "Plant 2" which is having even more issues.
Any help would be appreciated!!
800 ml coco coir
800 ml clay pebbles (only because it’s what I have on hand -- would have used perlite instead if I had some)
200 ml manure compost
200 ml mushroom compost
400 ml earthworm castings
1tbsp bat guano
2 tbsp Rock Phosphate (45 ml per 4000ml of soil - same as bone meal)
4 tbsp Green Sand (90 ml per 4000ml of soil )
26ml (~2 tbsp) Bone Meal (45ml per 4000ml of soil or 1:89)
10 ml (~2 tsp) Kelp Meal (14.8 ml per 3790 ml of soil or 1:256)
1 tbsp per plant mycorrhizae at roots during transplant
When I checked pH run-off I was just under 7, but my EC was a whopping 6.1!! From more reading it looks like I shouldn't check soil EC based on run-off, but rather take a soil sample to distilled water H20, then filter, wait 24 hours, then measure, so I wasn't sure how much to read into the 6.1 EC reading. I thought I'd leave it for a few days to see if things got worse. Oh, and my pH and EC were on a freshly calibrated bluelabs combo reader, so I'm confident in the measuring equipment.
After a few days it looked to me like there was clawing and yellowing of the tips on all leaves new and old. I think I misdiagnosed this as nutrient burn just based on the big EC numbers in the runoff. So here's a picture of the Purp plant 6 days ago:
So after 3 days I decided I'd better give it a flush and get the EC down. I flushed quite a bit and could only get it down to ~1.3. I also raised the lights a bit from 600 μmol/s/m2 -> ~450 μmol/s/m2.
After 6 days the plant is bigger for sure, but not really looking healthy. Before I flush more I thought I'd get some opinions. Could I have misdiagnosed? Is it possible I'm actually too low on potassium? Sorry, it's not really meant to be a soil question, but more a "what does this plant look like it's deficient in?" question
Here it is today:
Here's my moisture levels over the last week. I've tried to let it completely dry out and I've tried watering everyday -- doesn't seem to help with the droopiness. 56% moisture is about as high as it goes when the soil is fully saturated. At 30% the leaves are very droopy and in obvious need to water.
Here's the temperature and humidity of the tent. My humidity does occasionally drop as low as 38% when I have to refill the humidifier:
And finally here are my watering notes...you can disregard the right column -- that's "Plant 2" which is having even more issues.
Any help would be appreciated!!
all the best
