pope creek
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Spent hours studying threads on diagnostics. Didn't find anything that really matches my problem. Here is the story:
Growing outdoors in northern California. Poor soil. I am going 100% organic. Have my garden heavily mulched with creek weed, corn husk, dried alfalfa and stable straw that contains cow, horse and chicken manure.
All these components are pretty rich in nitrogen. But it's basically side dressing. I have also used fish emulsion. Evrything going fine 6 weeks in. Plants growing well. Veggies in garden thriving too.
Yesterday I added more mulch of straw from chicken coop, today two of my 18 plants are showing what looks like leaf burn. See the photos.
The affected leaves are mostly in the middle of the plant. Top shoots seem healthy.
Could they be suffering from too much nitrogen? Since organic is slow acting I am surprised to see damage withing 24 hours of adding chicken shit (careful to avoid mulch actually touching stem).
If it is leaf burn from too many ferts can I expect the rest of the garden to have trouble, or are the two plants extra sensitive?
Is there any remedy like removing mulch and flushing?
Maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree all together...could it be disease, over-watering or connected to excessive heat we suffered last couple of weeks.
Any help or advice is much appreciated.
Affected strain....Sour Diesel and Blue Dream
Grown in soil.
Fertilized with organics including manures and fish emulsion. All organics side-dressed except Fish emulsion that is given as per label.
Started life as clones. In mother earth for approx 6 weeks.
!6 plants look healthy. 2 plants look to be suffering.
symptoms only apparent in last few days.
Growing in Napa County USA
Growing outdoors in northern California. Poor soil. I am going 100% organic. Have my garden heavily mulched with creek weed, corn husk, dried alfalfa and stable straw that contains cow, horse and chicken manure.
All these components are pretty rich in nitrogen. But it's basically side dressing. I have also used fish emulsion. Evrything going fine 6 weeks in. Plants growing well. Veggies in garden thriving too.
Yesterday I added more mulch of straw from chicken coop, today two of my 18 plants are showing what looks like leaf burn. See the photos.
The affected leaves are mostly in the middle of the plant. Top shoots seem healthy.
Could they be suffering from too much nitrogen? Since organic is slow acting I am surprised to see damage withing 24 hours of adding chicken shit (careful to avoid mulch actually touching stem).
If it is leaf burn from too many ferts can I expect the rest of the garden to have trouble, or are the two plants extra sensitive?
Is there any remedy like removing mulch and flushing?
Maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree all together...could it be disease, over-watering or connected to excessive heat we suffered last couple of weeks.
Any help or advice is much appreciated.
Affected strain....Sour Diesel and Blue Dream
Grown in soil.
Fertilized with organics including manures and fish emulsion. All organics side-dressed except Fish emulsion that is given as per label.
Started life as clones. In mother earth for approx 6 weeks.
!6 plants look healthy. 2 plants look to be suffering.
symptoms only apparent in last few days.
Growing in Napa County USA