Is this overwatering?

Hi guys, first time grower here. I'm pretty sure I started off with some nute burn, so I reverted back to plain Ph'd water. Now everything is turning to a very yellow shade of green, curling downward, and even some twisting of the leaves. I think I may have over watered trying to flush the nute's out but it's been 7 days from previous watering to this last one on Sat. So now I'm not sure what's going on. Any help would be appreciated.

Hi, Twisted leaves and drooping usually occurs because of the heat, which can also lead to a slight leaf discolouration its fairly hard to over water plants if you have good drainage holes and do not water every day, to start with just use half advised nutes for 2 weeks then increase, this looks to me like a heat problem and ive seen plenty before

Steve

Hi Steven, thanks for the response. This is a CFL grow (if that maters) and the normal temp generally hovers somewhere between 80-84° F, (80° as I type this) with highs in the upper 80's and lows in the high 70's on rare occasions. I guess I'm just really surprised at how yellow it looks considering how dark green it was as a clone and later (right up to this last transplant). My cfls are probably not any closer than about 2". This plant is just starting it's 4th week in it's final pot. I was thinking I may have gone to too large of a pot for this last transplant. Went from a solo cup to a 4 gal pot.

Mmm quite possibly, i myself have never grown under cfls but i have also never shifted a plant from a small pot to a 4 gal pot either haha, just keep your eye on it see what happens in the next week or so, keep us updated

What soil you using? When did you start feeding?
Going from cup to large pot is unlikely to be your problem. If you're using ferted soil and feeding ~this could be your prob. Just a guess though

I had a plant look similar to that and it was from the heat. I don't know if that's the same issue here but I burnt my leaves when I got them wet while under light. I pulled the light away from the plant so that it wouldn't be to hot and in a couple of days it looked better. the leaves that got burnt never looked better but the plant did.

The soil is an organic potting soil mixed with some MG general purpose potting soil. The only time that I tried adding any nutes was 14 days ago. Almost immediately I started to get what I suspected to be nute burn on some of the leaves. Before and since, it's had nothing but ph balanced water. Current lights are 2x42 and 4x23 watt cfl's all 6500k. The closest lights were set about 2" from any leaves but I've now raised them to about 4".

Flush it! I had one of mine growing in MG and it started to get nute burn so I flushed it and when it was old enough I transplanted it.

2'' is too close for a light to be near a plant. The light will be too focused on a small area, so I would keep it at 6". It seems that whatever your soil is , your plants don't like it', so you might be looking at a shock situation, which will take about a week to straighten out. 4 gallon pots are a bit much for a pot plant, but there is no harm using one (1 gal per month of growth) It definitely isn't overwatering, because if it was, your plant would be dead by now. I personally would carefully repot again, leaving the MG soil out of the mix. Use the best soil you can find, mix with a decent amount of perlite, and feed lightly (650-700 ppm for a 4 week plant is fine) with a grow solution that favors N. I would water every 3rd day, with a light feeding once a week. Oh, and by the way, at 4 weeks in would be advisable to use some Calmag, which has extra N in it, because around that time the plants could use a boost. Good luck

Mothman30 said:

Flush it! I had one of mine growing in MG and it started to get nute burn so I flushed it and when it was old enough I transplanted it.

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I've flushed with plain ph water 3 times since the initial burn. 3rd time was this past Saturday. Being a first time grower, I'm not sure how fast I should see any results or exactly what to expect to see as far as recovery.

Well, I know with my plants, the recovery I saw was not in the leaves that got burnt. I saw in the new growth and the fact that the current leaves that were becoming yellow did not continue to yellow. If the leaves continue to yellow and wilt than you know the problem has not been fixed. Also just so you know, I'm a first time grower myself. Just passing information I have picked up on here that helped me.

JMichael said:

I've flushed with plain ph water 3 times since the initial burn. 3rd time was this past Saturday. Being a first time grower, I'm not sure how fast I should see any results or exactly what to expect to see as far as recovery.

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First off MG is a really hot soil and that's guna be your main issue putting them into MG then feeding ontop of that ........also ph isn't a big deal in soil growing it buffers itself I'm a soil grower and I use tap that sits out a few days or straight out of a well in one of my gardens .......if you can get a soil that's made for what your growing for the amount you'll need it won't cost you much and Mg has lots of food that's very slow release by flushing your actually breaking down the mg food and continuing to feed even when flushing in that soil ...........IMO replant in some better soil quit stressing over ph in a good soil and start practicing good watering techniques And you'll be golden friend good luck