Okay so this is my 1st grow, i have 4 plants bagseed that i just decided to plant for the hell of it, it is a very low budget grow with earthgro soil, with 2 100watt 6500k cfls that only uses 26watt, but i am trying to get something from it. my plants are on week 2 day 4 and just recently they started to get some type of burn on them i dont know what it is... but im hoping someone on here can tell me what it is and hopefully give me tips n how to fix it. the pictures are provided.
Need help with my grow!
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iblazetoomuch
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Does earthgrow have nutes in it? Probably will progress with deficiencies as you get closer to week 3 veg with no feeding, well atleast thats how my first 3 plants went, lol. Fed my 4th earlier due to peatmoss bare mix with nothing in it. As a first time grower, make sure your pH and ppm of intake water is appropriate, incorrect pH will cause lockout of nutrients available to the plant, if there is any in that potting mix. Mobile nutrient deficiencies will start on older growth first and progress up to newer growth, so make sure you got pH correct and know when shes hungry, as first time grower I did make quite a few of the aforementioned mistakes.
Not really experienced enough to attempt to diagnose plant deficiencies to specifics, but in general when you have problems on older growth and its progressing up, might want to think about checking what nutes are available, pH of the medium, and maybe amend with calmag if thats a bare mix, it helped me out a bit although not with the same type of dark green blotches, never experienced that myself. Good luck! I think the NPK values would be on the bag if you happen to have it, just incase you didn't know what you were working with.
Not really experienced enough to attempt to diagnose plant deficiencies to specifics, but in general when you have problems on older growth and its progressing up, might want to think about checking what nutes are available, pH of the medium, and maybe amend with calmag if thats a bare mix, it helped me out a bit although not with the same type of dark green blotches, never experienced that myself. Good luck! I think the NPK values would be on the bag if you happen to have it, just incase you didn't know what you were working with.
tharoomman
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You might as well put some more cfls on them. You can get a big one at lowes or home depot. Theyre like 15 bucks.
temporarylapseofresin
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Do you have a water softener? Do you know the ph of your water going in and out? Identifying the deficiency won't be very helpful if you don't know how or why it's happening, but if it makes you feel better it looks like phosphorus... probably due to lockout.
Soil looks compacted, I'd transplant into a bigger pot with some new soil and plenty of perlite and use bottled spring water, not distilled. Cheapest solution IMO. If you can afford it, mix some wormcastings into the soil with the perlite, and pick up a $6 bag of all-purpose organic fertilizer, mix that in too. Good luck
Soil looks compacted, I'd transplant into a bigger pot with some new soil and plenty of perlite and use bottled spring water, not distilled. Cheapest solution IMO. If you can afford it, mix some wormcastings into the soil with the perlite, and pick up a $6 bag of all-purpose organic fertilizer, mix that in too. Good luck
The earthgro batch that i got did have little yellow balls in it but it didn't have too many in there just a couple, I'm guessing those little yellow balls are nutrients? but the bag says this on its ingredients "This product is regionally formulated from organic materials (primarily derived from one or more of the following: hypnum peat, forest products or compost), sand, perlite and a wetting agent."
temporarylapseofresin
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I was suggesting spring water over distilled, rainwater is actually preferred. PH and poor soil are the likely culprits.
iblazetoomuch
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peat with perlite n sand, the "yellow balls" being perlite which is normally white but can turn brown/yellow from dirt and lights shining on them. I don't think it comes with nutrients in the soil. I have to say with my few plants I had not fed until week 3 in peatmoss were pretty uniform with the discoloring and degradation of lower leaves, yours don't really look like the typical def. as like what I was experiencing to be honest; but its good that you know its important to figure out whats in your soil.
I think this is it?
http://www.scotts.com/smg/products/earthgro/pdf/EarthGro Potting Mix.pdf
Anyway it looks like there is nothing to eat for the plant after it consumes whatever was stored in its seed. Anyway save this chart for later on it might help with the plant symptoms, although it does seem alot of things can be ambiguous with possible causes.
Yes that is the soil, so all i have to do to fix this problem is change the soil? this soil was cheap it was like 2 dollars a bag, perhaps i should get FFOF (fox farm ocean forest)?peat with perlite n sand, the "yellow balls" being perlite which is normally white but can turn brown/yellow from dirt and lights shining on them. I don't think it comes with nutrients in the soil. I have to say with my few plants I had not fed until week 3 in peatmoss were pretty uniform with the discoloring and degradation of lower leaves, yours don't really look like the typical def. as like what I was experiencing to be honest; but its good that you know its important to figure out whats in your soil.
I think this is it?
http://www.scotts.com/smg/products/earthgro/pdf/EarthGro Potting Mix.pdf
Anyway it looks like there is nothing to eat for the plant after it consumes whatever was stored in its seed. Anyway save this chart for later on it might help with the plant symptoms, although it does seem alot of things can be ambiguous with possible causes.