Noob needs advise on sick seedlings....

mulehunter

mulehunter

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mike4c4 said:
they are frying. too much nutes for a seedling. I would do a flush on them, they also look pretty dry. Keeping the soil too dry will make for slow growth. Not too wet, not too dry. It will take some time to get that right. how mush lime did you put in there?
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What he said hahahha only one drop of superthrive per gallon bro !
 
Troy622

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hmm...super thrive for maintenance said 1/4 tsp per gallon, i did half of that. I'm hoping it's the nutes cause I did a flush last night with Ph'd water and then got posts saying it might be lack of nutes...everything I've been reading since said to wait for nutes until 3 or 4th node so 'm hoping they'll start to come back. this morning they looked about the same. should i remove the bad leaves or cut them off short?
 
nomofatum

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Troy622 said:
hmm...super thrive for maintenance said 1/4 tsp per gallon, i did half of that. I'm hoping it's the nutes cause I did a flush last night with Ph'd water and then got posts saying it might be lack of nutes...everything I've been reading since said to wait for nutes until 3 or 4th node so 'm hoping they'll start to come back. this morning they looked about the same. should i remove the bad leaves or cut them off short?
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Don't cut anything until after it's recovered. If they aren't crunchy they are still a nutrient supply the plant can tap into.
 
nomofatum

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Troy622 said:
Nomofatum....where do you get the soil reports/reviews?
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those were directly from homedepot.com. I may have been looking at compost and not your mix though, but I'm sure the compost is the shitty part of the mix you have. The biggest chunk of anything in your soil should be the larger chucks of perlite. Wood chunks in soil is a sign that they were in a rush and don't care much about quality. The wood chunks just needed some more time in the compost pile before being mixed in. The wood absorbs N as part of the decomposing process, that much wood in your soil will absorb a good deal of N.
 
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mulehunter

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Troy622 said:
hmm...super thrive for maintenance said 1/4 tsp per gallon, i did half of that. I'm hoping it's the nutes cause I did a flush last night with Ph'd water and then got posts saying it might be lack of nutes...everything I've been reading since said to wait for nutes until 3 or 4th node so 'm hoping they'll start to come back. this morning they looked about the same. should i remove the bad leaves or cut them off short?
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Whats yoir ppms on the nutes
 
mulehunter

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Troy622 said:
Can't remember exact amount but was in the 300s i believe. I'm going to start journaling all that.
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Sounds like your right on i never use more than a droadditives anymore. allon whether it works or not ,get you some hunbolt golden tree secret samples from there web 7 bucks the shit is wicked and you wont need all those additiv
 
mulehunter

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Sorry my phones jacked up your good on nutes do one drop per gallon and get some humbolt golden tree secret good shit and you wont need all those adadditives, just nutrient.
 
Troy622

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Looks like good shit....so I'd still need my base nutes but what will this replace? The calmag? the super thrive? that's all I'm adding other than the "grow" nutes.

Thanks for the heads up!
 
Troy622

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Ok so when I got home today they looked like they're still creeping up yellow so I did a light feeding less than half strength.

PH = 6.8 - PPM = 220
RUN OFF WAS / PH = 7.6 - PPM = 489

I thought I'd better get something back in there if it's N deficiency. I'm getting mixed reviews so I am just trying to do what I think is best after weeding through all the comments. would be nice if there was a consensus but it seems to be split. :wall:

Fingers crossed....
 
Troy622

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FUN FACT: Got home today and checked things out....saw a little guy flying around in my tent and it sees I've got some Fungus gnats! Could that be what's causing these symptoms? I did see a few pics that weren't exactly like my leaves but were yellowing/browning/curling.

Could this have been the problem all along?
 
MD914

MD914

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Your first problem is your soil mix, then you fed them way too early, then you increased your nutes (again WAY too early) and now you've flushed them and the small root systems can't handle all that water AND now you have gnats....

They look very small, do they still have the little round starter leaves (cotyledon leaves)
 
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