Sick children please help(new to growing)

missnu said:

they are overwatered and overnuted

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Plants looked like this before they were fed anything. They were just getting water, the soil I am using has nothing added to it. Its a fafard farms custom mix which is all organic. No miracle grow bullshit. I put a 4 way tester in the soil a week or so ago and the fert setting said there was no nutrients in the soil, now I dont really believe those things that much but from that reading and what I have been tolds this stuff should have not been burning my plants. I have had them in this since seedlings and have not just recently really started drooping like this and twisting.

Rootbound then, twisting leaves could be a sign of rootbound. Transplant asap

" .....I gave them some 20-20-20 jacks classic...."

that's pretty powerful stuff, especially to a plant with wet feet. fyi. not saying its the root of your evil. no pun

So I was kind of bored and decided to do some pH testing with this stupid thing I have. I seemed to get it to work a little bit better but for like 15 bucks I cant expect much.

Anyways I noticed that I bought natural SPRING water and not distilled water!! Which might be an issue since who knows what the pH of this spring water is compared to the usually garaneted 7.0 that distilled water is. Maybe this isnt helping but definitely still would say overwatering is probably a major issue.

So I tested the soil after filling it with the natural spring water and got 5.9 I then tested it again (different cup of soil) with the same natural spring water and the fert mix I gave it yesterday and came up with this. 5.9 im guessing is a little low and I should probably go grab some DISTILLED water and try testing after using that.

scroglodyte said:

that's pretty powerful stuff, especially to a plant with wet feet. fyi. not saying its the root of your evil. no pun

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So tips on flushing an overwatered plant?? LOL

I am just a little scared to throw tap water at them as I live in the woods and our ground here has a lot of iron in it and so I am sure our water does to and from what I have read it seem like water with a high amount of iron can be bad news. could be wrong though.