Transplanting soil during flowering question.

Azazel35

Member
Plant is about 9 days into flowering. And it's starting to look bad. It's very dark green and lower fan leaves are getting crow claw and yellowing from outside to the center. Few fans have very small brown spots and new leaves getting like burnt claw tips. So I bought moisture meter and found my soil is staying very wet. I have added more drain holes and still staying wet for days. Growth has slowed a lot. So I want switch to a mix soil with Pete moss perlite and vermiculite. Think what I have now is to dense which is that Scott's vegetable from lowes. And to much N. Is it possible to transplant it into that mix?
 

majins

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That late in flower it will do more harm then good since if you get a good stress free transplant then your looking at 1 week recovery time. If it gets complicated from root problems and have a bad transplant then your looking at 3 weeks+ recovery time.
To me it sounds like way to much N which slowers flowering down and makes them stop drinking.

Give it a good flush out with just plain water. Then leave it for 3-4 days.
Once the soil is cleaned out of the excess N and salts it should start to drink again.
 

caveman117

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Does your scotts soil have that time release fertilizer in it? If so watering with plain water is going to jist help those time release ferts dissolve. So if youve been giving it nutes that have nitrogen in them thays probly why your seeing signs of n toxicity.

What is your ph at by the way?
 

old shol4evr

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drill holes on the side of your pots near bottom,dont worry about hitting roots they mend themselves just dont get carried away,once you have holes drilled set a fan on floor to keep air flow on floor were the pots are,this will help to dry up soil,ive done it and just did it 5 weeks ago into my 5 gal buckets and all is well ,hope this helps a bit
 

Bugeye

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All good advice above. Difficult to transplant in flower but if your plants are small it could be the best of bad options. Flushing sounds like a good way to go if your soil isn't full of time release nutes, which it probably is. You don't flush time release soils. Drilling holes may help if the drainage problem is with your pots, but more often it is a problem with your soil structure. So you are going to learn a lot on this grow that you can use to improve your next grow.
 

Azazel35

Member
So I went ahead and transplanted it into the soil I mixed up. I lost about a quarter of soil from bottom with roots. (2 gal pot.) but I think they were rotted anyway. Bought 3 gal pot now. Went to work, came home expecting her to be slumped over but it really didn't look much different. Other than burnt tips on new growth and lower fan leafs look bad. I'm lst her. But my ph is 7.2. Should I go back to veg for few weeks? But this one is the 1st so it's learning curve for sure. So now wait and see what happens.
 

Bugeye

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Not sure if revegging is good or not at this point because I've never done it. I think it is stressful to the plant but I'm not sure how stressful. Your plant is already stressed from being over nuted so you may be increasing the odds of it going hermie. Posting a pic would probably help you get better opinions. In general it is more difficult to recover from issues in flower than it is in veg.
 

Azazel35

Member
So my plant has just now recover and starting grow again. So far it's female. Would love post pics but how safe is it to do so? I use a Vpn but where does person upload pics to and be safe. It's only one plant but like to be stay
 
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