What’s wrong with my babies

Hey Hey,

I transplanted my plants last week into an organic mix of FFOF compost, earthworm casting and dr. Earths Flower girl 3-7-4 and perlite. The soil smells good, ph is 6.9. But the leaves are either burned or deficient? They start from the bottom leafs. They start turning yellow to white to brown and eventually fall off :/

Well, to me it looks like a calmag deffenicy.

Don't add any nutes if you using fox farm. That soil is pretty hot on it's own. You probably burning them up.

blake9999 said:

Don't add any nutes if you using fox farm. That soil is pretty hot on it's own. You probably burning them up.

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I think that’s what’s going on. How can I fix it?

Stop feeding it. That soil should get you through a month to a month and a half.

blake9999 said:

Stop feeding it. That soil should get you through a month to a month and a half.

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I’m not feeding it anything, just plain distilled water :/ it’s because I transplanted waay to early in a hot mix. Plus adding all the amendments ...

Spray Epsom salts on the leaves. Then every week or 2 just scatter a bit of Epsom salts over the surface of the soil and it will wash in when you feed them.

Those amendments you added was extra fertalizer. You added fertalizer to an already hot soil. Next time just add perlite to fox farm and that's just about all. hopefully they will pull through but you deffinately have nute burn.

that mix is meant for a mature plant, realistically you should start them off in a cup with base ffof maybe a little
bit of worm castings and perlite. then have your mix in a pot activated for a while before you transplant

sero1991 said:

I think that’s what’s going on. How can I fix it?

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I'd get a soil with next to nothing in it as nutrients and transplant again by removing as much of that hot soil as you can from the roots. Save it for the next transplant when those are more mature and maybe even cut it then.

blake9999 said:

Those amendments you added was extra fertalizer. You added fertalizer to an already hot soil. Next time just add perlite to fox farm and that's just about all. hopefully they will pull through but you deffinately have nute burn.

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Nail on the head ... You took a highly amended soil and stepped on the gas with happy frog. Burnt tips . Put her on a water only diet , nothing else. PH at 6.5 - FFOF is prebuffered to 6.3 right out the bag.

Back plant into starter mix that is way weaker as @SchmoeJoe says. Good luck.

In my past I use to run FF everything. One thing I can tell you is I use to run into allot of calmag issues while using tht stuff. So that' the reason I had previously suggested thts wht I thgt was going on.

sero1991 said:

I think that’s what’s going on. How can I fix it?

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Lower your pH to 6.5

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