seanzerelli
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Yeah not a normal problem apparently, didn't come up with any good searches.... Transplanted 3 plants into new soil. 3 or 4 days later now there is salt sprinkled all on the plants. Sometimes the crystals even accumulated in small piles! In the soil around the stem and root area as well. The salt is literally oozing out of the surface of the stems, leaves, and roots. Maybe too much lime in the soil mix I was thinking, a few drops of superthrive in water was all.
I have done a lot of reading and have never heard about this happening somehow, kinda stunned. Tips?
EDIT: 12/11/3:45am apparently replying to threads isn't working for my firefox or something this will do?
To clarify (all indoor normal 70s temps)one is a nearly 2 month old plant, and two 6 inch clones rooted in solo cups. I transplanted to a soil mix of mostly forest compost peat moss perlite with dolomite lime already in it. I also mixed in 20-30% worm castings, but the problem I thoooought would be that I sprinkled additional lime in with the mix. Turns out this isn't needed with organic fertilizers either way. I was going to use Ladybug's line of organics.
Its at my friends and he'll be back sunday night, shitty cell phone pics would even show these. I swear to god there were table salt looking piles of what I'm assuming is salt, it took 3 or 4 days to build up while I wasn't there. They were drooping bad so I guess something is fking the roots... I did wet the soil before I transplanted, I don't know if it can be over wet.
It was coming out of the line that bisects a leaf's stem, and the preflower area there were larger buildups right where the leaf stem meets the main stem. This didn't happen with the another 2 plants I repotted into roughly the same mix, so it could possibly be environmental.
Either way I'll try and get some verification pics up monday at the latest, but hypothetically what the hell is wrong when salt looking crystals are all on your plants seemingly coming out of every surface from leaf to stem to root?
If a good answer comes of this before pics I'll post a pic of one of my box gardens too.
I have done a lot of reading and have never heard about this happening somehow, kinda stunned. Tips?
EDIT: 12/11/3:45am apparently replying to threads isn't working for my firefox or something this will do?
To clarify (all indoor normal 70s temps)one is a nearly 2 month old plant, and two 6 inch clones rooted in solo cups. I transplanted to a soil mix of mostly forest compost peat moss perlite with dolomite lime already in it. I also mixed in 20-30% worm castings, but the problem I thoooought would be that I sprinkled additional lime in with the mix. Turns out this isn't needed with organic fertilizers either way. I was going to use Ladybug's line of organics.
Its at my friends and he'll be back sunday night, shitty cell phone pics would even show these. I swear to god there were table salt looking piles of what I'm assuming is salt, it took 3 or 4 days to build up while I wasn't there. They were drooping bad so I guess something is fking the roots... I did wet the soil before I transplanted, I don't know if it can be over wet.
It was coming out of the line that bisects a leaf's stem, and the preflower area there were larger buildups right where the leaf stem meets the main stem. This didn't happen with the another 2 plants I repotted into roughly the same mix, so it could possibly be environmental.
Either way I'll try and get some verification pics up monday at the latest, but hypothetically what the hell is wrong when salt looking crystals are all on your plants seemingly coming out of every surface from leaf to stem to root?
If a good answer comes of this before pics I'll post a pic of one of my box gardens too.
