Can I Pleaaase Get Some Help With This Outdoor Problem In Soil.

Biggy

Active Member
I know this is a plant problem but all of my questions seem to be going unanswered in the other sections.

Plant is yellowing from the bottom and rising up. Yellow leaves are turning bright yellow and dropping off in like a week.

3 weeks ago flushed due to over nitrogen/nutes with strong ferts (NITROSOL). The feeding of too much nitrogen stopped the yellowing problem, but it was just too much used, with the leaves turning dark green and new leaves mutated and wierd.

since then have fed twice with fish emulsion which has a lower NPK rating i think the N is 9 K is 2 something like that... no more nitrosol.

Have trawled through the internet for possible culprits/solutions and have tried to deal with all plausible culprits by checking the ph (6-7 of 2-3 inches below surface using liquid ph tester), feeding epsom salts, flushing, feeding enough nutes and then lowering to a non burning nute that more suits marijuana growing and still the problem persists?

have seen the roots because plant was transplanted around the time of flushing into a bigger pot and there is a plentiful healthy looking root system.

soil used is Hortico professional blend (run of the mill soil i guess not that expensive probably actually the cheapest), and to make up the difference between the sizes of the pots when transplanted used a bought compost mixture.

added a number of crushed egg shells and some banana peels to the surface of the soil i guess to add organically to the calcium and potassium? in the mixture.

Plant has been over watered since the flushing due to lots of rain, but is not drooping probably due to hot 1-2 day periods in between 5 days of rain or whatever. Does yellowing due to over watering affect plant from bottom up or EXACTLY like a nutrient def??? chilli plant has also been over watered but yellowing affects entire plant more or less closer to top than anything.

GOT ANY IDEAS any replys greatly appreciated.
 

GoodFriend

Lumberjack
seems like you've just stressed it a bit... the new foliage as long as its green and healthy looking... the older stuff will die off a bit... just stay on top of things... and don't over correct mistakes...
 

WeFallToday

Well-Known Member
Ehhh thats why i don't grow outside.Weather is to crazy at times.

Sorry i can't give much help.

Im guessing it's just a bad time for them to grow outside


[all day yesterday it was snowing here] but weather im guessing is alot diffrent where your at
 

closet.cult

New Member
i agree. sounds like too much ferts to correct a deficiency. just back off ferts a bit for a week and let it recover. p.s.- use the runoff water from the bottom of the planter to check the ph levels.

good luck.
 

7xstall

Well-Known Member
wow man, you put a lot of stuff in your soil.

the lower leaves tell you about the health of the roots. lower leaves dying means root stress and with all those chems and transplanting it's no wonder.

just water when the soil is DRY and see if they can recover.





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Biggy

Active Member
its funny that you think over correcting atm

BEFORE over fed plant (agreed overcompensated for the yellowing 4 or 5 or 6 weeks ago when ever it was) was feeding nutes quarter strength every like 3 weeks.. seems far less than what the strengths many are using. After transplanted and then flushed literally left it alone didnt water because of the rain. (its in a small green house and when it rains, water drips through at a slow rate and the soil stays moist/wet while it rains but its not recieving the full impact of the rain - cant do anything about the drips too hard to explain)

Didnt feed nutes till probably last week maybe a week and a half ago or something? and these nutes are "non burning" and still gave quarter strength for the first and then about half strength maybe a little more for the second go recently.

might be getting the weeks wrong you know how it is lol but plant was left alone to its own thing for quite a long time and the yellowing reappeared and worsened.

the yellowing got so high up decided to start giving nutes again with the fish emulsion instead of the nitrosol. Before the whole over nute thing the yellowing and dropping was progressing far further up the plant than what should happen with normal bottom leaf drop, and it seems the only thing that made the yellowing stop was the over nuting.

should also mention that the plant was a lighter green before the over nuting and now it looks a more healthy mid green today

Anyway - Does yellowing due to over watering affect plant from bottom up EXACTLY like a nutrient/nitrogen def?
 
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