Leaves Curling Up AND Down

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Joeyoo2

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I just recently planted my little outdoor germinated MJ on July 9th and its been almost 5 weeks now and stands about 2 inches from the soil or so. The first 3-4 weeks the plant was growing beautifully and on the second week I transplanted it to a bigger pot.
About 2 weeks after i transplanted, that is when I started to see my plant having problems. Today, the first two leaves that started the plant (2 oval leaves) have already turned fully yellow and shriveled up. The other leaves (marijuana leaves) look mostly healthy and green except for a couple. One of the bottom leaves (single one) is curling downwards toward the soil, another two beside it are slightly curling upwards (or cupping upwards) and slowly turning brown on the edges with little spots of yellow.
I'll include a few pictures to help better describe what is going on. Can someone please help me and tell me what is going on and what i need to do to correct this?
[DSC00246.jpg was taken on Aug. 04 and the rest were taken on Aug. 10]
 

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univ

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it looks like your taking your plants through a nuteburn and your leaves twisting shows that theres a ph unbalanced. fix these two and you should be fine. don't forget to rep me =]
 
hater hurter

hater hurter

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are you giving any nutes? what kind of soil? i'm not able to help(i do hydro) but those who are will need to know those things probably.
 
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Joeyoo2

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univ said:
it looks like your taking your plants through a nuteburn and your leaves twisting shows that theres a ph unbalanced. fix these two and you should be fine. don't forget to rep me =]
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What do you mean by nuteburn, it needs more or it needs less fertilizer? Is there a way that I can figure out the pH level without spending money for a reader? And if not, where can i get a pH reader that isn't that expensive, because I don't have one right now. (Will those pool pH readers work somehow?)
 
doc111

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Joeyoo2 said:
What do you mean by nuteburn, it needs more or it needs less fertilizer? Is there a way that I can figure out the pH level without spending money for a reader? And if not, where can i get a pH reader that isn't that expensive, because I don't have one right now. (Will those pool pH readers work somehow?)
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Nuteburn=overfertilizing. You can pick up a cheap pH test kit for $10 or so but they aren't very accurate. Save your $ and invest in a digital pH tester ($70-$80). It will be the best money you have ever spent.
 
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doc111 said:
I usually only check the soil at the beginning and just keep my water and nutes in range. You can check your runoff if growing in pots though.
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I don't water my plant enought where it comes out from the bottom of the pot though..
And the water that i use to water my MJ is filtered tap water that i let sit out aswell. and just two days ago, i bought and added fertilizer (Liquid Plant Food [10-15-10] with 0.1% Iron, 0.05% Mangnese and Zinc) to the plants water but just 7 drops (0.53 mL per liter) and i water everyday when it doesn't rain.

When I transplanted, I used C-I-L All Purpose Potting Soil on the bottom of the pot, then filled the middle of the pot with my soil from my garden and then topped it off with the C-I-L and added a bit of 10-10-10 fertilizer ontop. (And if you're wondering, a couple days ago I added crushed egg shells ontop of the plant)
[Picture of my soil and original fertilizer are attached]
 

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doc111

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Joeyoo2 said:
I don't water my plant enought where it comes out from the bottom of the pot though..
And the water that i use to water my MJ is filtered tap water that i let sit out aswell. and just two days ago, i bought and added fertilizer (Liquid Plant Food [10-15-10] with 0.1% Iron, 0.05% Mangnese and Zinc) to the plants water but just 7 drops (0.53 mL per liter) and i water everyday when it doesn't rain.

When I transplanted, I used C-I-L All Purpose Potting Soil on the bottom of the pot, then filled the middle of the pot with my soil from my garden and then topped it off with the C-I-L and added a bit of 10-10-10 fertilizer ontop. (And if you're wondering, a couple days ago I added crushed egg shells ontop of the plant)
[Picture of my soil and original fertilizer are attached]
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Filtered tap water doesn't get all the B.S. out. If it's reverse osmosis then you should be o.k. I use filtered tapwater as well but the pH is still around 8.3. That's after I bought a new filter!!! So just because it's filtered don't assume that the pH is o.k. Also you shouldn't need to water everyday. MJ likes to dry out a little between waterings so that the roots get some Oxygen. Water when the first 2 inches of soil feels dry or the pot feels light.
 
mared juwan

mared juwan

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Joeyoo2 said:
I don't water my plant enought where it comes out from the bottom of the pot though..
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This will cause a lot of problems. The roots excrete salt and it will build up in the pot to toxic levels. To me it looks like you burned your plant a couple weeks ago but now it has become deficient (too little nutes). That's what it appears fromt the pic but I don't know exactly how you have been increasing or decreasing ferts over time.
 
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Joeyoo2

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If my little plant is going through nuteburn, what do i do to correct it because i don't use very much fertilizer and haven't fertilized it for almost 2 days now??
I read somewhere that flushing it and letting the watter run out is good when the plant is going through a nuteburn, is that true?
 
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LAX Skunky BwS

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Joeyoo2 said:
If my little plant is going through nuteburn, what do i do to correct it because i don't use very much fertilizer and haven't fertilized it for almost 2 days now??
I read somewhere that flushing it and letting the watter run out is good when the plant is going through a nuteburn, is that true?
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flush... Flush.. but that seedling is to young for Nutes.. gl trying to recover her
 
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LAX Skunky BwS said:
flush... Flush.. but that seedling is to young for Nutes.. gl trying to recover her
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I flushed her and the water came running out but now the top leaves look really fat and big, like it is filled with water itself, and all/most of the leaves are just drooping downwards. Will the plant correct itself and the droopness if i just let it do it's own thing in the sun?
 
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LAX Skunky BwS

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Joeyoo2 said:
I flushed her and the water came running out but now the top leaves look really fat and big, like it is filled with water itself, and all/most of the leaves are just drooping downwards. Will the plant correct itself and the droopness if i just let it do it's own thing in the sun?
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Jus use ph water Between 6.5-7.0 and dont give it nutes for a while .. let the soil dry out & repeat the process untill u think she has recoverd... and when u feed it nutes start light with 1/4 strenght and move up slowly ...
 
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Joeyoo2

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LAX Skunky BwS said:
either do that, cuz your seedling is burnd.. or start over..
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I can't really start over because it is already august and too late in the season..

But now my leaves that were turning different colours and curling are now starting to dry up, what do I do?? Please, someone with experience of growing outdoors, tell me what is happening..
 
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