NOT AGAIN!! Please help!

gigabyteC2D

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I am completely clueless now, and I fear that my plant is going to die if I don't fix this. My lights are a pair of 4 ft Flouros and 2 cfls, in room temp is about 80 degrees, plant on 2 day watering cycle. The "burning started woth the bottom leaves an went its way up, thought it was nute lock, flushed with pH'd water. Thought it was heat stress, moved the lights back. WTF IS GOING ON????
 

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dankforall

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What kind of soil? Have you used any nutes? Any drainage in the cup. Are you sure it does not get hotter than 80 in the room?
 

gigabyteC2D

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It has risen to 85 before, and I let the door open. I am using that MG Organic Shiet, and I have used a fert mixture only once. It was MG at 30% strength, and a TINY amount of boric acid and dolomite lime (to balance pH). I used this only once though! It didn't have an affect it seems. I let the pot drain all the way when I flushed it. Any thoughts? I just checked the temp again and it is at 74.3 degrees...I also just found that my soil may be very acidic, could this be the source of my problem?
 

dankforall

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I would not use any nutes at all for atleast the first 4 weeks of life. Most soil has time released nuted already in them and that with just a little bit of nutes can do that. Also dont overwarter. How old is it??
 

Endoe

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Dank stole my thunder but it looks like overwater to me with the leaves curled up like that.
 

gigabyteC2D

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It's about 5.5 weeks old or so. I give it just enough water to come to the bottom, but that's it. I killed my first by overwater (LOL) so I am much more careful about it now. I have tried everything it seems, but nothing is helping! It is still growing though, which I find funny since some of the leaves are dying.
 

brasmith

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If you take a long cruz through this site you will find a ton of information on using MG potting soil. There are mixed reviews out there but most often MG tends to nute burn small plants.

Your plants look like they are dealing with nute burn. Give them a flush,let them rest and see what happens.
 

gigabyteC2D

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Well I just flushed them, like 5 min before your post haha and now we'll see if it works! Other than that, can you think of anything else it could be?
 

uberpea

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check the pH, aim for around 6.5.
Also to me it looks like its getting pretty hot in there. 75 degrees!
 

gigabyteC2D

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Well I found out it was a combo of heat stress(the main factor) and a pH problem. I moved the fan to a better sopt, where it blows between the lights and the top of the plant, and I leave the door open a crack so the temp stays around 73 degrees. Before adjusting my pH it was like 5.9. Now it's at about 6.8. So I fixed both problems and the new growth looks like this. Thanks for all your help!
 

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mrskitz

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it looks like a combination of heat stress and nute burn!its not overwatering coz ya plants would be all droopy!your soil probably has enough nutes init already so adding more could be burning um.
 

groprofosho

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nute burn. lower your concentration of ferts. flush with water, repot in a larger container to give the roots some room to grow so it can get bigger.
 
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