trouble, that starts with "T" and rhymes with "C"...

they are flowering like crazy but the yellow leaves are spreading and the plants are thinning. need help fast. they r not bouncing back like id hoped. we built a box to keep the gofers out. i was watering 2-3 times a day n 95 degree heat and dry windy conditions. i started seeing the tell tale yellow leaves and went to once a day, next day more yellow leaves and thinning, skipped a day, then watered only the droopy thirsty ones lightly. so now, im @a loss. advice please?

last year i grew my first 3 trees in pots outside. this year i put 10 X + in the ground and have a had 2 deal with gofers and now this overwatering and ?? anyway, the bucket trees did much better last year. live n learn, right? next year, it will be biggest buckets i can find outside with a continued in ground crop. i will continue studying in ground growing to learn to tap into the extensive root systems and unlimited nutrients and recources of the earth, sun, air and the mojove river beneath us.

95 is too hot for one thing. should be between 70 and 80.

note the yellowing leaves and the thinning plants. my bucket girls from last year looked so much healthier!

52millimeter said:

95 is too hot for one thing. should be between 70 and 80.

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95F is perfectly fine for outdoors with plenty of air movement.

OP, sorry I can't add anything, you're more than experienced enough to spot any nute deficiencies, and if you've corrected your over watering then I don't know what it could be.

How is the ph?
Have you tried flushing the hell out of one or two plants to see if it was some kind of salt buildup?

Edit: The pics look like overwatering, but you said you fixed that so...

Angus said:

95F is perfectly fine for outdoors with plenty of air movement.

OP, sorry I can't add anything, you're more than experienced enough to spot any nute deficiencies, and if you've corrected your over watering then I don't know what it could be.

How is the ph?
Have you tried flushing the hell out of one or two plants to see if it was some kind of salt buildup?

Edit: The pics look like overwatering, but you said you fixed that so...

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trying to figuer out how long is safe to let them dry out and how to try to save them.

Next watering give them all a good feeding of nitrogen. See if that stops the yellowing

magnesium, or nitrogen Def.? Give them a light feeding, and continue to up the dose every other watering, and hopefully they will be restored.

dont let them dry out too long
water them when the soil 3" deep is dry to the touch just like normal

Patricia said:

note the yellowing leaves and the thinning plants. my bucket girls from last year looked so much healthier!

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These look like mine that i had in the ground ,,, mine i think were waterlogged beacuse the hard clay 3 ft down wasnt draining ...I transplanted them and 5 out of 8 made it and are now thriving in pots. I am new to this but i think sometimes the ground soil is just not good.

next season i will be using the wooden planter barrels.

good luck, i hope they pull through.

lmao if you live anywhere in a main city etc the soil is gonna BLOW ASS, its been sucked dry by every other plant that ever lived there and whatnot, my soil around here is garbage and im in the burbs, only out north up around the flats where no body really lives or has ever lived, if you live near a downtown area, chances are that downtown has been there for a century, so people have too, and people always grow plants of some kind over a century that would leave nothing left for the abundant appetite of a weed plant, just buy your own next time man and plant it

all they need is a good dose or 2 of nitrogen.

it's been in the 100's all summer.

Might also help to mulch around the plants.

Angus said:

95F is perfectly fine for outdoors with plenty of air movement.

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my bad. i didnt know they were outdoor.

CaNNaBiZNeSS said:

lmao if you live anywhere in a main city etc the soil is gonna BLOW ASS, its been sucked dry by every other plant that ever lived there and whatnot, my soil around here is garbage and im in the burbs, only out north up around the flats where no body really lives or has ever lived, if you live near a downtown area, chances are that downtown has been there for a century, so people have too, and people always grow plants of some kind over a century that would leave nothing left for the abundant appetite of a weed plant, just buy your own next time man and plant it

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marijuana/hemp replenishes the soil and the air like no other plant on earth. and is a great survivor. this was a gofer. found the hole. fed them a rescue coctail and sprayed a lot of organic gofer repellent and moved the dogs and cats dishes right in the middle of the field. little bastard. never did overwater.

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Might also help to mulch around the plants.

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it was a gofer.

that soil looks bad

lol didnt read the last page. that explains it. peskey gofer

did u add anything to the soil at all? It looks like sand

get off the soil, it's fine. mine looks the same.

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all they need is a good dose or 2 of nitrogen. View attachment 164545

it's been in the 100's all summer.

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now c. thats what my girls would look like by now without their roots getting chomped on. last year i grew n buckets outside. no gofers. better. transplanted 4 babies into big buckets today. ur plants look great. mine are getting better. keepin up with the organic nutes coctail. help them recover. enjoy!