@DoomSack the days are still around 80 and nights around sixty im keeping a close eye for mold really hoping to avoid it at all cost. And the hole is maybe a foot and a half wide and a foot and a half deep and it is clay but my soil is also very rocky which i thought helped with drainage
I fine Grannyā¦ā¦been working on the house in all that good stuff.
Ks there anything I can help you with ?
Will
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Thatās just what it is " NUTRIENT BURN "
Here is a pic of the very same thing.
Blow both picās up and you can clearly see the start of NUTRIENT BURN.
if YOU BACK OFF THE NUTRIENTS FOR A WHILE AND WATER ONLY TOU SHOULD BE JUST FINE. ( Sorry about the caps )
Copy this to your files for future reference
Nutrient Burn is one of the MOST common mistakes a new grower makes,
reason for this is, because a newer grower will use a chemical nutrient
most of the time and listen to the directions on the box. This is a NO NO!
Depending on the age of the plant, size, strain and soil mixture you are using
also has a factor. There is no set guideline when using nutrients, but I can
give you a good example to start out with so you will not burn your plants.
Itās always good to start out light, rather than feed heavy. Remember you can
always add more later, but can not take out when you added to much. Chemical
and Organic nutrients differ. Chemical nutrients are more readily available
and can burn way easier than organics can. Organics are easier for a newer
grower to use, most of the time, and lessen your chances of burning your plants.
I recommend not using more than Ā½ teaspoon of chemical nutrients per gallon
of water. Unless the plants are very big 5 feet+, then itās safe to use 1
teaspoon per gallon of water. When your plants first emerge you want to wait
at least 2 weeks before feeding your plants, unless your plants are in a soiless
mixture, like pro mix. The cotyledons (its first set of round looking leaves) are
what give the plant its food until they get the first 2 or 3 sets of leaves. If
your plants are in a soiless mixture and are over the first week of age; you can
feed a weak amount of nutrients, like Ā¼ teaspoon per gallon of water. Soiless
mixtures are different from soil plants and soiless plants need to be fed more
when using this mixture.
I also recommend not feeding more than 1 time a week if using Ā½ teaspoon per
gallon of water for chemical nutrients. You can feed every other day,( this
goes for chemical and organics) at very weak amounts, but doing this may contribute
to over watering, and for that I do not recommend feeding more than once a week.
Some people feed 2 times a week using like Ā¼ teaspoon per gallon of waterā¦ Use 1/4
strength for first feeding and then go up to 1/2 strength from the 2nd feeding when
using chemical nutrients. Itās very easy to overdo it. When using organics, depending
on which one youāre using, I recommend using 1 teaspoon per gallon of water. When the
plant gets bigger you can work your way up to using more nutrients when the plants
get bigger.
As for soil mixtures, there are a lot of different kinds of soilās out there. Using a
rich soil mixture is not recommended for seedlings. Seedlings that are under 2
weeks of age you do not want to start them in rich soil, using a seed starter
mixture is one of the safer ways. Seed starter mixtures are weak in nutrients,
so it will not burn the seedlings but will provide them enough to get past seedling
stage, but the downside is you have to transplant into a better soil mixture after 2
weeks of age. If you decide to start with this mixture, do not put your seedlings
into a big pot. Start them out with using a cup or a small pot.
Nutrient Burn causes leaf tips to appear yellow or burnt. They can also be brown
and twisted and crispy looking. Depending on the severity it can show many different
symptoms and shows on lower part of the plant when its young, at older stages it
can move anywhere on the plant.
To fix the problem when you have Nutrient burn, you want to flush out the plants
with lots of water.
Soil
Soil should be flushed with lots of water, Use 3 gallons of water per one gallon of soil.
Flush very thoroughly, after plant recovers usually after a week, you can resume using
nutrients after a week or a week 1/2. When you flush your soil, you flush everything out,
a lot of nutrients go with it, including the soil nutrients.
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Change out the reservoir, flush out any lines and clean out the entire system and
replace with plain water for the first hour, then start out with lower parts per
million (PPM)
Its good to clean out your system every 2 weeks and replace with fresh water and
nutrients. Some people change everything every week!
Ahh, nute burn! Stop this by not adding to much chemical/organic nutrients to your
water,foliar feeding. DONT feed more than 1 time a week unless using weak amount,
use 1/4 strength for first feeding and then go up to 1/2 strength from then on when
using chemical nutrients. Its very easy to overdo it. Causes leaf tips to appear
yellow or burnt. NEVER give nutrients to plants that are under 2 weeks of age, at
this age the soil nutrients are enough to suppliment them untill 2 weeks of age or
more depending on how good your soil is. Using ferts before 2 weeks will almost
likley kill your plants.
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Stitch
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Garrigan65
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@garrigan62 it does look like nutrient burn but ive only been giving half of what is called for and they havent had as feeding in almost 2 weeks due to rain do you still think it could be nute burn i figured any residual nutes would have bren washed away by now. And it just happened in the past couple of xays they were fine on sunday
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OK what are you using for soilā¦?
I used a mixture of peat moss perlite and worm castings at a ratio of 50% peat moss 25% perlite and 25% worm castings then sprinkled remainder of worm castings on top maybe a 1/4 cup on each plant
Well then the only other thing I can think of is how close are or were your lights and what kind of lightsā¦?
They are outdoors in ground could the rain be causing it maybe washing nutes out of the worm castings it truly is puzzling my mind up until the rain started everything was good water ph was 6.5 or as close as i could get and ppms were around 550 to 600 could it be lack of nutrients @garrigan62
Also theyve been outside for almost a month now like three weeks i think
Ok thank you for bringing me up to speedā¦
You know I water my plants with rain water and last year my rain water was 5.2 or 5,5
and this year itās 4.5 lr lessā¦thatās not good !!Our rain is getting real bad and it wonāt be long before we start to see itā¦as a mater of fact I believe it all ready has stsrted to affect our plants trees and so on.
And Now I believe it has affected your plants.
The only thing I could tell you at this point is. Is let them dry out and donāt let them get any more rain. I catch rain water from my cutters and then P H it to 6.5 you should do the same.
Thereās a few others that are growing out side right now and they to had a lot of rainā¦iām going to check with them and see whatās going on with their growsā¦
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Find some rain water some were thatās in something and test itā¦
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Thank you @garrigan62 any ideas how i could stop the rain from getting on them im getting ready to buy umbrellas for all of them ill check some of the rain water that has been caught in a rain catcher in the flower garden and see what its reading at have a good night and happy growing
RIGHT ON MY MAN RIGHT ONā¦I was just thinking and thought og getting a tarp that would cover your plants. put some stakes or 2x4s and make a make shift shelter with the tarp
Iād hate to hear the first word that comes ot of your moth when you see what the rain water tests atā¦bet it begins with an F
Haha i bet it does and its been raining for about the last two weeks or so the soil ph is probably terrible right now @garrigan62
Oh iām sure it isā¦Iāmalso willing to bet you live some where in the south east rightā¦?
Tenn here nere Knoxville, Bristol I grew up outside of Boston Nere the cape