I could use some guidance

This is the plant I had hoped to find for years, bought this cut a few weeks back. It arrived with edges starting to yellow and not a deep green this strain is known for. It’s supposed to be a Chem91 skva cut.

It’s been kept in house quarantined from my grow in garage. It has seen less than optimal temps but I bought a seedling heat pad for it.

I put it in fox farms ocean forest I had left over from the wife’s mums. I don’t use that medium. I fed twice with megacrop… maybe 300ppm.

Any guidance? Advice?




This is it on its arrival.

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Do you know the PH? Using foxfarms, I think you want the PH to be on point.

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I would back off on the mega crop a little more with the Ocean forest. While its small.

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FFOF can be hot. My guess is that made the plant unhappy. Maybe up-pot into a container with a less rich nutrient content

And check the pH as BeagleZ said.

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The soil by itself should have everything that plant needs for a couple weeks, especially in veg.

Relax and let the plant do its thing.

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Everyone has already said everything I was gonna say. I’d use this information if I were u.
Good luck! :slight_smile:

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I would say almost definitely a pH issue unless that soil was years old. Good luck.

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It was the only soil I had, out of my usual roots organic… and currently shut down in growroom. I have nothing else to transplant into.

My bluelab seems to have hit the typical 2 year and start dieing point. But I know my 8 drops down per gallon gives me 6.5.

I’m thinking the nutes and medium may have been a lil hot, it was done before I realized it honestly. But does it look like your typical nute burn?

Should I flush with ph’d water only? I’ll be shutdown for about 5 or 6 weeks while I clean/bleach my room from a spider mite issue. All new growing style… autopots and growpito upon restart.

I need to keep her happy in the meanwhile.

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Yep, just do a mini flush

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Hot soil causing the burn. Flushing soil can be a PITA.
I’d be using plain old water when feeding. She’ll bounce back once the ppm of the soil gets into a better range.

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Sounds like a plan… ph’d water only.

Thank you all… can’t screw this cut up before I get backups placed with a few friends. My holy grail so to speak…

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If you can uppot into a soill/coco mix it’ll create more drainage and the ppm will come down a lot quicker.
Maybe also think about moving her into just coco/perlite without the soil if your adjusting the pH of the water anyway. You’ll end up with it recovering quicker and a much bigger stronger plant as more air is available to the roots.

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For clones and seedlings I’ve been happy with Fox Farms Coco Loco. Comes in 2cu bags too. Def agree the FFOF is probably too hot for them

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I suspect a nutrient lockout, just pHed water for some time sounds good, a slurry EC and pH test would come handy to find out what’s going on … beer3|nullxnull

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I’ve gone to peat/perlite 50/50. Drains great. Easy to flush at any point. I know exactly what’s going in. They get what I decide now and I don’t wonder if my soil is hot, cold, or anything else. No guessing.
But listen to the others. ESPECIALLY concerning ph.

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Will be ordering a new ph pen today. Actually found a cheap vivosun ph pen I bought a year ago as a backup… and just mini flushed at 6.4.

By mini flush I mean about 25% runoff of what I poured in.

I’ll see what she looks like in the coming days and report back… thanks again.

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First concert I seen was Van Halen 1980 invasion tour

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I spent the summer of 78 on South Padre Island… Texas Gulf. I bought the debut album then as a 16yo.

Following summer I joined the Military, it wasn’t till Monster’s of Rock in 88 that I got to see Van Halen in Philly. Have seen them a dozen or more times since.

My son’s first concert was the Balance tour, he was 8. What a chick magnet he was… standing on the chair and knew all the words. Wife looked at me and giggled…

He and I have been desperately trying to score tickets in Cabo for Sammy’s birthday bash for a few years… without luck. It’s a bucket list item for me…

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First concert I saw, was stevie ray vaughan opened for robert cray 1988.

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Water in a small handful of gypsum (even soak the gypsum in some water for an hour) and then stop feeding til it grows some more. fFOF is already pretty hot, and Happy Frog is geared more for clones and small plants, then transplant into OF.

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