So all these plants were transplanted about 3 weeks ago, everything was decent looking. Only one plant is doing well as you can see. Everything is getting crispy and usually I’m hitting my stride by now and the all should be looking like the nice green one in the bunch. I haven’t experienced this before, I had a hunch I had overwatered. I’m working with a new blumat 2.0 tape system and haven’t got used to it. My old one worked fine but I decided to replace the tapes after 5 years of use and got the new version but have had some trouble. Anyone tell me what I should do from here? My blumat water meter is reading 90. I’m gonna try to let it dry out a bit and see if it helps but I can’t figure it. Temps and humidity is like 75f 50% light is only cranked up about 35% at about 22 inch away. In an all organic no till 180 gallon bed I’ve never had problems like this for the whole tent like it is. Minus one plant that looks like what I would expect. Any help would be appreciated
Yeah, I wish I had a real answer for you.
I’ve always had saucers under my plants.
I can simply water, until I see some weeping into the saucer.
In my hot months, I like to fill the saucers and let the roots wick up the juice, once a month or so.
I’d try to add more ground cover, green manure, if you will, like some rye seed, and or clover seed, as it all is just folded back into your medium when it’s taller, but maybe the extra root systems, and can equilibrate the medium a bit.
I’m sure some of smarter folks will pop in with much better advice, then I can.
All the best to your endeavors!!
webe
Had you let the soil rest for a while, and if so, had you kept it a little wet for this time? Could be that some fermentation happened when the micro life came awake with the wet environment and warmed the soil, it happened to me before and it got pretty similar to yours.
If that’s the case, I would let it dry a bit and then water it with some aloe (I usually blend one big leaf in 2 liters of water and dilute it for 5 liters) and maybe a little bit of some beauveria baussiana product just in case, the aloe will make the water foamy and help to water evenly, also it have a lot of benefits in terms of recovering, and the beauveria will help to fight some not so desirable organisms that could have thrived with watering stress.
Good luck buddy!
Looks like the small plants were struggling with moisture level in the soil. I would suspect root rot on the smaller plants. Not sure how bio diverse your soil is that may dictate what you’re willing to treat it with.
I could be wrong, but no one’s mentioned it so…… did you recently reamend the soil? If so, did you let it “cook” and breakdown after amending? This kinda looks to me like clones that were stuck in hot soil. The plant with the broad leaves is doing well while everything with thinner leaves is struggling. Possible that she’s a bigger feeder while the others are more sensitive? Did you check the soil ph? Sometimes things breaking down over time can change the ph in your soil and throw it off. Did you compensate and add enough lime to buffer it?
Second pic, leaves at top right are severely canoed. That is often a sign of mites. If Russet Mites, you would definitely need a microscope to see them, they are tiny tiny.
If this one good looking plant wouldn´t be there, i would say just severe overwatering and possibly rootrot. Or horribly bad soil and moderate overwatering.
There IS something wrong with your soil though. If i really, really wanted to save those plants, i would transplant them and go from there.
edit: I got it! They look like plants that where left in wet coco for too long. No nutrients and too much water. Probably ph too low too. I knew i had seen this before…
