Hi. I had a lockout issue and flushed with plain ph’d 6.5 water 8 days ago. As a result the soil became really hard. I fed quarter strength ff big bloom and some recharge a few days later. Lightly watered with plain water yesterday and things still look pretty grim. Any thoughts on what to do next? Was thinking of doing a folier feeding when the soil dried from yesterdays watering. Or should I do normal? Feels like the roots need time. Any thoughts are appreciated. Thanks.
Flushed 8 days ago
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J232
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The droop looks overwatered, if you feel you gave it enough nutes for a few I would try and get it dried up. Been along time since I grew in soil but in peat I would flush and give light nutes right after then let it recover, just how I did it. Waiting for improvements is hard. If you can flex the pot, bending it a bit can help loosen the dirt and aerate it.
farmingfisherman
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You using any water in microbes? Something like Bigfoot ? Might make the soil life happier.. Good luck!
Budzbuddha
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You are starving them .... big bloom is only a supplement. You have to give the plant a full nute feed ( tiger / gro big ) .
By flushing you also may have leached the medium of any Nutes .
By flushing you also may have leached the medium of any Nutes .
J232
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I’m not familiar with big bloom but @Budzbuddha said it’s not a base nute, you better get a full nute line and feed, don’t worry about waiting for it to dry out. My original comment said, if you feel you gave it enough nutes, sorry I didn’t look closer at what you were using. Get what he mentioned and give it some feed.
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Nutty sKunK
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Although over/under watering can cause drop. pH problems also cause them to drop.
It seems like you’ve ruled out the watering side of things.
I had a plant outside which was fine then started to droop. Nothing fixed her watering wise.
I had to flush the medium and found out it was getting too acidic. It was peat based too.
Now I offset my feed. Rootzone was 5.4 so I feed at 7.5 and things got better within a day! Was crazy fast.
I bet your pH is either too low or high.
It seems like you’ve ruled out the watering side of things.
I had a plant outside which was fine then started to droop. Nothing fixed her watering wise.
I had to flush the medium and found out it was getting too acidic. It was peat based too.
Now I offset my feed. Rootzone was 5.4 so I feed at 7.5 and things got better within a day! Was crazy fast.
I bet your pH is either too low or high.
Kassiopeija
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the plant at the first pic looks like having pH problems (curly new growth with unusual tips) and also defs (bottom leaves)
@Kassiopeija you were totally right. I ended up watering with 7.0 PH and slowly worked its way back to healthy, but could never get runoff above 5.8. Get this, I just potted up to a 7 gal and am having the exact same problems! I re-potted others in Roots Organic and they're exploding! I think my FFOF soil is the culprit. I've heard dolmite lime can fix this? Any experience of how much of this to use?
Kassiopeija
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a little bit pH fluctuations can always be expected but actually a professional soil shouldn't need any extra amendments later... it may do more harm than good...
I would first let a handfull of your soil dry out completely, then make a slurry test and find out base EC & pH... then look at the ingredients and decide then, and only then, if there's something fitting that could be used for a correction... I try to hit pH 6.5 & EC around 2.0 for full-earth mixes.