Happy Leaf
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Hello all. Ive looked up solutions to my plants issues but decided I need some help and opinions before it gets worse. My plants are a few days shy of being 1 month old. I am using roots organic potting soil, a 600 watt hps, a 336 cfm inline fan, 3 gallon fabric pots, and roots organic nutrients. The soil ph is 6.5-6.8. The temperatures are 78-82F degrees during the day, and about 65-67F at night. The humidity is 38-50% through the day. I have put my light further away from the plants in case that had any role in this. My grow space is 3x3 and 5 ft 8 inches tall.
I overwatered the first week of the seedlings lives (used a poor quality soil) and corrected it by watering sparsely and transplanting into fresh roots organic.
Last week I ran into a fungus gnat problem and fed my plants last sunday with some water with neem oil to help kill any larvae (1/2 gallon each) until some runoff came out. They started to slowly droop days just before I watered, though. I used yellow sticky cards and caught a lot of them, I also put 1-2 inches of perlite on the top of my soil and so far the gnats have really died down as a result. I waited until yesterday until the pots were completely dry and light and fed them a half strength dose of the liquid nutrients for their first time combined with a full dose of the dry elemental fertilizer (calcium/magnesium supplement). I did this because the plants were showing what appeared to be a calcium deficiency.
I can't imagine I am overwatering. It doesn't seem I am, but if that's the case, then I may need more ventilation to dry out the pots even though they seem to dry out appropriately. I don't know if I am underwatering because they look more droopy today than yesterday before I fed them. I'm leaning more towards underwatering because the leaves seems a bit dry and brittle, but not much. Here are some photos of the plants that are doing the worst. I also topped them about a week ago at the 5th node.
Edit: could this be nitrogen toxicity? I haven't fed them anything until yesterday. If so, then pray for them, lol.
I appreciate any help
I overwatered the first week of the seedlings lives (used a poor quality soil) and corrected it by watering sparsely and transplanting into fresh roots organic.
Last week I ran into a fungus gnat problem and fed my plants last sunday with some water with neem oil to help kill any larvae (1/2 gallon each) until some runoff came out. They started to slowly droop days just before I watered, though. I used yellow sticky cards and caught a lot of them, I also put 1-2 inches of perlite on the top of my soil and so far the gnats have really died down as a result. I waited until yesterday until the pots were completely dry and light and fed them a half strength dose of the liquid nutrients for their first time combined with a full dose of the dry elemental fertilizer (calcium/magnesium supplement). I did this because the plants were showing what appeared to be a calcium deficiency.
I can't imagine I am overwatering. It doesn't seem I am, but if that's the case, then I may need more ventilation to dry out the pots even though they seem to dry out appropriately. I don't know if I am underwatering because they look more droopy today than yesterday before I fed them. I'm leaning more towards underwatering because the leaves seems a bit dry and brittle, but not much. Here are some photos of the plants that are doing the worst. I also topped them about a week ago at the 5th node.
Edit: could this be nitrogen toxicity? I haven't fed them anything until yesterday. If so, then pray for them, lol.
I appreciate any help
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