please help. weird wilting

Will Ferrell

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Ive got one plant thats starting to wilt pretty bad. at first glance i thought it was dry and needed to be watered, i checked the soil, very moist. So i thought it must be a deficiency of some sort because i always try to give a light feed. So i gave it extra nutes yesterday and it still looks pretty bad. i did some searches and one pic that looked similar was excess zinc. Idk if theres alot of zinc in Fox farm BB, but i may have been giving too much of that. A few of my other plants look like there begining to do the same thing. Also about a week ago, the leaves were kinda shiny and rumpled, and now wilting.


Ill try to post pics soon. I guess my next course of action will be to flush, and then go from there. any ideas what might be wrong?
 

Will Ferrell

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well i havent flushed yet. I gave a heavier feeding and it purked up a bit, but now its back to wilting, soil still moist. It looks like all my bigger plants are just starting to do the same wilting. I was thinking instead of flushing, i would just re pot them into 15 gal pots, or Maybe i should flush them still? idk.. posting pics from my phone now..
 

Will Ferrell

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ya i use about 50 ml of calmag per gallon, maybe needs more??. I guess maybe it could be overwatering. Im usually good at not doing that. I transplanted four plants last night. Towards the bottom i almost couldnt see any soil, just roots. I just added a tiny bit of water to the soil so its moist. i shall stay away from the water for a few days and then give an update.
 

Will Ferrell

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ya i use about 50 ml of calmag per gallon, maybe needs more??. I guess maybe it could be overwatering. Im usually good at not doing that. I transplanted four plants last night. Towards the bottom i almost couldnt see any soil, just roots. I just added a tiny bit of water to the soil so its moist. i shall stay away from the water for a few days and then give an update.
sorry i ment to say i use about 5* ml per gallon.

All have perked up and look back on track except bertha, she still has some weird wilting going on. I transplanted into moist soil. Checked on it the next day, the new soil was still moist, but the old soil around the plant was dry. So i watered about a half gallon with heavy feeding this time, still seems to be unhappy.
Turned out the prob with all the others with similar wilting were just hungry. I gave them the same heavy feeding 2 days ago and they look 10 times better.
So now im just waiting for the one big plant to bounce back. Im thinking its root bound and will take about a week for the roots to make there way into the rest of the soil. I gave it the half gallon yesterday, its still pretty moist. So im just going to back off for a week and see if she will bounce back.
 

Will Ferrell

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im back on track :D I had repotted it, was easy on the water for a few days, and was still not seeing any improvement. I gave it a heavy soak with a light feed, let it sit in its run off. Now she's looking good.
Im thinking the prob was too much water, not enough nutes, and extremely root bound.
 
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