Stunted growth for TOO LONG??????

I will tell you everything i have done up to this point and hopfully sumone can help my young girl grow.

Bought Dutch dragon seed then germed it; planted it and helped pull the seed off the 2 first leaves.. Where i know i went wrong...I think anyway.. is where i gave it some tomato plant food mericle grow and burnt it pretty bad... o ya this is a good time to say that my soil was organic and was dense as a mo-fo like concrete when moist, so after i relized this i went outside and mixxed it with topsoil from outside. after it still had bad symptoms of nute burn I flushed it for a long time like 6hrs and it made the soil very dense again I mixxed around the top 2 inches of soil in the gallon pot its now in; then it was slowly showing signs of nute burn or somthing i dont know if its a dasease or somthing but it first killed the very first leaves then the second set of leaves now the next set is burning or turning yellow then turning black; i cut the black off of them and its slowly starting back on the lowest set of leaves...... its also having very tight growth the leaves are growing curled straght down and had and has some black right on the tip of the leaves like right on the very tip only, and its only on some of them. Its still green and i think it will grow but i've seen other peoples grows and timelines and seems very badly stunted and stuff... I had the water i flushed with and most of the water from the faucet declorinated, and PH'ed to 6.5..............please help I want this plant to survive i am on a zero income budget and dont have access to other seeds unless i order them for some $$

No need to flush for 6 hrs bro you wasted enough water to supply a small nation for a year. Now when you burn a seedling your in trouble, may never come back, just reduce watering no nutes and hope to christ it recovers over the next 2 weeks.

Sorry to hear your troubles.. Im a first time grower myself. I'm sure your post will not go unnoticed. Many helpful peeps on this site, and tons of INFO.. browse around in the meantime. Surely an experienced grower might have a few pointers/suggestions... Best of luck with your grow!

stop whatever your doing. feed it plain water, as close to 6.8pH as ya can for about a week, then slowly SLOWLY add in that tomato plant food. when you go to repot, buy some perlite/vermiculite.

flushing for 6 hours is way too long. when someone says theyre going to flush their plants they mean using just water but on the regular watering schedule.

Thanks for the help and support; I have been only giving it water for a week or so now and it is slowly growing but it is slowly burning aswell.. I think im goin to try to just give it water for now on and see what happens i think its slowly recovering but very slowly.

Never bring in dirt from outside, only use good quality potting soil as it has been streilized and is pathogen free. There are just too many nasties that you can bring in that will damage or kill your grow.

That said. let the soil dry out and then carefully remove the plant from the pot and look at the roots. Are they a nice clean white , or are they tan or light brown. Are there any signs of fungas gnats? or other bugs?

The plant is starving and canabalizing itself to stay alive, taking nutriants from the leaves rather than from the roots. Figuring out why is sometimes very difficult, but by using the procceess of elimination you may save them.

You need a good light soil that does not get 'hard' when dry. The roots cannot spread or do what roots do in that kind of enviroment. The choke as they need to get oxygen and a compact soil prevents that.

How long does it take to get a desease from outdoor soil because its already in it and i dont have any money to buy perlite and a good soiless mix because that is what i would love to do; i know what i need "but I need to know what I can get away with" do you thnink i should mix in some small amounts of the mericle grow and leave it in the soil it is in because i see it growing slowly and i would like to think it is coming back slowly but as RANDM said its cannabilizing itself.... but why?? i some pebbles of lime in the soil and added nitrogen to the soil... i dont know if i put too much but i flushed it after so i think it would start to me less and less and the soil should have some nutes in it but i can say that for shore... i kind of afraid to do much with it accept give it small amounts of water now???? any feedback is appreciated.............

don't do anything with nutes. you really need something else in the soil to aerate it and keep it from getting so compacted. ideally, as already mentioned, pearlite..a bag of it at walmart i think was ~$5, if that. you have to remember, this is a plant that normally would grow in the wild without human intervention. (it's not called 'weed' for nothing ) so give it some time to itself and just water it when the container is much lighter than when you've watered. that could be anywhere from every 2 to 6+ days apart, depending on your container size..and make sure you have drain holes...some pics would help a lot i'm on my first grow too. i almost freaked out a couple times when some of the leaves yellowed/curled, growth appeared stunted, rootbound issues, some fan leaves got 'attacked' by the exhaust fans and a bunch of other little things. i just had to take a breath, and go day by day. stick to your schedule. these are plants, they take some time to show improvement. honestly, if it's causing you more stress than you'd like, give it up and wait until you can afford to get yourself setup. it's not worth your time/energy to be all worried about your plant, and especially if your budget is tight

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Thanks for the help and support; I have been only giving it water for a week or so now and it is slowly growing but it is slowly burning aswell.. I think im goin to try to just give it water for now on and see what happens i think its slowly recovering but very slowly.

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sounds like you need to re pot it into a perelite/soil mix bc it seems like the roots are having trouble breathing. could very well be nute lockout as well...

ok, I will just stick with what I have and try to nuture this one till I can afford a bomb setup.