What wrong with my babies!

you should check the ph of your run off water if you wanna find out whats going on in your soil

I found out what's wrong, I spotted root aphids and they've been eating at my roots and killing off my plants... since its my first grow, I didn't realize that there shouldn't be so much plant matter missing, I couldn't have a deficiency cause I just reported and haven't fed nutes yet. I'm torn between trying to save it, or starting over...

PerfectNPK said:

Looks like pH is off. One deficiency leading to the next.

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Agreed. What was the PH?

Just slow down!

First off, you made a hot mix even hotter and then dumped nutes on top of that and right after a transplant. Bad Juju and you burnt them ... bad.

You're really creating more problems than you're solving trying to put out fires that may or may not exist and I'm sure the hydro store will be happy to sell you more stuff to dump on them.

The lime will take at least a couple weeks to start doing anything, so don't get impatient and try and 'fix' it. Give it time and learn to be patient.

How about just water for a few weeks and give the girls a chance to catch their breath? Not 'sips' of water either, but till a good bit runs out the bottom. In the shower is good for this.

No neem, no EJ, no nothing from the hydro store. You might have root aphids, you might not. There are plenty of beneficial bugs that live in the soil, not all are bad.

You are loving your plants to death.

Wet

Thanks for that slap of reality wetdog, sometimes I trip too hard when I put a lot of work into something :/ anyway, I'm pretty sure I have root aphids though. I saw these beetle looking hard shell motha fuckas on the leaves with these sappy looking spots. Immediate reaction is infestation :O

Anyway, if I do have a root aphid infestation, how quickly will I be seeing my plants die?

I have no idea. In close to 40 years of growing, I have never encountered root aphids. I have never bought a bagged mix either, so perhaps that's why. I've always made my own.

Those things you describe sound more like scale. Not good, but easy to kill with Safers soap.

Relax. The only thing that will kill your plants really fast, is you.

Wet

Do scales reside on leaves and leave that honeydew spot? And what is safers soap?

And is there a chance I could save it from the nutrient burn?

imjonny said:

And is there a chance I could save it from the nutrient burn?

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If you quit dumping nutes on it, it may recover. If you keep feeding ...............

Safers Insecticidal Soap ... Any garden center, HD or Lowes.

Wet

So my babies are looking better! Except for the nute burn of course. I'll try and post a pic soon!

I haven't added nutes for about 4 weeks now since the transplant, and was wondering if now would be a good time to start adding nutes. The bottom leaves are still dying off, and I don't know if it's a pH imbalance or deficiency. How can you tell the difference?

IDK to be honest, using the lime and getting the soils pH in the right range it never gets considered. pH that is.

If it's been that long, give them a shot of nutes at 1/4 strength and see what happens.

Check the new growth. The older damaged leaves are not likely to recover, so don't look there. Wait a week before adding anything else.

How long since you added the lime and what amounts?

Wet