magic
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Ok, so clearly I'm pretty new at this. Everything I've read has said its better to underfeed nutes than to overfeed (soil medium) and so I thought that's what I was doing. My 8 girls (hopefully) are telling me otherwise. Most of them are showing slight yellowish lines in the leaves, parallel with the leaf growth and a few tiny white spots. My biggest concern is subject #2 who appears to be a healthy green color but is consistantly acting like she's starving for water. Originially of course I thought she might need more and yesterday gave her more water than the others. Her behavior hasn't changed at all and has also started to have "crinkly" bottom leaves. All of the plants are not quite a month old and are given a 60 sec light spray mist of room temperature reverse osmosis water into each plants 5 gallon container every 3-4 days (i water again when the top of the soil appears pretty dry). I have only fed nutes twice and those were within a 9 day span between feedings. When they were fed nutes I only used a 30 second light spray mist around the stem and was careful not to get any on the plant itself. Of course I thought that would be sufficient, but the crinkling of the leaves, the drooping of some of the plants and the yellowish tint of others makes me fear that I had overfed and maybe even have developed pockets of calcium lock. I think the answer now is to flush each of the 8 to be safe, but how much is enough? Would a gallon of R/O water be enough to flush out excess nutes and calcium deposits in a 5 gallong grow container or is much more needed? Is it possible that the problem isn't overfeeding at all and is something else because they were only fed (what I thought anyways) a small amount? The nute used was "Miracle Grow All Purpose..." with a N-P205-K2O ratio of 24-8-16. Also, when mixing the water soluble nute in water I used slightly less fert than what the box recommended for indoor plants. These changes have been fairly recent and only noticed within the past week, and despite all of this I am still measuring growth in height and foliage every day or two but I'm worried if I don't solve this issue that will stop quickly. Any help is greatly appreciated!