Is this normal my plant looks strange?

Yesterday was so much wind, my plant was dancing. I found if completly bend over about to fall off vase, so I picked it up diged the soil and added abit of soil to fix it. After The leafs look all down and strange. Is this a deficency or to much water or missing water?

your soil looks dry. does the pot feel like its wet

It'll most likely fix itself by the end of the day. I wouldn't let it continue to happen though. What kind of medium is that?

You need some more organic matter, perlite, or something to loosen up that soil.

Angus Hung said:

your soil looks dry. does the pot feel like its wet

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Yup it feels moist, I guess tonight Il water it see what happens

Merkn4aSquirtn said:

It'll most likely fix itself by the end of the day. I wouldn't let it continue to happen though. What kind of medium is that?

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Its organic soil

xtsho said:

You need some more organic matter, perlite, or something to loosen up that soil.

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Will worm compost work?

worm casting wont work to loosen the soil but it is a good thing to add. i think you need some perlite or vermiculite or rice hulls

Scaccia450 said:

Its organic soil

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Well it might be organic but it's not a potting mix which is what you want. That looks like it will just keep compacting as you water. Plus I keep seeing it and don't understand why people don't fill up the pots they're growing in. You left a good portion of that pot empty.

xtsho said:

Plus I keep seeing it and don't understand why people don't fill up the pots they're growing in. You left a good portion of that pot empty.

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This drives me batty, too, especially when I ask people why they half filled a pot and they say "It's all I had". I used to fill my pots almost completely to the top, but I leave about 2" now to give me room for top dressing throughout the grow.

xtsho said:

Well it might be organic but it's not a potting mix which is what you want. That looks like it will just keep compacting as you water. Plus I keep seeing it and don't understand why people don't fill up the pots they're growing in. You left a good portion of that pot empty.

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Strange it was to the top before it got less, I guess Il buy more soil If I mix a diffrent brand with this one will it be fine?

Scaccia450 said:

Strange it was to the top before it got less, I guess Il buy more soil If I mix a diffrent brand with this one will it be fine?

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That's what I mean about compacting. It's not your fault. The way some of the products are labeled is confusing. I'm guessing that was an organic compost or soil conditioner of some type intended for adding to raised beds and gardens. You should be able to mix that with a decent potting mix that contains perlite and/or other soil aerating ingredients. Don't go breaking the current soil off the root ball or anything but just use better soil when you transplant which you'll need to do because that pot is only half full.

Take the plant out, put a better soil in the bottom, put the plant in, and fill to the top.

TreeFarmerCharlie said:

This drives me batty, too, especially when I ask people why they half filled a pot and they say "It's all I had". I used to fill my pots almost completely to the top, but I leave about 2" now to give me room for top dressing throughout the grow.

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Leaving an inch or two at the top of the pot helps even if one doesn't top dress. When the pots are filled to the brim, you have to trickle your water into the pot so it doesn't overflow. With large pots, that's very time consuming. With the void, you can fill to the brim, let it filter into the medium while you're filling other pots. Then just go back and repeat.

I leave about an inch. Over time, it'll compress a bit further. I don't like leaving more void than that.

Done what you guys think?

We had wind storm last night, found my plant bend. Decided to tie it with a rope, but it looks like itsgoing to be dead slowly not sure what to do.

Not really anything you can do at this point. If your area has high winds alot.. consider indoor growing. Idk if thats gonna revive itself. Seen some crazy stuff that weed can overcome. If i were you, I'd start germinating another one.

Merkn4aSquirtn said:

Not really anything you can do at this point. If your area has high winds alot.. consider indoor growing. Idk if thats gonna revive itself. Seen some crazy stuff that weed can overcome. If i were you, I'd start germinating another one.

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Im out of seed il just weed see what happens

Merkn4aSquirtn said:

Not really anything you can do at this point. If your area has high winds alot.. consider indoor growing. Idk if thats gonna revive itself. Seen some crazy stuff that weed can overcome. If i were you, I'd start germinating another one.

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Bhope its been a week I think not sure looks like its abit better

xtsho said:

Well it might be organic but it's not a potting mix which is what you want. That looks like it will just keep compacting as you water. Plus I keep seeing it and don't understand why people don't fill up the pots they're growing in. You left a good portion of that pot empty.

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I agree. That soil looks really heavy.

TreeFarmerCharlie said:

This drives me batty, too, especially when I ask people why they half filled a pot and they say "It's all I had". I used to fill my pots almost completely to the top, but I leave about 2" now to give me room for top dressing throughout the grow.

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I like to leave some room for topdressing with EWC or vermicompost if I can. Otherwise I have to use straight dry amendments without the extra stuff.

I've been liking mixing up little batches of topdress using vermicompost and dry nutes and kinda letting it cook. Then when it's applied, it goes to work faster. I've been making a veg one and a bloom one, but I've been experimenting on using different amendments. I'm kinda copying B.A.S.'s Build a Flower. Throw some GroKashi in it and you'll see some crazy mycelium action growing on the top.

Wow. I hope that didn't have anything to do with my suggestion to transplant. It looks like it's on the road to recovery.

Good luck.