something a bit different experiment to lower N in soil with other plants

ok so i ran this soil mix on my last grow, which was my first grow, and it was completely botched.
I misunderstood everything about organics and made every mistake possible ha oh well you live you learn,

However seen as I had to wait for my properly calculated super soil to cook and was running out of weed i thought i would try another grow using the recycled soil from the first attempt

i realized id encounter problems again... so i guess i am just using this to learn and try things out

so its on day 25 from seed and was looking real healthy until about a week ago.. (pics below) recently transplanted into its final container containing 50%base bio bizz all mix/50% botched soil mix

so as you can see its turned a lot darker green and the leaf tips are no longer pointing straight up they look kind of limp and leaves feel a dry kind of texture, i think a sign of way too much N in my mix (please correct me if i am wrong). these signs are pretty the same as what i saw on the first attempt. so i presume its hit the botched soil layer...

so instead of just leave i am using it as a chance to experiment, i did some research and found a site that said planting nitrogen hungry plants in you garden can help lower the N content this seems fairly obvious when you think about it... so i thought id try experiment with this and throw some salad leaves seeds in my pot and see what happens....

i will update if there is any changes obv this will be a slow process. also for a more immediate response may plant a already grown salad plant in there and see what happens maybe

anyone tried either of these methods before....

peace from the u.k bailwah

ok so some salad seedlings have appeared, only time ill tell now

I havent updated for a while nothing has seemed to change if anything shes got darker the salad is growing bigger but not affecting anything yet will keep updated.

Your plants look fine. It's when they get that down clawing look with burnt tips is when your in a lil trouble with organics but yours aren't bad at all.

Try using a brew with good bacteria and that will help straighten things out some if you got exp. with that. If not its super easy to brew. I use OGBIOWAR for bacteria but there are lots of other stuff out there.

cheers for reply the organic, interesting, i thought they do seem to be handling the soil better, some burnt tips are starting to show now though, and the older leaves do fold down on the tips a bit, interesting idea with the bacteria brew, i will try it once i have the stuff needed. are you sure the pics arent deceiving you because the green is a very dark almost racing green, and she dose not look lush and healthy apart from new growth.

again thanks for your reply
bailwah

it might just be me but the new growth seems to stay a much lusher green for longer
this could be sign of the salad starting to absorb some of the nitrogen i cant really say for sure though I just dont have the experience to tell for certain.

heres some updated pics also you can see the burn on the leaf tip sorry its a bit blurry