A few messed up plants?

So just curious what is wrong with these plants? All planted at the same time. The little ones feel hard to the touch

Overwatered?

I over watered them when they first popped, plus I had my ts1000 about 20" away at 100% intensity. Light is now at 50% and 28 inches away, about to start easily raising because its grown 2 inches in 4 days, Actually killed 1 before I even knew it before I got my light dialed in better shall I say. They are in fox farm ocean forest with great white Mycorrhizae, I haven't fed them yet with the fox farms nutes. Should I? Last watered with 6.3ph 3 days ago. Flushed basically, pots are getting lighter. Any serious suggestions?

No don't add nutes yet...at that size with ffof they have plenty for a while. Likely this all revolves around watering

The color of your perlite has me believing your overwatering

dbz said:

No don't add nutes yet...at that size with ffof they have plenty for a while. Likely this all revolves around watering

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I did overwater at first, caught myself watering a little 2 or 3 times a day, had them in 3 gallon pots, probably allowed salts to build up. But gently transplanted with no disturbance of roots. Took right off when I backed that light down

Just flushed that soil around plants now, I can move pebbles for you. Haven't gave them a drop for 72 hrs now

I use a cheap moisture meter and when it gets almost to dry I water them. About every 3 days. They are in small pots under a 600 mh that is 15" over them. The leaves read between 87 and 90 degrees with a point and pull thermometer.

Hardwood73 said:

I over watered them when they first popped, plus I had my ts1000 about 20" away at 100% intensity. Light is now at 50% and 28 inches away, about to start easily raising because its grown 2 inches in 4 days, Actually killed 1 before I even knew it before I got my light dialed in better shall I say. They are in fox farm ocean forest with great white Mycorrhizae, I haven't fed them yet with the fox farms nutes. Should I? Last watered with 6.3ph 3 days ago. Flushed basically, pots are getting lighter. Any serious suggestions?

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I like your plants but you hijacked my post so now I'm not sure if people are answering me or you....

Lastmanstandin31 said:

I like your plants but you hijacked my post so now I'm not sure if people are answering me or you....

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I am answering you. Those pots look awful wet for how much plant is in them

OP you overwatered.

72 hours ago or not, it almost looks like mud on top, it looks very wet.

Lastmanstandin31 said:

I like your plants but you hijacked my post so now I'm not sure if people are answering me or you....

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Shit dude I'm sorry, newbie I am. My bad bro

I L0VE W33D said:

OP you overwatered.

72 hours ago or not, it almost looks like mud on top, it looks very wet.

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Yea, still moist, just gonna let it dry completely up before I make a move. Plus my RH is staying about 75% so probably isnt gonna dry soon.

I L0VE W33D said:

OP you overwatered.

72 hours ago or not, it almost looks like mud on top, it looks very wet.

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Yea, still moist, just gonna let it dry completely up before I make a move. Plus my RH is staying about 75% so probably isnt gonna dry soon

GeneBanker said:

I am answering you. Those pots look awful wet for how much plant is in them

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Thankyou. I'll keep a eye on them. Appreciate the help.

They are way too young to start judging them yet. Give them a couple weeks pluck off those dead leaves and enjoy. You should consider hcecking your waters PH before watering them. If your in soil you're going to want a 6.2-6.5 PH and in coco/peat you want a 5.7-6.2 ph generally. Coco I run a 5.8 PH. Soil i used to run a 6.2 PH.

calvin.m16 said:

They are way too young to start judging them yet. Give them a couple weeks pluck off those dead leaves and enjoy. You should consider hcecking your waters PH before watering them. If your in soil you're going to want a 6.2-6.5 PH and in coco/peat you want a 5.7-6.2 ph generally. Coco I run a 5.8 PH. Soil i used to run a 6.2 PH.

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I just checked my ph with a strip(all i could find) and it's showing 7.0 how can i bring the ph down?

Lastmanstandin31 said:

I just checked my ph with a strip(all i could find) and it's showing 7.0 how can i bring the ph down?

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This is what the first batch I started and put outside look like right now. Same seeds.
I planted them on sep 14th or so.

Lastmanstandin31 said:

I just checked my ph with a strip(all i could find) and it's showing 7.0 how can i bring the ph down?

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You want your PH to be lower, you can literally use Lemon Juice or Lime Juice to bring it down for now but you will need to check your PH after adjusting. I would recommend ordering the bellow products they are super cheap and super super effective. Literally I use a few drops to bring my 20 gallon reservoir from 6.2 PH down to 5.8.. Literally maybe 1 ML per 20 gallons of water to adjust.


If you want a cheap PH test it would be something like this: https://www.amazon.com/General-Hydroponics-pH-Control-Kit/dp/B000BNKWZY

for all 3 products your looking at 40 bucks. You should only need PH down from the sound of it though. The liquid tester is super reliable and very accurate, avoid cheap PH pens for the life of you. For PH pen I recommend nothing but Blue Labs but they are not cheap...

The Digital PH pens on Amazon/eBay that cost $20-30 are always out of calibration and can cost you your yield and quality.