Bottom leaves yellowing and dying, top leaves fine

PeachHazelx

PeachHazelx

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Can anyone tell me what’s going wrong with my plant? I do believe they were burned due to to high of a ppm which I have since lowered below 200 and the new leaves seem to be coming in just fine but the bottom leaves, are they just done for? Should I worry about it? Should I remove the dying leaves?
 

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Wattzzup

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Hungry typically comes from the bottom up. Bottom leaves coming off is no big deal as long as you address the issue.
 
Nizza

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I see the plants are in saucers. Generally you want to water them and achieve 10- 20% runoff. Lets just say you gave it 5 gallons for easy math, you would want 1/2 gallon to 1 gallon to drip out of the pot. You should avoid letting them suck the water back up because nutrients that the plant doesn't end up using can build up in the soil and burn your plant, just use a shop vac or something to collect the runoff water and throw it out/ use it in a garden

Usually when you see the bottom leaves start to die/yellow it is time to feed more nitrogen or transplant
they look happy to me, just need some more food
 
Killaki

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PeachHazelx said:
Can anyone tell me what’s going wrong with my plant? I do believe they were burned due to to high of a ppm which I have since lowered below 200 and the new leaves seem to be coming in just fine but the bottom leaves, are they just done for? Should I worry about it? Should I remove the dying leaves?
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Does look like a possible candidate for nute burn or nute lockout. If you've corrected the issues you should be fine. The yellow leaves might snap back a little if they're alive, but will be less productive so people usually remove them but you don't absolutely have to. If the problem persists it will get worse and the leaves will die. You'll know it's dead when it falls off too the touch, drops on its own, or turns brown and shrivels.
 
PeachHazelx

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Wizzlebiz said:
Oh..... don't leave those sitting in the runoff water.

That's just issues waiting to happen.
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Thank so much I drained them immediately after but I do wanna get some rocks to sit the pots on instead so they aren’t sitting in it at all.. any other suggestions besides rocks?
 
PeachHazelx

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Killaki said:
Does look like a possible candidate for nute burn or nute lockout. If you've corrected the issues you should be fine. The yellow leaves might snap back a little if they're alive, but will be less productive so people usually remove them but you don't absolutely have to. If the problem persists it will get worse and the leaves will die. You'll know it's dead when it falls off too the touch, drops on its own, or turns brown and shrivels.
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Thank you!
 
PeachHazelx

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Nizza said:
I see the plants are in saucers. Generally you want to water them and achieve 10- 20% runoff. Lets just say you gave it 5 gallons for easy math, you would want 1/2 gallon to 1 gallon to drip out of the pot. You should avoid letting them suck the water back up because nutrients that the plant doesn't end up using can build up in the soil and burn your plant, just use a shop vac or something to collect the runoff water and throw it out/ use it in a garden

Usually when you see the bottom leaves start to die/yellow it is time to feed more nitrogen or transplant
they look happy to me, just need some more food
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Thanks so much
 
Wizzlebiz

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PeachHazelx said:
Thank so much I drained them immediately after but I do wanna get some rocks to sit the pots on instead so they aren’t sitting in it at all.. any other suggestions besides rocks?
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They have risers that fit specific sized pots. I like those personally.

How are you going to get the sitting water out of the rocks?

Stagnate water can be a big issue outside of the plant.
 
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Looks just like what I had and it was calmag deficiency and not enough nutes, added calmag and nutes to up ppm to 700-800 and everything is good again. Don't have a new pic but here it what it looked like before I upped everything. I was losing the bottom fan leaves 2 at a time until I figured out what was going on.
 

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PeachHazelx

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zacuriah said:
Looks just like what I had and it was calmag deficiency and not enough nutes, added calmag and nutes to up ppm to 700-800 and everything is good again. Don't have a new pic but here it what it looked like before I upped everything. I was losing the bottom fan leaves 2 at a time until I figured out what was going on.
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How old were they here?
 
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