(Outdoor, 1st ever grow) Northernberry

mared juwan said:

Bright yellow or white leaf tips means you're at the maximum nute level before burn. You might want to back it down a little.

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uh oh, how should I go about toning it down if 99% of their nutrients are from stuff mixed into the soil?

I could stop with the teracycle stuff but there's still a shit load of nitrogen in the form of blood meal mixed into the soil. Would transplanting into a bigger pot and adding potting soil without blood meal help? I mean it's not really taking anything away but perhaps with watering some of it would wash into soil the roots hadn't reached yet. Any thoughts?

thanks

oGipRotRe said:

uh oh, how should I go about toning it down if 99% of their nutrients are from stuff mixed into the soil?

I could stop with the teracycle stuff but there's still a shit load of nitrogen in the form of blood meal mixed into the soil. Would transplanting into a bigger pot and adding potting soil without blood meal help? I mean it's not really taking anything away but perhaps with watering some of it would wash into soil the roots hadn't reached yet. Any thoughts?

thanks

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As long as it's just yellow/white tips I wouldn't change anything. Some people like their plants that way because they know they're getting the maximum nutrient level possible without damaging the plant. Just watch very closely for funny colored patches elsewhere on the leaves. If you catch it early it's no big deal. Just flush the pot with plain ph'd water. Use A LOT of water. Twice the volume of the pot size. If you have two gallon pots, pour four gallons through. This will flush out all the extra nutrients even with the blood meal in there.

mared juwan said:

As long as it's just yellow/white tips I wouldn't change anything. Some people like their plants that way because they know they're getting the maximum nutrient level possible without damaging the plant. Just watch very closely for funny colored patches elsewhere on the leaves. If you catch it early it's no big deal. Just flush the pot with plain ph'd water. Use A LOT of water. Twice the volume of the pot size. If you have two gallon pots, pour four gallons through. This will flush out all the extra nutrients even with the blood meal in there.

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I think my other plant is half dead (or totally?) because of overwatering, so I'm a little nervous about doing a heavy flush... it's like a 12 or 13cm pot, and the amount of water the one of them got was 600ml (standard small pop bottle, not sure how many oz that equals). I've heard flushing you should use double or triple the pots volume which would mean WAY more than 600ml so I don't know what to think. Perhaps not adding perlite or anything like that to my soil has left it with very high water-retention. Let me know what you think, for now I'll just keep an eye on NB9 (the one with the whitish-yellow tipped leaves)

thanks for the help

oh and just in case anyone was wondering, these plants have probably been growing MUCH slower than average but it's been fast in my eyes. They're under just 1 27w CFL which is likely much less than what they should be getting at around 5 & 6 weeks old... which reminds me, I should be investing in a better lighting solution soon - not just for these 2 NB's but also for the SB's I'd like to be starting

NB9's condition is not worsening, and the topping worked as she's clearly got 2 tops now!

NB9 is actually going through a bit of a growth spurt, definitely not suffering so I guess she's getting the ideal amount of nutrients.

the spot where I topped her is beginning to look interesting... there are definitely 2 destinct/dominate tops but it looks like a few shoots with other growth tips may be coming up from the same spot too - but the 2 prominent ones have been clearly growing for a few days so even if those other ones are more tops I doubt they'll be as big

Hey sorry for not posting lately, been pretty busy.

I worked @ the Pemberton music festival from july 23-28 (3 day festival but I had to set up a vending booth before gates were opened and clean up the day after it ended) and had my friend water my plant while I was away. When I came back, it was sort of droopy and felt dried out or rigid but made a quick recovery - then about a week later, it basically turned into something like THIS almost over night. Just basically proceeded to dry out after that, looked pretty dead to me so I pulled her after another week.

That's someone else's plant, but I used it since I didn't get any pics.

I've got more seeds and definitely want to give it another shot but like I said I've been really busy - and my patience is wearing a little thin, having killed my first 3 seedlings with overwatering, had 2 very healthy young plants stolen from 2 different outdoor sites, and now lost the last 2 survivors of my first batch to sudden death of an unknown cause.

I'm guessing all that picture shows is a dead plant, but if there's any signs in it's appearance that could indicate what killed it please let me know so I can comfortably get started again. For the time being, I'm going to give it a break until I have more time to do more research and regain a little patience for the process of trial & error - but any contribution of valuable information is much appreciated.


thanks