Plant Moisture Stress - Symptoms and Solutions

mackey

mackey

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My run off water is sooo acid. I added lime to soil when mixed and then realized my well water was so acid. Buying distilled now and it is good ph, flushed and added little more lime to top but still runoff is acid. Anything else I can do? Can I add aquarium ph up to my well water or will it have bad effect on plants.
 
Uncle Ben

Uncle Ben

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Soil is a powerful pH buffering medium. Water has little long term affect on soil pH unless it's extreme, like a pH of 9.0 or 4.5.
 
mackey

mackey

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Boiled water 10 minutes this morning and the ph went way up. Not acid anymore.
Don't have to purchased distilled any more.
 
mackey

mackey

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I'm new at this but read alot on here and mine was doing the same. Most likely too much water. Mine were also dark green and it was Nitro overload.
 
smoke n strum

smoke n strum

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They look over watered. It's hard to tell with so little info. Give some detail and put your pics in right side up. Tell us what you are doing, what light, what soil. get rid of that clay pot, they suck. They leach water out of your soil and make it hard to control moisture.

Transplant it into a pot ( not clay) with a lot of holes in the bottom or make one and use a growing medium that has excellent drainage (lots of vermiculite and perlite)so water does not drown the roots. They need air and water. Also read the first page of this thread and this paying attention to the capillary affect:

http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/greenhouse/nursery/guides/ornamentals/water.html

I hope it helps

sns:leaf:
 
hppy2balive

hppy2balive

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Uncle Ben! U know ur shit! I dont! lol I have grown outside many of years! Just started my first indoor growing using CFLs to start off! I currently am watering the plant when the soil is dry 2in below, the plant seems to be sucking up the water cuz i notice the pot is much lighter weight 24hours later. Im currently growing in 20% compost, 20% peat, 60% MG Garden Soil. The plants leaves remain droopy, I have started using the Go Box nutes by General Organics, I have only watered it twice with the nutes, every other watering! Leaves remain Droopy for past 4-5 days? Temp stays above 70 no more than 80 humidity ranges from 40-55%. The plant is grown in a Stealth Cab, here is a pic:
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DrFever

DrFever

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hppy2balive said:
Uncle Ben! U know ur shit! I dont! lol I have grown outside many of years! Just started my first indoor growing using CFLs to start off! I currently am watering the plant when the soil is dry 2in below, the plant seems to be sucking up the water cuz i notice the pot is much lighter weight 24hours later. Im currently growing in 20% compost, 20% peat, 60% MG Garden Soil. The plants leaves remain droopy, I have started using the Go Box nutes by General Organics, I have only watered it twice with the nutes, every other watering! Leaves remain Droopy for past 4-5 days? Temp stays above 70 no more than 80 humidity ranges from 40-55%. The plant is grown in a Stealth Cab, here is a pic:
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looks to me plants are either thirsty need more air movement i mean fresh air and or heat related
why i say this is my plants sometimes look like that after 18hrs of over million lumens
are you runnign on 24 hr lighting ???? if so i would suggest 18/6
 
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PlanC

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Hey guys.

I got something growing on the top of one of my plants. Is this bud mold??? It seems to be a part of the top bud. Any ideas. And yes I had a big problem with cal/mag deficiency earlier in flower.

Day 44 flower, RH between 55%and 60%.

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Fouf

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Help!! these plants were started in the same pot by a friend, can i transplant? or is too risky? also there are brown spots on edges, i water once a week and fertilize every other week with high N Terra Vega brand fertilizer. they are grown under a 525 w CFL daylight color spectrum. the strain is White Russian, they just dont look 100% healthy. i recently trimmed the bottom and took 3 cuttings frm the base of the plant. i think the big one is 7 weeks old and the smaller one is 4 or 3 weeks old
 

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wyteboi

wyteboi

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Fouf said:
Help!! these plants were started in the same pot by a friend, can i transplant? or is too risky? also there are brown spots on edges, i water once a week and fertilize every other week with high N Terra Vega brand fertilizer. they are grown under a 525 w CFL daylight color spectrum. the strain is White Russian, they just dont look 100% healthy. i recently trimmed the bottom and took 3 cuttings frm the base of the plant. i think the big one is 7 weeks old and the smaller one is 4 or 3 weeks old
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your soil is staying too moist. go by the wieght of the pot if your havin probs. let her dry out real good before feeding again. it will proly take a week or 2 for that pot to dry out enough to water again.
dont worry bout the top of the pot because all your extra moisture is in the bottom.






soil :leaf:
 
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Fouf

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yeah recently i might have watered in close proximity with an intention to flush, makes sense! So the brown spots are also caused by the high moisture?
 
eggnog

eggnog

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our plants are just seedlings, almost two weeks old, its our first time growing and the cotyledon leaves are starting to turn brown and wither away, but the true leaves are looking fine, except a few of my plants true leaves are curling into themselves, we believe we over watered them, and they may be getting root rot, we bought some root excelurator, and were going to use it next time we water, but were hoping its the best thing to do for them right now, do you believe so ? if not please help ! PC060007.jpgPC060009.jpgPC060011.jpgPC060015.jpgPC060010.jpgPC060008.jpg
 
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