Well heres the deal, these plants have a had a rough time dealing with several HIGH heat periods,like over 90 when my swamp-cooler went out twice! That slowed them down alot but they seemed to get over it and recover a bit but then I transplanted them into these half gallon containers with the following mix.
~60% OMNI brand planting compost nice dark rich and cheap.
~20% Coco-gro coir fiber
~10%perlite
~10%Wormcastings.
also into the mix I added about 1/4 cup each of the following, possibly a tad more per cubic foot
Bone meal, Blood meal, Kelp meal, Organic Bloom food 3-6-6( alocal blend of guanos and meals etc.) also Dolomite lime.
After the transplant a few plants straight curled up and died, while most of them exhibited leaf symptoms to various degrees. The trouble starts at the tips and works to the base of the leaves evenly, starts on the lowest leaves and then works up the plant. I got to thinking and did some pH checking. My tap water comes out around 7.5 which I know is tooo high. I also made a slurry with this water and my leftover soil mix, couldn't tell much with my crappy test strips but I think its stays pretty close to 7, which is still tooo high. So I used some lemons off my tree to bring some water down to about pH6 and I watered them with this, it helped a lot, and I've done it once more since then, things are looking MUCH MUCH better but symptoms still persist to some degree and it seems to come back a few days after watering, I think that the Acid from the lemon juice is getting buffered out after the first day or two??
I am fairly sure its not just too hot of a mix because most plants only showed minimal symptoms and even the bigger ones show the same affliction, plus when I added ph6 water it improved alot. anyways heres the pics
first before the heat wave etc.
heres aleaf just starting to go
heres acouple that have gone
another on its way out
not sure what the hell is up with this mottled one
a few shots at the bottom of the bigger plants, these are clones
here they are after some improvement and removal of dead leaves
So what do you guys think?? any and all comments appreciated greatly.
peace love positivity
~60% OMNI brand planting compost nice dark rich and cheap.
~20% Coco-gro coir fiber
~10%perlite
~10%Wormcastings.
also into the mix I added about 1/4 cup each of the following, possibly a tad more per cubic foot
Bone meal, Blood meal, Kelp meal, Organic Bloom food 3-6-6( alocal blend of guanos and meals etc.) also Dolomite lime.
After the transplant a few plants straight curled up and died, while most of them exhibited leaf symptoms to various degrees. The trouble starts at the tips and works to the base of the leaves evenly, starts on the lowest leaves and then works up the plant. I got to thinking and did some pH checking. My tap water comes out around 7.5 which I know is tooo high. I also made a slurry with this water and my leftover soil mix, couldn't tell much with my crappy test strips but I think its stays pretty close to 7, which is still tooo high. So I used some lemons off my tree to bring some water down to about pH6 and I watered them with this, it helped a lot, and I've done it once more since then, things are looking MUCH MUCH better but symptoms still persist to some degree and it seems to come back a few days after watering, I think that the Acid from the lemon juice is getting buffered out after the first day or two??
I am fairly sure its not just too hot of a mix because most plants only showed minimal symptoms and even the bigger ones show the same affliction, plus when I added ph6 water it improved alot. anyways heres the pics
first before the heat wave etc.
heres aleaf just starting to go
heres acouple that have gone
another on its way out
not sure what the hell is up with this mottled one
a few shots at the bottom of the bigger plants, these are clones
here they are after some improvement and removal of dead leaves
So what do you guys think?? any and all comments appreciated greatly.
peace love positivity
