My first plants are in need of serious help!!!

[hags09bd]

I am a novice grower in need of help... these are pics of my plants one is an unknown strain and the other two are NL. Recently they have all taken a turn for the worse. I am really confused as to why this is happening. Please help. Thank you so much. The first three are the mystery plant, the next three are the first NL and the last three are the other NL. ok everyone thanks for your help in advance!!

 

[MTF-Sandman]

How about the details of your environment/nutes/soil?

 

[Guest]

wow!!!
lol...

 

[sproutco]

How about the details of your environment/nutes/soil?

Looks like they are just starving to death. Add more details including what ph your soil is at. Directions for testing soil ph are below in my signature.

 

[Blackmelo]

I would say that is the worst looking plant I have ever seen but now that I think about it I think my first attemt at growing went worse lol...

Happens to the best of us, I just hope you are not put off by the experience (I nearly was).

Not much hope for this plant I'm afraid...


But don't give up my friend. Although my first grow went worst of all my grows, I learnt most about my plants in that time. I'm sure your next one will go so much better and if you give us more details about your light, your ventilation, your nutes, the amounts you feed, soil used etc, we'll be able to advise you a bit for your next grow.

Few things I learnt on my first grow was to check ph. This is extremely important as even if you are feeding the right amounts, the plants might not be able to absorb the nutes your are feeding.

Never Feed directly from the tap. Alsways fill a bucket 12 before a feeding and let it warm up to room temperature first(this also allows excess chlorine to evaporate)

Make sure your plants don't get rootbound. a good rule of thumb is to use a minimum of 1liter of soil for every week you plan to grow your plant. Most plants will take 8 weeks vegg + 8 weeks flowering to finish, meaning you'll need a minimum of 16 liters for that plant.

Ammend your nutes with Epsom salts. Pretty much every nute lacks magnesium when it comes to growing cannabis. Add 1 teaspoon per 10 liters in vegg and 2 teaspoons per 10l in flowering. Epsom salts can be bought at any big pharmacy.

Gl man.

 

[hags09bd]

ok well i have a standard wardrobe with a 400 watt hps and a blower... the nutes i have used so far are sensi zym, mother earth grow and bloom, carbo load, Voodoo Juice, pirahana, and tarantula. the soil i used is fox farm ocean forest

 

[hags09bd]

im not sure on the amounts of each nute i used where can i get that info?

 

[sproutco]

That ocean forest soil has nutes in it. How long ago did you repot? Then your adding more nutes (sounds like a real arsenal of stuff) in your water. How often are you feeding the plants and how strong? Test the ph of the soil using the directions in my signature. Looks like the plant is starving like I mentioned before but lets not rule out something funny going on in the soil like root damage or high salt damage or really bad ph.

 

[guineapig]

ya i would say overfertilization and overwatering but that is just a guess in lieu of more details.....

Don't be discouraged by this first attempt......keep thinking positive and remember that everyone makes mistakes at the beginning.......

kind regards from the guineapig

 

[kneehigh]

I would prune some of the super yellow leaves off.


Not your guys fault...this is a untested, unfinsihed, auto-flowering hybrid...Not sure but its most likly Oasis X LR X LR

They went into it thinking this was a 100% autoflowering hybrid...clearly there was a mix up in beans somewhere down the line.

Looking forward to seeing you start some masterlows....there is a wealth of info and helpful friendly folks here

peace

 

[Blackmelo]

hiya hags,
thought you might have been doing something like that. You are adding much too many ammendments to your nute and are probably burning your plant with all that stuff instead of doing any good...

Your main concern should be feeding the mother earth grow and bloom. You get very decent results just growing with them. Every time you add an ammendment, you are making the mix stronger and more experimental. Let me guess you are following the bottles instructions right?

Well let me put it this way. If it says feed 10ml of mother earth grow and you are only using that nute, then you feed 10ml. If you are using 10 nutes at the same time and they all say add 10ml, you need to reduce the amount to 1ml per nute because you are using 10 times as many nutes...
Make sense? Also a good general rule of thumb is to start off using half the manufacturers recommended amount and increase it after a week if that was too little.

Now I also want to stress that alot of the products you have will not actually have much of an effect on your plants but alot of the time the combination of these products can have a negative effect.
This is why it is wise to start your first grow without any yield boosters or health boosters etc, i will guarantee your grow will go better than this one.
Then every grow try out one of the boosters you have and document their success/failure. If you add em all at once, you won't know which ones actually work and which ones don't.

 

[hags09bd]

well blackmelo your info is great and i thank you very much... so lemme get this right for my new grow i should use no nutes or just one? well thanks so much anything other suggestions for my new grow which is C99's and Stonehenge?? thanks again to everyone for their help

 

[Blackmelo]

hiya hags.
Like I said, your main concern should be feeding a basic vegitation(grow) and flowering(bloom) fertilizer, adjusted to the right ph(6.4-6.9 for soil). Then around the 4th week of flowering you can add a booster high in potassium and phosphorous if you want.
But every time you add a nutrient, just try and be aware of the amount of Nitrogen, Potassium and Phosphorous you are adding. Too much can burn your plants.

If you want a more detailed explanation of a cannabis' nutrient needs go here:
http://www.angelfire.com/cantina/fourtwenty/articles/profiles.htm
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[sproutco]

ok well i have a standard wardrobe with a 400 watt hps and a blower... the nutes i have used so far are sensi zym, mother earth grow and bloom, carbo load, Voodoo Juice, pirahana, and tarantula. the soil i used is fox farm ocean forest

For future grows: Stop using the ocean forest soil and go for something like promix, majestic, sunshine, fafard, etc... soilless mixes. These have no long term nutrients in it. Then, add your nutrients in your water as the plant grows. Be sure to adjust the ph of your fert water after mixing for best results. Monitor the ph and ec (electrical conductivity) of your soil using the directions below in my signature. This is something important to keep an eye on.

 

[BluEBLaZeS]

All the advice here is pretty sound guys.

really know your shit. i might add that it helps to, no matter how wet ur soil is, just flush it out. it'll be better because u wont have to worry about ur ph going insane when you try to water again with possible nutes. I usually wait on the nutes until the plant is 6 inches...seems like your babies are, so no problem with nutes, just overnuting. flush, then water in about 4 to 5 days, depending on dryness of soil.

 

[BluEBLaZeS]

oh yeah and snip the dead leaves off. they are useless now. ur plants will recover just fine