3 Week Seedlings burn questions
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bobman
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What your level of experience? the reason i ask is because jumping from a cup to 3 gallon container can be tricky. you really have to lightly water for a while. i would pull them out of that mix put them back in something safer and in a smaller container. In the morning can you go the the store and pick up some potting soil and a one gallon container?
bobman
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no, i think thats a hot soil. I have not amended soil in years but man you have everything but the kitchen sink in there. 36 hours is too quick for it to be anything else in my opinion especially if you watered lightly, which i can see you did in the photo. i asked because the number one problem i see with new soil growers is a small plant in a big pot and not knowing how to water properly yet. i just wanted you to avoid future problems. i have never grown in straight peat so you may just want to check a few threads and search how much if any lime to use. just add a bunch of perlite and whatever amount of lime they say. if you could get a bigger cup(maybe a 32 or 44 oz drink cup from a store) to put in for the time being that may help until you figure things out.
bobman
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also dont be worried about transplanting back and forth. i have done all kinds of transplants and abused the shit of of plants all sorts of ways. i just came to point in growing where thats where i always started if i had a problem. taking a look at whats going on down there gives you a good picture and understanding. if the plants were pristine before you put them in there then i bet thats your problem. i have no idea about your soil mixture maybe in a few weeks they could handle it. and just be careful with the lime i know a little goes a long way.
orange juice
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blueberry is know to do this. some times half strength nutes helps to prevent it as bad in the 1st pic, but 2nd looks fine. always expect some leaf curling and deformities with this strain. you can search and find many others having various leaf "problems" and "solutions" for it too.
The soil pH is too LOW...I've seen this before, it's happened to me. In my opinion, 50% peat is too acidic. Your peat pH is probably 4, even correcting the water to compensate sometimes isn't good enough. I'd HIGHLY suggest you remix your soil and get that peak percentage down. How about 1/4 peat, 1/4 EWC, and 1/2 perlite?
I'm fairly positive what your problem is...I've had this same thing during my "seedling experiments". I've done 50/50 peat and perlite and it's too acid a mix...seedling always seem to suffer. Cut the peat in half, double the compost, and it should be OK.
To double check and confirm my theory, check the runoff pH...I bet it's REALLY low.
Good luck!
I'm fairly positive what your problem is...I've had this same thing during my "seedling experiments". I've done 50/50 peat and perlite and it's too acid a mix...seedling always seem to suffer. Cut the peat in half, double the compost, and it should be OK.
To double check and confirm my theory, check the runoff pH...I bet it's REALLY low.
Good luck!
OK...I dug up some pictures...
This is a one week old seedling grown in a 50/50 perlite/sphagnum peat miix with 2 tablespoons dolomite lime per gallon.
It's NOT a good mix...in my opinion. Like I said before...you need to buffer that high pH with something better than just lime.
A 1/3 mix of peat, perlite, compost/potting soil has worked the best for me...
Going from this:
To this:
Good luck!
This is a one week old seedling grown in a 50/50 perlite/sphagnum peat miix with 2 tablespoons dolomite lime per gallon.
It's NOT a good mix...in my opinion. Like I said before...you need to buffer that high pH with something better than just lime.
A 1/3 mix of peat, perlite, compost/potting soil has worked the best for me...
Going from this:
To this:
Good luck!
