Stunted growth at start... how to recover?

[HopefulNewb]

In 80% coco/20Perilite mix.

If one plant sorta stretched and was a bit yellow, looking like it was locked out of N maybe?, probably from too strong a dose/overwatering, what would you do? It's only got a top set that's a bit yellow, but bottom leaves are green (10 days old)

If one was green and looked ok but it's just runt looking and sorta deformed leaves, maybe from same thing as above? how to recover? (10 days old)
(this could just be a bad single plant)


Others a little ahead of those two , are flourishing with 1/2 str and are almost about to switch to full now that they've had 14 days of half.

 

[rocket high]

pics would help

full strengh at 10 days ...is that from seed ?

 

[jedimike]

What kind of nutes? How are you measuring the strength? What ph is your mix?

If it was all in the same batch of coco and your other plants all look great, then it could just be a weak plant. I've had that happen before.

I really doubt it's overwatered. That's very hard to do in coco, but possible if you really go overboard with it or if you don't have proper drainage. How often are you watering and container is it in? By hand or do you have a system set up? You should feed nutrients with every watering and keep it on the light side. Maybe 200-300 ppms and ph at 6.

If you're watering by hand then you only need to water every 2 or 3 days at that age. I always go by weight. If the coco is still heavy then it's got plenty of water in there. Wait till it's light or the very top of the coco turns light in color then water.

 

[HopefulNewb]

from popping up.

Nutes K.I.S.S - ph is 5.6-6.0


drainage is fine, the others are thriving... some Cal-mag if needed waiting by, but too early now?

Might just be the plants... others are going crazy but came up earlier fed same strength as others so that might be problem?


IF it was lockout from too strong too early, what to do?

 

[YosemiteSam]

by kiss i assume you mean maxibloom? how much did you use? are you talking from seed or clone?

the plant nursery with the form filled out and pics will get you the most intelligent replies.

when things go wrong like this sometimes the best response is a foliar feed in the case of a deficiency or a plain water flush in the case of a toxicity. without more info it is going to be impossible for anyone to correctly id the problem. any advise you get is going to be a guess...and if it is a wrong guess you might well end up making the problem worse.

 

[stonedar]

if the other plants treated the same way are thriving, it could be the plants.
don't kill them with kindness, keep treating the same as the others. you know what you are doing is right. they will recover or they won't.
it's hard to believe you did anything wrong to some plants and not to others.

 

[HopefulNewb]

Yeah it's just that they started later than others and were on same sched, so thinking was they needed more babying...

maxibloom 1tsp per gallon, been more like .5 ,

Sad but prob just bad genes , maybe just slower start, we'll see.

others ridiculously thriving , all on 20/4 or 22/2 sometimes (AF stains)

 

[HopefulNewb]

also , all from seed. since coco/perlite with no nutes in soil. started with 1/4th kiss. then 1/2 as most popped. last two had barely popped. Others continue fast growth look great, two are fail so far. one stretch a bit not big leafs. other runted small not much improvment.

 

[YosemiteSam]

especially considering it is seeds i wouldn't change anything. the maxibloom is hard to mess up and you are not overdoing it. i would focus on doing right by the healthy ones and the others will recover or not.

i personally always pop twice as many seeds as i plan to run (males) or twice as many clones so i can run the healthiest and chunk the rest.

good luck with the healthy ones.