problem with my plant
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what soil are you using?
does it stay wet?
Those look like they could be N def but if you are using a good soil you shouldn't have any deficiencies yet unless your roots are in poor health
does it stay wet?
Those look like they could be N def but if you are using a good soil you shouldn't have any deficiencies yet unless your roots are in poor health
NewLEDGrower
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could be the opposite as well, no(too many nutes/hot soil)?
prob not nute burn, and that plant is too small to be losing leaves, so ya it's not normal, looks like a standard nitrogen deficiency, is that straight peat moss your growing in? peat has no nutrients so you will have to start fertilizing with something at about 2-3 weeks old, also how often are you watering? hard to say but kinda looks like it's been wet a lot more than dry, which is not really a good thing, if the soil stays saturated too long leaves will yellow like that and growth will slow down, because the roots need oxygen, over time it can also cause root rot.
Yeah it's quite the opposite.
Generally when we look at a plant that is being over watered and/or underfed, we would see the leaves drooping and curled under looking sad and depressed.
An over fed plant looks perky and happy while the leaves curl up and inward. They are thriving and bright and radiant because they are growing in an accelerated rate trying despreately to use up the excess of nitrogen being supplied.
Lower leave try and absorb the excess and burn out first. The very tips of the next higher leaves begin to burn and it progressively moves up the plant until it burns out and dies.
In the stage your plant is in, if you are using a prefortified soil then flush it with pH'ed water when they get thirsty, if it's not prefortified you can easily flush with a light nutrient solution when you water next time, and it will be fine. Don't pluck the leaves that start turning yellow until they have no green left. Then remove them as they turn, and you will probably loose a couple more of the lowest leaves.
generally i would agree with you except it looked like straight peat in that pot, and i wasn't reffering to overwatering really, but complete saturation, wich i recently had issues with this past winter, seems to only affect seedlings, grown in mediums like pure peat (jiffy pellets for me) that are capable of becoming so saturated with water that the roots are starved for oxegen. my plants never got the standard droopy leaves from it that you see when you overwater a more established plant.
i'm not saying i'm right, i'm just guessing based on the fact that the plant seems so young and that it's grown in what looks like straight peat moss. since no fertilizers were mentioned i am assuming he hasn't used any yet.
also nute burn is almost never a nice even color change like pictured above, it's characterized usually by patches of necrotic tissue and yellowing blotchy and burned, not an even yellowing...
It's cool dude, I understood why you offered the conclusion that you did. But I also magnified the picture so that I could see the soil it was in, and I noticed the cup being used.
I could be wrong (I doubt that I am) but it isn't straight peat-moss, but a potting soil mix with perlite in it.
The cup it is in pretty much eliminates the possibility of over watering because it is perforated like a sieve.
Anyway I didn't mean to make you feel like you needed to defend your conclusion.
I just wanted to let you know that your conclusion is wrong and explain to you why, so that you would understand why your conclusion is inaccurate, and why a more obvious conclusion is logical.
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i water them everymorning and they are sometimes dry and sometimes wet just like i readed the plant likes it 
. the soil was fertilised before. and i got proper ventilation there too they got nice air circulation and stuff and the leaves were curled alittle bit inside one day when i watered em. the soil package says its peat moss and has (h2-h4) PH should be 5.5-6.5 in soil ,and fertilizer is NPK thats what the package of soil says
. the soil was fertilised before. and i got proper ventilation there too they got nice air circulation and stuff and the leaves were curled alittle bit inside one day when i watered em. the soil package says its peat moss and has (h2-h4) PH should be 5.5-6.5 in soil ,and fertilizer is NPK thats what the package of soil says 
redneck shogun
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Put in a bigger pot and only water when the soil is dry, erase schedules from your brain and listen to the plant.
npk is not a type of fertilizer, it's a system for rating the three main nutrients, nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium...all fertilizers have an npk rating, it's the numbers that matter...
also it's going to be hard to help if we don't know what kind of fertilizer you are using and how often you used it. if you are growing in straight peat watering everyday is probably a bit much, soil should be dry at least an inch deep before you water again, the roots need to dry out a bit so that they get oxygen.
also it's going to be hard to help if we don't know what kind of fertilizer you are using and how often you used it. if you are growing in straight peat watering everyday is probably a bit much, soil should be dry at least an inch deep before you water again, the roots need to dry out a bit so that they get oxygen.
