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Over water
the coco itself sometimes comes with lots of potassium
This garden is your healthier one?
Your in big trouble kid. WAY OVERWATERED!
The leaves should be reaching for the sky. You are snuffing out the oxygen they need...ie.... suffocating them.
I would back WAAAAAY off on the watering and let the leaves get the oxygen they need to absorb the nutrients. IN the mean time....back up abit on the nutes as well and let the plants absorb whats already in there that they couldnt get while drowning.
The leaves should look like this....
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They are getting everything they need, when they need it, as they need it. No more/No less.
I actually "cycle" my soil by letting the plants use most of the moisture in the bucket before watering them. They start to droop abit and thats them telling me they are thirsty again.
He is growing in coco fellas, almost impossible to over water but easy to underwater and not flush out excess nutes causing a lockout. OP did not say drain to waste and has not mentioned run-off so if he is treating coco like soil then it could be simple.
Questions, do you have roots poking out of your smart pots? How many times a day do you water and runoff amount? Lets keep you eating...NS
if its root rot youll be gettin a fishy smell & browning slimy roots. a healthy plant will have fat furry WHITE roots, and the rootzone wont smell like a vag.
PH is always adjust to 5.8 before watering and I water about every other day, I allow them to dry out between waterings and I'm VERY careful not to water too often.
I do allow the plants to dry out, especially when they have been freshly transplanted. Once they get light from lack of water I hit them with water. I am very careful not to water too often.
^^^^ LOL, that is just wrong. it is very easy to overwater in COCO... when someone keeps dumping buckets of water in the pot every day, before the plant has a chance to drink it all, the girl becomes over watered and problems COMPOUND FAST. believe me, my bro and his gf are chronic 'over-waterers'. stopping this problem is as easy as picking up each pot before you water, thats it, bottom line.
^^^^ LOL, that is just wrong. it is very easy to overwater in COCO... when someone keeps dumping buckets of water in the pot every day, before the plant has a chance to drink it all, the girl becomes over watered and problems COMPOUND FAST. believe me, my bro and his gf are chronic 'over-waterers'. stopping this problem is as easy as picking up each pot before you water, thats it, bottom line.