[brown_thumb]

The top photo is the sickly plant... worse than the others anyway. After a few foliar sprays with the high nitrogen nutes, it's a tiny bit darker overall than it was and has some slightly darker areas at the veins. Before I started the extra feeding it was literally nearly yellow everywhere.



The two plants in front and to the right of the yellowish plant were started the same day. The larger plants behind those were started a few days earlier. All are in the same soil under the same light and fed the same... the larger ones are now on the next step of feeding regimen.

[Only Ornamental]

If I had to diagnose that, I'd go with a root issue = multiple deficiencies (especially N and K cause these run out first in young plants). Could be anything from coincidental injury by you, some buggers or a worm, root rot, nematodes, a bad spot within the earth...
On the upside, the newest leaf pair looks better... at least for now... well possible that the lil one will take up soon.
Anyway, that plant is smaller/younger than I expected. Why do foliar with a seedling? By roots, nutrients just take a few cm to get everywhere (including the roots) and you don't risk leaf injuries (not that this would make it any uglier but there's not enough healthy space to waste ).

[brown_thumb]

Thank you, OO. Yes, it could be a root problem. I've added a bit of cinnamon to mitigate bacterial problems. I added beneficial nematodes the first two waterings of all the plants but I'm not sure how viable that lot was. After awhile I switched to tap water, thinking maybe the little bit of chlorine would help with any rot. I'm foliar feeding that one plant out of desperation to try and save it. It's an experiment. Since it's struggling so terribly, I figure I might as well try to help it survive. I'm adding the extra nutes in the soil too... just not very much. I do believe the new growth looks a little bit better.

[Only Ornamental]

Originally Posted by brown_thumb

..After awhile I switched to tap water, thinking maybe the little bit of chlorine would help with any rot...

Hopefully, you don't have that much chlorine in your tap water. Cause if you had, it wouldn't just kill mould.

[brown_thumb]

I think the chlorine content is fairly low. I know the lack of odor isn't necessarily a good indicator but the fact that the water company owner is a cheapskate and in the past has used far too little, is probably a good sign (bad sign??). I'll get a test kit next time I go to town.

[brown_thumb]

I completely quit organic nutes on this one plant, using only the cheap stuff mentioned, every other watering. When watering without the nutes, I add bit of molasses, humic/fulvic acids, and milk.

NOTE: I had a day when the ambient temperature outside was 90F with 10% humidity, bright and sunny. I was unavoidably detained away from home, so several plants were nearly dried to crisps. But this one was in some shade most of the time so it wasn't as badly burnt as some others.

TO THE POINT: This little plant is doing better, at least regarding coloration. It seems to prefer whatever is in the little box of cheap inorganic stuff. It's still spindly though, exacerbated by defoliation due to nute deficiency, then heat. What may appear as venous color variation is just shading caused by puckering of the leaves due to heat stress. The color is now fairly uniform on this plant. See first two photos below.





The next image shows an older plant now showing similar deficiencies as the one in the original post. However, I suppose this could be heat stress. Also, other plants have healthy color despite my many screw-ups.



Another comparison photo below. These are the same plants as were in the first comparison pic.

[Only Ornamental]

I tend to change my opinion on this one: it's not any nutrient deficiency but YOU'RE SIMPLY ALLERGIC TO ORGANICS !

[brown_thumb]

Originally Posted by Only Ornamental

I tend to change my opinion on this one: it's not any nutrient deficiency but YOU'RE SIMPLY ALLERGIC TO ORGANICS !

That may be true but my suspicion is that I just SUCK AT GARDENING.

[Only Ornamental]

BTW what did you actually toss into the pots?

[brown_thumb]

I can't remember which ones died but below is a list of what survived.

2x Malawi x Panama fem
1x Chronic Widow fem
3x Violeta reg
1x Ace Mix Tropical reg

At least one of the Violeta is a male but I've been ripping its balls off.